28.7.13

He's Here

The boy, scheduled to make his grand appearance on Thursday (the 25th), decided that he just didn't like that date and took it upon himself to push his birthday back a day.  Here is a quick breakdown of our last few days...

4:15am - Alarm goes off

4:30am - Leave the house

4:35am - Retrieve and consume breakfast from QuikTrip

4:55am - Arrive at hospital to find the main door locked

4:58am - Find that the emergency room is the only way in the hospital before 7am

5am - Check in, get assigned a room, wait

6am - Still waiting because they didn't have the "orders" for what was supposed to be happening, even though we were there for a scheduled induction

7am - Pitocin gets started (she was at about 2cm)

9:30am - The doctor came in and decided that it was just as good of a time as any to break The Wife's water

12pm - She's at 5cm!!!

4pm - She's at 6cm!!! But the pain was coming on and the need/time for an epidural was quickly approaching

4:30pm - I left the room.  I have no problems not being the hero that can see a giant needle inserted in a loved one's spine

5pm - No pain whatsoever... up to 7cm

8pm - Clearly the progress has slowed down, discussion of pros and cons of c-sections start occurring

9pm - Suddenly she jumps to 8cm and the nurse and doctor say that things are about to start happening soon

2am - "Soon" turns out to mean "five hours later"... but it's time to push

3am - Still pushing, nurse says that The Wife is doing a good job, but she can't feel it and all we can do is take the nurse's word for it

4am - Doctor comes in, pushing has essentially stopped with no further progress being made

4:10am - The Wife leaves the room to head to the operating room for the c-section

4:25am - I leave to go join her

4:44am - The Boy makes his appearance, weighing in at a healthy 9 pounds, 10.2 ounces and 20 3/4" long


It was such a long day/night and very stressful on everyone involved, particularly The Wife, but we finally got to meet him almost 24 hours after we arrived at the hospital.  While The Wife was being stitched up, I went to the incubator to start taking pictures and to see how he was doing.  There was some meconium in the amniotic fluid when the doctor had broken her water, so the NICU was on hand to make sure that he didn't aspirate on the meconium.  Luckily, he did not.  He hardly needed any suctioning and came out mostly just needing a bath.  I went to the NICU with The Boy and The Wife went to recovery, where her mom was waiting.  We didn't think the first thing that the baby should have happen is that he's whisked away to be poked and prodded by a bunch of people with no one around that he "knows".  For now, I can say that both The Wife and The Boy are healthy and happy and things are going fairly well for having a brand new life to watch out for.

More entries to come, as a lot has happened in his 59 hours of life up to this point.

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