Sorry, this is 3 1/2 weeks late.
ANDREW HARRIS SILVEUS is Here!!
June 23rd at 3:17 am
20 1/2 in.
8 lbs 4 oz
Well as for the labor, I woke up, that Monday, June 22, around 6:45 with really bad cramps so I got up and went to the bathroom to get ready to go to work. Well, after having 3 contractions in the shower I knew they were true contractions and they were close. SO, I finished getting ready and got around and by 8 they were coming every 3-5 mins, I texted Bret at work and told him. So I called the Dr. and she wanted me to come in to get monitored there first before going to the hospital so I wouldn't waste my day there if I wasn't far along. Well, my mom came and took me to the drs. at 10:30 and I was hooked up the monitor and watched for 30 mins. The nurse and dr. assume I wasn't far along b/c I was still able to talk ( & smile) through the contractions so the one nurse told me that i would pry go home and then go in when it gets worst, well then the dr. examed me and I was already 4 cm so i was then told to go to the hospital, but to take my time and walk a little before I go get tied down. (Walking helped me alot to get through the contractions) My mom and I were going to go to walmart but then decided to get my mom something to eat and then go to the park across from the hospital by the river. At the river, I was talking on the phone with Bret, daddy, who was one his way home from work, telling him to take his time and go home and change when my water broke around 12:30. O my, what a feeling, so I climbed into the car and went across the street and walked into the hospital soaking wet. I am soo gald I did not go to walmart :)
I got all admitted and hooked up and by 2 pm I was already 7 cm. So they gave me the epidural, which took 8 tries. Bret was not very happy at that point but it was b/c I holding one shoulder down farther then the other. After that, epidural was great and I was able to relax and even sleep. They got everything ready b/c they thought I would deliver before 7pm. I thought at first and I think all the nurses thought so too that it was going to be quick but Andrew had other plans. Well..... once I got to 9cm I was stuck there for two hours with no progress. I finally got to 10 cm around 9:30 and started pushing, but with the epidural, I couldn't feel anything so I wasn't pushing enough to do anything. So, we turned the epidural down, still nothing. The last resort was to turn it off, so we did b/c I was just about to crown and it would be over soon.
Then...... at 1:30 the nurse ran into my room and told me to stop pushing there was an emergency. Not, something you want to hear when you are ready to crown and no epidual b.c at that point the pushing was what was relieving the pain of the contractions. I listened and stop pushing but it was not fun. Well, I was able to start pushing again at 3 and by 3:17 he was born. He had a very bad cone head b/c he was in the birth canal for 5 hours but he was content and happy there and his heart rate never showed stress so I was very thankful for that and that God was watching over everyone that night at the hospital.
Come to find out later, the nurses had to leave me b/c the other mom in the room next to me had delivered her boy but she was hemorrhaging really bad. Molly said there was blood all over, and molly being a nurse knew it was bad. They were able to save mom and baby. I learned that I can make it through labor without epidural :)
Well, I better get going , Andrew needs some loving (feeding) :) I will try to keep this updated more once we are living back at our own house.
