Saxon is here!

May 23, 2008

7 lbs 3 oz

I just got home from the hospital, so I'll spend time updating this after I get some rest. Wednesday and Thursday evening I was having some pretty painful Braxton Hicks contractions about every 10 minutes, but then after a couple of hours they'd go away. So I went in for my 36 week checkup on Friday morning and was having mild contractions every 3 minutes. The doctor checked and I was a little more than 4 cm dilated, so he went ahead and put me in the hospital at 11:45 am. At 12 he came and broke my water. I obviously didn't remember how painful it was having my last child, so I turned down the epidural. Well, the contractions were suprisingly easy to manage, until around 3:50. I had tears in my eyes, so the nurse checked me and told me that I was at 6. I asked her for some demerol, but she said that I was too far dilated, and they weren't allowed to give it after a certain point. (My doctor was in the OR at this time.) At 4:02 pm, the doctor stuck his head in the door and asked how I was doing. I told him very sarcastically that it was really starting to hurt a little bit. The nurse told him that I was 6 cm dilated, and it would be about an hour before we were ready to deliver. The doctor walked out of the room, and the very next contraction hurt so badly that I couldn't see straight, and I screamed for the nurse to hunt down the epidural man. She stepped out to find him, and with the next contraction, I felt muscles tearing and I asked if they could just put me to sleep because I couldn't take any more. She asked me to move my knees apart, which I objected to... and then she screamed for another nurse, because the baby's head was crowning. She had 1 glove on, and did everything she could to keep the baby's head from coming out. Her screaming attracted all of the nurses on the floor... and with the 3rd contraction the baby's head was completely out and the doctor came running into a room full of 8 nurses (one of them still trying to keep the baby in). I looked at the doctor and said "glad you could join us", and with one little half push, the baby came out. This was at 4:08 pm.... just 6 minutes after the nurse told my doctor that it would be an hour. :-) My little Saxon weighed 7 lbs 3 oz, and is perfectly healthy. We just came home tonight, after being in the hospital for 2 days, so I'll go ahead and put a couple of the pictures from my camera phone on here, even though they're not very good. And I'll do a complete update and post some good pictures once I get some rest. It's been at least 2 nights without sleep, and it's time to feed Saxon again!!!

May 26, Memorial Day

We went to visit my parents today. I spent a lot of time crying, simply because my hormones seem to be a little messed up at the moment. My husband couldn't figure out how to download the pictures off of his phone, so he took the ones off of my phone (which aren't very good) and turned them into .jpg files so that I could put them on here. As soon as I can I'll put some decent pictures on, but until then, at least you'll have an idea as to what he looks like. Well... it's getting really late, and I'm sleepy. So... goodnight, and I'll update this again with some better pictures within a few days.