28-6-2009 - Atreyu is born

My mood while writing this blog: Happy

It all started on the 21st, Fathers day, June 2009... I woke up to a phone call from my superior officer telling me I was to go into work for the day... I was not suppose to be at work that day because I am on half days and restricted duty and whatnot...

Well I go into work at 1pm as told, I drove myself. I had had a few contractions thru out the day, but didnt think much of it... they werent regular or anything.

About 4pm, I'm sitting at the computer in the DCC (control center) and I feel this gush of fluid!! So I am like "hhhrrrmmmm, ok, that doesnt feel right"... I tell my co-worker I'd be right back !! I run to the bathroom to check if I really broke my water or what it was... I knew I didnt pee myself... I was right... water just pouring out, and so I peed while I was in there anyways, and called my doula. My doula told me that I should make my way home and give her a call again.

I went out to tell my co-workers who then told me I was just trying to get out of work first, and then I showed them my crotch soaking wet and it spreading and they eventually started to "panick" and told me I couldnt drive and what not... I told them I could drive as long as I got to go then. Well I get home and Tony is ready to go to the hospital... I told him to calm down and we were gonna wait for contractions to start getting regular first... Well then we get the babysitter set and we take off to walmart to walk around when the doula made it over. We walked and walked... the contractions started coming pretty regularly- about every 3-5 mins lasting about 1-1/2 mins each... We decided to head to the hospital. The place seemed like a mad house!! Everyone seemed to be there in labor... Well so I am taken to a room and then they checked my dialation and I am told I am a 3, and yes my water broke. I'm hooked up to the screen and yes contractions are what I thougtht they were. Well that being said, I am now still not in too much pain, just hot because we have 3 people stuck in the little labor triage room!!

They move me to the labor and delivery room and we hang out while i'm hooked up. We watch some tv and relax, we pace, and walk around the room and the ward, we try games and playing on the computer... contractions kept coming and coming and stilll around the same pattern but maybe a lil stronger. I'd say around a 4 on a pain scale. So that being said, I am going thru this for hours and hours!! around 20 hours in I get checked and I'm still apparently the same... Leanna my midwife comes in and does a check on me and states me as a 4. (on Friday before this, I was a 4 at her office)... so apparently still no change... Leanna says we are really cutting it close as my water had broken I am at risk for infection. So I am like ok... What are the options? I get told that we can augment with pitocin, jsut do a c-section, or wait it out... I ask if there is any other option and she tells me that I can try nipple stimulation... So I tell her I want to try natural methods first. She leaves us be, and I go ahead and get in the shower with Tony... We try nipple stimulation along with being a little intimate to get the hormones going... Well this definately get's things rolling... I end up getting contractions one right after eachother and about a 9 on the pain scale!!!!! Well we go about this for a few hours... At the 24 hour mark, Leanna comes in and checks me... I am worn out!!! so much pain and I could barely stand it!!! Well I'm still a 4!!!!!!!!!!! So we are told we are really cutting now, and need the baby out soon as to infection. We decide on the pitocin... but not till after I get the epidural!! I cried and begged for the epidural as she when she checked me I had a contraction and it hurt SO BAD!!! Well I apparently at this point was sleeping inbetween contractions so I would wake up screaming in agony... I got the epidural and and things started feeling so much better!!! They started the pitocin. I was told an hour later that I was a 5 dialated!!! I was happy, it was working!!! The next hour I was told that I was 90% effaced... so it was working!!! Well then things started going down hill... I got a fever and the 3rd hour I was told that I was not progressing anymore... so we came to a decision that I needed the c-sectionn again. We started prepping and then I had Leanna check me one more time and still no change. Baby's head had molded a bit but wasnt budging!!! So I was prepped and wheeled ino the surgery. I didnt like the anesthesiologist very much as he didnt seem to want ot help me out when I would tell him I was nauseated, or starting to feel pain, or light headed and such... Well Atreyu was born at 1014PM on the 22nd of June!! He had scores of 8 and 9. He was 6 lb 1 oz and is 21 inches long!!! He is so small!!!

Both my doula, Jessica and Tony were in the room as well as my midwife Leanna. It was great!!! After I was all closed up, they handed Atreyu to me and wheeled me to the recovery room. I breastfed right away!! It was so nice. But I was so tired... I had pretty much no sleep in the past 2 days and with all the drugs during surgery I was starting to doze. I had them take Atreyu to the warmer where they did the normal stuff like all the tests and whatnot while I tried to rest a little... then a few hours later, they gave him to me and wheeled me up to the mother baby rooms where we would stay for the next few days till we were discharged.