Here is her birth story...
We went into the hospital on July 15th at 5PM to start a cytotec induction at 6pm. Once we got all the paperwork filled out and questions answered, they were able to give me my first round of cytotec at 8pm, and I was to receive one every 3 hours until 6am and then they would start pitocin if needed. After a couple of hours of the first cytotec, I was contracting every 2 minutes, but I wasn't feeling them. The nurse asked the on-call doctor if it was okay to give me my next round, and the on-call decided that she wasn't going to do that anymore and they were going to start pitocin instead. My doctor normally starts it at a 4, but this doctor decided to start it at a 2. I received pitocin ALL night long and didn't feel anything. Before the pitocin, my blood pressure was really high so they took blood and also a urine sample to make sure everything looked okay, and it did. My OB doctor came in at 9am to see how I was doing, only to learn that her orders had no been followed and she was very upset because she said they wasted 12 hours of our time.
The original plan was that I wanted to try to go without an epidural, but my doctor told me that I was to get my epidural between a 5-8 on the pain scale. She said this because they were going to up my pitocin every 30 minutes and it was going to be intense. They turned the it off for an hour because I was saturated and then my doctor broke my water and then they started the pitocin after that hour and kept increasing it every 30 minutes. I was feeling fine, and then the pain was getting more intense so I got my epidural around 1pm. I was very nervous about the epidural, but the anesthesiologist was awesome, he did such a good job and it wasn't painful at all. I was fine and didn't feel any pain until around 5pm, and it started wearing off a little. My mom had been at the hospital all day with us, and then my dad got there around 4 and kept talking about how he was hungry, I think he was just trying to rub in the fact that I couldn't eat. Lol! Ben's parents got there around 5:30 or so and I started feeling more pressure, so we decided it was time for everyone to leave the room so Ben and I could be alone and start the process. I was dilated to a 1 when I went to the hospital, and was still a one until about 4 pm and I had only gone to a 3. Then by about 6:00 or somewhere around there, I was dilated to a 10!! I started pushing about 6:30 and she was born at 7:46pm. It was the most amazing thing I had ever experienced! And to see the look on Ben's face when she was born was the best feeling. She was stuck under my pelvic bone, so they were going to need to use the forceps to deliver her. When they use those, they are required to call in the NICU team, so we had a ton of people in our rooom. Once she was born she was able to lay on my stomach for a minute before they took her to look her over. Ben went to be with her, and then I started shaking really bad and had the hardest time keeping my eyes open. When I delivered the placenta, it was in pieces, so I ended up having to have an emergency D&C. The nurses were taking great care of me so that Ben could be with Blakely. The nurse asked me if it was okay for Daddy to hold her and I said yes, so he brought her over to me to love on. I couldn't do much though becuase I was so out of it from the pain meds they had to give me. I don't remember much other than Ben walking around with her and my mom and mother-in-law coming in to kiss her on the head. My doctor went out to talk to my family and friends and let them know what had gone on and that I wouldn't remember anything so everyone needed to go home (and she's right, I didn't remember things until about 4am). I had my best friends in the waiting room along with our parents, such a wonderful support group. I couldn't ask for better friends. Ben was left to watch over Blakely and myself all night, so needless to say he didn't get much sleep. :) He woke both of us up every 3 hours so I could feed her. We spent that night in Labor and Delivery, and then Tuesday I was moved to post-partum.
We found out Tuesday morning that I took in 3 pints of blood because I had lost so much blood after delivery. My hemoglobin level was 11.4 before I delivered and they ended up restoring it to 11 after those 3 pints. Blakely did great with feedings at the hospital, and was released Wednesday morning around 10AM. I on the other hand, was not released until about 8:30 that night due to some mis-understanding from the on-call doctor. We couldn't wait to get home and settled with our baby girl.
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