August 2010 Babies

Ok, so Avery was born on Sunday 22 Aug 2010 at 1:20pm! The Friday prior I had my 40 week appointment and had not made any progress so I was discouraged. That night I started having some pretty strong contractions and wasn't sure how far I would get. Saturday I did my normal routine and went to a baby shower for a friend of mine. I started having pretty frequent contractions while I was there. We got home around 830 and the contractions were still coming. They were about 10-13 min apart. By 1am on Sunday I was having my contractions 2-5 minutes apart.

We got to the hospital and by the time I finally got into an exam room I was crying and begging for pain relief. They hooked me up to the monitors and my contractions were over the 100 mark and the lady was like oh that was a big one... all I could think was "no crap lady I feel everything". They kept telling me to slow my breathing and that it was going to take awhile before I could get anything. I continued to beg! I finally got into my room dialated 4cm with contractions still 2-5 minutes apart. They were able to get me an epidural immediately and I was in heaven. The epidural did make me sick so they had to give me some medicine to stop my throwing up. I got some sleep and was able to finally rest. By 12pm the doctor came in and said I had only a small piece of my cervix left and that she would be back in 20 minutes to see if it were gone and then I was going to do a practice push. Well she didn't come back until 1245pm and I was fully dialated. I did my practice push and did so well we just kept going. 38 minutes later he was here!

We didn't get out of the hospital until yesterday because he had really high bilirubin levels and was jaundiced. So he spent 2 days under lights and finally got to a level where we could come home. That was the hardest thing for me to watch. I just wanted to bong with him! I am truly infatuated with him. Words can't even describe. We tried for him for 5 years and finally got him. He is perfect!!!! Thanks for everyone's support during this pregnancy... I was a nervous wreck!