Tuesday, January 27, 2009

I'm busy being a Mom. Part 2.

December 19, 2008
I arrived at the hospital a little after midnight, and had to get checked in through the emergency room. My mother works at the hospital so naturally she was stopped by everyone to talk to her. I felt the 2 women in Admitting were moving so slow. I don't know if it was because I was in pain every 10 minutes or if they were just really slow. Of course they both knew my mother as well so they were catching up on God knows what. Finally someone comes down with a wheel chair to take me up to labor and delivery and I don't want to be wheeled up becuase I think it's embarassing, I'd rather walk. But no such luck. I had to be wheeled. The girl who was in charge of getting me to the right place happened to go to school with my older brother so she was talking to me but at this point I couldn't talk through my contractions, and was annoyed at the fact that she wouldn't just be quiet.. but I didn't say anything. They take me to the labor room and hook me up to all sorts of monitors, and an IV. They were going to check to see how far I have dilated. I was waiting for them to tell me I was 1 cm and send me back home, which at this point I was dreading. Good news. I was 4. I was happy with this because my plan was to try and stay at home as long as possible because heading to the hospital for the fear of being sent home. Once we knew I was staying my mother texted my sister that she can come up. She lives about 20 minutes away but I swear it felt like she was there in 5 minutes. All the sudden time felt like it was flying by. I was unhooked from the monitors and was told that I could walk around the halls. Well you think they'd make it more interesting as you're walking around the small little hallways. Maybe put some TV's up there or something. The nurse found it strange that I put my underwear back on to walk around, but at this point, I hadn't yet been exposed for the world to see, there was no way I was walking around with my ass hanging out of the back of the paper thin hospital gown. They didn't even offer me another one to put around me. What the hell was up with that? I was checked again at 3:30 am and was still at 4 cm. I asked for the epidural and got it around 4:30 am. I loved the anestesiologist (i know that's spelled wrong). He was so nice and really friendly. I was really scared about getting the epidural because I thought that I'd flinch when he put it in my back and I'd become paralized. Obviously that didn't happen. I was prepared for the epidural to kick in and for me to actually feel like I was paralyzed. But it actually wasn't like that. It took the edge off of the pain, but I still felt the pressure of the contractions and it wasn't like a dull pressure it was like something I"ve never felt before. I just tried to think of something to compare it too, but I couldn't. My legs and my belly felt like mush, and it felt like your mouth does when you've been given novacain at the dentist. Shortly after the epidural my water broke. It was such a strange feeling. It literally felt like a water balloon that was filled with warm water broke. I started to freak out a little bit because when my mother was in labor with my head came out with with the water. I was secretly hoping that would happen with me so I didn't have to push, but that did not happen. I was checked again and had made it to 6 cm. Progressing quite nicely for my first baby. My doctor finally arrived at 6 am and when she checked me I was already at 9 cm, and the baby's head was all the way down. The dr got into what looked like one of those biohazard suits and I was ready to push. My mother was on the right side holding my leg back, and my sister was on the left. I'll spare you all the 'gross' details. But what I found to be annoying was everyone kept saying oh the head is right there, the head is right there, and I'm wondering where the hell is this head because it feels like the head is no where near being out. They could see the head, and all her hair. At one point the dr pretended to be a hair dresser and took her fingers and pulled up a little bit of hair and pretended to be cut. I didn't think it was funny at the time, but found it to be hysterical days later. The strangest thing I thought was that they were saying her head was "right there" but I still felt her feet all the way up by my ribs. I guess she was straightening out. I pushed for about 40 minutes. I was on a mission to get her out, and was told I was an excellent pusher. Woot Woot. I'll spare you all the gross details but at 7:22 am. Almost exactly 24 hours from having my very first contraction Avery Noelle perfectly entered this world.

Avery's very first picture. Only minutes old.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

I'm busy being a Mom..

Phew.. so it's been a while since I've posted, and I had tried to write a few times, but I get interrupted now by the cutest little girl... I wanted to post the story of my labor because as time goes on I'm slowly forgetting details and remembering random things, so I wanted to get it down, so I can save it and one day show the little diva. I'm gonna try this while she's sleeping in her swing, but I have a feeling she'll be waking shortly.

Wednesday 12/17/08

After a disapointing drs appointment the day before I was convinced that labor was never going to happen, and I'd have to be induced after my due date. I carried on the day like normal but had a hard time falling asleep that night before the baby was moving around like no ones business. Something she hadn't done in a while due to the fact that she was running out of room. I had finally fallen asleep at about 3 am.

Thursday 12/18/08

I woke up around 6:30 am to go to the bathroom, something that had become a normal part of my sleeping patterns, and my mother asked me if I was okay. I was I just had to pee. I laid back down and heard my mother leave for work. I didn't fall right back to sleep and at about 7 am I felt this shooting pain across the lower part of my back. I was like wow, that was strange, but didn't really think anything of it thinking that I had slept wrong, but it still felt odd to me. I couldn't fall back to sleep and it happened again, and continued happening about twice an hour. I started to get really nervous but didn't want to call my mom, or my sister because I didn't want them to worry over nothing. I was freaking out. I texted my friend Jennie who just had a baby in August to ask her what she thought. She said it might be back labor, which I had been convinced all along which was what I was going to have. I called my doctor who said that even if it was contractions they weren't regular till they were 5 minutes apart and to call back if that happens. That night me and Jen were going to go out to eat and get some Crab Legs. I sent her a text telling her about the pains I was having and that I didn't want to go out but that we could get take out. She came over around 5:30 and we ate some banging crab legs!! All the while still having these pains in my back at least 1 every 25 minutes.. still unsure if they were even contractions, but I had noticed that every time my back hurt, my belly would get super tight and hard. And they were definitely hurting more than then were in the morning. I carried on the rest of the night with the pains continuing not sure of what I should do. I watched Grey's, and thank God it was a repeat because by this point the pains in my back were coming closer together, but would rotate from hurting to not so bad. I kept googling "back labor" throughout the day and everything that came up, I thought could have been what I was having, but it really didn't pin point it, or maybe it was just that I was nervous and in pain that I wasn't able to grasp what I was reading. At about 11:oo I had one pain that literally made me bend over in pain, and I thought okay, these are definitely contractions, which I guess I always knew they were but I've never had them before so I was all types of confused. I texted my sister to tell her what was going on, and she asked me if I had been timing them, which I hadn't. We texted back and forth for a few minutes and I used those to time when I was having a contraction, and it was about every ten minutes. I woke my mom up to tell her I was just going to call the dr to see what she says. I called the drs answering service at about 11:30 pm and waited for her to call me back. I still have her call back locked in my "recieved calls" section. She called back at 11:39 pm. She asked me what was going on... and told me to go to the hospital and they would call her when they needed to. I started panicking a little bit but was not convinced I was in labor. I don't know if it was fear, or disbelief that I was actually going into labor....

To be continued....

I'm gonna stop this here... I can't copy this to save it and I've typed so much that I don't want to lose it. So I'll try to post the rest soon.