Maddison's Delivery

So I have decided that it’s about time to write about how my delivery went before I forget too much. Tuesday August 4th I was scheduled to be induced at 6am. So I got up at 5am to take a shower and finish getting ready. At 5:30 I got a call saying that all the beds were full but they were going to try really hard to get me in and therefore I was told to call back at 9am. Well I got up and eat a small bowl of cereal and had a piece of toast. At 9am I called in again and was told to call back at 11am. At this point I was figuring I was not going to get in since they were so busy. However, when I called back at 11am I was told to come down at 1pm and hopefully a room would be available.

We packed up the car and ran a few errands before heading down to the hospital. We checked into the hospital and I was admitted around 1:15 and was given a room. Around 2:30 they started getting things ready and put my IV in. When putting my IV in they were having a really hard time and it took two nurses and 4 different tries to finally get my IV started. They started pitocin at 3:00pm at a low dosage and I was told that they would keep it low so that I would not deliver in the middle of the night. At this point I was getting really hungry since I was told only to eat a light breakfast. My doctor gave me the go ahead to eat dinner around 7pm. So Josh went out and got McDonalds to eat. I did not even get through half of my dinner before I started feeling sick and decided I was done.

The pain was starting to get worst but I could still handle it. Around 10pm I started feeling really sick and began to throw up. After getting sick we all tried to go to sleep. The nurse said I could have something to help me sleep and since I was still feeling really sick I decided this would help me rest. However, I kept getting sick and was given anti nausea medication and they turned down the pitocin. Around 5am the pain was too much and I asked for something to help with the pain. I was in and out of sleep for the next few hours.

At 7:45 my doctor came in and broke my water and we found out that there was meconium. Due to the meconium I was told that the NICU would be in the room when I deliver and they would take Maddison and make sure that she was fine. Shortly after they broke my water the pain was just too much and I asked for an epidural. Around 9am I was given my epi and I was falling asleep when he was giving me the epi. From that point on it was not too bad I was just getting tired of sitting in the bed and wanting to eat.

At 2:30 I was at 9.5 cm and the nurse started getting things ready for my delivery. I was starting to get uncomfortable and I could feel the contraction a little but nothing painful. The nurse wanted me to lay in different positions that would get me to 10cm and help Maddison come down more. The last position that she had me lay in was so uncomfortable and after 20 minutes i told Josh to get the nurse since I could not handle it anymore.

At 3:15 she came in and started getting everything prepped. At 3:25 she had me start pushing and she called the doctor and told him to get over here since I was considered a good pusher for a first time Mom. She kept reassuring me that I was doing great and could not believe how great I was at pushing. She yelled for another nurse to call the doctor again and that he better get here now. I kept asking when he was going to get there since I knew he had to be there for me to be close to delivery. SO although they were telling me that I was doing such a great job I felt that they were just saying this since the doctor was not here. The rest happened so fast and the doctor almost was not there for the delivery. He walked in and was getting ready pretty slow and my nurse was getting really mad at him. After 5 more pushes and only two contractions I had Maddison out at 3:56pm. Josh was told to cut the cord quickly and she was given to the NICU right away. After they checked her out and cleared her airways, we were told that she was fine. During this time I still had not gotten to see her and finally asked Josh to show me a picture of her. I believe that it was 20 to 30 minutes after she was born that I finally got to see and hold my baby.

Right before I started to push I was told that I had a small fever and when Maddison came out she had a fever of 102. She had to go to the nursery to be checked out and Josh went with her. This all took about 2 hours and they met me in my new room. Finally at about 7pm Josh went out and got me Sonics to eat. So that is my delivery story or what I can remember of it anyways.