December 10, 2013
Tuesday morning i had my weekly dr appt. she checked me and told me i was a 3 or 4. so in my mind i assumed like a 3.5. at this point i was already 4 days overdue and i had to schedule an ultrasound and an inducement day if he wasn't here in the next like 10 days so she asked me if i wanted her to strip my membranes and i said yes of course! everyone said it hurt really bad but i kinda wanted to feel some pain to get me ready so i wasn't as scared for labor pains. Then she did it and it didn't hurt at all. she was hoping that would put me into labor sometime soon but i guess sometimes it doesn't work, so i went on with the rest of the day and nothing was happening! i went and hung out with amia and katie and then went to work on the house that night with Scottie. everything was still normal. we got home around 10ish ate some food and then went into bed. as we were eating i was kinda crampy but didn't think anything of it then as we were laying in bed i kinda felt a cramp that hurt and i was like o nice maybe this is good. then i noticed they kinda came and went like i heard contractions were supposed to and they kinda hurt and my back was killing me. I noticed the first one around 11:30 then,around midnight i finally grabbed my phone and started timing them with my contraction app haha. they started out about 8 min apart all lasting about 1 min long. Shelly (my midwife) had told me earlier that day that i should go to the hospital when they are 5 min apart lasting 1 min for 1 hr. so that is what i was waiting for . so i layed in bed timing them until like 1:30ish and then i couldn't stand laying in bed any longer so i got up, did some laundry, brushed my teeth, and got some last min things in my bag. at this point they were about 3 min apart when i was up and walking around. so i figured it had been long enough. everyone was telling me once i went into labor that i would probably go pretty fast (my family has way quick labors) so i was nervous to wait around at home for too long. I decided to wake up scottie and tell him it was go time. he was kinda confused when i woke him up but then he got really excited. so we said a prayer got our coats on and left! on the way to the hospital i felt like things kinda slowed down but it was def still happening cuz it did not feel super awesome and my back was still killing me! so anyway we got to the hospital a little after 2am got checked in and taken to triage (where they check you to make sure you are really in labor and how things are progressing) so they hooked me up to a contraction monitor and a heart beat monitor for Keton and left me there for about 30 min. she came back in and checked me again and i was still the same and my contractions were still happening but they weren't very consistent so she ordered me to go walk the halls for 45 min and come back and see if i had changed at all after that. so that's what i did. i plugged in my headphones and walked and walked did some squats in the doorways so that no one would see me and more walking trying to get things going. i had a few hard ones that i had to stop walking and breath through but then i went back in the room to be checked again, i was still the same.:( so she said she wanted to call my dr and see what they wanted me to do. she came back with the options of going home and waiting till things got more consistent or stronger or they could give me some pitocin to make my contractions stronger and get things going that way. this was a super hard decision for me cuz i knew if i got the pitocin it would make everything intensify fast and i was convinced i would not be able to do it natural like i thought i wanted to but i also didn't want to go home. i wanted to see my baby and i was already in labor and going home would just make me more impatient! so after like and hr and a half and calling my mom, and my friend Camille (who had just been induced a couple weeks before), talking to a couple different nurses, consulting scottie (which he just wanted me to do whatever i wanted to do so he wasn't really much help), we decided that we were going to stay. talking in triage i discovered the only reason i wanted to go natural was so that i didn't have to pay for the epidural cuz i heard they were really expensive, but scottie asked me if i really wanted to feel like 5 million times more pain then i was already in and that's when i decided why the heck did i ever want to do it natural when i have the option of not feeling a thing. So then i got really excited about getting one and getting things going. so any way they put us in a room around 5:30am got an iv in me after 3 attempts, and then shelly called and said that they should just break my water first instead of starting me on drugs, at that point my contractions had slowed down a ton and i was like what the heck they were doing so good! anyway so they came in and broke my water (side note they had a resident assistant attempt to break my water and she tried for a good 10 min without success then the dr did it in one try) and bam contractions started again and it got intense immediately!!! i had back labor really really bad it was worse than the front contractions so right after they did that the anesthesiologist came in and had to explain everything in case i wanted an epidural. ok back track for a second, i threw up when we first got into triage like crazy a lot. so anyway after the contractions started again i started throwing up again and couldn't stop, literally every min i was heaving. that was not easy to throw up and have contractions at the same time so as the guy was explaining everything i was throwing up and as soon as he got done he said " so just to let you know if you decide you want an epidural it will be about 45 min from when you tell the nurse you want one and when you start feeling relief". so right when he got done saying that i was like um ok i would really like one ASAP hahah he kinda laughed and was like um ok ill go check with the anesthesiologist to make sure. he said that when they did my blood work my white blood cell count was high and sometimes you cant get one if that is high so he had to check. i had so quickly changed my mind about wanting an epidural so now that my mind was set on getting one and then hearing this i was kinda freaking out. so after he left i looked at scottie and said we need to say a prayer that i will be able to get one cuz i am in a lot of pain! so we did and like 10 min later he came in and said we were good to go! i was so relieved. so this whole time i am contracting and throwing up and scottie is holding my barf bowl and a cool rag on my head and my eyes are closed without any plans on opening them. it is crazy painful in my back and front and i am just so excited to get the pain gone. scottie was so cute he was like babe if you need to scream like that lady we heard while we were sitting in triage you can hahah i told him that wouldn't help the pain at all but it was a cute gesture haha. so he comes in gets the epidural in and like 30 min later i couldn't feel a thing not a THING!!!!. it was weird tho cuz i could still feel and move my feet and legs but from my butt to under my boobs was totally numb. i kept telling scottie "i cant feel my butt and its amazing". i was the happiest thing on the planet, scottie and i were just chatting up a storm laughing it was awesome! then we plugged in my relaxing music and tried to sleep but didn't of course (how were we possibly supposed to sleep when we knew we would be meeting our son in a matter of hours!!) During this time all of our family was at the hospital waiting in the waiting room. We had texted them when we were on our way there and when we got into our room and they were all there in the waiting room by 7AM. how cute are they!! anyway in what seemed like no time i was dilated to a 10 and ready to push. she had me wait a little bit so that he got nice and low and then started pushing.i started pushing at 12:30. That was a whole experience in and of itself! so crazy to push harder than you ever thought possible and then during the contraction break be laughing and joking with the nurses and my awesome midwife Shelly. i can honestly say it was so fun and totally enjoyable but also probably the hardest physical thing that i have ever done!
That is probably why labor and birth is such an unexplainable experience. I pushed for 50 min which did not feel like 50 min and bam he was out! Shelly let me pull him out after his head and shoulders were out so i pulled him right out and put him on my chest and i just bawled and bawled. it was such an emotional time. i had no idea how i was going to react to the moment when we got to meet our son and it was such a magical moment that i will never forget! he was so cute and so chunky. i remember the first thing that i said to scottie was "babe look at his lips, they're so big" hahah he had some kissable lips on him and he just cried and it was probably the most adorable thing ever! i just kept looking at him and looking at scottie and saying babe look at him he is soo cute!!! we were so so happy scottie even teared up it was so cute! he was wide awake just looking at us it was sooooo amazing!!!! So they stitched me up while we were looking at him and then they weighed him. Aftervi was all cleaned up we let my family come in so they did not waste any time and they all rushed in to see our sweet angel! it was so fun having everyone in there to experience the joy with us! everyone was so excited it was so awesome!!! they got to see them do his little foot prints and wrap him all up and then they all took turns holding him prob not even a half hour after he was born he was meeting all his family. He loved it and didn't cry at all. We then moved to the next room and i got to nurse him for the first time. let me tell you that boy came out ready to eat so learning to nurse was a breeze with him!!!! i am so lucky i know!!! we spent the next 24 hrs in the hospital and then we got to go home!!!! He was pretty much wide awake his first 24 hrs of life bright eyed and bushy tailed!!! always a very awake and alert newborn and the sweetest baby in the whole world!!! we are soooo in love!
That is probably why labor and birth is such an unexplainable experience. I pushed for 50 min which did not feel like 50 min and bam he was out! Shelly let me pull him out after his head and shoulders were out so i pulled him right out and put him on my chest and i just bawled and bawled. it was such an emotional time. i had no idea how i was going to react to the moment when we got to meet our son and it was such a magical moment that i will never forget! he was so cute and so chunky. i remember the first thing that i said to scottie was "babe look at his lips, they're so big" hahah he had some kissable lips on him and he just cried and it was probably the most adorable thing ever! i just kept looking at him and looking at scottie and saying babe look at him he is soo cute!!! we were so so happy scottie even teared up it was so cute! he was wide awake just looking at us it was sooooo amazing!!!! So they stitched me up while we were looking at him and then they weighed him. Aftervi was all cleaned up we let my family come in so they did not waste any time and they all rushed in to see our sweet angel! it was so fun having everyone in there to experience the joy with us! everyone was so excited it was so awesome!!! they got to see them do his little foot prints and wrap him all up and then they all took turns holding him prob not even a half hour after he was born he was meeting all his family. He loved it and didn't cry at all. We then moved to the next room and i got to nurse him for the first time. let me tell you that boy came out ready to eat so learning to nurse was a breeze with him!!!! i am so lucky i know!!! we spent the next 24 hrs in the hospital and then we got to go home!!!! He was pretty much wide awake his first 24 hrs of life bright eyed and bushy tailed!!! always a very awake and alert newborn and the sweetest baby in the whole world!!! we are soooo in love!
last belly pic at 40 wks 5 days
after the epidural..... happy happy me!!!
you just have to throw in the terrible after birth first family pic hahah
one proud daddy!
uncle spencer
Grammi and papa
uncle Benton
Keton's paparazzi
he looked so tiny in his carseat.... going home!
uncle bubba and their matching mustaches
those cheeks yuuuummmy
it is so fun looking back at the amazing day we had meeting our first son! we find ourselves more and more in love with him everyday. He makes us laugh everyday and is the light of our lives. We love him soooo much!!!
