The Birth!

Hello Madison!

Man a lot has happened since I updated this blog.

When we last talked your mother and I were patiently waiting in the hospital for her induction to work and for her to dilate enough to deliver you.  After spending Wednesday night in the hospital while they gave Meghan Cervadil we then spent all of Thursday there while we waiting for the pitocin to start contracting the cervix and get her into labor.  After doing that most of the day the doctor decided to give your mom a break and start the pitocin again Friday morning at 3am.  So we had dinner from the hospital cafeteria (yuck) and went to sleep.

The next morning I awoke and your mom was already on her second round of pitocin.  The doctor came to check up on her and decided to speed labor along by breaking your mom's water.  After that happened her contractions definitely started getting stronger.  So strong that I started feeling just awful watching her writhe around on the bed in pain.  Thankfully they gave her an epidural and all the pain vanished.  At least until early evening when it started wearing off.  Around 8ish the doctor (Dr. Zieno this time rather than Karney, who had left to attend a wedding) came to check on your mom and she still hadn't dilated any more than 5cm.  We were going to have to do a Cesarian section :(  It was the one thing your mom said at the very beginning of this pregnancy that she didn't want to do and again I felt terrible for her but she was willing to do whatever she had to do to get you into this world. So a c section was what we did.

After spending the past 49 hours in the hospital waiting around for something to happen I figured it'd probably take them a couple hours to get ready for the surgery but they almost immediately handed me some sterile scrubs, a face mask, and a hair guard and told me to get ready.  They took your mom into the operating room within the half hour and after she was prepped they called me in to sit by her side while the operation went on.  There was a big curtain all around her body so I couldn't see anything.  Surprisingly they had you out of there within 2 minutes of starting the procedure.  Since your mom was laying down and behind the curtain she couldn't see you but I could.  You were beautiful.  I immediately was over come with emotion.  Words failed me.  I couldn't say anything without crying.  Of course your mom is laying down there waiting for me to report back to her and all I could get out was "She's beautiful".

They rushed me out with you to the nursery for tests while they sewed back up your mom.  I felt terrible leaving her but she wanted me to be with you.  She kept asking me if she was alright cause she could her the doctors "whispering" and figured something had gone wrong.  "You're doing great honey", was all I could say before heading out the door with you.

At the nursery they did the Agpar test which measures how healthy a baby is out of the womb. In our baby class they told us rarely do babies get 9-10s on the Agpar right out of the womb so not to be disappointed if your baby gets a 4 or a 5.  I'm proud to say you scored a 9.  I felt so much relief knowing you were so healthy given that when I was born I was all sorts of sickly.

After the Agpar they weighed you, a whopping 9lbs 8.87 ounces rounded up to 9lbs 9oz.  Then you got all your blood tests.  You did not like those at all.  All the time I'm still weeping at the wonder that is you.  The nursery nurses had to give me a box of tissues.

While all of this was going on they were finishing up with your mom and moving her to recovery.  I headed back over there to see her and let the nurses get you nice and bundled up.  Of course I still can vocalize much about you at this point.  Any time I think of you I get all teary eyed.  I knew I was going to cry when you were born but I didn't realize how powerfully emotional the whole process was.  I don't think I've ever cried that much out of happiness in my entire life.  I got a little misty when I proposed to your mom and when we got married but never like this.  Gosh I'm getting teary eyed just reliving the moment.  God help me when you get married and I have to deliver a speech!

After you were done with all the tests the nurses let me cart you over to your mom and meet her for the first time.  Of course she though you were so so beautiful.  And she said she had never seen me cry before.  Eventually I got clearance to bring your grandparents Reining back to the recovery room so they could meet you as well.  Everyone just thought you were the most amazing thing in the world.  Eventually we were moved to our new postpartum room and your grandparents left for the night.  We had to wait until around 1am for the nurses to finally bring you back after another round of tests.  I honestly am not sure what time we went to sleep that night.  Maybe around 4am?  We just sat there holding you and looking at you.  That was to be the first of many many sleepless nights...

We still had 3 more days left in the hospital; what would happen next?  How would having a newborn affect our lives?  I'll detail that out in additional posts cause I'm tired.  Mainly because of you :)