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| Daddy and Baby Scott (taken minutes after delivery!) |
So I finally went into labor....it was inevitable! Anyway, Tuesday night I started feel contractions every 10 mins. After an hour of this, I told Tyler that maybe we should call Grandma B and just give her the heads up - you know in case we had to call her at like 3 in the morning. While on the phone, we decided these contractions were a little different than the ones I had felt before I decided to have grandma come over then and we would camp out at her place. After the house swap, Tyler went to bed and I tried to relax, but really was so excited it was finally here. I wanted to time every contractions and record it. At around 3 am...they switch to about every 7 to 8 mins. Yay...they were progressing! But I was TIRED! So I decided to lie down and kinda feel asleep until about 5 am. Tyler got up at 5:30 and we discovered the contractions kinda stopped! I was so bummed...all that work! We decided to both go to the gym (since Grandma had James) - THAT got the contractions going again! I was walking around the track (really really slowly....especially during a contraction). Old ladies were even passing me, giving me some weird looks...but who cares, walking kept the contractions strong...and I wanted this baby!! At 7 am we decided to run back home shower and get a few more things. Tyler had decided not to go to Logan and go to my doctor's appointment (which was scheduled that morning at 9:20). All the way to the doctor's office (which was downtown...right next to the hospital) I felt the contractions...we timed them and they were almost consistantly 5mintues apart! YAY - progess! I wanted to do this birth naturally and had read a Bradley Method book about how to deal with the contractions and labor. He was really into trying to relax your whole body and breathe abdominally during the contraction. This really helped me. I had decided before that I would NOT become overly dramatic and just take each contraction one at a time. I just had to get through one 60 seconds at a time. This so far was working really well! At the doctor's office...I don't think that they thought I was in actual labor because of how relaxed I was. The doc checked me and I was dilated to a 4 and noticed that I was having a contraction every 3 mins. He told me that they needed to be stronger and to go get some breakfast before heading to the hospital. Well after we left, we just decided that he might not have realized how strong the contractions were and that we should just head over then. We checked in at 10:30. The nurse was hooking me up to the monitors and asking me a lot of questions. They knew from the doctor that I was already 4 cm, so they didn't check me again. By the time they took off the monitors so I could "walk around," it was already 11:30. They said that they would have to monitor check me again in an hour. After they left, I got up, moved around during some, but really I just wanted to sit on the edge of the bed and have Tyler push into back as hard as he could, while I tried to totally relax. At 12:30, I was experiencing a different type of contraction and all I wanted to do was push! Tyler and I both were against this feeling, because 1) I just was admitted like 2 hours ago. 2) My water hadn't broken. 3) The doctors thought I really wasn't in active labor much less transition, or pushing. Two contractions later of this extreme pain and trying to resist the feeling of pushing, the nurse came in. I asked to be checked and that I felt like pushing. She looked at me very skeptically but said "let's check." After checking, she started freaking out, trying to call the doctor to get him to the hospital. I asked to push, she said "NO" and that we were waiting for the doctor. YEAH RIGHT!! 2 contractions later, after she had tried to get another doctor, she opened the door and grabbed the closest nurse and finally said that I could push! Tyler and these two nurses had just decided to go ahead without the doctor!! To spare everyone the gross details...He started crowning, then the water broke (all over Tyler - and he wasn't even in scrubs - no time!), and then he was out! Pushing was the most extreme pain that I had ever experienced - but so worth it. They laid the baby on me, and Tyler and I just looked at each other in awe! We did it...naturally. He was born, Wednesday August 18, 2010 at 12:58 pm weighing 9 lbs. 4 oz.
