On September 3rd we welcomed our son Newell Elias Leavitt. He was 7lbs 5oz and 20.5 inches long. He is most precious and beautiful.
Here is my little labor story....
I got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night on the third and when I tried to get back in bed my water broke at 12:45am. We went to the hospital without any trouble. I felt weird leaking all over but no pain yet. We got to Labor and Delivery and I was only dilated to 1cm maybe 2. I had back labor quite badly. I was getting the pain meds to ease the pain but they were not working like I wanted them to. I felt I needed to push so they checked me and I was onlly 5cm so I asked for an epidural. I got my epidural and they kept telling me that I would have him at 1pm. 1pm came and went but I was feeling ok thanks to the pain meds. The dr came in and told me that if I did not feel like pushing in 2 hours they would take me in for a c-section. Then the anestesiologist (sp) came back and gave me some more pain meds which stopped me at barely before 10cm. We were so upset cause that kept me from wanting to push. I was all ok for the c-section at that time since I had been in labor for what felt like forever. The nurse was great she told me that I did not want a c-section and that they would get me to start pushing. I started pushing at like 5:10pm and our son was delivered at 5:48pm. So 17hours of labor and we have our miracle baby.
Its amazing! After all the waiting and trying and the bed rest and all of that we have our son.
Sleepless nights and constant feedings are already making me loony!
2 comments:
Yay! Congrats, you guys! It's great to hear that everything went well and you have a healthy baby boy!
He is precious! I can't wait to hold Newell Saturday. Funny though I never felt like pushing, I just looked at the nurse and she told me when to do it.
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