4.20.2009
Birth Story!
I have been trying to finish this for a while now as you can see. =/ Anyhow, we were admitted on Wednesday evening around 9:30 after being told to get there at 6PM. Thankfully, Kenzi had come by to check on us and inform us that labor & delivery had been quite hectic. So I am given Cervidil around 10 PM and was very anxious. At 8AM the next morning my Pitocin was started and by 9 AM I was dilated to a 1 and my water was broken. Then the contractions came, they were easy at first but by about 12:30 I was dilated to 3-4 and the contractions were coming right on top of each other with no break in between so we decided it was epidural time. Now I had been terrified of getting an epidural after reading a few horror stories but after going through it I think epidurals are pure heaven!! Now that I was comfortable I only dilated to 4-5 by 4 PM and figured we were in for a very long night. By about 9:45 I was checked by Dr. Z and was at a 6 so he told me we were definitely having this baby tonight on way or another...another meaning c-section, which was another thing I feared. So I sat myself up in bed and tried to picture myself dilating and Laiken coming naturally. Well, I must have done something because my epidural completely quit on me and these contractions were intense and right on top of one another! Luckily, an anesthesiologist was only about 5 minutes away but boy did that 5 minutes feel like an eternity!! So once I was completely numb again...about 2 minutes later...my nurse checked me and I was at a 10 and ready to go!! About 10:10 we start the pushing and after a couple "practice" pushes we were told the nurse could see a head full of black hair! Well as I have said before I was bald so a head full of hair was not what I was expecting to hear at all! Dr. Z was quickly paged in, as was a neonatal team for Laiken and after a couple more pushes at 10:33 PM on April 16, 2009 little Laiken Reese was brought into the world screaming at the top of her precious little lungs!! Here are some more pics from then:
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3 comments:
I had a similar epidural story. Mine wore off after 2 hours, and I had to get another one that did nothing but completely numb my right side (minutes before I started pushing... fun times).
I love the pictures! She is anything but bald!
How is her heart? How are you adjusting to life with a new boss???
You guys have been in my thoughts and prayers. I hope things are going well and you are getting used to your new life with Laiken!
She's so precious. Congratulations!!! Our little girls are only 3 days apart in age. :)
Congratulations! Those pics are tooo cute!Thank you for sharing I love it! I just had my first baby - 19.5 hour labour, very exhausting, but my little man came in weighing a healthy 7.7lbs. It was a nightmare delivery (tore both ways!) to be honest, maybe thats because he's my first! I had an epidural after 15 hours but his head wouldn't move down so they had to assist. I was pretty worried that he wouldn't latch on because of the epidural, but he seems to be feeding fine and I am a very proud and happy mother of Marlow. You should hare your story with all the other mummies at http://my.bounty.com/forums/ I know they would love it! xxx
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