My doctor arrived at 6:30 am and promptly broke my water. He said we'd start pitocin at 8:00 and have a baby by noon to which Dale and I both thought he was crazy (Cameron was a 2 hour 15 minute labor). As soon as he left the room, I started having strong contractions every 2 minutes and Dale coached me through each one. After about 45 minutes I asked for something to ease the pain. Initially I wanted stadole (?) but found out it would make me loopy so I declined and asked for the epidural and was told it would be about 20 minutes.
Within minutes I could no longer relax through contractions and could tell that I needed to push. When I started moaning loudly, the nurses came rushing in and realized I was at 8 cm. The anesthesiologist showed up and tried to insist on giving me my epidural but by then I was completely dilated and they wheeled me into the O.R. because both delivery rooms were occupied. My doctor came running in, they threw a gown, mask, gloves on him. Dale ran back for the camera and had to put on a gown, hat and mask since we were in the O.R. Once everyone was ready, I pushed through 3 contractions and our sweet baby girl was born. All in all, I was in labor for 1 hour and 13 minutes. Everyone in the O.R. commented on how big Lily was. She weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces! I got to hold her skin-to-skin immediately and she was so incredibly beautiful.
Unfortunately Lily had jaundice and had to stay an extra day to be on billi lights.
2 comments:
She is so beautiful, Judy! I love that you get to put her in clothes that you used to wear. I am glad that delivery went well and I hope the recovery goes well too.
Congratulations!!! What a precious little girl.
Post a Comment