I bet James $50 that I'd go into labor during his Monday night Chicago Bears game. I really felt that Angelo would be coming soon, I kept having contractions but they weren't close together and I wasn't in enough pain to call the hospital. 'Researching' online suggested I was in false labor, I let myself believe if I was truly in labor I would know.
I went to bed at 10 with tummy pains which I thought were hunger pains, so I made a few chocolate chip cookies. At 11:50 I woke up to water trickling down my legs! I jumped off the couch and ran into the kitchen (laminate floors easy clean up) and tried to make sense of what was going on, how much time did I have? what do I do? I just stared at the floor thinking I'd made a puddle in the shape of New Jersey and figured I should wake up James
I woke him up, and told him what happened then I called 'labor & delivery' who told me to come in. We grabbed our overnight bag, a pillow, and sleepy Sora. I stopped us because we didn't install the 2nd car seat! Lol! At least it was Sora's old one (we updated the seat cover to a boy pattern instead of buying a brand new one) loaded us all up and drove to Annette's house to drop Sora off. During the drive I was timing them (4 minutes apart) and called my dad to tell him. He said 'good luck' and 'you should fine, but I know what your in for'
By 12:30 we were checked in at the hospital. They needed to test my fluids to make sure it was really my water breaking and not 'pee' accidentally coming out (lol whaaat?). I was dilated 3cm, 80% effaced so they admitted me to a birthing suite since my test came back positive for fluid.
Inside the suite was large, there was a baby heater, a mini crib, tv, bed, private restroom and sleeper sofa. Here I was hooked up to monitors, one for the baby's heartbeat, one for mine, and one for my contractions.
My contractions hurt, but were manageable. They were 4-5 mins apart and lasted 20 seconds. I did the whole 'breathing' thing like you see on tv... It actually works pretty well and kinda makes the pain go away but only cuz you concentrate on getting your breaths correct. The more i concentrated the less pain I felt, but I still felt pain don't get me wrong.
By 5 am I had progressed to 6cm, I was going a lot faster then I was expecting but my contractions were getting closer together. They were 2-3 minutes apart. I wasn't getting a break and chose to get something for the pain. I received medicine which took the edge off, but made me incredibly drowsy which I really hated because feeling loopy and being in pain is not a comfy combo! But I asked for more anyways. I was then allowed to have an epidural. The anesthesiologist was kinda annoying, she wasn't very descriptive in what she needed me to do and got upset at me for moving but would tell me after I made the mistake. I didn't like her 'read my mind attitude' too much plus I felt her needle hit my spine and felt a 'crunch' ugh blah! I could feel
An hour after the epidural, I was checked again and didn't progress so they gave me pitocin to speed it along. I could see on the monitor the contractions progressively building up. At 8am I was on the phone with the nutrition department ordering food and a nurse came running in saying the baby doesn't like my position and I needed to move ASAP. His heart rate dropped. I told them I felt more fluid rush out, she said he may moved down which made him freak out. I told her last time (with Sora) the staff didn't like the heart rate change they made me push.
They checked my dilation and I was ready to go, (what?! That was fast!!) they made me try a few 'practice' pushes. I swear everyone working showed up and watched! It was annoying, there was an OB and her trainee, their supervisor, pediatrician and her trainee(s), my nurse and her trainee THEN a bunch of RANDOMS who might as well have handed out popcorn cuz they were just standing there!
I really didn't like everyone there and it made me nervous but I tried pushing anyways. The head honcho doctor goes "push with your butt not with your face" lmao. They made me try twice then stopped and everyone went away. I took it personally like I didn't do a good job.
So pushing on my own is different from pushing from being induced. Induced contractions = auto pilot, your body just does the work. On my own, I had to know or 'feel the urge' to push and on top of that the epidural wasn't working as well as I remembered plus it felt like water balloon fireworks were going off in my uterus. I kept feeling stuff 'pop'
James totally took control and did a good job communicating for me. He said I need one person in charge telling me what to do, I get overwhelmed when too many people start shouting at me at once, which is totally true. And I love him for that!!
My nurse coached me in another set of practice tests and made me stop. I started to feel kinda sad like I wasn't doing a good job, but she said I had to stop because his head was right there! Yay
Everyone came back and james told my nurse she needed to coach me only. Perfect! No one else talked.
I started to push, she counted to ten then we started over. One contraction set down! The next set came and she counted again but this time she said if it feels like I can push longer then do it. I kept going cuz either the drs fingers or the baby's head hurt! I wanted to complain but figured if the baby came out it would be over quickly so I sucked it up and pushed harder then the baby popped out! And then the dr put him on me!!! I didn't want to touch him!! Lol I swear I was asked FIVE times if I wanted him cleaned or to hold him right away. Boo. Lol. I chose 'cleaned'
He was all purple and slimy. I didn't see blood on him ( I didn't want to see my own blood which is the main reason I wanted him cleaned) I wanted to cry like the new moms do on tv, but everyone's eyes were on me!! It was my moment and I had gawkers so I stopped the tears
Everything was over and done with so quickly, by 3 pm I was ready to go home. Too many people were coming and going I just really wanted some peace and quiet or bonding baby time
Sora & my mother in law came by, Sora watched all the doctors run tests on the baby and was curious. She was good in the hospital room mostly because we occupied her with peanut butter and crackers and all the new faces she just HAD to say 'hi' too. Annette took her back to her place and we spent the night and actually slept.
Rosalinda was the best nurse I ever had!! First let me tell you about the hospital. It's a teaching hospital for UC Davis and Sac State (nursing) every dr/nurse seemed to have a medical student attached at the hip, but they also have people knocking on your door trying to grab a drop of blood for testing for some med school project. After a while of a resident or supervisor or on duty such n such asking you the same flipping questions it becomes aggravating. James left to clean up the house and spend time with Sora so I was stuck talking and listening to these people. They wanted us to stay a extra night because they wanted to monitor his weight loss
Our friends from San Jose came to visit us which was super nice because Sac isn't close. It was nice to see them because we miss them and their daughter is super cute and hilarious.
My recovery has been a breeze compared to last time. I was able to walk out of the hospital, my back doesn't kill me, taking care of a newborn is less stressful since we know what we are doing
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