We have waited a long time for this!
Here are the details. My due date was Sept 29th, which had come and gone. I was ready to have this baby, so much so that we had already tried to go to the hospital once, only to be sent home. I was scheduled to be induced on Wednesday Oct 6th. I was hoping that I would go earlier, but was still waiting on Tuesday.
I started having contractions Tuesday afternoon/evening. I told Mike that I was thinking about going to the hospital again (he didn't want to go and get sent away again). He took a nap and I went and woke him up to tell him to get things together so we could go. He was not moving very quickly. I went and sat down on the couch to wait for him only to jump up a minute later...I was pretty sure that my water broke. I ran in to tell Mike and he jumped up and we were out the door a few minutes later.
We got to the hospital at 11:15pm. I told them that I thought that my water had broken, and they said "you officially have our last bed now." So we were put into a triage room and hooked up for monitoring, and then we waited and waited and waited. They were busy.
The nurse finally came in to check me and told me that my water did not break, but I had a very rapid change in my cervix which had caused the liquid issue bringing us into the hospital. I was at 3cm, so we waited again for the Dr. come in. He came in about 90 minutes later. I had progressed to 4cm and 75% and so I was fully admitted and told they were going to find a labor room for me.
We got to our labor room at 2:30am and Mike went to sleep on the "very comfortable" fold out chair thingy...I answered about a million questions and got hooked up to tons of stuff. I had some pain meds put into my IV at that point and tried to get some sleep. At 6am the Dr. came back in to do a check before he had to hand off his patients to the next guy on call. He decided to break my water and call for my epidural. The Dr. who came to do the epidural was there 10 minutes later and was holding surgery for me :) At this point I was at 6cm, and they had started a low dose of pitocin to regulate my contractions.
By 7:30am I had jumped to 9.5cm and was almost totally effaced. I had a "hot spot" on my right side where the epidural didn't take, so I could feel everything, but just in that spot (I'm really glad I couldn't feel it everywhere else!) I was complete by about 8am, and asked if they would roll me onto my right side, and then the epidural made it to my "hot spot" and all was well in the world!
Just after 9am the Dr. came in and the nurse asked if she should push with me for a while and then he could come back and finish up. He said "Yeah, I have some paper work to do, so lets see a few pushes and then I'll come back in a while." That plan didn't pan out for him. I pushed for 23 minutes (including the time he told me to stop so he could put a gown on and get the tools ready) and out she came.
Paige Elizabeth Barton
October 6, 2010
9:43 am
7lbs 5oz
20 inches long
After getting cleaned up
Proud Papa!
Very happy (and tired) Mama!
Beautiful girl
We had to change her out of the hospital shirt because she works her hands out and it always ended up around her neck. She likes her hands up near her face. We have a sonogram picture with her like this too.
Her first sleepover. Daddy stayed the second night to help out, so she got to cuddle with him.
Ready to go home.
Riding in style, on her way home from the hospital.
Some things that Paige likes to do right now:
I love the mittens... we call them her boxing gloves.
SOMETIMES she will stay in the swing...not for very long yet...we're working on it!
Mike fell asleep and missed the 'warm from the oven' bread, but no worries...I tasted it without him. It is yummy! We are enjoying it, and I just might make it again sometime.