I wanted to post some details about how the delivery went, it was definitely a journey to get him here. By the time he arrived I was 40 weeks and 5 days and really really done with being pregnant. My plan up until then was to try and have him as naturally as possible. However as the due date came and went, I never made any progress towards going into labor on my own. My doctor let me go as long as he was comfortable with and we had some extra tests to make sure that Brayden was ok. But I was given a deadline of Monday April 19th to go into labor on my own or I was going to have to be induced. Sunday night we checked into the hospital as planned to get ready for an induction the next morning at 5am. I was surprised when they hooked me up to the monitor and found out that I was having contractions every 2 minutes...I wasn't feeling any of them.
That continued all night, but I never felt them and they weren't very strong...also they weren't actually making me progress at all. The next morning at 5 am they started medicine to induce and I was still contracting every two minutes. With the medicine I started to feel the contractions more and more and they just kept turning up the volume on the medicine. It was getting intense because I was thrown into very active labor all of the sudden and the contractions were every 2 minutes and sometimes every 1 1/2 minutes. I did this without pain medication for several hours until they kept telling me I was only at 2 cm and not making much progress. At that point I got some pain medicine but still held off on the epidural. It helped for about 45 min but then wore off and I was in alot of pain again. At that point it was noon and I was still at 2 cm and dying. I got the epidural...haha I can't believe I held out that long and at that point I realized this wasn't going to end anytime soon and my body just wasn't cooperating.
I finally felt better but was really out of it and sleepy after the epidural, this went on till 5pm and at that point I was swelling horribly from the waist down, only 3 1/2 cm and the baby's heart rate was dropping with each contraction. The doctor said we couldn't wait any longer and had to do a C-Section. I was sad at first because I had so badly wanted to do things naturally and none of that worked out. However, at that point I just wanted a healthy baby and I was exhausted and on board with anything that would get me to the end.
It was hilariously dramatic as they wheeled me down the hall in the hospital bed to the operating room past all 25 of my family and friends waiting in hallway. I was crying and getting hugs from everyone, the nurse said it looked like a cheesy movie.
The C-Section was nothing like what I expected. For one it was not painless. I thought I wouldn't feel anything but that was not the case. I felt so much pressure it made me dizzy and when they were cleaning everything out inside after the baby came, I actually was in pain and had to be knocked out completely for about 10 minutes. After that was over and I was being stitched up, they woke me back up to see the baby. Our nurse was great and took over 100 pictures on our camera of his birth and right after when we held him while still in the operating room. The wheeled me back out with the baby past my family again and it was a totally different scene. This time instead of crying and hugs, I was beaming and everyone was crowding to see the baby, again like a cheesy movie :)
I had it in my mind before that C-Sections somehow took away some of the specialness but that was not the case. It was very special and a great experience! Even with all the drama and the pain, my experience at St Vincents with my doctor and the nurses was awesome. They took such good care of me and did everything they could to let me do things the way I wanted but also made sure we were doing the best for me and Brayden. At the end I didn't care how he got here, I was just excited!
We stayed in the hospital till Thursday and then came home. Mom was here for the next two weeks to help and then last week we were on our own. Brayden is such a good baby that it has really not been that bad. We are tired and had to get used to the change, but we are enjoying all of it!
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