He's here, he's here, and he is absolutely perfect! That's right, we had a sweet little angel boy- Griffin Eli. He made his way into this world on Thursday, May 26th, 2016 at 1:08pm. We are so in love and absolutely love being parents. With 3 weeks under our belts now, we are starting to get into a rhythm and figure out this whole new world Griffin has brought us into. We wouldn't trade it for the world.
At midnight, we got the go ahead to progress my labor along. I got hooked up to the IV [through my hand], and holy moly that hurt way more than I thought it would, and the nurse put a cervix ripening pill in me. She came in an hour later and said my contractions were crazy and that they were going to try to slow them down, so we started pumping fluids in me. Well, they did not slow down. They remained 2 minutes apart for seven and a half hours. You read that right. I did not sleep from midnight to 7:30am.
At 6:30, I asked my nurse about the possibility of getting in the bathtub to ease labor pains. She said we would need to check with my doctor first, and walked out of the room. Well, at 7:30, my doctor came in. She told me she was going to check to see how dilated I was and break my water, but asked if I wanted the epidural first. Um, yes please!
Epidural, how I loved it. The only part that sucked about getting it was the shot they put in to numb my back. That thing burned. Once I had the epidural, I slept like a champ. David says when my doctor broke my water barely any came out. Our sweet baby was sitting so low he only let a squeak of water by.
At 10:30 I was dilated 5cm. And at 12:30, my doctor came in to check on me, and surprise! We were ready to go. She said something about me being at a plus 2. I don't know what that means. It was crazy that it was just me, David, my doctor, and one nurse. I feel like you see TV shows and movies and it's crazy crowded in the delivery room. I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. It was so calm and exactly the way I needed it to be [even though I didn't know it at the time].
We did a couple practice pushes, and apparently I'm pretty good at pushing even though I have no clue what muscles were contracting. I pushed for 30 minutes and out popped our sweet little boy, purple as can be. David said once his shoulder came out, water squirted everywhere and almost got my doctor. It was so exciting and emotionally overwhelming to finally know that, not only are we really parents, but that we were officially parents to a little boy. It's crazy how quickly you fall in love with someone you don't even know yet, and how much you love them.
Well, after all of the bliss of meeting Griffin, they turned off my epidural. I don't know why they would ever do such a horrible thing. My back hurt so so bad. Like menstrual cramps [yes I get them in my back as well as in the front] on steroids. My awesome nurse pulled some strings and got me the good drugs, as I was starting to cry from the pain. And then, as if that wasn't enough, they push on your uterus, and I got the joy of my bladder as well. I don't think I have ever been in that much pain before. Once my nurse made sure my pain was under control, we made a trip to the bathroom. That was not fun either, but apparently I couldn't leave my delivery room until I proved I could pee. It took awhile, but I proved it to them. I also proved I'm a champ at bleeding...TMI? Sorry.
When we got up to my recovery room, I thought that bed was from heaven [I quickly changed my mind the next day]. I also loved my daytime nurse up there as well. I was seriously blessed with some of the best nursing staff ever. I am still amazed at how smoothly Griffin's birth was. We have been so incredibly blessed from his conception, pregnancy, birth, and now as parents. Thank you, Lord, for our sweet baby boy and the blessings You continue to pour over us.
Well, that's how Griffin Eli came to be in this world. If you're wondering why we chose to induce before my due date, it's because that's when my doctor was on call. We looked at the schedule around my due date and chose to do it when she could be the one to deliver our baby. I absolutely love my OBGYN, and I am beyond grateful that she is the one who delivered my son. She assured me that we weren't jumping the gun in inducing before his due date [just one day I might add]. She told me that baby's are actually healthiest at 39 weeks and that it's funny that our due dates are actually at 40 weeks. We probably would have gone into the hospital that night or the next day on our own anyways.
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