Feb 27

Labor, Delivery & Beyond

Tag: Baby,GeneralEmily @ 8:18 pm

Hey everyone!  Thought I’d try to get a post in while I can…

Everything went really smoothly yesterday with labor & delivery.  Labor actually wasn’t as bad as I imagined it to be, thanks to my friend Ron who did my epidural ;-).  I came into the hospital Tuesday morning at around 3cm.  They started me on Pitocin at 6am and I started having contractions within 2-3 minutes.  I had my water broken around 8:30-9:00 because I had only progressed to 4cm and my doc wanted things to go a little faster than that.  By 10:30 I had had enough with the contractions and wanted the epidural; by that point I was 5cm.  All the nursing staff were impressed that I lasted that long, but I don’t remember the contractions being painful until around 10 or 10:15….guess I was just lucky.

The rest of the labor was wonderful, got some rest and time to chat with Paul, etc.  Delivery was good as well, I actually only had to push for about 20 minutes.  Little Sean did not like the pushing part, his heartrate dropped significantly each time, so the doc decided to get him out faster with forceps.  That got him out really quickly, and the rest is history! 🙂

We’ve had a really good first 24 hours with him.  He’s extremely good natured, and only cries when we’re changing him or his clothes.  Guess he doesn’t like to be cold…hehe.  He started out with feedings really well, but then forgot how to suck so we had to resort to syringe feeding him formula this afternoon.  He’s doing a little better now, and we figure that we’re both just learning and it’ll get better and easier with time.

We plan on heading out of here around lunchtime tomorrow.  We’re looking forward to introducing Sean to Megabyte and getting home to peace and quiet, and a much homier environment!

Thanks to everyone for all the well-wishes, prayers and support!  We’ll continue to post pictures as we take them, I know everyone is on the edge of their seats waiting for more and more! 🙂

 

One Response to “Labor, Delivery & Beyond”

  1. Narni says:

    We are so relieved that you had a good delivery day…especially since you were so very conscientious during your pregnancy. Neither of my deliveries were anything like yours. I am envious…but even MORE envious that we are not able to be with you all these first days. We are thrilled with pictures and updates.

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