Introducing: Navy Estelle Dannels

My wonderful support. My sisters Tori, Nicole and Lisa were all there to see little Navy born

Navy came out with the cord wrapped around her neck twice. So scary...she was so blue. So here she is getting some help with some oxygen

one proud daddy.

Navy has the most hair and the darkest out of all my kids

Face timing was the best. My parents got to see the whole birth on face time and right after Navy was born we face timed with Crew and Hudson.

Aunt Lisa loving her newest niece.

 

so excited for our little girl to join our family...

Crew's first time seeing his little sister. He was beyond excited!

Hudson was super shy and quiet when he first saw his sister...he warmed up a bit right before he left the hospital.

One proud BIG brother

Our family of five

All dressed up and ready to go home

Navy Estelle Dannels

January 12, 2012

7:02 am

6.8 lbs. 19 inches

My labor story:

On Wednesday around 2pm I started having contractions, some strong, some not so strong. I took a nap to get my mind off of things and woke up about 4:30 and noticed that they were now getting stronger and closer together. I called Wyatt since he was at school to give him a heads up that it might be time. I then called my friend to see if she could take my boys and hurried and packed up everyone's bags, loaded up the car and headed out. My contractions at this point were every 2 minutes and fairly strong. Wyatt met me at my friends and drove us down to the Kaiser Hospital off of Sunset in Hollywood. 

We got there in about 20 minutes with Wyatt's crazy driving and I immediately got wheeled up to the Labor and Delivery floor and checked in. I was dilated to a 3 (I was just a 1 on Monday) and still have regular, strong contractions. They admitted me and as soon as I got in my room I asked for my epidural. They wanted to see how I would progress with out breaking my water or without giving me Pitocin so not until 2am did they break my water. And at 3:30am they finally got me started on Pitocin. I was progressing but not as fast as I would have liked to. I tried to get as much sleep in as I could and then about 6:50 I felt tons of pressure and knew that it was baby time. So I called the nurse in and she called in my doctor and sure enough she was right there. They had to tell me "not" to push yet b/c they still had to get all scrubbed up and all the equipment ready. A few minutes later I pushed through one contraction and then they told me to stop b/c they noticed that poor little Bentley had the cord wrapped around her neck twice. They quickly cut the cord as soon as they could and I had to one more little push and she was here. She wasn't crying though and was completely blue. Tears were rolling down my face and I was so scared especially when they called some "code" on her and all these other doctors and nurses came running in our room. About 40 seconds later (It seemed like an eternity to me) I finally heard Navy cry for the first time. I was so relieved. Soon after I finally held her in my arms.

She is just the sweetest little thing and I think she looks a lot like me. I don't really see much of Crew or Hudson in her at all. We are all so in love and are loving having a little princess in our home.

**My little sister and I were due on the same day, January 24, and my sister went into the hospital the same time as me (she lives in Utah) and had her little girl, Norah Marie, on January 11 at 9:03pm  making her and Navy only 10 hours apart. I am so excited for these two girls to grow up together.