The Big D day!
Thursday afternoon/night I got a phone call from the
hospital to “check me in” and get a ton of information & questions. It was the weirdest thing to have a scheduled
delivery. They did tell me to call first
thing in the morning at 5:30 to make
sure there was room to come in…it could be postponed for a little bit depending
how the night was. We spent the night
getting things done and I tried walking a lot to get contractions coming but he
just wasn’t going to budge. It was hard
for me to fall asleep but finally about 12:30
I fell asleep until 4:30 when baby
boy woke me up moving around.
Friday 5/15/15
came and we were ready to go.
I was
still in shock that we were having a baby!
>You know those Christmas’s when it doesn’t feel like Christmas had
come already and it was already here….that’s how I felt<
I got ready for the day, made the phone call (we were fine
to come in) and then we headed to the hospital.
I was very grateful for Craig’s parents for coming to our house to help
with the girls. I was also very grateful
for my doctor who kept asking if I wanted to get induced because it caused A
LOT less stress knowing the hospital was 35 minutes away.
We got to the L&D floor and had to fill out papers and
then got called back.
The nurses-I had 2
Kim & Chelsey-walked us into the room and the first thing I saw was the
standing fan.
IT FREAKED ME OUT!
I flashbacked to delivering Hadi and the fan
cuz during contractions I was so hot.
I
think deep inside seeing the fan, knowing the pain I would be in, I mentally
made the choice to get an epidural.
I
got hooked up to the IV about 8:00 and
started the Petocin.
It wasn’t a huge
dose but it got the contractions started.
I was having major pain in my upper back and the bed was super uncomfortable.
I was able to be on the IV and use the
bathroom.
My doctor came in about 8:45 and checked me. I was dilated to a 4 and
was about 80% thinned.
Then was just
hanging out together doing the contractions & petocin until 10am.
Right before they had upped my petocin again and I was starting to have
a little more intense contractions but still wasn’t to the intensity as
Hadi.
I got up again to use the bathroom
and then decided to sit on the exercise ball.
It felt so good!!!
It relieved
the pain in my back and made the contractions not bad at all.
At this point my doctor came in again and asked
to break my water.
I was super nervous
and wanted the epidural first but felt a little pressure like we should to get
things going faster.
My Dr. assured me
that it felt like just when he was “checking” me and the thing he uses it like
a crochet hook and I wouldn’t feel pain.
He was right.
He broke my water
and it felt sooo good!
About 5 minutes
after my contractions started coming and they were beginning to really
hurt.
I knew I could handle it but for
how long?
I asked about the
anesthesiologist and they said it can take up to 45 minutes for him to come in.
I last until 10:30
and decided it was time to have them call for my epidural-knowing it could be
another hour to get one.
Oh no….he came
in right away.
Immediately there was
panic!
I HATE EPIDUARLS.
I hate labor.
Really it’s a lose-lose situation!
I had Craig stand in front of me and hold my hand because it
hurt!!!
The pain in my back though I
thought would probably be better of 15 minutes than another few hours of
contractions.
Shortly after it started
to kick in.
About 2 minutes after my
epidural I all the sudden felt really sick.
I felt like puking then I thought I was going to pass out.
It was a really scary feeling!
I remember thinking…this is why I hate
epidurals!
I hate not having control of
my body.
I told my nurse who quickly
took a blood pressure and sure enough it was extremely low.
I was waiting to pass out cuz it really felt
like I was about to.
Then the nurse
hurry and ran to give me a shot in my thigh and more in my IV.
It worked quick and I felt so much
better.
It was the perfect epidural that
I still felt some contractions but they weren’t painful so I could handle it
easy. With Jaycee I was so numb I couldn’t feel anything!
We stayed for this way until about noon while watching Rylan’s heart rate and when
a contraction would come his heart rate would dip into 90’s.
This was concerning to the doctor but he
suspected it was because of the embillican cord being wrapped somewhere since
all the fluid came out.
At that point,
they pumped liquid back into my “sac” to try to help with the heart rate.
It didn’t work too great but enough that they
weren’t as stressed.
The doctor did
another check about noon and said I
was at a 6 and the reason he hadn’t come yet was because he was turned side
ways with his face not down.
They had me
do a position on my side and about an hour like that, I finally felt the
pressure below that they kept asking for.
I remember telling Craig that he was really close down there.
I wanted him to call the nurse and at that
time one came in and I told her.
Just as
she was about to check my dr came in again and checked…Sure enough.
He was ready to come.
It was about 2pm
and they said it was time to push.
My
oxygen was pretty low so in between contractions I would breath through a
mask.
I pushed really hard for a while
and noticed that the doctor had left!
What the heck?!
I had to push for
how long?!!!
Finally after a ton of
pushing for nearly an hour (that is very
exhausting!!!)
my baby boy came out.
They immediately put him on my chest,
skin-to-skin, and I cried!
My little
baby!!!
It was still so unreal that he
was here.
When he came out we found that
he indeed was sideways, resulting in a major conehead, and the reason for the
low birth rate and not being able to turn face down was that his embillican
cord was wrapped up around his shoulder down to around his ankle.
I was so glad he was ok!
I did end up getting one stitch.
And also was SO RELIEVED that I got the
epidural.
I can’t imagine doing all that
without being numb.
