18-4-2009 - Oh So Happy

My mood while writing this blog: Overjoyed & Overwheelmed

My Little Guy Is Here!!!!!!

Hi ladies, sorry I didn't come right home and let you all know what happen on tuesday.

Well as most of you already know I went in tuesday night @ 8pm to start my induction. At first it was ok everything was going good until my nurse started to put in IV in......OMG!!!! I seriously wish she had blown my vein instead of digging around inside my hand looking for one. Then once she found one to use she ended up taping it sticking halfway in my hand and halfway out....needless to say everytime I moved so did the IV....not really pleasant at all. Anyways at 9 they put the little pill in me to soften my cerivx. She (my nurse) explained everything that was going to happen and if they needed to put another pill in me then they would @ 1am, this was all depending on how my cervix reacted. So for the next 4 hours I didn't feel any different. No pain and no discomfort or pressure like she said I was going to feel. As far as I knew nothing was happening, in other words no labor yet. The night resisdent came in at 1am to check me, low and behold I was at 4 1/2 cm---------never felt a thing. So at that point she decided not to give the 2nd pill because I was progressing. At 5am I was checked again and was still sitting @ 4 1/2. they started the oxytocin and WOW I was feeling pain now. Once that shit kicked in OMG, I thought I was dying. My contractions were coming every 2mins, but wouldn't you know it I was not dialating any further. Between my nurse and the resisident I was being checked every half hour and nothing.

Finally @ 8am they were going to give me my epidural and break my water. Well this is when all hell broke lose. The doctor put the internal montior on the baby and his heartrate shot up to 200 and the jumped down to 36. She broke my water and guess who just couldn't wait to have a bowel movement, yep you guessed it. Evan decided he just couldn't wait. My water was nothing but meconium. So with the heartrate plumitting the way it did plus the meconium I was rushed for an immediate c-section. And when I say immediate I mean immediate, the cath was put in as I was being wheeled down the hall (nurse on the stretcher with me), they hit every freakin wall on the way to the Or, I got my epidural within a minute------(5 pokes later), on the operating table at 8:10pm and Evan was born @ 8:26pm. He weighed in at 7lbs 6oz 21inches....perfectly healthy. Once he was out I didn't see him for an hour 1/2. They had to rush him too be cleared out incase anything got down into his lungs.

So while this was all going on my sister was just freaking out because they told her she could come with me.....someone on "the team" went out and said she couldn't come back with me because they were putting me under, which they never did. I was completely alone, not knowing anything that was going on, couldn't see my baby, didn't have anyone there because it all went so quickly. The only people who were at the hospital were my sister and brother in law, and they had no clue what was going on either. Finally after Evan was all cleared and cleaned up they got to see him in the nursery-------the whole time I was sitting back in my room waiting for someone to tell me how Evan was, waiting for my sister or someone to come back there to be with me. Two freaking hours went by and Steve and my sister came back to let me know what was going on. Finally around 10:45am Evan was brought to me.....I completely lost it. I never in my right mind would have ever thought something so little could make me melt the way he did. My doctor came in @ noon to see how I was doing and to explain everything that happen. Well come to find out I would have had to have a C-section anyways because Evan's cord was wrapped around his neck twice.

Now I bet you're all wondering how Steve reacted......we'll just say he's had a total change of heart. It's sorta hard to deny something that looks exactly like you, there is no denying that Evan is his son. And no if you're all wondering Bev hasn't seen him. She was not at the hospital. Steve came up everyday to see me and Evan.

I came home yesturday and was completely overwheelmed by people at my house. It's been a complete rollercoaster ride for me. Absolutely no sleep period, only 5 1/2 hours since Wednesday......just exhausted. And tonight is my very first night alone with Evan. All in all I am very happy, I just love my little guy to death, I'm just amazed.