Liam's Birth Story (@alohababy14)

alohababy14 · July 2014

I can't believe our baby boy is already a week old! I went in to the hospital on June 27 for my regular weekly NST. When I left the NST room for my fluid check, the nurse told me not to leave after my fluid check, but I didn't really suspect anything was up at the time. Fluid levels were good, so I went to find her afterward. She took me straight to the doctor's office, and he nonchalantly told me, "We're inducing you today." Baby's heart rate had a big deceleration with one of my contractions, so he said he wasn't comfortable with sending me home. The look on DH's face was priceless - he was completely in shock.

I went over to L/D and was hooked up to pitocin and had a foley ball within half an hour. I think that was around 3pm on Friday. The contractions got pretty unbearable around 10 pm, so I told the nurse I was ready for the epidural. The nurse anesthetist came in, and he looked exactly like Owen Wilson. I think that was t he only thing that kept me from screaming at him when he inserting the epidural and I could feel it completely. It turned out that I needed 3 doses of the numbing medication before I couldn't feel the epidural. Let me tell you, it's really disconcerting to hear the person putting a needle in your spine say, "You can feel that?!" Many tears later, it started kicking in and I was able to get a little sleep between the times the blood pressure cuff inflated every 15 minutes.

At around midnight, I was still only 4 cm, which was really discouraging to hear because I had been there since around 5 pm. Everything is kind of fuzzy between that and 7:30 am, but the nurse told me they thought I had an amniotic infection. The midwife came in to check me again, and she said she could see hair! She told me she wanted him out in 30 minutes in light of the possible infection. I only had to push 10 times (I don't know if this a lot or a few times, but it was way less than I anticipated!). He came out screaming and we got to do skin-to-skin immediately for about an hour. He latched on really well immediately, and breast feeding has been going well so far. I was so overwhelmed by him that I couldn't stop crying!

It wasn't the birth that I imagined, but I'm so in love that I don't mind a bit! He was 7 lbs, 2.5 oz and 20 inches. Here's a photo from before baby's first outing to the beach to watch fireworks. He slept through the whole thing