Thursday March 5, 2008

Well it was 5 am at Methodist hospital. We got all checked in and moved into a Labor and Delivery room. During the time we were waiting for a room we met a couple that lived out our direction and they were having a C-section at 6 so by the time I was induced their little boy Ryder was already here. Chris bumped into him several times during our stay at the hospital.

Once we got to our L&D room we got all comfy. I got hooked up to tons of machines, heart monitors, contraction monitors, blood pressure monitors and the worst of all an IV. I have rolling veins so that took a bit to get me hooked up. They started the Oxycontin (like petosin) a little before 7. No problem. I started having contractions about 2 mins to 1.5 mins apart. I actually could feel them so for the first few hours of labor I was hanging out and watching TV.

About 9:30 Dr. Cerney came in and broke my water. I had dilated to about 3.5 at that point. Very exciting. She told me I could have an epidural any time I wanted it since I was being Induced it wouldn't have much effect on my progress. I declined at the time since I was feeling pretty good. About 2 hours after my water broke I couldn't stand it any more and got an epidural about noon.

Epidural was awesome. I was so nervous about having that large needle and catheter in my back. It was a piece of cake actually. Getting the IV was much much worse the the epidural. in about 5 minutes I was numb and in 7th heaven. I actually took a little nap. About 2 I called Amanda to let her know what was going on. Chris thought it was funny. I was having contractions off the Richter scale but blabbing away with Amanda the whole time. Right before I called Amanda the Nurse checked my progress and Nothing. from 9:30 - 2 I had no change.

The Dr. was called to let her know my progress and she said that she would be back before 5 and if no change we were going to have a C-section. 4 o'clock rolled around and nothing. Not even a little bit of movement from 9:30 - 4. Dr. Cerney stepped out of the room and went to check OR status. We went right in. By 4:22 I had my little boy.

The C-section was very interesting. The OR was COLD. I was shaking violently. Due to the epidural and all the pushing and pulling I got really nauseated. It took them less then 10 mins to start the surgery and Kase was born. It took about 45 mins for them to sew me back up. By a little after 5 I was in the recovery room.

My temp was way to low coming out of the OR so they used this cool contraption called a bear hugger. It was a thin plastic sheet, that was hooked to a vacuum type hose that blew hot air all over me. I stopped shaking immediately. It was amazing. I need one of those at home!

By about 7 I was up in my hospital room all settled in. They sent Kase off to the Nursery because he had some fluid in his lungs and his White blood count was a little high. They called in the pediatricians and a consult from the NICU Drs. They decided the best course of action was some antibiotic treatments. So Kase had an IV in his foot with a little boot on that made his foot purple. It was so sad. We were very nervous about his condition but the Drs said that it could be a small infection or that it could just be from stress due to being induced all day then having to have a C-section was pretty stressful for him. I finally was able to have him back by about 11 pm that night.

After a fun few days in the hospital and a bunch of great visitors we were finally able to go home on Sunday. Kase got the green light from the pediatricians saying all was good with him at about 6 am on Sunday. It was a great big relief. I do want to say that the staff and Methodist Hospital was amazing. We had some great nurses and help during my stay there. I couldn't have asked for anything better.