Thursday, August 27, 2009

Baby Blues and Navy Blues





The baby blues... most people get them, but Adam and I were unprepared for their arrival. Our first day home from the hospital was fine but the night arrived and Jonathan was hungry but nursing seemed to be something he couldn't figure out. We got at most 45 minutes of sleep and we both felt that we were in over our heads and that maybe Heavenly Father had made a mistake, we weren't ready to be parents. Unfortunately, graduation was the next day and Adam had to say the closing prayer. I couldn't stand the thought of going out in public after such an awful night so I missed my own and my husbands graduation. Adam went and though he slept through most of it he made the walk, gave a short but sweet prayer, and celebrated with a nice brunch. Meanwhile I slept. So we are both graduates. It all seemed somewhat anticlimactic after having Jonathan... I still hope to go out to lunch sometime in celebration. I was able to take some pictures a few weeks later. Oh, and never fear, Adam and I adjusted, got rid of the blues, and LOVE being mommy and daddy.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Labor



"He's posterior" Jessica whispered to Cheryl... whispered but still heard (even though I was in the middle of a contraction). It had been a hard day waiting to hear when we'd be able to come into the hospital for our induction as a lot of women decided to begin labor naturally (8 to be precise). Adam did his best to distract me from dwelling on the fact that stripping my membranes had done nothing and that we might not make it in on our scheduled day. Finally around 7:00 pm they called and asked if we could come in as soon as possible. We left in five minutes and were there faster than I wanted. We checked in, in a flash (much to my dismay as I realized what was coming), and were in our delivery room ready to go. Jessica (the on call nurse midwife) came in and asked why we were being induced on my due date, why weren't we waiting a little longer. We told her that it would be nice if I could walk in graduation and were hoping it might be possible, not to mention the fact that we'd been on pins and needles waiting for the little guy to get going for a full month. She finally agreed (reluctantly) that we'd break my water. She checked me and it was funny to watch her surprise as she found I'd already dilated to a 7 without pain.

The water was broken around 8 PM. I got to a 10 in roughly four hours, pushed for an hour before the pain became extremely intense. That's when I heard them whisper. I'd read up before hand and knew that posterior births are noted as being more painful and long. I think my brain gave up at that point and I started begging for an easier way. I received an epideral and was allowed to rest for an hour. We pushed for a few more hours with no success so they called Dr. Young to come in. He came and told us he would try to turn the baby with a vacuum extractor and if that didn’t work we’d need a c-section. Well, after a few tries with the vacuum, the good Dr. “made a little more room” as he phrased it, and Jonathan was born at 5:09 AM, looking like a little gorilla. Once he pinked up we found him rather charming. I think we were all glad to be done with the labor. The hospital stay went very quickly and our little family was on its way home.