Lily's Birth Story

At about 11pm March 17th we went to the hospital because my contractions had been consistent for a couple of hours. They checked me, 2 1/2 cm dilated, so they sent me walking. Up and down the hospital halls for an hour and they checked me again, barely 3 cm dilated, so they sent me home. Frustrated I was going to bed pregnant, I took a couple TylenolPM and willed myself to sleep. My next realization it was 8am and I was still very pregnant and showing no more signs of that changing very soon. Due to my false alarm the night before my parents and Corinne had come up. Corinne slept on my couch and my parents slept at Charity's.
I woke up wanting french toast with buttermilk syrup. Only problem was I didn't have the stuff to make it. So I decided I'd drive down the street to Harmon's and get the ingredients I needed. As a last minute thought I took Corinne with me. We laughed and joked about me going into labor in Harmon's and my water breaking all over aisle 5. By the time we got back I didn't feel much like eating anymore. So I sat in the rocking chair and time my contractions that were now a little more painful and very consistent.
It was 10:30 when I decided we better head over to the hospital, they checked me at 10:50, I was dilated to 5 cm. At 11:11 Liliana was born.


She came down through the birth canal so quickly her poor little face got bruised pretty badly, and the cord was around her neck so she came out blue, but she pinked up once she started crying. She had some haziness in her lungs so they put her on antibiotics to take care of any infection. After 10 days of oxygen and antibiotics they started her on probiotics and weening her off oxygen. 2 days after that we were able to finally bring her home. And what a sigh of relief that was.
I'm still in awe of the fact that I get to be the mother of another beautiful daughter and completely humbled that this sweet spirit has been entrusted to me. She is so loved in our home and family, I fear a little too much by her older sisters sometimes though. I couldn't be happier to finally be able to hold my little Lily love.

- Angelica Oler