We were admitted into the hospital at 8 am on December 16th to be induced since she was one week over due and they begin to worry about the placenta and amniotic fluids drying out after that. I began receiving pitocin around 10 am, had a skype converstation with my brother Kent and his wife Trish who are in Germany, had a visit from Grandpa and Grandma Gulley, then my mom showed up, then Kristen showed up and soon after Brian's mom and dad were there too. We were all in for a long day! I wasn't feeling the contractions still so they continued to turn up my pitocin starting from 2mil u/hr all the way up to 32! I began feeling the contractions pretty good at 22 but we wanted to keep them coming stronger and stronger to get this little girl out! The doctor came and broke my water about 3pm and I was only 3cm dialated. Around 4pm I received my epidural, I couldn't bare the pain after the pitocin was turned up again after the dr breaking my water, it was too strong! When I got the epidural I was 4 cm dialated. After I received the epidural we had quiet the scare, I knew something was wrong by the way the nurse was acting and calling other nurses in but no one told me what was wrong for what seemed like an eternity! Mady's heart rate had dropped from 130-160's down to 60! My blood pressure had dropped from 130/78 to 103/35! We were not tolerating the epidural very well. I had to wear an oxygen mask almost the rest of the day and had to be propped up on my left side to stablize mady's heart rate. My blood pressure never really came back up, I received 3 shots of ephedrine which brought me up to 115/55. Dr was satisfied with the increase for both of us and said that he would be back at 5pm to check me and if I wasn't at least 5cm dialated then I would have to have a c-section due to the complications from the epidural and not progressing. They had turned my pitocin off completely during the scare and my contractions completely stopped, dr said that usually your body continues to have at least residual contractions with the pitocin turned off so my body was not cooperating with the induction. Thankfully at 5pm I had made it to 5cm!!! yay! I was relieved! Pitocin came back on and oxygen stayed on, everyone was able to come back in and see me but I had asked to only have a few at a time because I was starting to feel overwhelmed with all the nurses and the oxygen mask and all. From this time on I really lost track of time, I know that I began having a lot of pressure, not contraction pain just pressure, and it got increasingly stronger as the night drug on. The doctor checked me again around 10pm and I was at 7cm, they checked me again closer to 11pm and I was 9cm, the nurse said I only had a very small lip of the cervix still on each side of mady's head or I would be 10cm. She tried sliding one side off and it worked but the other side kept slipping back over her head so at 11:15pm we started pushing. Everytime I felt a contraction/pressure we'd push. Dr came and checked me and said that he would use the vacuum extractor to help me get her out but I had to push her far enough down to where he could do that. So we pushed for almost an hour and then he got her out with my last set of pushes at 12:10am! She didn't cry right away and because of the heart rate issues they put her on oxygen pretty quickly. They did lay her on my stomach and I got to see her for a second but I was soooo tired! I don't know where that adrenaline rush was that I was told about after delivery! Then the dr cut the cord because Brian and both of our mom's were too squeemish to do it! I don't blame them that was a pretty graphic delivery! Once I was cleaned up and baby was cleaned up and handed to me everyone was allowed to start coming in again. Mady got passed around, loved on, had her picture taken ALOT and then all the aunts and grandparents started to leave. It was a late night for all. Once it was just us 3 in the room I fed her and then we all 3 fell asleep, WHILE FEEDING! haha. The nurse came back to the room found us all snoozing and laughed, she asked if we were done feeding and ready for baby to go to the nursery for all her checks. We let them take her to the nursery so we could start moving to the recovery room and getting settled for the night. After they got me up from the bed to use the restroom, and learn my 10 step process for all that, I began to feel pretty dizzy/lightheaded and the nurse started asking me if I felt ok and I told her I felt nauseous and she asked if I was light headed and I said yes. She VERY QUICKLY yanked the help cord in the bathroom and 3 nurses came running into my room, I was yanked up and rushed back to the bed just in time for everything to get very fuzzy and then dark for about 5 seconds! That was scary! They had me lay down and eat something and drink some juice, they checked my BP again and it was still in the 115/50 range so they said I had to lay down and wait a little while before I could get up and try to go to the recovery room. About an hour later a new nurse came in and had me sit up while she checked my BP to see if we could try again. Unfortunetly I became pretty dizzy again just sitting up in bed so she got me some crackers and more apple juice and left me to lay down and wait again. Thankfully she convinced Brian to head to the recovery room and lay down instead of waiting for me in the delivery room, it was 3am after all! About 4:45am I rang the nurse call button because I had to pee so bad!!! Had to wait for 2 nurses to be available to get me up because of all the issues I had been having so far. I successfully got up went to the restroom and then was wheeled in a wheelchair to the recovery room. Sadly the nurse flipped ALL the lights on in there and poor Brian was sleeping! Thankfully though he just rolled over and started snoring again! =) I got settled in and fell asleep to only be awoken at 6:30am by the nursery nurse bringing Mady in, she was hungry! So I fed her and then we all slept a little bit longer. Then all the nurses and nursery nurses and seemed like EVERYONE else who worked in the hospital started coming in and out of our room! So we were up for the day now. We snoozed on and off throughout the day and had a few visitors here and there. We had our special celebration dinner friday night and then had a few more visitors. Friday night into Saturday went well, Mady only woke up a few times to eat and then went back to sleep. We were up at 7 am again to the bussle of the hospital staff coming in and out, one nurse in particular came in at 1 am and decided to clean our entire room! She kept asking me what was ok to throw out and what I wanted to keep! OYI! We had a few more visitors Saturday and then we were discharged and got to go home at 6pm on Saturday! yay! Home to our own bed and no one coming in at all hours of the night! Thankfully daddy had one more day off before having to go back to work on Monday so we didn't have to be too careful about not waking him during the night! And he got up early on Sunday with Mady when she had the hiccups and couldn't go back to sleep. He even filled my motrin prescription and picked up bagels for breakfast! He let me sleep in til about 9:30 am with no baby and then had my bagel already for me with juice and a motrin too! We got up and hung out for a little bit but then it was time to get ready! We ventured to Papa and Nana Gulley's house for lunch and Christmas pictures for their yearly christmas card! It was a success! Mommy, daddy and Mady all dressed up pretty and matching even! Spent the afternoon with family and took LOTS of pictures!
Monday was Mady's first pediatrician's appointment. Aunt Kristen stayed the night Sunday and drove mommy and Mady to the dr and hospital because Mommy's not supposed to drive for one week. Pediatrician said Mady gets an A+ because she is doing SO GOOD! She was very impressed and very happy with her progress! She was back at birth weight, which usually takes a week or two and had GREAT color! The dr just kept gushing at how good she was looking! She said everything looked great and we don't have to come back for her 2 week visit we can wait for her one month instead! Thats a $20 savings! =) Then we got her 48 hour blood work done since we left the hospital before she was 48 hours old we had to go back for it. She did really good, didn't cry when she got stuck, got really fussy when they kept squeezing her foot to get 5 samples from her, and then cried after mommy had her wrapped up and was cuddling her! But that didn't even last to the car!
Mady has been great and hasn't been too bad for mommy at night either! Although she seems to be staying up longer each time she gets up at night but doesn't get up very often. She gets the hiccups alot too! I've posted a video of them with all her pictures on here, its so cute!
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I love seeing her in all the familiar clothes! <3
And good job writing down the whole birth story because you won't believe how quickly it all becomes fuzzy. John and i still argue about how some of it went down because we remember it differently, lol.
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