Well its been a bit and i thought perhaps i should update this little blog with our newest family member. Our little Noah was born Feb 2,at 8:40 a.m. at 6 lbs 11 oz. He was 3 weeks early but it sure felt like he was late.
My doctor told me I would be lucky to make it past christmas even though i wasnt due until Feb 24! Obviously this scared the heck out of us, so he began us on steroid injections which jordy gave me weekly at home. Christmas came and happily went with baby tucked safely still inside. When my doctor abruptly quit his practice I scrambled to find a new high risk doctor at the end of my pregnancy. We found a great one at the U of U and she disagreed with alot of my previous diagnoses. She felt she could get me to 36 weeks.
I drove out to the hospital for my 36 week check and had been having contractions all morning. She checked and i was dialated to a 2 and 70% effaced. The contractions were steady but no closer ever than 10 min apart so they said to go home. We were leary of going home because i live over an hour from the hospital so i decided to head to work in park city and hang out with my dad and jordan. I had livy with me and started up parleys canyon and a huge snow storm started. Cars started sliding off the road and i realized the van wouldnt make it. I slowed down too much and on a big hill, and trying to speed up made me slide off the road. Everyone around me was pulling off to wait it out too, so i called my dad and jordan to tell them id wait it out a little, when the contractions got harder and more frequent. Soon they were 4 min apart and pretty strong. Since there was no way they could get to me i had no choice but to call an ambulance! Oh joy!
As i talked with the 911 lady and realized it would be difficult for the ambulence to get to me and what a predicament i was in a started panicking, i really thought i was going to need to spread blankets in the back of the van and get back there. They thankfully got to me quickly, and loaded up livy and I. Poor livy was soooo traumatized. They kept her in her car seat as they transfered her and she just could not stop screaming the whole way. She just couldnt handle seeing me strapped up it was too much for her little 1 year old understanding.
The ambulence slid off the road and i heard them communicating to the U of U telling the the monitor said the contractions were 2 min apart, and to check me. So they stripped me and i was expecting a regular pelvic, instead the guy spreads my legs and backs up to look from afar, then says into the walkie, "nope theres no head" i laughed out loud and told him next time he could just ASK me and id surely let him know if there was a head! Well, with a LOT of drama from livy we got out onto the road and to the hospital. Jordan was finally able to meet me there which was wonderful to say the least. Livy wouldnt let any nurse hold her and holding her during those contractions realllly sucked. Not to mention she kept trying to pull out my i.v. and oxygen. So now after being checked i was still only dialted to a 3!!! After a couple hours they checked me again and no progress! After all that haha! Then after a couple more hours the contractions RANDOMLY slowed down! Back down to one every 10 minutes!! The worst of it was i wasnt progressing past a 3, so they discharged me with pain meds for the contractions!! Haha and you thought this was the birth!
I was not a happy momma to say the least. The contractions continued, hard and consistent every 10 minutes the rest of the day! The pain meds did nothing totally dont waste your time with them! At least not for contractions. The next day they got closer together, but not much. The next day back to 10 minutes apart, and they stayed that way for the rest of the week!! I was seriosuly the most cranky woman to be around all week i just couldnt believe you could get stuck in early labor like that!
So I stomped into my 37 week appointment without livy this time:) and she said i was now a 4 and 80% eff. She had mercy on me and said that since i was now full term they could strip my membranes and that having been in active labor for a week she thought it was best. I drove up to work and decided to groom some dogs to get my mind off things, when the contractions started in strong every 3 minutes. We grabbed our bags left livy with dad and back we went. She checked me and now i was a 5, so the admitted me for delivery yay!!!
Well just because god felt like i needed to learn some patience, the contractions slowed down again after 4 hours. The doctor had me walking up steps in the hospital for a couple hours to progress labor and NOTHING. My family showed up with balloons to find me full dressed and needless to say sobbing, with painpills in hand and discharged once again. The hospital offered to let me stay overnight in the antipartem unit, but i was so discouraged i stubbornly told jordan i wanted to go home. We went home and went to sleep. I awoke at 4 a.m. to the worst contractions yet, and remembering now from hard labor with livy i knew i might be in trouble. They were 2 min apart and AWEFUL. We rushed to the hospital but when we got to park city the contractions were 40 seconds apart and i wanted to push, i knew we wouldnt make it to the U.
Jordy dropped me off at emergency and went with livy to park. I was able to walk into the lobby but collapsed in the waiting room. They gurnied me up to labor and delivery and checked me and the nurse who checked me said, "oh you are still a 5 so lets get the epideral in" i love her for that mistake! They gave me a narcotic in my i.v. so i could sit up long enough for the epi, and got it in within 30 minutes, the doctor came in to check me and said nope you are 9 almost a 10 and 100%eff. Definately would have delivered on the side of the road! So within an hour little noah came in to the world! The epi didnt kick in in time but the anesthesiologist had put some narcotic into my spinal fluid to help with the pain and that was awesome! Definately the worst pain of my life but a quick and very intimate delivery with just a doc and nurse and jordan and me. It was nice having our moms there with livy, and we wanted that again but my mom had to be in the waiting room with livy and shelly couldnt get down in time. It was nice just jordy and me welcoming noah though, a beautiful happy end to the WORST week of my life haha!:) so thats our forever long birthstory for noah!
