New Mommy

Well hello everyone! Some of you have been asking about my blog and I am finally getting around to it. Today is my first day back at Bethel and so far it is going well and that is why I have time to blog. I am on my lunch hour. So the past 6 weeks have been crazy!!!

Drew is growing like a weed! He left the hospital measuring 20 inches long and two weeks later he was 22 1/2 inches!!! We go back in July for his next appt. so we will see what he is then. He is already up to 9 lbs. 14 oz.

I guess I should really start with...Drew was born May 9th, 2008 at Memorial Hospital. He weighed in at 8 lbs. 3 oz. and measured 20 inches long. He came after a long and painful birth. Andrew and I went into the Dr.'s office on Thursday for a non-stress test. The machine kept showing that Drew's heart rate was dipping so they sent us over to triage at Memorial around 4pm. Once in triage they hooked me up to the monitor again and Drew was doing really well but right before they were going to come in and release us his heart rate dipped so they then decided to do an ultrasound. We waited 2 hours for the ultrasound because she was with other patients. Finally she came in and did the ultrasound and that took 45 min. After the ultrasound the Dr. came in and said since I was already 5 days overdue and my fluid was a little low that they were going to go ahead and induce me. Andrew had convinced me that we were probably not going to stay so I told him he had to buy me a purse if we didn't stay. Lucky for him we did. :)

So it was now about 9pm. They gave me pitocin (to induce labor) at about 9:30pm and they broke my water at 10:30pm. The nurse didn't want the Intern Dr. to break my water, she wanted to wait and see if it happened naturally but the Dr. didn't want to wait. Well somewhere around midnight I wanted to get in the tub because my contractions were getting worse, but the nurse told me that since my water had been broken I couldn't get in the tub because of the risk of infection. I was so mad at that Dr.!! I love the tub and it was a jacuzzi tub!!! At that point I asked for an epidural. But we had to wait 2 hours because the anathesiologist had just gone into surgery.

Finally around 2-2:30am the anathesiologist came in to give me my epidural. It was wonderful!!! And the Dr. did a great job and he was really nice!!! So after that I got a little bit of rest and sleep which was nice for Andrew and my mom as well.

Oh yeah I almost forgot. A few years back when I was working for Nelson's Chicken I ripped a muscle under my left rib cage and it has healed since then but for some reason after a while the epidural would wear off in just that one spot. We later found out that there was scar tissue there and so the medicine could not get to the muscle completely. So basically once the contraction would wear off, it wouldn't wear off in that one spot. At one point I had a 7 minute contraction it was nuts!!!!

Well I need to stop for now, but I will post the rest of the story later. :) And pictures too!!!