Baby Migs Arrival

4 hours later...

I arrived home from work about midnight and we went to bed. I woke up at 4 o'clock in the morning because I had to pee so bad. I get in, sit down, relieve and realize that my pj's are all wet! I couldn't believe it (secretly didn't really believe this baby would ever come). I sat there for a while dumbfounded that this was in fact happening, assessed the situation repeatedly for a good 5-10 minutes, finally I decided my water had in fact broke and I should probably wake Brandon and head to the hospital. I disposed of the wet things and went to get Brandon. I woke him up and told him my water broke, he said "ok" and then laid his head back down to go to sleep. I stopped him from drifting off and said "no, we have to go to the hospital", he said "really?". He woke up, I think in shock too that this was really happening, and we got ready to go.

We arrived in Triage at 5 o'clock. They tested the fluid to make sure it was amniotic (it was), started an IV, put on armbands and drew blood. The next shift wasn't due in until 7 o'clock so the triage nurse told us to walk around for about an hour to see if we could get some contractions going. There are very few places to walk around on that floor, most boring hour of my life, and no progress.

At seven they transferred us over to Labor and Delivery where we met our nurse Hope. She was so wonderful. They started the pitocin, called the doctor with updates, gave Brandon the tour of where the ice and jello was, and hooked me up to all the monitors; baby was fine, no contractions, blood pressure was a little elevated. I held off on the epidural for a little, just to see how things would go. By ten o'clock I was feeling the contractions in my lower back and I thought I was going to die! When Hope came in I told her I was hurting pretty bad, she suggested sitting on the exercise ball. I tried the ball, it didn't work. Bring on the epidural!



It took a couple of sticks to get the epidural in. Brandon sat in front of me until he started getting nauseous and had to sit away from the action (Brandon and needles, especially large ones, don't mix). Once the epidural kicked in I could rest and relax.


{note the pump in the background (epidural), this is why I'm smiling. Monitor showing contractions on the bottom, baby's heartbeat on the top}

Brandon and I both got a little rest after that, but not much.



The resident working with Dr West came in, sometime around noon and said I was about 4cm. Not long after Dr West came in and said I was about 9-9.5cm and could probably start pushing soon! I could not believe it! I said "are you kidding me?" and Dr West said "I would not kid about this". By about 1 o' clock the doctor was in the room and we were ready to go. I don't recall exactly what time the pushing started, but it only took six pushes before baby Migs was out (1:36pm).




It was so amazing and so surreal, this little angel was finally in our arms. He was placed on my chest while they dried him off and then they wisked him away to do a more thorough clean and apgars. Next came the placenta and the doctor had to stitch up a couple of small tears (TMI? too bad, it's my blog ;)). Brandon had the camera and was taking pictures of Migs getting cleaned and checked out.

Migs was given back to me to nurse and cuddle.



I couldn't have asked for a better delivery. I had such a wonderful nurse and a great doctor. Everything went so well. I'm so grateful for Brandon's wonderful support, he even cut the cord! My mom was hoping to be with us as well, but when I called her in the morning she said they had a busy surgery day and would get to the hospital as soon as she could, but she didn't make it until after Migs was born. Brandon's mom was in the waiting room and came in before we headed up to the next room.

We had to wait in L&D until I could walk and use the bathroom before they would transfer me to the post-partum floor. My first time up made me a little woozy, but I made it to the bathroom and to the wheelchair and off we went to our new room.

We had a whole herd of family waiting up there for us and once we were settled with vitals and assessment out of the way we were able to visit with everyone and Migs was passed around from one person to the next. Food was brought in for us and I was so happy to eat something other than Jello.



The rest of the evening was spent resting, sleeping and enjoying this wonderful new addition to our family.



We are so grateful for all the wonderful love and support we received from family and friends in person and through texts and calls.

Brandon stayed the night in the hospital with us and we had another really great nurse. We were well taken care of and even got some sleep. The nurse brought Migs in for feedings and we all went to the nursery for his first bath.


{someone cute and little didn't like his bath}




Everything was going so well; feedings and all his assessments, and the doctors gave us the all clear after 24 hours so we decided to head home the next day.

It was a quick in and out, now off to home, let the fun begin!