I don't know if people are dying to know what happened that day. But I would like to share it anyway. ( I apologize for uncomfortable words and for how bad it's written I did this really fast)
At my last OB appointment on Monday March 26th, we scheduled my induction for Friday March 30th. That gave me plenty of time to finish all my last minute prep (at work and at home) and it meant that patrick could do four 10 hour days and not have to take any time off for the birth and since I would be in the hospital over the weekend, he wouldn't have to take time off for the hospital stay. S-M-R-T on our part.
On thursday I was to get a call telling me what time to be at the hospital. There were only 2 women before me on the induction list so my OB was confident I would get in early. I was told that on thursday night I would know what time to be at the hospital. Instead the call was informing me that I would get a call between 5:30am and 6:00am telling me what time to go to the hospital. No biggie. I sent an alarm for 5:30 and just kept hitting snooze until I got the call.
They finally called at 6:30am telling us we had a room prepped and ready. (was expecting them to say be here in an hour and we will have a room ready for you) I should have gotten up at 5:30. I still wanted to shower before I went. (thank goodness I had my bag all ready to go) So I jumped in the shower and rinsed off, while patrick woke Audrey up. He got her dressed and while he was in the shower I got her breakfast. But with 3 people. One a 5 year old and the other a very LARGE pregnant woman we didn't move to fast and got out the door at about 7:10 and was at the hospital at about 7:30. After check in and everything we got into the room at about 8.
My nurse that day was Shae. She was awesome and she was being assisted by a student named Whitney from BYU.
We had to wait on doctors orders for the Pitocin and that was started at about 9 am and my contractions started immediately after the medicine was introduced. It was pretty interesting how fast they started coming. Every half hour shae would come back in and increase the Pitocin levels. At about 11 there was really no progress. The contractions were happening regularly but they weren't really doing anything. So they broke my water. After that the contractions got worse. I held off on the epidural as long as I could but at about noon shae tells me that the anesthesiologist might be going into a c-section soon and if I don't get the epidural now it might be a while before he could come back in and do mine. So I oped for the epi then. He was in an out within 15 minutes. He was fast and it didn't hurt too much. ( I texted everyone at about 12:20 that the epidural was in)
With the epi in I had to be on my side. At first they had me on my left side but then they quickly switched me to my right so that my right side could get some drugs. They then left and said that they would be back in about an hour to switch be to my left side again.
At about 1:00 or a little after they came to switch me. I felt like a beached whale as they twisted me around.
About 30 minutes later they came back in and said that it looked like the baby was in distress on my left side. Her heart rate would drop between contractions and they did not like that at all so they again twisted me to my right side. But it was uncomfortable being on my right by this time so they propped me up with blankets and I was at an odd but comfortable angle, half way on my back and half way on my side. By this time my progress was not really moving. They were worried about the baby and the distress. No one said that I would have to have a c-section but you could tell that they seemed worried about that. I think they wanted to wait a while to see if I would progress more.
Babies heart rate returned to normal once they switch me back to my right and finally things started to progress. Seriously after all this time I think I was only at a 3 or so. It was a very very slow progression.
at about 2:30 I was at a 5.
At 2:45 I was at 7. I told them I could feel pressure (they asked if I felt like I needed to have a bowel movement and I told them no it was pressure on my cervix) so they checked again and I was at an 8. Then they all left (by this time my OB,my OB she was actually in greece, the replacement OB dr. Daly, a resident Dr Ellsworth, shae and whitney were coming in to check on me) By this time I was starting to feel more pressure. Not a TON but enough for me to feel like something was going on.
at 3:10 shae came back in to check on me. I was at a 9. I told her about the pressure but I didn't feel the need to push so I wasn't worried.
at 3:20 I was feeling A TON of pressure, like a little head was there ready to come out. But in my head I was like I'm only at a 9 I can't be ready to push yet.
at 3:25 I told mom and Patrick that if they didn't come back in by 3:30 that someone needed to go and get them. literally a minute later all 4 of them came back in. Shae checked me and katelyn was crowning.
Immediately everyone was in rush mode. No one was ready. The OB and resident still had to get their gowns on and gloves on and the bed still needed to be prepped. They were telling me not to laugh or move or the baby was going to come. I was shocked. With Audrey when I was fully dilated I had to push for an hour and a half before she was crowning.
So as quick as they could they got everything ready and called in a few extra people to help. It was rather funny to watch and they kept reminding me not to laugh. They all seemed to be panicking. Patrick and mom jumped into a corner so they wouldn't get in the way.
This is the best part.
By 3:30 they were ready for me to push. I pushed for 2 contractions a total of 7 times and Katelyn was out by 3:33.
A very weird labor. It was slow at first and it totally looked like I might be having a c-section and within an hour I went from a 5 to fully dilated and baby crowning.
Here is video of audrey meeting her for the first time. In the end everything happened so fast that we couldn't get audrey to the hospital until after the birth. This is about an hour after katelyn was born.
This is video of Patrick holding her.
I'll get more pictures up and more about what happened to her later. Thanks for reading.
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