Nathan has arrived!!! Birth Story... So it all started on January 2nd, 2008. Eddy and I had our regular appointment with the doctor at 8am to check our little one's heartbeat, my weight, and my blood pressure... which had been quite high for the last few days. It turned out that everything was great and we could go home. As the doctor was finishing up, I mentioned to her that I wasn't sure, but I thought perhaps my amniotic fluid was leaking out. She immediately sent us to the labour and delivery assessment area at the hospital to have tests done to see if indeed my water had broken and was just slowly leaking out. We got there at 8:30am and they did the test and the results came back inconclusive & that I was 2cm dialated, so the OB doctor ... Dr. Corbey...said that in this case we have to assume that it is amniotic fluid and that they would have to induce me. Both Eddy and I were soooo excited. They moved us over to the Labour and Delivery Unit at 10:30am and started my IV with the Pitocin drip. By 12:30pm I was having contractions, that weren't too bad. Eddy called my parents and both sets of his parents. Everyone decided that they wanted to be at the hospital and were on their way. As the day progressed the doctor kept checking in on me and found me laughing and smiling. She actually said..."okay, you are still too happy" so she decided to break my water at 3:30pm and boy did that speed things up. The contractions immediately intensified. By that time the Grandparents were starting to arrive and everyone got to somehow participate in the labour by helping me breathe through the contractions and making me pose for pics in between. By 7pm the contractions were REALLY strong and because of the pitocin drip, they were coming one after the other without any break inbetween. Which made it really hard for me to breathe through them, and I started getting dizzy and light headed. I decided that enough was enough and that I would get the epidural, since I knew it was gonna be a LONG night. I had been in labour for 8 hours and had only dialated to 4cm. After I got the epidural the rest of the labour wasn't too bad at all. I was completely numb from the waist down, but could still feel the pressure of the contractions. I stayed hooked up to the monitors for the entire labour and everytime the doctor came in, she kept saying that the baby was comfortable. By 10pm the nurse looking after me, Jane, asked that we limit the visitors in the room to only 2 people and everyone else had to wait in the waiting room. At 11pm after 11 hours I was only dialated to 7cm. The doctor said I was dialating slowly, but was still within a reasonable time. I was exhausted and couldn't sleep. They had increased the pitocin drip and the pressure I could feel, wasn't painful, but more uncomfortable. At 3am the doctor came and checked me and I was 8cm dialated... the doctor wasn't happy that I had only dialated 1cm in 4 hours and began to talk to me about a c-section. She said she didn't want to do it and would give me another 2 hours to dialate some more and for the baby to descend. At that time Nathan was still really high in the birth canal and couldn't be reached. It seemed he was comfortable and just didn't want to come out. The doctor came back at 5am and I was still 8cm dialated... she then said "okay...1 more hour". I however knew that I would need the c-section at this point and just wanted her to get my son out safely. At 6am... I had still made no progress, so they started to prep me for surgery. Only Eddy accompanied me into the OR, and at 6:29am on January 3rd, 2008 I heard my son cry for the first time. It was the most beautiful sound. Apparantly some of the grandparents that were outside the OR actually heard him cry too. He weighed 7lbs 1oz and measured 19 inches long. Eddy got to hold him first and the minute he heard my voice he calmed right down and just sat there quietly observing everyone and everything. At 7am we were taken into the recovery room and I got to hold my son for the first time and we also got to pose for our first family photo. All in all... we had been at the hospital at that point for 22.5 hours and I had been in labour with Nathan for 18.5 hours. We stayed in hospital for 3 days and the 6 grandparents took thousands of photos.
So we now have been home for 2 full days and we even had our first outing today. Nathan is a wonderful baby. He is so alert, quiet and peaceful. Eddy and I were truly blessed to have such a healthy beautiful baby. It was a once in a lifetime experience and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat!
2007-12-31 (38 weeks)
Our night in L&D
Boy can this kid cause excitement...LOL
So last night before bed, I took my pills and checked my BP... it was high 150/100 .... So I waited a while and tried to relax and keep Eddy calm. After about 30mins I rechecked it and it was STILL the same so I called L&D.... another 30 mins went by without the meds kicking in so they insisted I come in to have tests run and to monitor Nathan.
We got there around 12:30am and they hooked me up to fetal monitors and began poking and prodding me for half the night and of course My Son wasn't very co-operative and kept kicking off their monitors to the point that they had to keep moving them to try to find an area that he couldn't kick them off...LOL
Anyways eventually my BP did come down. I did however get to find out that Nathan is doing great and is quite comfy in there, which has now convinced me that he is NEVER gonna come out and is content to sit in my belly till I am 42 weeks pregnant and they pull him out with those GIGANTIC forceps they kept waving around in my L&D class...LOL
Anyways that is my exciting story of our first night in L&D. I hope next time I go in, I will be leaving with my beautiful little boy.
Happy New Year Everyone!!!!!
Liezel
2007-12-29 (38 weeks)
Still here...
Well I am still here and still pregnant. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing though . I guess it is good because it gives Nathan a few more days of comfort in my tummy to finish doing whatever he needs to do and gives me a few more days of feeling him squirm around and kick in there.
Bad in that I am soooo uncomfortable trying to sleep at night... even with the pillows I just can't get comfy and the heartburn is killer . Plus my doctors appointment yesterday wasn't the greatest. My BP is elevated again and my medications had to be doubled... I went from 200mg daily to 400mg daily. I need to get another ultrasound done because the doc was a little worried.... but not worried enough to induce me already. I'm just starting to get a little scared and wish that Nathan was here already safely in my arms where I could watch him and see if anything was wrong immediately. And at least with this extra ultrasound I will get to see him again before he is born.
We've come sooooo far and I only have about 12 days to go till my due date so I just continue to pray that the Lord will see us through this and bring my son to me safely.
Liezel
2007-12-14 (36 weeks)
36 weeks and counting
Wow... I can't even believe I am 36 weeks pregnant!!! 9 months!!! There are times when I still can't believe that this is really truly happening to me and that in just a few short weeks I will be a mommy and my Son will be here. Wow..."My Son". Now there is something I never thought would happen. With all of the troubles we had with infertility and the rough start at the beginning of this pregnancy, I know I have said it before, but I am just SO thankful for everything that God has blessed Eddy and I with, especially Nathan.
So as we head into these last few weeks, I just pray for patience because I am sooooo excited for his arrival and can hardly wait. Only 2 more weeks before I am gonna start "trying" to get him out
