When I got pregnant with my oldest in 1997 when I was 17 years old. I took Lamaze, but unfortunately, only got three classes in before I went into preterm labor. We had only left at 8pm on wednesday and my water broke at 1:30am. I was 36 weeks exact. Of course, when your water breaks and it just trickles, you wonder, "was that my water or is it me". So, I waited for a few hours until I was finally convinced that my water had broke. I had also begun feeling weird little things and they were 6 minutes apart. I tried waking up my fiancee, but he just said to let him know when they were 5 minutes apart because he was convinced I wet myself. At 6:30am, I convinced him that this was it and we needed to go to the hospital. Before we left, I called my step-grandmother to get the hospitals number so I could check with them. Called them and they did say to come in. Of course, my fiancee threw on his work clothes because he still wasn't convinced (Yes, the man is stubborn, lol).
Get to the hospital and get checked. Yep, water broke and was just trickling. I think we got there about 7am. Contractions weren't regular or doing anything and were pretty painless. My doctor figured it would be good to just break my water more. Fiancee went ahead to work so I just sat chatting with nurses. At one point, I was concerned about my long nails scratching my baby so the nurse found me some fingernail clippers! The doctor ordered some pitocin to help me along. Then my fiancee came back from work. The family he was working for was very old fashioned. so he had never shared my pregnancy with them until that day, and was promptly told to go be with me. Unfortunately, with my water being broken, I was losing too much fluid, so I got to have an internal catheter placed. Fun times!! The labor was quite painful, but with the help of my fiancee and nurses, I was able to breathe and focus on what I was doing. At one point they had to place an electrode in my son's scalp because he seemed to be having some trouble. The pitocin was increased and decreased throughout the day.
Around 7:45pm, I asked for an epidural. Got that and was able to rest. It was nice. Around 10:00pm, I was complete and began pushing. Epidural was turned off so I could feel everything. THAT was awesome (Can you sense the sarcasm??)!! Around 11:30, the doctor had to do an emergency c-section on another mom and, due to the decels my son kept having, he let me know if I didn't have him out soon, I would have to have one as well. When he came back to my room, he had to hurry up and don his outfit so he could catch my son. I was given an episiotomy too. After my son's head came out, the doctor found that the cord was around his neck three times. He was delivered blue and limp. He was handed off to a resus team and then taken to the NICU.
On top of my son's cord, his newborn exam found that he had a Ventricular Septal Defect. C was in the NICU until sunday when he was released. Monday, we were back at the hospital to check bilirubin levels and weight. Tuesday morning, same. Shortly after my stepmother took me home, she came back because the doctor had called and let us know C needed readmitted. We spent 3 more days in the nicu. Luckily, the hospital hooked us up with a private room and I was able to nurse and pump for him.
I continued to pump for two months until I got tired of it and put him back on the breast, where he stayed until he was 16 months old. We also supplemented from 5 months on. He was such a great baby and a total Momma's Boy!!
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