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Lydia Jane Marie Wells Sex: girl Born: 27 October, 2007 Age: 0 years & 208 days Birthday in: 157 days Starsign: Scorpio Biggest achievement so far: Attaining perfection

Birth details

Type of delivery: Cesarean section
Duration of labor: 12 hours
Weight @ birth: 6 lbs 6 oz
Length @ birth: 19 in

Lydia Jane-Marie Wells`s birthstory

I went in Friday, Oct 26 for my induction. I got to the hospital by 12:30pm, and was in my room and Cervidil inserted by 2pm. I was initially dilated a fingertip, and 50% effaced, having sporadic contractions. Walked about 40 miles that night! At 4:30 am on Oct 27, I was 1-2 cm dilated and 80% effaced. Cervidil was removed and Pitocin started. I was having contractions at that time, but they were not regular, and the strength varied greatly. At 10am I was dilated 2-3 cm and 90% effaced. I was having very painful contractions by that point, and they were having trouble establishing a good contraction pattern- they were either almost non-stop and unbearable, or too light and/or far apart. My OB broke my water at this point, and `stretched` my cervix to try to help things along. He said I had band or ridge on my cervix, almost like scar tissue, that was impeding dilation. I was in so much pain at this point that my mother said my eyes were rolling back in my head and I really had the shakes. Just couldn`t take anymore at this point, and requested something for pain and an epidural. They gave me some IV pain medicine to help until the epidural was inserted. It really did help with the pain, but made me very loopy! The epidural wasn`t bad at all, mainly due to the IV pain med first- made the insertion of the epidural easy and stress-free! I really didn`t want an epidural, but OMG, it was fantastic! Don`t be afraid of it girls! It helps so much, I loved my anesthesiologist, he was so kind and understanding. At 11am my OB checked me again, and I was 4-5 cm dilated and 100% effaced, baby`s head wasn`t coming down, but I had a very good contraction pattern going on. I was able to sleep thanks to the epidural. They did come in and put a urinary catheter in, which I absolutely hated. At 2pm, I was checked again, no progress. Baby was having some decelerations in her heartbeat, but they weren`t frequent, and no one acted concerned. At 4:20pm, or somewhere in that general time frame, the Dr checked me again, and I was still only 5cm dilated. He said baby felt small, and he just could not understand why her head would not come down any further, and she was also having the decrease in her heartbeat at times. He said he really felt it was time to get her out, and suspected that her head was in a bad position and I would never be able to have her vaginally. The decision was made to do the C-Section. I was disappointed, after all the pain and effort already endured, but was more concerned that the baby be born safely. The C-Section was the most surreal experience of my life. My mom went in with me. You would not believe the amount of pulling, pushing and tugging involved in a C-Section! Crazy! The same anesthesiologist was present during my C-Section that did my epidural- Dr Estrada, I love you!- he was fantastic, and really made it a good experience. They finally pulled the baby out at 5:04 pm, first thing I heard was, `time 1704, one nuchal cord, two nuchal cord`. Dr Estrada told me that baby had cord wrapped around her neck twice. My mom was bawling her eyes out, and the first thing I thought, and said, was `She`s so pretty..`. When they cleaned her up a little, wrapped her, and brought her to be beside of me, that`s when it hit me, that I was a mommy! That`s when I cried. Dr Estrada asked if he could take pictures for us, so my mom gave him the camera and he took pictures of us. I can`t say enough about that anesthesiologist! My mom and I were saying how pretty she was, but of course we may be a little biased, and he said, `No you`re not biased; she is beautiful, and I hope her eyes are the same color as yours, because they are beautiful!`. They were sewing me up by this time. My mom went with nurse and baby up to the nursery, for the weighing and measuring and all of that. My OB later talked to my mom, and told her the baby was posterior, meaning her face was facing forward instead backward like it was supposed to, he also said that her head was tilted to a funny position, and just couldn`t fit through the bones like that, even though she was so small. The pain after a C-Section is horrible. The labor is horrible. But, it is worth every misery, and every pain, she was worth it all! I can`t believe that I can love someone so much, so quickly, and all I want to do is look at her and touch her, every second of every day.

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