And he’s finally here!
The week before the baby arrived, Andy and I walked every where. We walked around Atrim Lake, Tuttle Mall, and Easton Town Center. On the Sunday before our scheduled induction, we packed our hospital bags in the minivan and drove to the Jeffersonville Prime Outlets figuring if we left the city the baby would come. By this time he was four days late and I was ready to have him.
The next morning I got up to go to the bathroom. When I climbed back into bed at 6:45am my water broke! I was so excited! We called my doctor’s office and she told us to get to the hospital. I took a test to confirm that my water had broken (and I hadn’t just peed my pants). Once I was in the labor room, nothing really happened so I was basically induced after 9am. I was 3 cm at my last appointment and after about 8 hours of hard labor I only got one more cm! The pitocin would make three contractions come a minute apart and then stall for about 5 minutes. It was really intense and I got the shakes. I got an epidural and got to about 6 cm after a while and stayed there for the next 6 hours. My cervix stopped effacing and started getting swollen since his head was just sitting there.
I was too narrow to deliver a big baby — which had been suggested at my early OB exam. The baby’s heart rate drop one time when they had me flat on my back but I was given oxygen and everything was fine. The doctor said I could labor some more but that a c-section was probably the best option at that point. After talking about it with Andy for a minute, we decided that would be best. Max came out 20 minutes after the decision to c-section at 11:40pm. He weighed 8 lbs 8 oz and was 21 inches long. We couldn’t be happier!