This is his Birthday Story!!!
So on Wednesday, March 2nd, I had my 40 Week OB appointment. That was my due date and I was so sad that my son hadn't come into the world yet but I knew God had a special day planned just for him! At my apt. the doctor checked me and I was 4 cm dilated and 75% thinned out. That was encouraging but I knew that I could be that for a few more days... She asked if I wanted my membranes stripped and I said no thank you! Also by this point I had already lost my "plug" twice!
Friday we (Mom, Jon, Granny, and Ivy) all went to the movies to see Zootopia, which is such a cute movie!!! During the movie I kept having braxton hicks contractions that were pretty consistent. I had to get up once to go to the bathroom and I just knew my water was going to break but it didn't...
Saturday I was still having contractions but they were getting harder and harder... I thought I was in labor for real and wanted to go get check as soon as I could so about 11pm Richard took me to the hospital to get checked out. We got to the room and we got hooked up to the monitor and they checked me and said I was still about 4 cm.... I was heartbroken! I am in tears from the contractions and the fact that I was once again going home without a baby! The told me to give it two hours and come back in around 2AM cause they thought I would be ready by then!
Sunday about 2:30am we get back to the hospital. I was finally at 6 cm and I was in pain! This time around labor was a lot more painful for whatever reason... I made it to 8cm with Ivy and only 6cm with Vance. Anyways, around 4:40 I got the happy juice. I was then at 9cm and almost fully thinned out! What was so bad were the contractions I kept having felt like they were in my butt area! It was awful and painful!
The epidural was a failure.... I was only slightly numb on the left side! I could still move my legs and everything! I was so scared at that point because I knew with Ivy I tore down there and I would most likely tear with this baby too and I did NOT want to feel that! So I ask if there was anything else I could get for pain... They ended up giving me two different drugs to help numb the pain, after the "drug guy" told me he forgot to tell me about the button to push for more morphine..... UGH!
Around 6:30 I tried pushing for the first time (she said she could see his head!) but I was so numb at that point I couldn't push like I needed to... So I tried to rest instead.
At 7 I was ready to start pushing! The lady that helped the whole time was awesome! She told me by 7:30 we should have a baby! I was in a lot of pain by this time and was not wanting to push but if I wanted to see my baby soon I had to start! So they put up the squat bar thing and put a sheet twisted around the bar and told me to pull on the sheet and push! So I pushed and pushed and was in so much pain! I kept running out of breath from pushing so much. Then the lady put the mirror at my feet so I could see baby's head and where I needed to push.
That mirror helped me a ton actually. I didn't do that with Ivy. After over thirty minutes of pushing, Vance was born at 7:34 am!!!
He was perfect!!!! He weighed 9 pounds and 1 ounce and was 20.5 inches long! He was a pound more than Ivy and the same length!
AND he looks like his MAMA!!!! :)
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| Happy Birthday Vance Everette! |
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| Mama loves her baby boy! |
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| Happy to be home! |
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| Ivy is adjusting to being a big sister! |
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| He's such a handsome little fella! |
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| She loves him!! |
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| Happy One Week Van!!! |
The first week has gone by so fast already!!! :( We had to say good bye to everyone and that is always hard to do but even harder now that Vance is actually here now! I feel so grateful for the time I got to spend with my family and Richard's daddy. We loved having them all here and can't wait to see them again soon! :)
