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William Alexander Sex: boy Born: 03 December, 2007 Age: 2 years & 110 days Birthday in: 255 days Starsign: Sagittarius Development: See the 27 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Type of delivery: Cesarean section
Duration of labor: 12.5 HOURS
Weight @ birth: 8lbs 3oz
Length @ birth: 21.25

William-Alexander`s birthstory

It`s been a week and three days since I got to meet the most fabulous baby EVER!!! I thought it was about time I posted my labor and delivery story since I can still remember it. :)

Sunday night, December 2nd, at 6pm I was moved for the High Risk Perinatal unit to the Labor and Delivery unit. My nurse when I got there was Emily. She was great! Once I was settled, she started my cervidil at 8pm to soften my cervix. Well, around 11:30pm I had to call respiratory to give me a breathing treatment. Emily called my doc who ordered the cervidil to be removed. Apparently, cervidil and asthma don`t mix. I was then started on a `light` pitocin drip. I was given 2 ambiens and was told to call the nurse if I had any pain. I didn`t. :)

Around 3:30am I started having some serious contractions. I felt that I was being a weenie if I was to give any pain meds at this point. At 5:30am, Beryl, my new nurse, came into my room to check on me. At this point I was crying (Yes, weenie), Bill, of course, was SOUND asleep. She said they thought I was having contractions, but since I didn`t call anyone, they assumed I was sleeping through them.

She got me off the IV and let me get up to walk around. I took a nice long hot shower. Afterwards I put on my hospital gown and my `labor` socks. I wondered why the nurses laughed when I told them about my `labor` socks. I did figure that part out during the early part of the day since they only made it though a couple of hours of my labor.

Shortly after my shower, Beryl got the pitocin started up again. Dr. Echemendia came in to let me know how things were looking. I was told not to freak out if nurses came running in and out of my room, that that was normal, but to do whatever they tell me to do. He told me that he didn`t want me in any pain and if I felt any to let the nurses know so that they could give me something. He also explained that he would NOT let me take hours trying to deliver the baby since the baby was on the big size and he wasn`t sure the baby would even be able to be delivered vaginally.

At this point I was only dilated 1cm. I was given some pain meds. However, no relief was given. I still didn`t want to call the nurse because I never thought I would be such a weenie. About this time, my water broke. After a few hours, I was in complete tears and Dr. Echemendia told them to go ahead and start the epidural. OK... who would of thought that even an epidural would provide NO relief?!?!?!? The anesthesiaologist came back into the room to put some more meds into the epidural. Still NOTHING. He decided to give me the same meds that they give for someone going into surgery. He said that he had never seen anyone who had such a high drug tolerance. Now this drug did work and boy did it work. I couldn`t even feel my lungs!! By now, my mom had shown up and I really started freaking out. It felt like I couldn`t breathe, not because of anxiety, but because my lungs felt like they were paralized. My oxygen levels started dropping too so they had to put me on oxygen.

I went from feeling everything to feeling nothing. I had Bill and mom rubbing my hands because I couldn`t feel them either. Dr. Echemendia came back into my room. I dilated from 1 cm to 7 cm over the pass 2 hours. The nurses got me out of bed and put me in a rocking chair. Within 30 minutes I was completely dilated, however, Liam wasn`t dropping into the birth canal.

They had me moving between the bed and the rocking chair. I was still on oxygen at this point and Liam`s heartrate started dropping. They decided to have me push to see if I could get Liam to move down the birth canal. As soon as I started, Liam`s heartrate dropped even more. The nurses were rocking me back and forth. Bill and mom were on either side of me trying to keep me calm. Dr. Echemendia came in to let me know that he had the Operating Room scheduled for me in 20 minutes for a c-section. He let me know that this was for the best. It would be the safest for Liam and me and would be over before I knew it. He told Bill to get dressed and told my mom to get my stuff and wait for us in the waiting room.

I was wheeled into the OR and they immediately started preparing me. Soon after they let Bill into the room to hold my hand. I told him to tell me a story to keep my mind off of things. The nurse was sticking me with a pin and wanted me to tell her if I felt anything besides pressure. She then told me that she was giving the pin to Dr. Echemendia for him to also test my stomach area. Bill was busy telling me a story and before I knew it we heard a baby cry!

Bill and I both started crying. I heard Dr. Echemendia say that this was a really cute baby boy. He was also telling me what I great job I was doing.... yeah, right, crying and acting like a weenie. :) Bill was giving me a play by play on what they were doing to Liam. It was great to hear that he was crying the whole time because I knew that meant he had a strong pair of lungs!! Once they were done they brought Liam over for me to see. He was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life!!!

The nurses came over to let me know that they had to take him into the transition room for observation. Apparently he had swallowed some of the fluid during the delivery possess and some of it was in his lungs. They let Bill follow them up there while they cleaned him, weighed him, and finished the tests. I was told that they would keep him for 6 hours to make sure his `grunting` went away.

I was sent into the recovery area for an hour. Bill came back from seeing Liam, then he went and got my mom. I was then transported to my `new` room. It felt really weird at first. I kept feeling my stomach because I was so used to Liam moving around, however, he wasn`t there anymore, but he wasn`t with me either. Around 11:30pm, the nurse came into my room to let me know that she had my little precious boy.

I was so excited. His `grunting` had stopped so he was able to come to my room and not NICU. This was such a relief to me too because I was told that if he had to go to NICU I wouldn`t be able to breastfeed due to my asthma meds and they wouldn`t want any chances taken. So, needless to say, I`m able to breastfeed, which makes me more than happy!!

My recovery was a little rough. My tolerance is just a big ole pain. They tried to give me perocet, which I thought was a joke. They finally decided on morphine and even on that they had to increase my dosage. I think it was hard too, because I was in bed for so long. Before being in the hospital, I was on bedrest at home. Also, my blood pressure went from high to higher. They had to put me on a mag drip and some blood pressure meds. This was along with my steriod drip, which can raise your blood pressure. They had to keep in my epidural in a day longer, since I was on the mag drip. I was sent home with more blood pressure meds and have to continue to monitor my pressure since I am still showing signs of preeclampsia. However, Friday finally came and they let me and Liam go home!!!

Now that we are home, we`re still trying to get into a routine. Liam is the best baby I`ve ever seen. My mom is here to help out. She`s been bringing me breakfast in bed and cooking lunch and dinner. Liam and I tend to sleep most of the day. The doctors said that this would be the norm for now since Liam is considered a preemie. I know, I have a giant moose preemie, how odd is that??

We`re doing the breastfeeding thing. So far it`s the easiest thing I`ve ever done. AND it completely relaxes me. Bill laughs because he`ll find Liam and me on the couch completely knocked out from it.

Other than sleeping, if I`m up, I`m just staring at Liam. He`s so cute!! He`s really the most precious thing I`ve ever seen. I still can`t believe that I was given this gift. I feel truly blessed. Despite everything that happened during my pregnancy and even my labor, I would do it all over again to get this end result. However, next time, I`m skipping the whole labor mess and going straight to the c-section.

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Carter James Sex: boy Born: 08 January, 2009 Age: 1 years & 73 days Birthday in: 292 days Starsign: Capricorn Development: See the 14 months page. Biggest achievement so far: Nursing and being a good sleeper.

Birth details

Original due date: 1/14/2010
Type of delivery: Cesarean section
Duration of labor: 1 hour
Weight @ birth: 9lbs 4oz
Length @ birth: 22 inches

Carter-James`s birthstory

It all started the day before.... Atlanta was facing a snow storm, which we aren`t use to in the South. My mama got to our house around 3pm on Thursday to watch Liam. I left to meet Bill at his office and we booked a room at a hotel close to the hospital. Thank goodness we did because Friday morning the roads were iced over. There was even a 29 car pile-up on the interstate!!!

We left the hotel close to 1pm and headed to the hospital. I didn`t have much paper work to fill out since I`d already had a visit less than a month ago. I went to my room to prepare for the c-section. Guess what happened..... I`m pretty sure my water broke. Not like like the rush with Liam, but more like a trickle. Carter really wanted to be born today! My OB came by to talk to me before surgery. I was the only reason he came into the hospital that day, which kind of made me feel special. :) The anesthesiologist came next. Now he was kind of a jerk. I swear it took him 3 times the amount of time as it did with Liam. He wasn`t friendly either because I got a little nervous and scared. I was thankful when it was done!! When he left, the nurses even made a comment about his attitude, so that made me feel better since it wasn`t just me.

When the show was about to begin and I was about to be wheeled into the OR, my blood pressure dropped to 80/23. Yup, scary. I felt nausaus and real dizzy. The nurse aesthesis was on top of it. She was reassuring through the whole ordeal. It probably took about 30 minutes to get my blood pressure up. There were times when I almost passed out and both she and the nurse kept getting me to talk.

Once that was over, I wheeled into the OR. It felt a lot different then the first time. I was more aware of what was going on, but a lot less nervous. They set me up and then let my hubby into the room. I told him he had to tell me a story to get me through the first part... he prayed for us, then afterwards I was the one talking and saying that all I wanted was a big tall sprite from McDonald`s. I could hear the doctor talking and saying that this was going to be a big baby. It took the OB longer this time than last time too because of the previous c-section and the size of the baby.

When I FINALLY heard Carter cried I was so relieved and started crying too. Then I heard the doctors and the rest of the crew talking about his massive amount of BLOND hair and the size of him. Someone even said he looked like he was a few weeks old. When they cleaned him up, they brought him over to me to see. He was just precious. Afterwards, they had hubby follow him out of the room to watch him get weighed and bathed.

It seemed like it took FOREVER to be sewn up! I keep hearing them say that I had a lot of amneotic fluid and even needed some assistance with it. The nurse aesthesis was still by my side reassuring me that everything was OK. When all that was over, I was wheeled to recovery.

Instead of being tired, I had a burst of energy. Carter was just precious. Everyone who saw him commented on his hair. He came out measuring 9lbs 4oz and 22 inches long. As soon as they checked me out, I asked to nurse Carter. He totally took to it like a man. :)

As of now, I`m in my suite. I haven`t been able to sleep yet and it`s 1am. The pain is a little rough. They finally ended up giving me morphine. It`s helped some, but not enough to get me to sleep. All in all though, I am able to move around better than I was last time, so I don`t think the recovery will be as bad.

I`m must get off the computer now. They`re about to bring my cutie back so I can feed him. :)

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