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Samuel Robert Tooker Sex: boy Born: 31 August, 2009 Age: 0 years & 84 days Birthday in: 281 days Starsign: Virgo Development: See the 2 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Original due date: September 10, 2009
Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: 27 hours from thinning to delivery
Weight @ birth: 6 lb, 7 oz
Length @ birth: 20 in

Samuel-Robert-Tooker`s birthstory

We went in on Sunday night to try cervidil to see if it would open my cervix and start labor. We needed to have him before the end of August because our insurance deductible starts over. So it was a choice between a natural labor and going back to work, or induced labor and staying home with my baby. Staying home with him was more important to me so we tried induction.

Early Monday morning the nurse checked to see if I had dialated any and I had dialated one centimeter so the doctor broke my water bag and labor started but on the slow side. I labored for an hour without pitocin and the contractions felt great. Once the pitocin drip started, I was in major pain. I can tell that had I gone into labor naturally and had not had the pitocin, I would not have needed any pain medication. I went ahead and got an epidural and had I known that I would need a catheter, I would have put up with the pain no matter what. Even though I could not feel the contractions anymore, I could feel the catheter every time I moved, it was awful.

I dialated fairly slowly until I got to about four or five centimeters and then it was like a race. I went from there to pushing within an hour and pushed for about fifteen minutes. By the time I was ready to push the epidural had worn off and they took out the catheter and turned off the pitocin. I could feel everything, no numbness at all. It didn`t hurt though and I really felt like I wasn`t pushing very hard but he came out very fast. My husband stayed in the delivery room and I had to ask for the oxygen mask because he smelled like onions from his dinner!

It all went very smoothly so it was very surreal. The only thing that hurt was that I tore just a tad and I felt it. Fortunately my doctor wears glasses and so I was able to see the birth from the reflection in his glasses. At the end I just couldn`t believe he was here.

I was ready to go home right away but they moved me to recovery and I stayed there for one night. Checking out was a nightmare because apparently nobody else at that hospital has ever questioned the morality of the PKU screening that is not even done in the hospital, but blood is sent to the government. They gave us the runaround for about a half hour and then we threated to contact lawers and started reading their own hospital rules about refusal and the Texas Health Code that gives us rights to refuse certain treatments even if they are `governemnt mandated.`

Last night was the first night home and I was very tired but I knew he would sleep all day so I could get some sleep! I`m excited to be a mom, but not so excited about the swollen feet and ankles from the IV I was on for two days and the puffy belly that I now have to whip back into shape!

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