Aimree Reese Westmoreland

Brandon and I are happy to announce the birth of our baby girl, Aimree! She was born on February 22 at 5:30 A.M. via c-section at 36 weeks 4 days. She weighed 6lbs 8 oz, was 19 1/4 inches long and her head was 12 1/2 inches around. Even though she was a little early, we couldn't stop being excited and a lot nervous. I delivered early due to an irritable uterus which causes continuous contractions that are sometimes, very often actually, painful and consistent. Sometimes they will cause your cervix to thin and dilate, other times it only causes annoying contractions. From 27 weeks to 36 weeks 4 days my contractions didn't let up. At first they were not painful, just uncomfortable, but as I got bigger the contractions did too. My first doctor/hospital visit was right before Christmas. I went in for contractions every 4 minutes apart. My earlier post explains that visit. I had to go in two more times for the same thing before they did the repeat section on the fourth visit. I was not thrilled about having surgery, because I knew what was coming...PAIN! The doctor on call that night was Dr. Lazar at Methodist Germantown. He was not my doctor, but he was who took care of me at all of my hospital visits. Although his patient bedside manner isn't as sweet as my doctor's, he did a good job and made sure we were taken care. The pain was not as bad this go round thankfully. The nurses and staff at Methodist Germantown were amazing and made all the difference in the world in our experience.