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Chupie is now team ..... (rather long birth story)

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On May 12, 2010 at 5:27pm Michael Benjamin made his entrance into the world kicking and screaming.

We started induction at about 9pm on May 11th.  It never occured to me that medication that thins the cervicx also causes contractions.  I should have known that but it never occurred to me.  I started having serious contractions about 3am.  Word of advice ladies, take the drugs if you need them.  I took them and am not sorry.  We started Pitocin at 6am.  Things were going well until about 11am or noon.  We had great care.  The anesthesiologist had classes with my husband in college 22-23 years ago and his brother had a dorm room right next door to my husband and our nurse was one of his old 4-H leaders so we had great care and I feel some extra special attention.  After 11 or noon things started to slow down.  I got a little too much epideral on board and my arms went numb.  I have no idea how long because time at this point got rather surreal.  They turned the epideral down and then I started feeling every contraction full force.  My mom and husband were in the labor room with me at all times and were great.  My dad stayed in the waiting room with my husband's best friend and his wife.  I never dilated beyond 6cm and was stuck this way for 5 hours and even with an epideral, my back and hip continued to cause me a great deal of pain and I could not get comfortable.  Finally, at around 4pm, my husband went out into the hallway with my nurse and they talked about what would happen next.  Everything started happening fast but we decided that we needed to get the baby out and a vaginial birth was not going to happen.  The baby was not engaging in the birth canal.  I have never been so misrable in my entire life.  My water broke sometime between noon and 4pm but that did not really help the process any.  I am having contractions one right on top of another, I can not move because of the epidural but I can feel all the pain.  I was wisked off to surgery and preped for the c-section.  Surgery went very smoothly and I had a nurse whose only job was to keep me informed and calm.  I think they were a little worried about me because I was very quiet.  I was in shock and could not say anything.  At 5:27pm, Michael was born screaming and crying.  He weighed 8 pounds 1 ounce and was 21 inches long with the biggest feet you ever saw.  My husband got to be in the room the entire time and sit by my head and talk to me.  We found out later that he was face up trying to enter the birth canal and that coupled with a big head kept him from engaging with the birth canal.  

Michael is here and home.  He has a little jaundice that should clear up with an afternoon laying in the sun.  He is eating every 2 to 3 hours and is making us very happy. 

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