The Big Delivery Day

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.