Labor Recap

March 7th came and went and still no baby. Each day i would think ok, this has to be it, only for the day to end with no baby. Then came saturday. Some things started happening that morning that led me to believe it might be the day, but I still wasn't feeling much at all; no consistent contrations, just some aches here and there. I went on a long walk with jill t and was hoping that would get that baby moving on out. Gill and Debbie, Adam's parents arrived from Oklahoma around noon, which ended up being so perfect. Debbie is a teacher and had to wait for her spring break to visit and so they were thinking the baby would be about a week old by the time they got here, but lo and behold their daughter-inlaw was still with child when they showed up. We had a bbq lunch and just hung out most of the day. Still not any baby action, just some cramps here and there throughout the day. Around 5 o clock though i started having some braxton hickish contractions that were just slightly more intense than normal. but we weren't sure yet. so i continued to just hang out with the family, but around 7:00, i went back to my bedroom because i was just feeling pretty crampy and getting a little uncomfortable. once i was alone in there i started writing down when i was getting these cramps or what i now know were contractions. my mom came back to my room about twenty minutes later to check on me and looked at my paper and said "evan, these are like 2 or 3 minutes apart!" ooops! i was writing them down but not looking at how close they were! when she said that i thought, okay, maybe i should get my stuff together and tell adam we might need to think about going to the hospital. at this point i was still unsure that it was the real thing and didn't want to have a false alarm, but they were close and getting to the point where i had to lean over when i was having one. anyway, i went and told adam we needed to go (because i do have a history of quick labors) and everyone told me the third would be even quicker. So we hopped in the car told the kiddos bye bye and left them with Grandmommy and Granddaddy. This was about 8:00pm. I checked into the hospital 10 minutes later and was 6cm. The baby's heart rate was low so they were concerned because of the heartrate and the fact that i was about a week overdue. The dr. miraculously got there in like 5 minutes and checked me, i was 7 cm then. and she broke my water to check for meconium to see if the baby was in distress. sure enough there was meconium. The Dr. called for the pediatrician to get there asap, which just happens to be her husband. The nurses were running around getting everything ready and it was very intense. They were afraid the baby's heartrate was dropping because she possibly ingested the meconium. They were going to take me to the operating room to do a c-section to get the baby out if i didn't get to 10cm quick enough. So they rolled me down there, put me on the operating table and everything was pretty chaotic around me and i just couldn't believe what was happening. The nurses were scooting me around and getting me ready...but Praise Jesus, I had the urge to push and thankfully one of the nurses said i could push and then about 30 seconds later out came Haddyn! No need for a c-section, the Lord intervened and brought her into the world so fast, i had to ask adam, "did she just come out?!!!" I couldn't believe it. It was all so intense, i thought we would get to the hospital, labor for a few hours, call some friends, have an uneventful birth with no drama. I didn't think we would show up and see her within 45 minutes! She was perfect and we were so thankful everything turned out okay. She had swallowed the meconium but it didn't get in her lungs and the cord was around her neck. But other than that everything was fine. And now a week later, she is doing great and I am starting to feel back to normal again. This one took me a little longer to recover from for some reason. But i am feeling good today. She's a great baby and eats well and is sleeping good too. Well there you have it, that's my labor story!