Photo Credit Monet Moutrie. Below are the nitty gritty details on Adalyn's arrival. She took her sweet time coming, finally arriving on July 16th, 12 days past her July 4th due date, at 41 weeks 5 days beating Keegan's tardy arrival at 41 weeks 4 days. She weighed 9 pounds even and was 21.5 inches long! As usual, I required some nudging by my wonderful midwives at Baby + Co to get me into actual labor. My labor was great once it got going, the birth was in the water like my other two, but immediately after being delivered Adalyn's oxygenation wasn't where we wanted it to be and so she was transferred to Lutheran Medical Center across the street from Baby + Co to help her get started with this whole breathing thing. In the end, I do believe this was the right call to transfer even though all her stats were much improved even on the ambulance ride over. Better safe than sorry. You don't mess around with oxygenation! She was admitted for...
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