This is crazy long...be prepared
Well from my last post you can seen that i went into labor early. and this birth story is far from normal. i was given a steroid shot that monday night i went into the hospital to develop his lungs, and was also given medicine to stop my contractions to give the steroid time to set in. i was given the second dose of the steroid tuesday morning, and they kept me on the non-contracting medicine until wednesday night. well that thursday morning i went into labor, so they took me down to the labor and delivery room, i was down there for i think 7 or 8 hours and then my contractions stopped, so i went back up to my room. hung out watched the olympics (i don't know what i would have done if i hadn't had the olympics to watch, i would have gone crazy) then friday afternoon i went into labor yet again, and was wheeled down not in just a wheel chair but my entire bed down to labor and delivery. at this point i was so exhausted cause my contractions kept going for another 7 or 8 hours. i wasn't progressing, but yet the doctors didn't want to push me into full labor cause they wanted to keep him in as long as they possibly could (at this point my water was still just ruptured and hadn't fully broken, and from ultrasounds i actually still had a normal amount of fluid) so this time they gave me a lovely drug through my i.v. and it was magical. it set in 5 seconds after they gave it to me, and all i could do was look at trav and say "i feel so good, this stuff is amazing" they said it would only last about an hour, and sure enough it was gone at exactly an hour, i asked for more so i could keep sleeping and getting my energy back, so they gave me more, again it was AMAZING, this time i told trav if i could be addicted to a drug it would be this one because it made me feel so GOOD. i slept another hour and it wore off, i asked for one more dose they said sure and i said YES. slept another hour and by the time i woke up again my contractions had stopped, so i was sent back up to my room. saturday was pretty un eventful trav and i hung out that night went to sleep and were hoping to keep that baby in. well sunday morning at about 2 am my contractions started again, i had also passed some unpleasant things, i called the nurse in, and she took a look and within 1 minute there were 7 nurses in my room. one trying to get a new i.v. in me, one getting a baby monitor on me, and the others i don't even remember. i went back down to labor and delivery, the doctor came in and said well it looks like this baby just wants to meet you, so she decided to brake my water, i was already dilated to a 4 so she said i could get my epidural at anytime. i did get my epidural right away and i was terrified, but it honestly didn't hurt at all. then they gave me some pitocin to get my contractions closer together. since i already had my epidural i slept most of the time, the other time i was so nausea and kept throwing up, i didn't like anyone to touch my legs because it felt so awful when they did. at around 3:30 p.m i felt a lot of pressure the nurse checked me and i was fully dilated. since he was going to be early and they new he would need to be in the nicu, i actually had to deliver in the operating room because they actually had a direct window to the nicu. so at this point i said goodbye to everyone because Trav would be the only one allowed back in the operating room area. we got back to the room everything was set up and i started pushing, about 5 minutes in the doctor actually had to go deliver another lady immediately, so i was left there for about 35 to 40 minutes, at this point i was able to rest and decend. which now i am grateful for because i think if i hadn't i would have had to push a lot longer then i needed or wanted to. when the doctor came back i ended up pushing for about 30 minutes and our little man was delivered at 5:02 p.m. when they put him on my stomach all i wanted to do was love and kiss him, he was there for about 15 second and then was whisked away to the nicu. i was so exhausted that i was almost asleep when the doctors were finishing up everything else. and my lovely husband was so curious about everything that the doctors actually gave him a tour of the placenta, literally he kept asking questions and they gave him a whole anatomy lesson about how the placenta attaches and detaches and works and everything. and he was all up in my business even after wanted to know and see everything they were doing. at least i don't have a man that will pass out during all of this, ha. so in the nicu no one is allowed back there from between 6:30-7:30 p.m. because of shift change. and i had to be in labor and delivery for an hour after birth, so by the time i got out of the operating room and had to stay for an hour it was already 6:30 so i had to wait until 7:30 to go see my sweet babe. when 7:30 rolled around i was wheeled to the nicu had to scrub in and was back to see my little man.
Stetson James Rogers August 12, 2012
4 pounds 11 oz 19 inch
born 7 weeks and 6 days early.
Meeting him for the very first time.
