We checked into the hospital at 6:45 AM on Tuesday November 7th, 2006. The first step was a pill to induce labor - my Doctor thought this would be less "invasive" than patocin (sp?) as it simulates normal labor and contractions. The first dose did nothing, and we had to wait four hours before I could take the next. I took the next one, and started to have some pretty strong contractions - but only had dilated to a 4. My Mom, Robin, Todd and I passed the time watching movies, and just hanging out! It was nice to have the support and people to distract me during the rough times.
By the end of the second 4 hours I was having much, much stronger contractions.I took this time to get in the whirlpool and then beg for my epidural! The doctor who administers epidurals had two people to do first and then he was on his way, in the mean time, I was having very strong contractions - about a minute and half apart and about 30 seconds long, eventually I got my epidural, the only problem was I was still feeling my contractions strongly, it wasn't working...The doctor came back and gave me another dose of the epidural, and IT WORKED!!! I was so happy I called the doc God!!!
At this time the nurse thought my contractions where not showing right, and decided to do a internal contraction monitor, when the head nurse went to put it in - she said - "whoa - she's a 10!!!" So there was a reason why I was feeling contractions so hard - I had went from a 4 to a 10 in three hours, and was contracting at a 10 level before the second epidural kicked in! Yikes...my doctor joked that I know what it feels like to contract at a 10 so if I want to do a natural child birth next time I will know what it feels like...I told her yeah right! I am asking for the epidural faster...lolAt this time the decided to have me rest for an hour and then we would start pushing!!! I was so excited, and feeling good, we started pushing and things changed. Every time I pushed the babies heart rate dropped from 135 - 145 to 50 - 60. It was really scary, the doctor called in a bigger team and a NICU team, and decided at this point we would only try pushing for a little bit, we could see babies head, so she was right there, but unfortunately she didn't want to come out fast enough, so we had to do the vacuum, we tried that twice and it popped off her head...they said maybe because she had so much hair! At this point they just needed baby out fast, so they used forceps.
She came out pretty fast after that! I wasn't feeling anything but joy - Todd and I just basked in the glow of our new daughter. Who even though was having some troubles before she came out, she was beautiful and breathing great and pink when she came out!I found out later, and after two hours of the doctors working on me that I was tore pretty bad, from the forceps. I lost a lot of blood, and they had to use a lot of stitches to put me back together. But it was small price to pay for my baby to come out quick with her heart rate dropping like that.She was here!!!! And everyone’s first reaction was she looked like Daddy - I was just happy she was ok!!!
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The reason she looks like Todd is the cheeks! Congrats on your new little deduction. :P
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