Béla was born at 37w6d by scheduled induction because I was high risk, on blood thinner. He arrived at 6:53pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2007. He weighed 7lbs 6oz and was 19 3/4" long
Our Birth Story
Tuesday the 17th was our scheduled induction day. We were told that the hospital would start calling people on the induction list at 5AM so when 7AM rolled around Béla said "why don't you call the hospital?" Since the nurse that Béla knows said they could call at any time I said "No, we've waited this long, I can wait a few more hours".
I go to take a shower and Béla gets restless and decides to call over there himself.The nurse said we were on the induction list and that "it was crazy" in there, apparently there were many, many babies that wanted to be born on 7/17/07! She tells him that they could call anytime today so to be ready. He hangs up with her and comes into the bathroom to tell me. Rebecca and Béla go get Starbucks for him, and breakfast for everyone else.
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They're back a little while later and everyone, except my mother (because she's still sleeping) eats and while we're eating the phone rings. I SWEAR we all gasped, lol! Béla looked down at the ID and got mad because it was one of his assistants calling him and he had specifically said NOT to call him today. I finish eating and get online to trying to pass the time, he finishes the conversation and not two minutes later the phone rings again 9:04am).
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This time he's really ticked figuring it is his other assistant calling to talk about the issue, but he looks down at the ID and yells "It's the hospital!" I start laughing, trying not to cry... the whole conversation must have lasted 45 seconds before he hung up and said "alright lets go!"
We were both giddy & trying to hold back tears. I go wake my mother and he starts carrying stuff out to the car. My mother stops us for what seems like a hundred "on the way to have the baby" pictures but really we're on our way in no time and get there about 9:40am.
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We go up to the floor and we're both smiling like we just won the lotto at the people we pass. We check in and wait in the waiting room for our nurse to take us back to the L&D room. It was only a few minutes wait...we were in the middle of chatting about random things when the door opens and this nice as can be nurse comes out. She takes us to the exact same L&D room that we were in when I went in for preterm contractions...room 238! which we both thought was pretty neat. That night we went in, scared, looking at all the equipment going "please don't let him be born now, please don't let him be born now!" and now we're in the exact same room saying "Our son is going to be born here!" She gets me changed, straps the monitors on me, gives me the IV of plain fluid, takes my blood work to see if I can have the Epidural and takes our history.
-11:00am-
They started the Pitocin. I was contracting on my own but they weren't anything decent. I seriously asked about the Epidural at that point, lol!
-11:15am-
I was 3cm dilated, 70% effaced and he was -1/-2 station, not too different from our last prenatal.
-12:45pm-
My contractions are about 2 1/2-3 1/2 minutes apart and they give me Stadol to help me relax and bit. I do get a bit loopy/tired but it's very short lasting and I'm back to being uncomfortable during my contractions.
-2:45pm-
I'm checked again and I'm 4CM dilated and the doctor decides to break my water. I ask him not to because I am afraid that once he does I'll labor fast and hard like I did with my girls, but he assures me I still have a lot of laboring left to do and plenty of time to get the epidural. I don't remember if we got the blood work back by then or not by my blood was excellent, well over where it needed to be for the epidural!
-3:47pm-
I was checked again and I'm 4-5cm and 70-80% effaced and BB is at -2. I ask about the epidural and the nurse said she thought it was fine to get it but she needed to talk to my doc.
-4:30pm-
I got the Epidural!!!!! I was scared, but at that point I was sooo uncomfortable that the absolute worst part was have to sit up, kind of hunched over through the contractions. The nurse was amazing...I leaned into her, Béla tried to stand up but the nurse told him that they ask that everyone sit down. We're waiting for the Epi guy and I say, since I'm looking down, I see his shoes and I ask him (labor dementia I call it) if I ever washed it other shoe, because one accidentally fell in to the washer while I was doing laundry and both of his shoes looked clean.
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So the guy comes in and I say to him "thank god!" or something like that and he gives me the run down of the procedure. I felt a little jab and then what felt like something tapping very lightly against my spine but that was it! In no time the epidural was in and about ten minutes later I started feeling some relief. I felt tingles in my legs and toes also. A little bit later the nurse did this cold/wet test to see the extent of my coverage and I was pretty numb from my toes up to my lower chest which was good. From then on I didn't feel the PAIN with the contractions but I could tell I was contracting.
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I did however start feeling a LOT of (as I called it) pain in my butt, a lot of pressure which was somewhat discomforting but not NEARLY as bad as the contractions. The nurse explained that sometimes with the epidural since it relieves the pain of the contractions that you begin to focus on other pain you are feeling. She also said that pressure feeling in my butt was good because it would help me to push when it was time.
-4:45pm-
I started shaking uncontrollably, which was a side affect of the epidural. The nurse burrowed me in a couple warm blankets and I was good as long as I stayed covered.
-5pm-
I was checked which because of the epi I barely felt (wooo whooo), and I was 5cm dilated, 50% effaced and he was -2 station. I kept occupied by doing my "fill in" puzzle book, and the TV was on and Béla was there and was completely and totally awesome during the whole thing!
-5:30pm-
I was checked again and I was 8cm and 90% effaced and he was -1 station! At this point we're both getting really, really excited and the pain in my butt was getting increasingly more uncomfortable.
-6:05pm-
I was 9cm, 100% effaced and he was 0 station!!!! Sometime between then and when the doctor came in at 6:41 I did a "test" push but it wasn't time so...the doctor goes out and a little bit later I tell Béla to tell the nurse that the pressure was REALLY bad.
-6:41pm-
I am 9.5 dilated, 100% effaced and he's at +1 station. The doctor said "We're going to have a baby in the next few minutes! He says we can push past the .5 and asks me if I can feel my contractions. I say yes and he says next time you feel them push and him and the nurse start doing stuff like taking apart the bed and they pull out these leg rest things and put my calves in them. The nurse shows me how to grab my thighs and curl around my abdomen and I start pushing!!!
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I don't think I have a problem pushing because of the epidural...I could feel the pressure but I couldn't feel him crowning and kept asking the doctor questions like "can you see his head?" and I even asked (again labor dementia) how much hair he had, lol! (a medium amount the doctor said). After pushing with my eyes closed for a short time I open my eyes because Béla says "He's coming Jamie, he's coming!" and I look down and see his two little hands flailing in the air between my legs. I started crying and saying "Oh my God!" over and over again. Béla was fighting back tears...it was just amazing!
-6:53 pm!-
Baby Béla's "official" birth time! The nurse covered him in a blanket and handed him to me after she weighed him and cleaned him off a bit. BB's APGARs were 8/9 and he had the best color ever! The staff said constantly saying "Oh he's sooo pink!" He was soooo alert! His eyes were open and very shortly after birth I started nursing him and he latched on right away!
The doctor finished up with the placenta (which we donated) and massaged my uterus which was tender but not painful and he cleaned me and took the epidural out which didn't hurt at all. We stayed in the L&D room for about an hour or so. While we waited for the Peds nurse to come measure him, whatever else, and bathe him.
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When all that was done I was still kind of numb but I could stand up, the nurse showed Béla how to help me into the wheel chair...he did an awesome job, and the three of us headed to our PP room! I was numb, more like pins and needles when I touched my abdomen, until that Thursday actually but it didn't impact my ability to walk at all.
In fact, I was thankful because as soon as the epidural did wear off I could feel every little bit of the afterbirth contractions and I was sooo tender. The afterbirth pains were worse for me this time around because for one I was still on the Pitocin until eaaaaarly morning Wednesday to help my uterus contract and the doctor whom was worried about me hemorrhaging (because of my blood clotting issue and me being on blood thinner), gave me a pill to help my uterus contract even more. I took it for 24 hours and once I was done the afterbirth pains were just mild to moderate PMS type cramps and only while I nursed.
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