Saturday, February 28, 2009

Our Man is here!!

So i was scheduled to be induced on Thursday at 7:30am. At 3:00am i woke up feeling funny. I got up to pee and realized that I lost my mucus plug. The I started having stronger contractions. About 2 hours later i realized my water started breaking. By 5:30 my contractions were 4 minutes apart and getting hard to breath through for over an hour so we called the dr. and we headed to the hospital. We were in a room by 6 and hooked up to the monitors ready to start this labor process. So I laid there for a while and then we walked for a while, it was real exciting(that was sarcasm). Around 10:30 am I was 4 cm dilated and in a lot of pain because I was experiencing mostly back labor and so I got a lovely epidural. It was really cool because I originally want to tough things out as long as I could but we had a great nurse that taught labor classes and breathing techniques and had had natural labor and an epidural and just gave us great wisdom about the benefits of being able to rest in earlier labor so that I could push better in the end. It was so worth it. I was able to rest through the intense contractions which was a huge blessing I didn't know I would need. To make a long story shorter, my labor slowed down so they pumped me with pitocin and then finally around 3:00pm i was 8.5 cm dilated but I had also started shaking uncontrolably. By 3:30 i was at 10cm and we were starting practice pushing. From then on things became a blur. I guess i pushed for the next hour with no avail. Cades head was a little crooked which was blocking him from coming down. His heart rate started shooting up during that hour, my blood pressure started having issues and I started to spike a fever. They put me on oxygen to try and help aid me as my body was having a hard time keeping up. At 4:15 my doctor came in and evaluated the situation and off we went to the O.R. 4 minutes later everyone was scrubbed in and bud was at my side and we started the c-section. After 5 minutes of yanking my organs and smashing my sternum, we heard a little cry. Cade was born at 4:35 pm and Nick got to see our little man. He greated the nurse by peeing on her and then after they cleaned him up I got to see my amazing bud holding our little man with tears streaming down his face. It was awesome. To be honest I was so out of it because of the fever and exhaustion so I don't remember much till about 11pm when I really got to hold him and stare at him. He is amazing. Sorry that was so long and I hope it was coherent, but everyone has been asking for details, so that is the birth story of Cade Jeffrey Hart. He is a pretty content baby so far. He came out 6 lbs 14 oz and 20 inches so a lot smaller than we thought. But he has big feet and long legs! He is doing great and his fever came down quick which was a huge blessing. I'm recovering slowly my fever came down finally yesterday morning and my battle with the pain of surgery is finally getting under control. I got a shower today and real food tonight for dinner so I'm stoked. We also got a two hour nap where the nurse took cade out and so it was so needed. We so appreciate everyone's prayers and the love they have shown us. We are here at the hospital till monday mid afternoon so we are enjoying the help we have here and looking forward to being home in our own bed soon too! Well enough verbage here are a few of the first pics of cade.

Here is his first bath
This is fresh out of the womb! He had crazy curly hair from all the junk in there.
Nick posed him with his monster.
This is us right after they wheeled me back in.
This is our adorable little man!

1 comments:

brooke said...

he's beautiful! (handsome? awesome!)

congratulations, lady!! :)