It's 32 degrees and sunny outside
It was a long night that felt like I had no sleep and what little I got was ruined by a bigger contraction.
I got up and went to the bathroom I noticed that I was starting to probably loose the mucus plug at 8:20am. It was really odd to see all of that considering your not use to a period for the last 9 months. After Kelly woke up I told him that I was bleeding and that I think today really is the day.
I took a warm bath thinking that may help slow things down or at least make me some what comfortable. I made Kelly sit in the bathroom so I could have him there for comfort and to squeeze his arm off. The bath didn't really seem to do much because things got worse.
We headed to appointment for 11am and the whole time in the car I was in horrible pain and just hated every time we came to a stop light. Once we got to the Circle of Life it took me a long time to make it from the car to inside because of the contractions. Kelly checked us in and I stood there holding on to him. A contraction came on and I just put my head on his shoulder and started to cry. The ladies at the front desk asked if I needed anything and were so nice considering I had to just stand there until that contraction was over. Kelly mentioned to them it had been a long night and morning.
We finally hobbled our way back to see the midwife and of course having to pee in a cup and check blood pressure had to happen before I could really find out what was going on.
We sat and talked to the nurse for awhile and she was so nice and kind for the fact that I felt like crap, looked like crap etc.
Once the doctor came in she talked to us to find out when my due date was and what had gone on at the hospital the last couple of days. She finally checked me.
After she sat there for awhile I thought don't you dare tell me that I am not dilated enough and that I should go home. I wasn't going to go home again...
Then her face kind of smirked and said "Uhm your dilated to a 5 you should go straight to the hospital!"
It was relief to finally here that I was no longer posterior and stuck at a 3cm...
Kelly went and got the car and helped me outside.. I grabbed a few teddy grahams and we drove down Harrison Blvd. to the hospital. It was surreal knowing that we would no longer be the only ones in that car once we leave the hospital again. Texted family at 11:50am to let them know we were in the hospital for reals this time.
Once we parked Kelly got a wheelchair and came and got our crap out of the car. He wheeled me as fast as he could with all of our stuff to the fourth floor. We told the nurse that I was in labor. Once we got to the desk they started asking me when I was due, what my insurance was, who my doctor is, if I was getting induced and blah blah blah...
Kelly was doing great at answering the questions but I finally looked at the nurse and said "We just came from the Circle of Life and I am dilated to a 5 cm." She quickly stood up and grabbed my wheelchair and took me into a delivery room.
I knew that they would try and stick us back in the triage and I wasn't going to go through that hence why we went to the clinic first.
We were finally in the delivery room at 12:30pm. The nurse was starting to check my blood pressure, she checked me to make sure I was at a 5 cm, she started to do my IV when we heard a knock on the door. I was thinking it was another nurse when finally our nurse Trina looked at us and said I think its for you. Well, Kelly went and opened it and there was my mom. I was never so relieved to see her in my life, just knowing that she would be there for the rest of the afternoon and night was so calming.
The first nurse tried to put my IV in my left hand she totally messed up and so Trina had to do it in my right hand. They pumped the first bag into me fast so I could get an epidural quicker. The anthesiologist came into our room and asked if he could go do another patient really quick and be back in 10 minutes. I said that was fine.. Kelly thought I was crazy but I figured somebody may be in worse pain.
1:30pm
Well once Dr. Silver came back in and heard that I was dilated to a 5 he said I am sorry I should of done you first. He asked what I knew about a epidural and what he was going to do. I told him no and he started to tell me about it. He explained it like going on a flight in a airplane. He had me roll over and started to get stuff ready to go. I was glad I didn't see any of the tools he was going to use (aka the needle). He put the local anesthetic in and it was just a tiny pinch at first I thought that was it.. then he kept talking to us. I was talking to him when I suddenly stopped he looked at the monitor and looked at me and said are you having a contraction. I nodded. He said perfect time to do it. I was scared at this point because I didn't want to move and end up screwing up the epidural or let alone paralyzing myself or something. But once he put it in and started everything I didn't even feel it go in.
The whole time I held Kelly's hand and our nurse Trina's hand. It wasn't too bad and it felt so nice to have relief from what I had felt the last 2 days.
They had told me that Dr. Bierer was at a meeting and would be back around 6pm but if not Dr. Davis would deliver for us. I didn't really seem to care since I heard great things about Davis and he seemed very nice.
2:15pm
Dr. Davis came in and broke my water I was dilated to a 6.5 plus about a half hour later Trina came in to roll off the sheet underneath me. I heard it hit the floor and she said "well I think you lost about 5 pounds of fluid and still had more left, that was a lot of fluid!"
Kelly's mom arrived to the hospital with candy and a gift for me and Kelly. I was jealous of the candy since I only had ice chips and suckers.3:10pm
checked me 7.5cm dilated
4:20pm
checked again still at 7.5 cm then given Pitocin to speed things back up.
I became itchy and I felt like I was freezing I guess that is a common side effect with epidural
5:55pm dilated to a 9cm
We were almost ready to go.. yay!
Kelly's Mom says: "let it rip" I said:"eh how bout not" everyone laughed.
At 6:30 I was checked and at 9.5 cm
7pm I was almost to a 10 and the heartbeat on Little Miss Nelson had dropped
A couple pushes and I was dilated to a 10cm and ready to start
7:05pm Trina started to get the room ready
I did a few more pushes with Trina and she suddenly stopped and said we would wait until Dr. Bierer got to the hospital. I guess the babies heart rate had dropped every time I was pushing. It would go from 160bpm to 60bpm. She then grabbed the oxygen and put it onto me and had me roll to my side. I didn't get what was going on. Kelly came and stood by me and I asked what was happening. My mom looked really nervous.
I heard Trina say I think the cord may be around the babies neck. She then said its more common than you think. She said she paged Dr.Bierer and he was on his way. She told us it doesn't take him that long to get here.Our doctor finally came in. It was odd to me that he was dressed in a nice shirt and pants. I was expecting scrubs since thats what I have seen him in. He put on the delivery gear and we were ready to go. I pushed about 15-20 times when he decided that her heart rate
I was pretty drowsy and sleepy right before we started to push once he got there, I think everything was finally catching up with me.
Bierer decided after a few pushes the baby was going to have to go around another corner and it would be hard to sit and push her so he guided her out and then used a vacuum to suction her out. Which made it seem like it went pretty fast. I also was glad that he made that call since her heart rate was all over the place.
My mom had worn me that the shoulders are the hardest but after her head popped out the rest of her body slid on out. She didn't really have broad shoulders.
The cord wasn't wrapped around her body it was just a really short cord probably like 17 inches long so it reached enough to lay her on me and have Kelly cut the cord but they couldn't run a test like they normally do because of it being short.
I was really jealous that everyone got to see her over on the other side of the room while she got shots, weighed and wiped down. I kept watching them look at her and Dr. Bierer noticed it and said "Now no one cares about you since you got the baby here!". We both sat and laughed. I could tell the epidural was wearing off but luckily they give you pain pills before you leave the delivery room.
We did skin to skin after they had her ready. My parents snapped some photos of us with our new little girl and she was so calm. I couldn't really look at her since they had put her on my neck it felt like but it was nice to finally have her here.
My dad and Marci came in to see her and then everyone walked out and we tried to breastfeed her which wasn't happening she wasn't interested and was exhausted. (I can't blame her she just had contractions for 3 days and then a suction cup to pull her out)
We then got moved to our postpartum room and right as we got there my mom and Marci came in.
I thought they had left but they didn't both held her a little more and took pictures.
The nurses came in and did her footprints and measured her head since she had the suction cup they don't want a lot of swelling to happen in 24 hours. They also talked about getting her to breastfeed and that they have started a new thing where the baby has to have 2 feedings in 4 hours from delivery before they can have their first bath. Which at 10pm that seems almost impossible since Charli was worn out and so was I.They had left for a while and I ate a box lunch since the room service was closed for the night.
It wasn't extremely great but after only having a handful of Teddy Graham's I ate most of it.
Kelly sat and held her and rocked her in the chair. It was so cool to see him finally holding her and getting to experience it. We sat on the bed and held her and tried to get her to wake up to eat.
We did a couple spoon feedings for her to get something in her system. She wasn't at all interested in doing anything with breastfeeding.
The nurses then took me to the bathroom with the help of the nurses and started the best thing ICE PACKS & Dermoplast & Witch Hazel (HEAVEN).
We then sent her to the nursery after we fed her and they asked where we wanted her first bath because it would be 3am when she would be ready for it. We let them do it in the nursery so we could finally get some sleep. Not that you get a whole lot in the hospital.
She slept the whole night in the nursery we fed her at 3:30am.
What a day it was but we are so glad to have Charli Kate Nelson finally here!
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