Hey yall! Welcome my good friend Tiffany from blabbering thoughts. I heart her and her babies are adorable and shes hilarious and I could go on forever! Ill let Tiffany do the talking today though..
I love being pregnant & it was my last me being pregnant, unless God has other plans. I had 2 amazing pregnancies & births, but today I am going to share my 2nd ones birth because it is the most fresh to me.
I was about to hit 40 weeks, went into the doctor as every pregnant woman does, hoping, praying for great news that you are dilated 3cm & effaced 100% {what? I told you I was hoping}. But no that was not the case. 1cm & maybe 25% effaced. BORING. I was ready to get this show on the road. With my prior pregnancy I was induced a week early, everything went accordingly, so I asked my doctor say my due date comes around will I get induced? This was on a Wednesday, my due date was on Saturday. She said she would. So I had my appointment to show up at the hospital at 9am on Sunday. Now, I tried every trick in the book to get that baby to come out but it just didn’t work.
Sunday morning rolled around.. 9am.. I mean that’s a perfect time, not too early. We left our house at 8:30, rolled through Starbucks just in case it was a really long day for daddy. Of course the line was out the wazoo. So I waited impatient & anxious. Of course we were 5 minutes late.
Walk into the hospital & into the labor & delivery unit all smiles because I was hoping today was the day we got to meet our baby boy. I get all checked in, comfortable in my bed. My doctor strolled in around 11:15am with the intentions of giving me some sort of pill to start my labor, but as she checked me I was 4cm dilated & 50% effaced 🙂 I was a happy camper MINUS the whole she stripped my membranes, she let me know she was doing it while DURING IT. Painful.
Obviously my contractions started then & very frequent. They were hesitant to start the pitocin, but then did but monitored it so closely.
They came in at around 2pm to give me my epidural, yes ladies, I am not a super hero. Props to all you out there that could handle it.
3pm – knock knock .. Change of shift, a male nurse. HEY I’ve had male doctors before never bothered me, I looked at Chris and he thought the same thing.
BEST NURSE I’VE EVER HAD. His name was Ron. He spent so much time with us the next couple of hours, checking, talking to us, answering questions, being comforting. And I mean come on we all need that comforting feeling from your medical provider during this amazing experience. Chris, loved him. I think I can say that 😉 {A little insight about this nurse, a few months after Henry was born we were at Sears buying appliances & chatting with the sales man that just had a kid at the same hospital. His comment was, we had the best male nurse ever. And I said RON?!! I told you he rocked.}.
Now, I got to fall asleep for about 5 minutes. Then I woke up with the statement, “Chris, this catheter is becoming so uncomfortable it needs to come out or something.” {Previous pregnancy they did not do this so it was a first for me}
Ron came in & I told him so he checked me & he said no my dear that is you are 10cms & ready to push. Oh I am sorry, it was 6pm. Where the heck did the day go? Already? AHH.
He came back, and when I said he, I mean like 234352 different people to help with the process.
So the pushing began. I pushed maybe 6 times. And welp there came little Lloyd Henry. His little head poked out & everyone is saying, oh my I wonder how big he is. I mean really? Can we wait for that until after he is completely out?
All 8lbs 15oz of that baby boy came out squealing at the top of his lungs, at 6:43pm.
Everything was perfect.
That night, everything was perfect. He didn’t cry. I woke him up to feed him. That night I had my 2 boys sleeping next to me & then to go home & complete our family of four.
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Jennifer Salter says
Eeeek! What a cutie!
Jennifer Salter says
Eeeek! What a cutie!
Tiffany says
Why thank you 😉
Jules says
What a sweet story and a totally beautiful baby….I love these posts!
Tiffany says
Thank you!
Nicole says
This is an amazing story! Tiff, you know I love you – and this story rocked my socks!! What a beautiful family you have! <3
Tiffany says
Thanks girl 🙂 You know, I love you too!
Sweet Bella Roos says
This sounds soooo similar to my first birth– we had a shift change and got a male nurse (which didnt bother me because I have a male doc too) and he ended up being AWESOME! And I said the same exact thing “i think my catheter came out” and they said “no, dont push yet!” haha!!! You have a handsome little fella there! Hoping my 2nd delivery goes as smooth in Sept!
novelty gifts says
I just wanted to say that Mothers are very amazing and they have from me the most respect that I could give to all the mothers in the world, it is enough for them to take the pain and have us here in this life and not just this but they keep going until we grow up and be ready for the world :)Thanks for nice post.