What a Ride (Part I: Labor)
Has it really been two weeks already? As you can probably imagine, life has been pretty crazy for the last little while. I've been meaning to update for about a week but every time I try, Baby J wakes up from his nap or something else is going on. We'll see if I can get through a whole post today... I'll probably have to do installments since I have so much to write.
I went to the dr on the 29th and I still wasn't progressing so she was for sure going to induce me. I was supposed to go to the hospital Wednesday night to get started but around 2 Wednesday morning my water broke. I told Hubby that we needed to go to the hospital but he was sleeping and thought it was a dream. I finally got him awake and we got everything ready to go. We got to the hospital around 3 am and almost immediately I started having contractions. They weren't too bad at first. They hooked me up to the fetal monitors and all that jazz and we pretty much just had to sit around and wait. We weren't really tired anymore and there is absolutely nothing on tv (even cable) that early in the morning. So it was pretty boring. They started me on pitosin around 10 am and my contractions got steadily worse until about 7 hours in I decided I was done sucking it up and was ready for an epidural.
I had been a little worried about getting an epidural but it really wasn't bad. Part of it was probably that I couldn't see what was happening, and the other part was that I was so focused on just getthing through the contractions that I really couldn't think about what the anesthesiologist was doing. But it was definitely the right choice. I have no problem paying that man for his services! Once the epidural kicked in I couldn't feel a thing. Which is good because I was in labor for 15 more hours! It just got really boring sitting there waiting for the baby to come. I watched way too much television and family members stopped in to see us. It really wasn't at all like I had thought it would be. It was really a lot easier than I imagined (thanks to the wonderful drugs!). The worst part is that I wasn't allowed to eat anything besides ice chips and I was absolutely starving! I just had to sit around and wait for my cervix to dilate to a 10. Around midnight Thursday morning that finally happened and the pushing started. And at 12:48 that morning Baby J was born.
Hubby got to watch the whole thing but I didn't want to see it! He got to cut the umbilical cord too and he was the first one to hold our baby. As for me, I was just exhausted. It had been a really REALLY long day. But at least I finally got to eat! Oh yeah, and hold my new little baby boy:)
Up Next - Part 2: Recovery and Discovery
I went to the dr on the 29th and I still wasn't progressing so she was for sure going to induce me. I was supposed to go to the hospital Wednesday night to get started but around 2 Wednesday morning my water broke. I told Hubby that we needed to go to the hospital but he was sleeping and thought it was a dream. I finally got him awake and we got everything ready to go. We got to the hospital around 3 am and almost immediately I started having contractions. They weren't too bad at first. They hooked me up to the fetal monitors and all that jazz and we pretty much just had to sit around and wait. We weren't really tired anymore and there is absolutely nothing on tv (even cable) that early in the morning. So it was pretty boring. They started me on pitosin around 10 am and my contractions got steadily worse until about 7 hours in I decided I was done sucking it up and was ready for an epidural.
I had been a little worried about getting an epidural but it really wasn't bad. Part of it was probably that I couldn't see what was happening, and the other part was that I was so focused on just getthing through the contractions that I really couldn't think about what the anesthesiologist was doing. But it was definitely the right choice. I have no problem paying that man for his services! Once the epidural kicked in I couldn't feel a thing. Which is good because I was in labor for 15 more hours! It just got really boring sitting there waiting for the baby to come. I watched way too much television and family members stopped in to see us. It really wasn't at all like I had thought it would be. It was really a lot easier than I imagined (thanks to the wonderful drugs!). The worst part is that I wasn't allowed to eat anything besides ice chips and I was absolutely starving! I just had to sit around and wait for my cervix to dilate to a 10. Around midnight Thursday morning that finally happened and the pushing started. And at 12:48 that morning Baby J was born.
Hubby got to watch the whole thing but I didn't want to see it! He got to cut the umbilical cord too and he was the first one to hold our baby. As for me, I was just exhausted. It had been a really REALLY long day. But at least I finally got to eat! Oh yeah, and hold my new little baby boy:)
Up Next - Part 2: Recovery and Discovery
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