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gabriel DUE: september 2 BORN: august 17th (2004)
well, on monday the 16th i was out at my inlaws complaining that i hadnt had the baby yet, i was in pain, and miserable (summer heat) i was tired cause my daughter (15 almost 16 mo old at the time) had the croupe we had been back and forth drs, hospital, dr, hospital.... we had just gone back to the drs that day....
they ahve a golf cart to tote the grandkids around so, i took off on that thing hitting EVERY bump i could.. nothing! ah well worth a shot right?
well at about 11 i was rocking my daughter to sleep and my stomach started acting funny, like, i had ate something that didnt agree with me... but, i fell asleep on the chair holding her... my husband came in about an hour later and put her in bed and got my blanket and pillow and said for me to lay down (i slept on the couch in the end of my pregnancy) when i woke up i told him that i had eaten something that hurt my stomach... and i layed down and fell right back asleep.... about 12:20ish, i started wakign up every 3 to 4 minutes with this pain.... it still didnt feel like a "contraction" like i had had with my daughter, felt more like i had a bad case of... well you know... anyways after a few they started getting harder and i started getting the feeling that this is it.. so i woke up my husband and said, i want to know forsure that this is the real deal ( i had already had false labor) so my dr told me to go get in the shower, let the water run on my "tummy" and if the contractions go away , its false....
well apparently my husband took the loud cries from the shower as a hint cause hwa s all up and dressed and ready to go when i got out...
we called my inlaws and asked them to meet us up at the hospital to care for our daughter...
my husband dropped me off and i went inside... they wheeled me right into a room and checked me and i was a 6! so, they raced me down only draping a sheet over me ...the "epidural guy" was waiting, i asked for one right away cause, i had no clue how long it was going to take, and i didnt want to be up at 8 am still in labor... i was already tired.... so, i got it, i layed down and my dr checked me, i was an 8! man, if i had only waited on the epi!
this is when my labor slooooooooowed way down :(
i still had him in record timing ... under 4 hours, but i am convinced it would have been shorter had i not had the epidural!
finally it dawned on the nurse to check me and i was fully dialated.... so, they wanted me to push with the epidural on, and they would tell me when to push... this didnt work, i couldnt feel ANYTHING to even attempt to push correctly.... i kept URGING them to turn it off, they wanted me to have a pain free labor, finally i insisted and they called the epi guy and he came in and turned it off.... then with my next push they make me stop MID PUSH cause he was comming out, they panic call the dr and he leizurly walks in ... he puts on his stuff and i tell him i have to push, he says "its ok, give me a small push" well, he stopped me again mid push and then put some pep in his step to get his stuff ready... when he was ready for me to push, gabriel basically came out on his own....
cause he came out so fast, he didnt have the benifit of squeezing through, so his lungs were all full of gunk and htey had to work on him a a bit to get it all out, i didnt get to hold him for over an hour either :( eventually his lungs wree all clear and he was good to go! and he was a healthy
gabriel was....
8lbs 11oz and 21 inches long! with CARROT orange hair (whcih i adore)