Me after a VERY long night ready for labor to be over with!
I took a shower and tried to sleep, but I was really getting frustrated with the lack of progress I was making. I was having back labor for over 21 hours and not making any progress. They started the pitocin and I was really feeling nauseated so the nurse gave me some IV phenergan. Phenergan makes me really sleepy. I had finally dosed off and so had Rich. My mom had gone home to take a shower and feed Zoey, our dog (Morgan, our dog went to hang out at Dan and Wyatt's house to play with Gertie, Dan's dog). They increased the pitocin for the first time and I was sound asleep. Then much to my surprise it felt like a bettering ram slammed into my pelvis, followed by a trickle of fluid. Could it be that my water had broken. I tried to wake Rich up, but he wasn't budging and he had the call light! Then there was another bigger trickle of fluid. I yelled at Rich that my water had broken and he flew awake. We called the nurse and she was busy in another room so the nurse that came in gave me a pad and didn't even check to see if my water had broken! After that my contractions got way more intense and frequent. I couldn't lay in bed, talk or walk through contractions anymore. I had to stand by the bed. The lamaze breathing wasn't working cause I couldn't focus enough to do it. Rich was such a champ trying to make me comfortable and remember all of the lamaze tricks to ease the back pain. Nothing was working at this point and I am sure that I wasn't the most pleasant person to be around.
Finally, 10 minutes later my nurse came in and saw me standing by the bed. She asked me if I needed to go to the bathroom. I told her "no I need an epidural!" I told her that my water broke. The nurse that came in when I called hadn't even told my nurse what had happened. The nurse checked my cervix and sure enough my water had broken and my cervix was dilated to 4 cm. The nurse went to get the anesthesiologist to give me an epidural. She came back and told me that the anesthesiologist was in a c-section and couldn't leave. We decided that if it was going to be a while for the epidural then I would have some demerol. She went to see how long the anesthesiologist was going to be. When she returned the anesthesiologist was with her thank goodness! I got my epidural and life was good. Before I could lay back down I got the shakes and felt some pressure so my nurse checked me again. I was 9+cm and 100% effaced. I progressed this much in less than 20 minutes! Rich called my mom to come back and my nurse called Dr. T. Within a few minutes I felt the need to push so 2 nurses came into the room until Dr. T arrived just in case.
Dr. T arrived and I was allowed to push. It was less than an hour and our little Kohen was making his arrival into the world. My mom helped the nurse hold my legs and Rich sat in a chair by my head holding my hand. Rich was so nervous about seeing the delivery. It was best that he was sitting down! Dr. T let me "deliver" Kohen and Rich cut the cord. Words cannot describe the feelings that you feel when your son is first set on your chest. He was beautiful and perfect. None of the pain or hardships of pregnancy or labor mattered. They were all worth it to have this beautiful baby boy. The love that I felt for Kohen was unreal and so was the love that I felt for Rich. The tears were flowing although Rich would tell you that he didn't cry he did get teary eyed.
Tyler "KOHEN" Prewitt was born 11-8-10 at 1:19 pm. He weighed 6 lbs 4 oz and was 18 1/2 inches long. Rich was so funny holding him for the first time. He was so scared. The nurse told him to just support his neck and he would be fine. This made Rich obsessed with Kohen's neck for weeks. It didn't take long and Rich settled into daddyhood and is doing amazing with Kohen!
Finally here!
Proud papa
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