So I get home from the non-stress test and rest, calling my friends and family to tell them how upset I am that I have to wait until January 2 to have my baby. All this time I tell Eric I just don't feel right.
Eric's parents arrive from Nashville around 5:00. We visit and then go get some dinner. I order a some chicken-spicy, because I have heard spicy food sends you in to labor. I still just don't feel right. Mainly, I felt lots of pressure when I walked.
We get home and visit some more. I decide I feel so "blah" I am going to take a shower and go to bed. I go to sleep around 12:30 and wake up at 2:00 am with a terrible pain in my back that goes to my sides. Ohh, it hurt! I think it's just a mild contraction and decide to just lie in bed and see if they go away. 4 minutes go by and another one. Another 4 minutes and I feel the same pain. I decide this has got to be something but I am just so confused. I get out the ever trusting, "What to Expect When Your Expecting" book and read about labor. I decide this may be it. I get out of bed and tell Eric I think I should go to the hospital but I want him to time my pains. He times them at 3-4 minutes apart and we decide to head to Munroe Hospital.We get ready and get in the car. The whole way there I am saying, "I hope I'm not going in and they laugh and send me home". But the pain comes again and I am sure I definitely need to be going to the hospital. At 3:30 we check into Labor and Delivery and I am put in a bed. The nurse times my contractions and checks me. I am still 1 cm (of course). She tells the doctor I am in pain and he says to keep me and give me some pain meds. She said the on-call doctor is Doctor Hall and that if it would have been my doctor, Doctor Marquette, he probably would have sent me home. Doctor Hall is who ordered the shot for pain. I decide I love Doctor Hall.
The nurse who gives me my pain shot shift ends and a new nurse, Stephanie, comes in. She is very nice and takes good care of me. I am given patocin to speed up my labor. Doctor Hall comes in to break my water but he says it must already be broken. We decide maybe this is why I have felt so weird. Maybe my water has been broken for a whole day and I did not know.
The day goes on and on and Eric and I sit int he room, napping occassionally, listening to music. Eric calls our parents and tells them that Brodie would be born today. My parents jump on a plane and head to Ocala from Nashville.
At some point during my labor I develop a high fever of almost 104. Stephanie tells me that sometimes a c-section is necessary with a fever and they start me on antibotics so my fever goes down and the baby is ok. I am sweating horribly but sleeping on and off so don't realize it.
When my epidural kicks in full force I am totally paralyzed from the waist down. It is the weirdest feeling. I had to switch from my left to right side while lying in bed and Eric and Stephanie had to move me each time because I couldn't feel my legs to do it. Very strange...and embarressing.
At about 3:00 pm Doctor Hall checks me and says it's almost time to push. Stephanie gets called away to an emergency c-section and 2 new nurses come in and have me start pushing. I can not remember thier names but they are very nice, also. I did wish Stephanie would have been there, though b/c we had spent the whole day with her.
The nurse had me start pushing and calls Doctor Hall when Brodie is close. Doctor Hall enters the room, dancing, saying "Lets have a baby!". He says, "I've got my catchers mitt ready" as he sits down. He is very funny! He sees Brodie's head and tells us our son has a conehead.
At 4:06 Brodie makes his way into the world. I pushed for 40 minutes and it hurt like heck but the pain was well worth it. Eric cut the cord, the nurse put him on my chest for a second and they took him away to do the apgar. I remember asking, "Why is he not crying". Dr. Hall tells me to give him a second. I see Eric taking his picture and think all is ok. The nurses take him to the nursery.
But Brodie was not ok, he had to put up quite a fight.
Part 3 to come!!
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