Hospital: LONG LONG POST
Finally the hubs catches up to me in the Labor and Delivery hallway as I sign my life away lol okay maybe I’m exaggerating a bit ... I then get called into the Triage by a nurse named Sue (maybe) who instructs me to remove all my clothes and get into a gown... so I quickly removed my gown that I could jump in the bed to help relieve some of the pain. She soon returns and begins to hook me up too all the monitors and checks my vitals, I start giving her the run down about how I had been feeling so on and so fourth pausing and tightly shutting my eyes between each contraction, which lead her to ask if I had taken an child birth class I answered “yes.” She begins to say okay well remember what the teacher said "find a focal point and stare at it and breathe in and out" so I slowly begin to open my eyes and she points... "Okay look at that red dot on the T.V and breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth" but all I could think is bitch can you just shut up and let me tense up, close my eyes, grip the bed, clinch my jaw and arch my back so this contraction can end!!!!!!!!! lmao!!! There's no way hell I was going to focus on a red dot when I felt a contraction but nurse Sue wasn't having it and with my luck she entered every time I was having one, almost like she timed her entrance so she could catch me in "THE ACT."
Finally, a resident comes in to ask me a million and one questions about my life as she scribbles each answer down on a folded piece of paper that had a million other notes on it from her other patients. After being interrogated for at least 30 mins she mentions that a senior resident would be coming out to do an internal...not long after see enters in the room with a senior resident to begin my internal at that point I was hoping that I had dilated enough to be admitted because I knew that this had to be real labor...once the resident checks me the senior resident asks me when my last internal was and if was dilated at the time I quickly answered "Friday and I wasn't dilated, effaced, thinned out NOTHING"!! She then dives right in and does an internal herself, (great I have to get it twice) she pushes and presses around and then says "your about 2-3 cm," I was in total shock thinking wow just Friday I was NOTHING and now I'm 2-3cm... Quickly she shoots me down by saying, "you could be 2-3cm for about a week or 2 if this isn't real labor but let me call your doctor and see what she wants to do" thanks just what I wanted to hear.
After waiting sometime a new nurse Christina comes back in with instructions from my doctor to walk around for 2 hours (5pm) and then they would check me again to see if I had progressed! Sounds like a plan as long as I wasn't going home....although my next thought was damn 2 hours is a long time to walk the hall in a circle. Nurse Christina then begins to unplug from all the machines and the hubs and I are off to walk the halls, little did I know that the contractions would pick up so quickly and intensify. All I wanted to do was crawl right back into the bed and stare at the red dot on the T.V lol but I had 2 hours. I circled the floors starting a contraction at almost the same spot every time, I would hunch over and sway my hips back and fourth while it felt like I was being stabbed with knives at this point the pain was almost intolerable but 2 hours definitely hadn't passed by. Out of no where I see Christina my nurse who says "we are actually going to check you in about another half hour so come back here at 4:15pm .... Thank God because at that point I almost couldn't take it anymore! At that point each lap I thought “you can do this a couple more mins”....finally it was 4:15pm and the nurse meets me in the hallway and we go back to the room. Senior resident walks in and checks me again... all I could do was pray I was at 4cm so I could be admitted and she says it "your 4cm, we are going to admit you and your going to be having your baby"! At that point I was in shock that I would really be having this baby today!!!
The hubs starts calling my mom, sister and his mom who were so impatiently waiting at my mothers house to hear whether I was going to be having the baby today. This was it no turning back, all that complaining I did the past month was going to come to an end and I would be leaving with my baby.
After some time passed (no sense of time at this point) nurse Christina got me ready to move over to the room that I would actually be delivering in... I shuffled my way into the room across the hall that I passed about 400 times. Having a contraction at the door I paused and hunched over in pain …all I wanted to do was lay down!!!!!! I finally reached my bed and laid there while she hooked me and the baby back up to monitors, I was set up and ready as she got the room ready she offered me ice chips at this point it was all I could eat so I said sure...remember I hadn't eaten since Burger King that morning. Christina came back in the room and handed me a cup of ice chips I slowly munched on the tiniest piece of ice when all hell broke loose and I began to puke on myself from the pain of each contractions, the hubs ran and got the nurse to tell her that I need to be changed because I had puked everywhere, poor Christina I felt so bad that she had to pick that shit up because it wasn't very pleasant!! At that point I was sitting on the edge of the bed while Christina cleaned me up and all I could do was continue to puke from the pain!!! After I was cleaned up and back in bed hub ask "what the hell did you eat because that shit was nasty" I giggled and said Burger King breakfast lol all I could feel was the acid in my throat from the oj!
At that point I knew that if I didn't have pain meds soon I would be puking all the way thru labor and it was going to be very ugly, so I asked nurse Christina if I could please have the epi and she said sure. I didn't know how long it would be before they would come so I figured let just ask for it now. At this time (still have no sense of time) my mother, sister and mother-in-law had arrived, so hubs went to get my mother who would be in the room with me while I delivered the baby. As she walked into the room she came around with a nervous look on her face and started asking me 100 questions of course I was having a contraction so I yelled to her "I'LL ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS WHEN IT OVER" lol poor mommy stepped back and said okay okay sorry! After the contraction was over I began to explain to her that I puked all over myself and how I felt bad for the nurse and so on.
7pm Soon after or what felt like soon after my mom arrived a team of anestheologist came in the room to prep for my epi... only one person could stay in the room so my mother decided to step out and let the hubs help me while I received my epi. I was asked to set on the edge of the bed which was almost impossible because of the pain but I managed to scoot over on to the edge, during the epi process the contractions were there but all my attention was put to the "student" anesthesiologist who seemed like he had never placed an epi before and all I could think of is this guy better not fuck up!!! I sat there as still and relaxed as I could but it wasn't easy to arch my back and open up my spine so that they could place whatever they placed in my back, after about 30 mins of pressure, tugging and pushing it was over ( really not that bad) and now the "student" called out numbers to the anesthesiologist referring to how much medication he should give me and she says no that's to much you have the numbers backward, my thought was great dude now go ahead and kill me ! Within minutes my feet and legs started to tingle but I could still wiggle my toes and lift my right leg( my left leg was out lol). Let me tell you that epi was the best thing I could have ever done, at that point I was checked and was 5 cm dilated so that decided they would let an hour go by and check me again to see if I had progressed if not they would break my water and start me on pitocin. So 8 o clock roll around I feel like a brand new person and the doctor comes in to check me and find that I'm about 6 cm dilated so she decides to break my water ( which wasn't bad at all) and start me on the pitocin for a little while to make sure my contractions don't slow down or stop because of the epi. After all that was done I felt like I laid around for hours trying to go to sleep but I couldn't get my brain to slow down and relax because I started to fear the delivery and what it would be like, my mom reassured me a thousand times that everything would be okay.
As I laid around for hours (4-5 hours) I couldn't feel much change in pressure but was told by nurse Laura (?) that once I started to feel like I was going to have a bowel movement and a lot pressure to let her know so she could call the doctor over, so I let her know that I had felt like I needed to use the bathroom but the pressure wasn't bad. She called over the doctor and she came in to do the internal and at the point she tells me that I am 10 cm and could start to try pushing if I wanted to. I was in complete shock because I was so comfortable and not in any pain that this could actually be it, so I agreed to start pushing even though I was super nervous. The doctor and nurse both said that it would be a quick delivery, at that point I thought sure that's what you tell everyone. So I did one practice push and the nurse said she could see his head, I was amazed that she could actually see his head already that it motivated me to get the energy to push him out. So after about 4 contraction/12 pushes a15 mins baby Mason was laying on my stomach as I laid there in awe and amazed that it was over and I finally had my little boy (12:58am)...I couldn't really see his face because of the way they laid him on me but I sure saw his odd shaped head and thought oh no lol ... I looked over and my mother and hubs who were crying and all I could say was how cool the whole experience was and the feeling of actually giving birth to another human being and it still amazes me !!! It was overall an amazing experience and I am thankful for such an easy labor that I would do it all over again :) (Not to soon though)
My little Mason is the most percious little boy ever!!
He is quite and peaceful baby (its because he was born into such a peaceful environment lol)
I love him more then anyting and I am blessed to have him in my life <3
Now meet my little boy!!
Stats:
Name: Mason Ari
D.O.B: August 2nd, 2011 @ 12:58am
Weight: 6 lbs 13oz
Height: 20 inches
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| 1 Week Old |
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Thanks for reading<3
