Introducing Hunter!

lizzay · July 2011

Hi ladies! I wanted to introduce my lil' man to you! He's a cliff notes birth story for ya Smile

Hunter David Robert was born Saturday 7/23 at 4:57am. 7lbs 6oz and 21 inches (at exactly 41 weeks). All the pictures I have make him look huge, but he is a peanut! Half his newborn clothes are too big!

I went for my weekly ob appointment Thursday 7/21, and my doctor ordered an ultrasound. My fluid had gone from a level 13 to a 4.9, and my placenta was a step 3 (not functioning as well) and had begun to calcify. They told me to go straight to the hospital to be induced.

We got there around 4:30pm, started pitocin around 7:30 and I was on it until 8am the next day. It made me contract, but I wasn't dilating (I went in at 2cm) so they shut off the pitocin and we started all over with miso. (They let me shower and eat, before we started over, thank god!) I got my first miso at 10, which didn't do much and another at 2pm, which threw me into hard labor. I had been contracting this entire time, since friday night, about every 6 minutes from the pitocin.

I asked for an epi around 4cm, and it relieved some pain, but it turns out it wasn't even in my back. I could feel my legs, and kept telling the nurse I could feel everything down there. It wasn't until I was 7cm, with a different nurse, that they checked. I felt my water break (on its own) which you obviously shouldn't feel with an epi. I then flew to 9.5 cm before the anesthologist made it in. He manually gave me pain relief, which knocked me out! I fell asleep (at 9.5cm! Crazy!) so they let me sleep for an hour and then woke me up to push. The nap was much needed, but in a way I shouldn't have taken it because all the pain medication had worn off over that hour, so the actual delivery was pretty much med free (ow!). I pushed for about 45 minutes and he was here Smile

H didn't get to cut the cord because it was wrapped around Hunter's neck, which bummed us, but the second we saw him, nothing else mattered!