I have had a few requests for a "birth story" i have never done that before, mainly cause my births are pretty plain jane routine. You would think by baby #5 it wouldn't be any different....wrong.
At 7:30am we checked into the hospital to be induced. The nurse checked me to make sure he wasn't breech (the doc had checked the day before as well) we were good to go! Paul and I sat and watched TV (of course i was in charge of the remote!) Around noon a nurse came into fix the monitor that was tracking his heartbeat. She tried and tried but couldn't pick up his heart. I knew that was odd, cause by this point he should be big enough to find it just about anywhere. Nurse #2 came in...same thing....nothing. I could tell they were starting to get concerned, but they were insistent that everything was alright. By the time the 3rd nurse (25min later) had taken a stab at it, i was almost sure something had gone terribly wrong. I remember looking at paul only once, for fear that his face would show it all. Finally, there there it was, she had found his little heartbeat! The on call doctor brought in an ultrasound machine to take a look - the little stinker was breech again!!! Nobody could believe it! My nurse said in 16 years she has never seen a baby flip 5 hours into labor! My doctor was called and on his way to tell me my options (he was about 25min away at his regular hospital.) We could either go home and wait for him to flip (heck no!) have a c- section, or try rotating him externally. We opted for the rotating. Before i knew it, papers were being put in front of me to sign, a shot to relax my uterus was given, pitocin turned off and the extremely painful pushing began. It took 2 male doctors to get him to flip, but at least he did! Oh, and mr. hunky young resident was invited into observe the "situation"...lovely.
Everything was started up again and back to normal for the next 5 hours. My epidural didn't work very well at all. I could feel everything on my left side and almost everything on the right. By the time it was pushing time it was pretty much long gone! People do this natural everyday, right? I thought I could do it too.
HOLY CRAP...how do people do it???? He was posterior so he took forever to be born. My doctor kept saying "we can stop and get the anesthesiologist in here." I really didn't want to have to stop and wait for him and then wait for it to kick in again. I sucked it up and did it! Yes, hunky resident man was right there watching again! At this point I didn't care at all. I had my little baby in my arms and at this point all i wanted was a drink of ice water and some food!!!!
My doctor said sawyer was a "little Sh***" which cracked me up, cause i have never heard him swear in the 10 years of seeing him!
Anyway, we all made it through and are so in love with this little guy. Sam is having a really hard time, he doesn't want anything to do with me since i have been home. I sure hope he gets back to normal soon, i miss him.
Here is round one of baby sawyer's newborn pics.:)
