Now that the family is gone I have been able to sit and think about the blog for a little while. So here is the 1st part of Thomas' birth story!
It was 4am on Saturday morning when I felt a small gush,
knowing I didn’t pee on myself I wondered what it was and then another
gush. Once the 2nd gush
happened I knew exactly what it was. I
sat up and told Derek, “I think my water just broke!” He shot up too and got
and said, “Are you serious?!?” I said,
“Yes, call my mom.” He looked at me a
few seconds later and said, “Well, we’re having a baby today!” It is hard to wrap your mind around that when
you are 2 weeks early. My mom went late
with me and all my siblings so I never dreamed I would be on time much less
EARLY!!! Holy cow! I was totally ready for the baby to arrive home but I was
not ready to be in the hospital. I had
not packed my bag, I had not pre-registered at the hospital. I was NOT ready, but Thomas was ready to be
here.
I was told by friends to get something to eat on your way to
the hospital since you can’t eat anything once you get there. So we drove through McDonald’s and I got a
plain biscuit and was only able to eat about ½ of it because I was nervous
about what the day would hold. I called
my mom and asked her to stop at the store and get me some sour suckers of some
sort so that I could eat those while in labor.
I was not having any contractions so it was a nice drive to
the hospital, other than being soaking wet.
I was drenched when we went into the hospital and I was really glad I
would not see anyone in the waiting room ever again. It was quite embarrassing. They send me to the maternity triage waiting
room and the nurse comes in and looks at me and says, “What happen to you?” I
said, “Well, my water broke.” She said
are you sure it is not just pee? I said,
“Ma’am if this is pee that is really impressive.” (I guess my filter doesn’t
work at that time of the morning.) She said, I believe you no need to go to
triage lets take you straight to a labor and delivery room and get this
started.
Soon after getting in the room my parents got there and we
all were just hanging out my contractions were so small I could not even feel
them. We would walk and walk and walk.
They gave me the smallest amount of Pitocin and my contractions were
slowly getting stronger and stronger. I
waited as long and I could and then could not take it any longer and got an
epidural. It was WONDERFUL!!! It was literally pain free. I could not believe it. Labor lasted from about 5:30am when we got to
the hospital until 7:00pm and I was 9cm dilated.
Unfortunately 7pm was shift change so I had to wait a while
before I could start pushing. Once they
changed shifts I started pushing. They
decided they thought he was sunny side up meaning his face was facing up and that
makes it very difficult to have vaginally. Unfortunately they tried to turn him
and he was facing the side and then when we tried to get him to move he moved
sunny side up. I pushed for 3 hours and
then told them I could not do it any longer. I had a fever after about hour 2
and so did Thomas. After pushing for an
hour with a fever I was beyond exhausted.
It was time to give in.
I will finish with part 2 soon!! =)
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