Tala's Story

I will post lots of pictures soon, but I just wanted to come on here and write down all the details of Talas birth before I forget!!!!!

All morning saturday I had been feeling pretty good, I had had a couple of painfull contractions but nothing too serious at all. In the afternoon I went for a nice brisk walk followed by a nap, and when i woke up around supper time I could feel some ..... shall we say .... wetness ???? I wasnt sure if it was my water that broke or not, so I kept on going about my evening, I made supper, tidyed up the place a little bit and started feeling very very uncomfortable ... this was all around 5ish.
By 5:30 I was starting to have alot of pain so Davis' sister took Kailey to my Moms house and we headed over to the IWK asap!! We werent in the car more than 10 minutes and I was in full out labour ... like painful contractions every couple of minutes. It didnt help at all that we were in the truck and every bump on the road was like a punch to the stomach. By the time we got to the assesment unit at the IWK I was in so much pain they didnt even bother to check me they got me down to labour and delivery right away and I got me some laughing gas!!! It took the edge off enough to get the IV in and to hold me over to the epidural .... ahhhh sweet relief. Once the epidural was in they checked me and I was 8 cms!!!!! By this time it was probably around 9 oclock maybe?? i dont really remember.
SO with the epidural helping me to relax, I chilled out and watched some of the Princess Bride movie .... they had just made it to the other side of the fire swamp, when they checked me again and said, OK time to start pushing!!! what the heck????
We started pushing at 10:30 and Tala popped right out 15 minutes later!! I was in shock honestly, I could not believe that it went that fast!!!!!

She is 8 pounds and 1 ounce. 21 inches long!!! lots of dark hair and chubby little cheeks!!

We named her Fai'tala Lei, after Davis' grandmother Fai'tala and his aunt Lei. We will call her Tala for short. The jury is still out on the actual meaning of the name, we were told 2 differant things by 2 differant people, but either way i really love the name and we REALLY love this little girl!

After Kaileys 20 hour labour with 2 hours of pushing, this one was a shocker to me! I could not believe that it all happened in less than 6 hours!!!

They were very good to us at the IWK and everyone is healthy and happy!!! But we got out of there as soon as they would let us go. We were discharged monday morning and we are so glad to be home now!

Like I said, I will put up pictures later on, I just had a quick second here and wanted to write down what I can remember of the weekend before i start to forget things!! It may make no sense at all to anyone, but I am too hungry to go back and edit everything and make it sound good .... sorry for the inevidable typos.....