Birth Story

The details are already fading...probably because it was not a super epic birth, besides getting a super awesome really awesome little guy out of it.

I had the hardest time leaving the house this morning, we ran late to get to the birth center because I was sobbing so hard leaving Carson I could barely see straight. That was HARD. He didn't get what was going on and would NOT hug me and I just totally lost it.

Got all checked in and around 8:20 AM my water was broken. No way would my water have ever broken on its own. It took multiple pokes to get it to finally rupture.

Once my water was broken we all basically just hung out, I bought a board game app for our iPhones and Chris and I just hung out playing on our phones until Emily showed up ready with her crazy computer and camera! Granted....it was a rather boring show for a while. I was having contractions every 2 minutes non painful though. I hadn't made a ton of progress from water break to 11 AM I was still a loose 3 cm and 75% effaced.

Finally decided to hop on the birth ball for a while, that helped a bit, I could feel him dip into a better position which was good. But contractions were still not painful. I hung out on my ball for a while and my mom brought Carson, cookies and pizza for the non laboring people in the room and cookies for my nurses. They appreciated that =)


Around 12:30 my mom took Carson home to play and I was starting to get a bit more pain with each contraction. I finally decided that I should just get up and pee, and just stand for a while. I started standing at 1:15 and by 1:45 contractions were hurting and right on top of one another. I asked to be checked since my plan was to get my epidural at 5 cm I know that you can just fly from 5 to 10 really fast.  Got my epidural around 2 pm and it was in and working within a few minutes. My anesthesiologist was amazing, he got it in and working so fast which is awesome because it gets rather awful when you have to still feel pain while having a tube in your spine.  I really had to fart the entire time. Its such an awkward position to be totally rounded out having contractions and feel the need to let it go, but I held onto it because lets face it, he would have totally understood, but who the hell knows how bad it would have stunk.

At 3:30 I was joking with my nurse that I needed to have a talk with Ollie, because I was due for the 3rd round of antibiotics at 4 pm, and I really did not want to have any more than I have to because of my raging yeast infections this pregnancy I already anticipate a yeast infection pretty much as soon as I get home.

At 3:50 we were waiting for my doctor, she was delivery another baby (she had a good day!) well my nurse decided that she would check me because she wanted to know what was going on. They already prepped the room for Ollie's arrival because his heart rate was dropping a tiny bit with each contraction, which was a good sign he was ready to come on out!

Well she checked me, he was SO low and I was at 10 cm. She called my doctor and at 4:01 we started pushing.

5 really good pushes later (12 minutes total)

Oliver Christopher Lastname was born

STATS:
8lbs 4 oz
21 inches long
APGAR 9/9

I'm uploading pictures into a separate tab up at the top of the pages. Also I will put the birth story at the bottom for easy keeping track of =)

But thats it! He's here and amazing! Carson is SO in love. Best moment of my life was seeing him kiss his new brother