Well I guess I will start at the beginning aka the birth story, dun, dun, dun.
Feb. 26 - a week before my due date which was March 4th I mentioned to my doctor that my next appointment was the day after my due date and asked about being induced instead (remember I had been having regular contractions on and off for a week already). His reply gratefully was "How do you feel about it?" ummm, yes please; now would be better. So the date was set for March 5 at 6 am.
March 3 - I was having regular contractions again that didn't feel so good but were not getting worse for 6 hours! I called the doctor and he checked me and NOTHING, still 3 cm. In my head I am screaming that I am going to be induced in 2 days, lets just get this thing over with.
March 5 - D-day (or B-day)
4 am - I woke up with regular contractions yet again. Sweet maybe I won't have to be induced
5:40 am - We were about to leave for the hospital for my induction when they call and say they are too full to do an induction and tell me to call my doctors office when they open and ask if they have a plan. A plan?!? THE plan was to get induced today. That is the only plan!
8:50 am - I had been praying and walking my daylights out trying to go into full labor so they HAVE to take me when I get a phone call saying they can induce me at 11:15. Hallelujah, thank you to who ever had their baby to free up a labor nurse. I then inform DJ that he is not to answer the phone if they call again, no more postponing.
11:15 am - We check into the hospital and get asked a bunch of questions they asked me the day before when I pre -checked in. Hmmm.
12:30 pm - The doctor came in and broke my water and started the pitocin. The contractions I had been having immediately got worse.
3:30 pm - I asked for the epidural, and while I was waiting for the anesthesiologist was trying to figure out why I had waited so long and wishing that I would have asked 15 mins ago. (Every so often my contractions would all of the sudden get worse, this was one of those times.)
4:00 pm - Epidural is in, waiting for it to kick in.
4:20 pm - Dang it, I could still feel my right side. They check me and I was 6 cm, fully effaced. The nurse said it would happen sooner rather than later.
4:40 pm - It's later... 9 3/4 cm. I was VERY grateful that I got the epidural when I did! Although I could feel one side, I could at least handle that, as hard as it was. It was around here also that baby's heart rate started to drop with each contraction.
5:20 pm - This is where I try not to remember. Pushing begins and just like with Amelia the epidural feels like it isn't doing a thing. When we start the nurse says "Now if I tell you to stop you need to stop and wait for the doctor". Uh, no, how about you make sure the doctor gets here; I wait for no one.
5:57 pm - After crowning for what felt like FOREVER (no screaming... just crying), Bryson is out with loads of dark hair and a cord around the neck. Immediate thought was the pain relief isn't nearly enough. Then the doctor asks how big Amelia was (7 lbs 3 oz) then says "I'm guessing 9". You're kidding. I knew he was going to bigger despite the fact I was measure 2 weeks small at my last two appointments (I made it stretch mark free through Amelia's pregnancy, but the last week of Bryson's I got a few, another reason he should have been born earlier) but ! I'm glad you let me be induced today. His 65% head compared to Amelia's 10% didn't help either. Bryson was then a bit (what they termed) stunned for a while afterwards, from his cord being around his neck. Meaning he needed some extra oxygen for a couple minutes and then was really whiny/fussy for a while. He also came out with a hickey on his arm where he had been sucking during labor. Sweet! During this time I was getting drugged up because I hurt, and did for a long time after. But I would do labor, delivery, and recovery every month of a pregnancy instead of being pregnant. That is how glad I am that it is over and how much I hate being sick to my stomach. The End. I am wasting precious sleep time. (Long enough for you? Yes? Well it was more for me than you anyways.)
Where is DJ you ask? He was there... but no evidence of it on my camera.
