In my last post I announced our little boy has arrived and this post I am going to share my birth story including tricks I did to induced labor. I am convinced they worked since he came suddenly and a little dramatically. I was 39 weeks and 5 days. At our last appointment on Tuesday it seemed like we weren't making any progress and it started to feel like I was going to be as stuffed as the turkey on Thanksgiving later this week. I'm not sure if it was the lack of sleep or the full bladder every 5 minutes, but I was seriously ready for him to be here already so I decided to see if I can jump-start things. On Wednesday I made a batch of "Labor Day Tea" a high concentrate of Raspberry Tea (16 bags for 3 cups of water). On Thursday I went shopping with my mom at Costco which was a lot of walking, or waddling in my case. On Friday I had another prenatal massage and had her work pressure points to help induce labor and later in the day had another batch of "Labor Day Tea". Later that night I started feeling my tummy get really tight and then release, but no pain. I wasn't sure if it was something that I started making up in my head cause I was getting more anxious or it was the real deal. After talking to some people it seemed I was having Braxton Hicks contractions since there was no pain and they weren't increasing. After getting some good sleep, things started to change and quickly. Around noon we were running errands and started to feel off. No pain, just odd. By two things were getting a lot more intense so I called my mom giving her a heads up. The pain started and contractions were starting to have a little pattern and coming on quick and strong. Jack called the hospital and they said there was no way of knowing for sure and to come in. We waited another 30 minutes and started spotting so I knew I had reached 3cm so we decided it was time to load the car. I went to the bathroom one more time and felt a pop and I knew my water had broke! Amber and Aaron were in their driveway and seen what was happening and once I waddled to the car they knew it was go time. As soon as we got on the freeway my water kept coming...all the way to the hospital emergency room. Around 4 I was in the Labor and Delivery room things started moving very quickly, my contractions felt like minutes apart and strong and an epidural was needed, not that Jack helping me moan through each contraction wasn't sweet, they were just too quick for me to come back from to relax and was worried I would get too tired to push. While waiting for the bloodwork for the epidural Mom and Jeff came into the room even though I think I might have scared my step-father a little with my moaning, lol. By the time I had the epidural I was past 5cm and the pain turned more into a pressure.
Once at 8cm things started to get intense. I could feel him moving down, but not staying down. The doctor even seemed surprised I was still at 8cm, then all of a sudden I was surrounded by about 4-7 nurses and they were giving me oxygen, trying to put a monitor on the baby's head, and having me change positions because his heart rate was skyrocketing and crashing. It was around 8 pm at this time and the doctor came to me and said it's time to get him out. The baby is too stressed and we're not sure why it could be because his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and my heart sunk. I didn't get this far along to lose him. So I said okay just give me a moment with my family. The four of us prayed and I was whisked off to have a C-section. Jack sat next to me and we just stared into each other eyes and tried to hold hands. With some tugging and pulling he was out and placed into the incubator and we heard him cry for the first time and my eyes filled with tears.
Then things got scary. He wasn't breathing probably and they needed to rush him to the NICU. They stopped by just for a second so we could see him for the first time and both of us were shocked to see how blonde he was! They quickly then rushed him off to NICU with Jack following. All I could do was lay there while they put me back together. Once I was in the recovery room, Jack came in talking about how cute he is and how strong he was. Before heading up to our room they rolled me into the NICU, so I can see him. They told us he had swallowed meconium which was causing some difficulty breathing and was giving him oxygen and he was going to have to stay in the NICU for the night. I don't think I really heard a thing the nurses were saying, all I could do was stare at this little thing that we had created.
Once at 8cm things started to get intense. I could feel him moving down, but not staying down. The doctor even seemed surprised I was still at 8cm, then all of a sudden I was surrounded by about 4-7 nurses and they were giving me oxygen, trying to put a monitor on the baby's head, and having me change positions because his heart rate was skyrocketing and crashing. It was around 8 pm at this time and the doctor came to me and said it's time to get him out. The baby is too stressed and we're not sure why it could be because his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and my heart sunk. I didn't get this far along to lose him. So I said okay just give me a moment with my family. The four of us prayed and I was whisked off to have a C-section. Jack sat next to me and we just stared into each other eyes and tried to hold hands. With some tugging and pulling he was out and placed into the incubator and we heard him cry for the first time and my eyes filled with tears.
Then things got scary. He wasn't breathing probably and they needed to rush him to the NICU. They stopped by just for a second so we could see him for the first time and both of us were shocked to see how blonde he was! They quickly then rushed him off to NICU with Jack following. All I could do was lay there while they put me back together. Once I was in the recovery room, Jack came in talking about how cute he is and how strong he was. Before heading up to our room they rolled me into the NICU, so I can see him. They told us he had swallowed meconium which was causing some difficulty breathing and was giving him oxygen and he was going to have to stay in the NICU for the night. I don't think I really heard a thing the nurses were saying, all I could do was stare at this little thing that we had created.
