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| The only decent picture of us on Mother's Day. |
Okay so Friday, May 9th I had my last pre-natal appointment. I met with the doctor that was scheduled to induce me on Monday, May 12th. I was a little nervous because the week before I met with a different doctor and I was not even dilated to a 1 so he said if I didn't dilate more by the 12th they might not induce me. So May 9th was a big day to see if I had progressed at all. I'm not going to lie part of me hoped that he was going to tell me I couldn't be induced yet and would have to wait. Part of me wanted to get induced because I was done being pregnant and my older brother and his fam was going to be in town for just a few days so they would be able to see the baby.
Well he told me I was dilated to 1-1/2 and that he was fine inducing me. He said that it might take a little longer because I hadn't progressed much on my own, but that it would be fine. I thought okay well if you are okay with it I'm okay with it. I was really excited at first and then I started second guessing it all over again. I knew my body, I knew how things went with Aili, and I knew that I wasn't really ready to have the baby yet. I didn't want the induction and labor to take so long that it caused complications with me or the baby, or then resulted in a C-section. Everyone told me it would be fine, so I just went with it.
Day Before Delivery/ Morning of Delivery
Sunday I got a call from the hospital saying they weren't sure when they would have me come in in the morning. They would call me sometime between 6am and 8am to let me know how things went through the night and when I could come in. I was first on the list for inductions so they said that unless it was crazy busy through the night I would just come in morning. I really didn't like not knowing when I was going in. With Aili's induction I knew I was going in at 7am and I liked that. I put my phone in my room turned on the ringer and then hoped I heard it! I didn't sleep too well early in the morning because I was anticipating the call. I believe they called around 6:45 and told me to be there by 8:30. We let our parents know, and Grandma Andrea came over to be with Aili for the day. Aili was still asleep when we left. We debated waking her up and saying goodbye before we left but we decided to just let her sleep. We got to the hospital and they sent us straight into the delivery room. The first one on the left as you go through the doors. The same room I delivered Aili in.
8:30 - 9:00 AM
I got changed into the glamorous gown. They put all my bracelets on asked me the 100 questions, got my IV going (which they put in my arm instead of my hand this time which hurt way less), and the got the pitocin dripping my 9:00am. The nurse said I was dilated to a 1+ so no progress since Friday. Boo.
9:00 AM - 12:35 PM
Dr. Lamareux was the doctor on call doing my induction/deliver. I love him, he is awesome. But he had a delivery at Timpanogos hospital that he had to leave for so me and a handful of other women at American Fork hospital had to wait some time before he came and broke our water. It was kind of frustrating because we just wanted to get things moving along, and that wasn't going to happen until my water broke. By 12:35 he was back and broke my water. I was now dilated to a 2.
12:35 - 2:30 PM
I was having contractions. But they weren't very intense. They were consistent but not too painful. I just decided to get my epidural so I could just completely relax and not worry about anything. I got the epidural at 2:30pm. It went in well, no problems. It's always a little nerve wracking as you are sitting there, back rounded trying to relax as they stick a huge needle into your spine, but it all went really well.
2:30 - 3:00 PM
My epidural was really kicking in and it was awesome. I couldn't feel any pain just a little pressure, and I could still move my feet and legs. At 3:00pm they put the catheter in and I was dilated to a 2 still. My nurse was saying she was going to get this baby our before she was done at 6 but now it wasn't looking too promising. She said with the external monitors for the contractions they can't tell how strong they are, just how often they are happening. So she decided to put in an internal monitor so we knew how strong they were. Well turns out I was having lame, wussy contractions. She said they were "menstrual cramps", so pretty much nothing. They weren't strong enough to move things along. So now that they knew were I was at they turned up my pitocin to the max that they could. They have a certain score they want you at and I wasn't even close, but once they turned up the pitocin I was getting there. Then my nurse bailed on me. She decided to go home early to be with her kids, so I got some other nurse for a few hours that covered for her until the new nurse came at 6.
3:00 - 7:00 PM
We just chilled for 4 hours. My mom showed up to hang out with us, thinking that by the time she got there something more would be happening, but it wasn't. My epidural was still rocking. I pretty much couldn't feel anything, not even much pressure.My new nurse showed up, she was young and cute, her name was Jessica I believe. (Crazy how much I have forgotten in 7 weeks). I really liked her. At 7:00 she checked to see if I had progressed. After 4 hours we were hoping that there would be some good progress but they checked and I was only a 3 and 90% effaced. I was super disappointed. I was hoping that this would go faster than with Aili, but that wasn't going to happen. I couldn't believe I had been there for 10 1/2 hours and I was only at a 3. I had already had Aili already at this time, so I was super depressed. When the nurse left the room I just started to cry.
7:00 - 8:25 PM
The nurses kept asking me if I was feeling pressure through the whole day and I wasn't, no pressure, I really couldn't feel anything with the epidural, sometimes if a really strong contraction came I could feel the pressure in my stomach. At 8:25 I as dilated to a 4 and completely effaced. I rolled over to my other side to see if they would get things going. Chris kept telling me that it was going to start going really fast now. Once I got to the point with Aili things started progressing quickly, but I wasn't going to get my hopes up. We really thought that we would have a baby here by this time, that Aili could possible come see her and Chris could go home and put Aili to sleep, but ya, that wasn't going to happen. That's why you just have to go in with no expectations, because then you aren't let down.
I didn't say this to anyone else but I was thinking that if there were any complications I was going to be really mad at myself because I knew my body wasn't ready to have the baby yet. I started to regret being induced even though I was 40 weeks. I was just getting scared that it was taking so long. But the nurse kept telling me that the baby was looking really good, so I just needed to relax and keep waiting. Which wasn't really a problem because I wasn't in pain or anything, it was just starting to be a really long day of waiting. And even though you can't feel pain your body is still going through a lot and getting tired. I watched Dancing with the Stars. My dad decided to come hang out with us for a little bit, because he waited all day thinking that a baby was going to be here by now too.
8:25 - 10:20 PM
The nurse came in at 10:20 and told me that the baby's heart beat wasn't looking to good, which of course worried me. I mean the poor baby is going through a long time of stress trying to be forced out. So now I was really worried about complications happening. I rolled back over to my other side and they put me on some oxygen and her heart rate started looking good again. At this point I was dilated to a 5 1/2.
10:20 - 10:50 PM
So you know that pressure that the nurses kept asking me if I was feeling? Well I didn't really know what they were talking about until right now. All of a sudden I was feeling MAJOR pressure, like MAJOR pressure. I knew something was finally happening. I was like, Oh my gosh, oh my gosh I feel a lot of pressure! Chris grabbed the nurse. She came in and checked me and I was at a 9 1/2!!! WOOT WOOT finally! Nothing...and then all of a sudden in 30 mins I was basically there! The nurse went to check with Dr. Lamareux...he was in a C-section! Ah! bad timing!
10:50 - 11:02 PM
The nurse turned down my pitocin at this point to slow the baby from coming before the doctor could get there. My dad left the room, because thing were about to go down. I was still feeling ALOT of pressure. Like Chris check once just to make sure the babies head wasn't coming out. I don't remember feeling this pressure with Aili, but who knows. And then I started shaking uncontrollable. I know for sure that did not happen with Aili, it was really weird. I was just shaking, shaking, shaking. But I was excited because I knew I was finally going to have this baby! At 11:07 the nurse turned off my pitocin. My contractions were getting closer together. The nurse said that the doc was on the last layer of stitches. I wanted him to hurry for my sake...but not for the sake of the women he was stitching up.
11:02 - 11:07
The doctor and extra nurse showed up and I started pushing. The doctor can see hair! Yipee, love hair! They called respiratory to come up because they could see some meconium in the fluid.
11:13
On my 3rd set of pushes. The doctor has me do some pushes when I'm not having contractions. (I didn't know it at the time but it was because the cord was wrapped around her neck twice. Chris said he saw that, looked at Dr. Lamareux and he looked really calm, so Chris didn't worry too much. Chris said he put is fingers under the cord and had the baby somersault out of me so that he could get the cord off of her neck. Chris said it was pretty cool. I'm so thankful for doctors that know what they are doing and stay calm so that I stay calm!)
11:18
Little Estee Emeline Mitton is born! 7 lbs. 15 oz. 20 inches long.! I really didn't think she would come before midnight at one point. So I was really glad she did! The 12th for a birthday sounded way better than the 13th (right Steph ;). I remember crying once they handed Aili to me, but this time as soon as I felt Estee slide out I just started sobbing. I can't even really tell you why. Childbirth is intense, and so emotional. I was just so SO happy that she was here. It is just like this major flood of all these emotions just come out with the baby. You just can't really describe the moment, but it was incredible, and overwhelming in a great way.
The whisked her off to be suctioned by the respiratory team. And I just watched intently. This time I was aware of them getting the placenta out of me. I don't remember that at all with Aili. Chris saw, I did not, didn't want to.
I had a little tear that the doctor quickly stitched up. And then they gave me little Estee to hold. And I was still just crying and crying. Just the happiness that you feel is so amazing. It's unreal that this baby grew inside of you and now she is here and you are holding her.
My dad came back in soon after. He was weirded out because when he left everything went really fast and then he came back in and the baby was here! We took some pictures, and I just cuddled little Estee. She came out crying and she did not stop crying. When she was on me she would calm down a little and then just start crying really hard again. I just patted and rubbed her back and told her it was okay. I just loved her so much. Chris asked if he could hold her and I said, "NO!" Ha ha dude I just did 9 months of a lot of work and then just had a really long day waiting, and then I had to push the baby out. And even though the pushing wasn't long or hard I was going to hold and cuddle my baby on my skin as long as I wanted. I don't think I actually said that to him, but I think he understood.
Eventually everyone else left the room and I tried to feed Estee. She would latch on well but then just start crying really hard again. By this time I had ANOTHER new nurse (the 4th of the day!) because Jessica was only working a half shift. I really liked this new nurse she really took care of me. I didn't' like the night nurse I had after having Aili so that was a relief. Because Estee was crying really hard and wouldn't stop the nurse just wanted to have her go down to the nursery to be check out, so the nurse, Chris and Estee left. The nurse Jessica had brought me a little box lunch thing right after Estee was born, because she knew I was starving after 16 hours of not being able to eat. All I had had was juice and these frozen lemonade things all day. So after everyone left me to myself I scarfed that sandwich and whatever else was in the box down. I eat fast already, but I couldn't get the food in my mouth fast enough.
Then the nurse came back up and got me all cleaned up and changed to be moved down to the 2nd floor.
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| Oh my adorable sad face! |
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| She has REALLY long big feet. He toes are SO long. |
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| Creeper Logan peeking through the window. |
My dad, mom, and older brother Logan (who stayed up and brought me lovely flowers) were all waiting for me and walked down with us. Luckily I have an awesome friend Abby that works in the nursery that comes in to bathe and take care of my babies and hook me up with good room. I got a nice quiet room at the end of the hall in the corner. It was awesome. The nurse talked to me for a while then I chatted with my fam, then Abby came in to give me the scoop on Estee. Estee had low glucose.....which is exactly what happened with Aili. And Abby said she promised everything would be okay this time though. I guess Chris had suggested that they try giving her some formula to get the glucose up. And they gave her some formula and they said she just sucked it down so fast. Like an unusual amount for a newborn. They had to stop her. Up until that point she had just been crying and crying, and then she drank that formula and was fine! Poor girl was just starving like her momma! Estee came in with me for a little bit and then when back to the nursery when everyone left so that I could try to rest a little, until she needed to eat again The plan was to have her in the regular nursery and just check her glucose before and after feedings to back sure it was staying at a good level and then hopefully she would not have to go to the dreaded level two nursery. By this time I don't know what time it as....way to late...or early...however you look at it. That was one LONG day.
To be continued.....
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