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***I have had this saved as a draft for weeks now. I kept thinking I would have time to finish my thoughts, but I haven't. I decided to just post what I have written so far and write more later.***

Miss Cora is here! She is absolutely beautiful and perfect. So far she has been an extremely easy baby.

At 7:00am on March 4th we arrived at OSU. I realized in the shower that morning that I had spent so much time focusing on my fears that I had completely forgotten that I was actually going to meet my daughter when this was all over. My fear had turned to excitement by the time we pulled into the parking garage. This was our first experience with OSU hospital. It is a huge state institution and everything is very methodical. This could make for a very unpleasant experience, but that wasn't the case because every person we came in contact with that morning was so kind and caring. Everything moved extremely quickly until the lab lost my blood work about 15 minutes before my surgery was scheduled. It was slightly frustrating because at that point in time we were just ready to be done. Once that was all settled it was time to go. They wheeled me into the surgery room and I suddenly realized that my husband was no longer with me. I didn't know that they wouldn't let him into the room until after my spinal was in place and I was numb. My biggest fear was the spinal because after two tries with Evan I still wasn't numb and had to be put to sleep. I wanted him with me if that happened again. However, I was surrounded again by the most amazing nurses and doctors. They saw my anxiety rising and gave me some drugs through my IV to relax me a little. They held my hand, they let me rest my head on their shoulders, and helped make the experience as easy as possible. THREE tries later, I was numb. I was so happy to see Eric and Dr. Bartholomew come into the room. This procedure took so much longer than my first c-section, the only other one I was awake to remember. They tried to use my original incision, but I'm assuming had some problems with scar tissue. They made another incision. It took quite awhile, but finally I heard the most beautiful sound in the world...a VERY loud scream from a healthy baby girl. She weighed 8 lbs. 8 ozs. and was 21 3/4 inches long. Eric held her while my tubes were tied. Yes, we are very done having babies now.