So I am a total slacker and the whole 6 weeks I was off of work I didn't post anything on here... I gave birth to our beautiful baby boy, Jaydon, on August 17th, 2011 at 2:19 AM. He weighed 6 lbs 4 oz when he was born and was 19 inches long.
I was sitting at work on August 16th, I had some back pain and it just seemed to be getting worse and worse. I started chatting with one of my co-workers about my back pain, and she thought I was having back labor and that I should go home. ( I wanted to be stubborn and stay at work, to get more hours, but I couldn't take the pain, so I didn't fight her) I had only worked 4 hours, but I went home anyways. I took a nice warm bath, hoping that that would help my back pain. I tried to nap, but nothing was helping, and the contractions were getting closer and the pain was making me cry.
I finally called the doctor on call and was told to go in, even though I had been into the hospital the 2 days before for false alarms. I arrived at the hospital at about 450pm, and saw both of the nurses that had been my nurses the two previous days. Third time's a charm right? I was hoping so.
They got me into a room, and checked me......
I had progressed! I was now dilated to a 3.5 (the day before I was only dilated to a 1+)
They were going to admit me, because I was so close to being in active labor, and my contractions were hard enough that they figured that I would progress on my own.
Justin was not happy with this, as he was stuck taking a class that was required for certain reasons, until 10 pm. I had to have Justin's brother, Kelly and my little sister Candace take me to the hospital. (Which by the way, they decided to go and get food while they checked me, and right after they got the IV in my arm they came in with Fries and burgers that smelled SOO good, but of course, I couldn't have anything but ice chips to eat :( )
Justin called me, frantic that he was stuck in class, he wanted me to wait to get the epidural until he got there!!! HAH! No way was I waiting for him to get that epidural! (and I'm glad I didnt wait too!!) They gave me the epidural, which immediately gave me SO much relief from the contractions! After they gave me the epidural, I just sat and waited for everyone to show up. Justin's mom got there next, and sat there to talk with me while we waited for things to progress. Heather Saulnier (Jaydon's god-mother) came to visit as well. A little time had gone by, it was almost 9pm when a man walks in the door, he didn't get a chance to say anything before his phone rang and he walked back out the door and Justin walked in. The man that had just walked in was the on-call doctor and was going to break my water. (Thank goodness Justin showed up when he did!!! He would have been SO upset if he missed that)
So he broke my water at 9pm, and they figured that I wouldn't be ready to push until 4 or 5 the next morning because I am a first time mom. I let my mom know since she was stuck at work until 11 pm. My mom got there about 11, or 1130. The first thing she said, because she had me so quickly, was "Why haven't you checked her lately?" The nurse kind of stammered and said that they don't check very often that way I wouldn't get discouraged if I wasn't progressing very fast.
The Nurse ended up checking me, and seemed kind of in shock...... At about midnight, I was completely dilated and effaced.
We had to wait for the go ahead for me to start pushing, and for Jaydon to move down just a little bit more.
I got this strange feeling that I needed to push. Justin hurried out to the nurse and the nurse checked again... yes, Jaydon had moved down and I was ready to push.
We did some practice pushes, to gauge how long it could take for me to push Jaydon out. (Can I say that pushing was probably the hardest thing, where I was so numb I didn't really know how to use the muscles that they wanted me to use haha) but I got him down enough for them to call the doctor.
Side note::: they were going to have the on call doctor deliver me, but Dr Langer had said that she would come in to deliver me :)
When my Dr finally got to the hospital, she said that she had gotten pulled over, never once has she been pulled over before lol ( the funny thing here is that we had just been talking about this exact thing, wondering how many doctors get pulled over on their way in to the hospital to deliver a baby)
I pushed and pushed, they almost got the forceps to help get Jaydon's head out, thank goodness they brought me the mirror and let the epidural wear off a little... because I got him out all by myself, no need for the forceps :)
(Since I am at work right now, I will post some pictures when I get home, if I remember ;-) )
