On Monday morning I was scheduled to report to the new Alexian Brothers Woman and Children's hospital at 6:30 am. They started my IV and bag of pitocin and broke my water around 11 am. I was already dilated to 4cm when I arrived to the hospital and things were off to a good start. When I reached 5cm things slowed down and I didn't seem to be progressing very fast. I continued having steady contractions. The doctor and nurses offered me pain medications and an epidural but I didn't want anything. Going into my induction my doctor advised me things would progress quickly seeing how it was my 2nd baby and it wouldn't take longer than 8 hours to have our son. Boy was she ever wrong! This little was still positioned very high up and just didn't want to come down until he was ready. I tried everything from getting up and walking in place, swaying back and forth and even bouncing up and down, rocking back in forth in my hospital bed, laying on different sides for approx 30 minutes. At one point the nurse turned down the pitocin because my body had gotten used to it. She eventually turned it back up and that is when things really started to progress. Little did I know that she had done that and I started to feel the baby move down a little bit. The contractions started getting stronger and mommy started feeling icky. I asked for the epidural which was the worst part. Everything went well with the epidural although I started crying because I absolutely hate needles and the nurse thought something was wrong with me. Finally it was all over and I was completely numb. I was hoping to have the baby on the Leilani's 1st birthday but that didn't happen. I tried to take a nap and around 1am I started pushing. My 1st attempt was pathetic and terrible. I was tired and couldn't feel my legs. It made it hard to know how to push down but after only a few pushes he was born. Immediately after he was born the nurse noticed that he was peeing all over me while the umbilical was still attached. Frank cut the cord and they cleaned up the baby and examined him in the same room with me. His check up went great and there was my healthy baby boy. I was so tired and exhausted afterwards. I literally hadn't had anything to eat all day long and was starving by 3am. I sent Frank out on a food run and I couldn't wait to eat my Steak and Shake burger and fries.
Hunter Matthew Schoen
June 18th, 2013
born 1:32am
7 lbs 10 oz and 20 3/4 inches long
1 comment:
Congrats. He is adorable. My induction with Aidan took 2 days... I can still remember how hungry and tired I was afterwards. You deserved that burger and fries! I'm glad that his arrival went smoothly.
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