Well the day had finally arrived..This is the day our baby would
come into the world. I was scheduled to be at the hospital at 8 in the morning
on Aug 11th. So me and daddy arrived there promptly at 8. When we got there we
were taken right into my labor and delivery room. The nurse came in and gave me
my pretty dress to put on. At around 8:30 my new nurse came in and got me all
hooked up to those lovely monitors and started with all the millions of
paperwork that had to be done. "like signing your life away" Around 9 a intern
came in and geeze we had to do all his paper work. He did a internal i was
dilated a little over 4 and was 70% efaced. Everything looked good he was gonna
go ahead and have the nurse start my pitocin. I said o-k but i want my epidural.
He said he see's no reason why i could not get it since i was already dilated to
4 but he would call my dr first and check with her. So he left and came back in
and said she had no problem with me having the!
epidural then starting the pitocin. I said cool! But Mr.Intern man decided he
would like to start the pitocin and see me have a few good steady contractions
on my own. Well i agreed"first mistake" They started the pitocin and like
instantly i felt the contractions start. They werent to bad i was handling just
fine. In the meantime i have my husband siting in the chair beside me saying "oh
no here comes another" im like i know i can feel them. I got to the point were i
was telling him before he even said anything. They were turning up the pitocin
every 15 mins or so. About 45 mins later they finally decided to start the
epidural.So here comes Mr.Epi guy "Vince" He says are you ready? I said you
betcha im ready. He did the epidural which did not hurt to bad felt kinda like
electric going down my legs for a few secs other then that it was o-k. He said
he was just gonna give me a small dose at first and a narcotic to help me relax.
He said as soon as i needed more to give him a call. "2nd mistake" As soon as he left the room i started itching all over. It
felt like i had a million bugs crawling all over me. The nurse said this was a
normal reaction to the epidural. I never had that itching with my first son so
who knows. I laid there for im guessing a couple of hours. I could still feel
the contractions but they again werent to bad.BUT getting worse with everyone.
Around 2 or so i said o-k lets get Mr.Vince back in here im ready for more
drugs. So here he comes strolling his little butt in as slow as he can walk and
says o-k im gonna give you a good dose now. Well guess what? I think he forgot
to put it in because i felt no different besides the pain was getting way to
much to handle. I was squirming all over my little bed. My legs never did go
numb just my back and stomach and this is not a good thing when this happens. In
the meantime everytime i have a contraction the nurse is noticing the baby's
heartrate is dropping. So i had to put on a oxygen mask and she said she was going to get the dr. The dr comes in checks me and
sure enough im complete ready to start pushing but at this point there is only
one problem. My dr was not there. The intern told me DO NOT PUSH! Im going to
call your Dr. He did came back and said she was on her way. Now im laying there
thinking OH GEEZE it takes her 15 mins to get here, by the time she parks,
walks in, gets ready im gonna die for sure.. Around 2:50 she comes walking in
checks me and says OH your ready. "im thinking i was ready a half hour ago". She
says o-k with the next contraction i want you to push. Well i did and i said OH
NO this is not happening. the pain was so so bad. Everytime i would push it
would hurt worse. It got to the point were i could not concentrate on what i was
doing it was burning so bad. ( i could go into details here but i have alot of
friends who are expecting and i dont want to scare them) you get the point thou.
It hurt!! They kept telling me me to take a deep breath and push he is almost out. Now im thinking these people think im
really stupid. They say he is almost out but his head is not even out and i have
the shoulders to go..YIKES i cant do this!! I kept looking at my husband and
yelling at him this "epidural is not working" Anyway our baby was born at 3:02
after what they tell me was 3 pushes. Seemed like 300 to me!. As im laying there
getting stitched up (that i felt every moment of) i look over and see there are
about 10 people working on Chase. My Dr. is yelling over there "is he o-k?" "do
you need help?"No one is answering her. She stood up and says i want the head Dr
in here right now.. I want no interns in this room. Come to find out his head
was almost totally black when he was born and everyone thought he was not
breathing. The head dr. came in checked him all out.Breathing,blood
pressure,heartrate,everything was fine. He just had alot of bruising from being
so big and being born so fast. About 15 mins later they
brough him to me i held him and fed him for the first time. That night after all
the company left around 10 or so i held our baby in my arms and checked every
little part out."looked good to me:) We fell asleep in bed together until the
nurse came in at about 4 to take him back to the nursery to check his temp and
stuff. But dont worry mommy was right back up at 6 to take a shower and go
rescue him again. The Dr.s came in around 9 that morning and said we looked
great and if we wanted we could go home. So after only 20 short hours of life we
brought mr.Chase home. He is now 6 days old and is doing wonderful.I dont know
how my heart has so much room in it but everytime i look at him i love him more
and more. He is mommy's perfect little boy! And worth every second of the pain i
had to go through for 9 months for him to get here..
