Me at 38 weeks!

Here He Comes

Tue the 7th at about 10 Pm I got out of bed because I was having cramping/contractions that were not really all that painful. By midnight they had regulated out and were coming ever 10-15 minutes and were getting stronger. I woke my husband up because the contractions were getting "painful" and were about 7-10 minutes apart...I was more bored and wanted company. Nick went to work at 6 am (yes, I told him too) and I called my mom and asked her to come and get the kids when they woke up. I called her at 9:15am to get them, contraction were stronger and 5-8 minutes apart. I hung up with my mom and called NIck and told him that we needed to go to the hospital, even though they were not so close together. By the time I got the hospital it was almost 10 am and the contractions were 3-4 minutes apart and I was 100% effaced and dialated to 4. After that the contrations came closer and closer and were getting more and more painful.

At 12:15 pm they offered me an epideral, I said yes since I wanted to sleep, I had been up for over 24 hours. After 4 attempts they got the epideral in and I waited for the relief...it didnt come. The epideral didn't take at all. By 3:30pm I was dialated to 7 and contaction every 2-3 minutes. They kept checking me and I just wouldnt dialate past 7. At 4:00 they told me to push lightly with contrations just to get relief, not like I would in actual delivery.

Though not completely dialated at 4:50 they told me to start really pushing. After a few pushed the head was out and then the dynamics in the room changed. They called for another nurse to come in right away and one of the other nurse got up on my bed and started pushing on my stomach, almost like she was doing CPR on my belly button. I could hear all of the nurses talking about something but I was really concentration on Nick's voice, he just kept saying "he is almost here I see his head."

When the baby was born they cut the cord and took him to another part of the room, there was still a bit of noticable panic in the room and I kept asking if he was all right, there was no crying. Once he started crying, after suction and oxygen, they told me he had gotten stuck at the shoulders and that his head had been completly blue and the rest of his body was white. And then they said the shocker, "he weighed in at 10 lbs 8 oz!" That is why I wouldnt dialate, his head wasnt getting close enough to my cervix, and why he had gotten stuck.

After all this they informed me that I had only had to push for 12 minutes but that they were in the process of prepping the OR because in another minute he would have been without oxygen for to long! Which would have meant pushing his head back in and knocking me out for an emergency c-section. They also said the chances would have been REALLY high they would have had to transfer his to another hospital.

BUT, I am not wanting to scare ANYONE! Everything turned out great AND I feel great, not meds needed even after! Also if the epideral would have worked I would not have been able to push hard enough and the C-Section would have been inevidable. It was a great experience and I have a wonderful LARGE man! 10 lbs 8oz, 21 inches long!!! I actaully wish you all a wonderful birth like I had!!! Everything happened as it needed too!

We almost gave him the middle name Payne :) But we went with Nixon Ash Ravins! (my husbands name is Nick and my name is Ashley)