On Sunday morning August 26 at around 5:45 am my water broke. I should have had an idea something was happening because on Saturday I was feeling sooo tired. I literally could not sit up without falling asleep to the point were Rhody was even looking at me with concern. That evening the same thing, still kept falling asleep so I spent most of the evening on the yoga ball and I even ate some fresh pineapple to see if that myth would really work. I was on video chat with my sisters and they were telling me they would be standing by the phone "just in case". So that night we fell asleep at about 11:30pm and I woke up at about 2:30am with terrible contractions. I could hardly move. However, after about 10-20 minutes they slowed down. So back on the yoga ball i went and around 3am I fell back to sleep. At 5:30 am I then woke up to use the bathroom and couldn't go back to sleep, so I was laying in bed playing on my phone. I looked at the time it was 5:43am and I thought "Oh good if my water breaks I can call Libby and tell her because she wanted me to wait until then to tell her because with 2 little ones herself she wouldn't be able to leave in the middle of the night. No sooner did I think that I felt a "POP" and then a trickle....I was stunned, I thought...huh did I just pee myself, did he kick me? So I roll out of bed and the trickle gushes so I waddle to the bathroom as I tell Tim I think my water broke! He's already up with phone in hand while I'm sitting on the toilet and I'm like "Are you sure I didn't pee myself?" Tim says "NO way" So I begin rushing around making sure we have everything for our bag while Tim pages the midwife on call. We are still waiting for her to call back and it had been about 30 minuets, still no word from her. So we page her again and just leave for the hospital. At this point it's almost 7:00am half way to the hospital we still had not heard from the midwife so I called the hospital and find out that they have the wrong midwife on the message so we were paging someone who was not even on call! We arrive at the hospital after Tim ran several red lights :) just because we could I think :)...On the way I called everyone to let them know what was going on. Mom and Ella where already on there way.
We arrive and I'm starting to leak everywhere luckily I did bring an extra towel. They take me to a room and the midwife arrives about 1.5 hours later they check me and I'm only 2 cm dilated and about 70% effaced so they allow me to walk the halls to help get things moving and I get on the yoga ball. If I had no progression by noon they were going to start pitocin. At that point I still was only 80% and 3cm dilated so the pitocin was started. Mom and Ella showed about around 9:30 they made amazing timing! I was so happy to have them there, with Tim and them there I was well taken care of! Around 2pm I really started feeling some very strong strong contractions. Tim was amazing too, he helped me stay soo calm through the contractions. He rubbed me, encouraged me. He was amazing. Ella was amazing to she really helped me focus to, she kept encouraging me and rubbed me it made for an amazing experience. I want to say around 4pm is when I got the epidural because I just couldn't take the pain any longer. At that point my nurse duty was Katie and she was amazing! She helped keep me still and calm during the epidural through out the evening I had only gotten to 7cm when Caleb started to become distressed every time I had a contraction Caleb's heart rate would dip very low. They tried having me change positions. They added fluid back in to take some pressure off the umbilical cord. They had stopped the pitocin hours earlier to see if that would help. Nothing was working. Finally the doctor came in at about 11pm and said that he felt the safest thing for the baby would be to have a c-section. However, it was up to me and that I could restart the pitocin and see if I would progress further. I was so upset the last thing I wanted was a C-section I was scared to death but I knew it was the safest thing for Caleb. I was really scared with is heart beat dropping so low.
They began prepping me for surgery and getting Tim ready to go in with me. Off we went. The surgery went much faster than I thought it would. Katie came back with me and held me hand which was really reassuring she has to be one of the best nurses I've ever had before (On a side note when Libby had her c-section with Katelyn her nurses name was also Katie and she came back with her to hold her hand also, what are the odds?!!) . Tim was very supportive he was worried too but he stayed strong. At 12:03am on Monday August 27th he was here. I finally could hear him cry. I started crying, it has to be one of the most amazing things I've ever heard in my life....his cry was soo sweet and I knew he was mine. All I wanted was to see him. It felt like forever before they let Tim bring him to me to see and he was beautiful. He just stared up at Tim with such a sweet look on his face he didn't cry or anything just snuggled. He is amazing and my life will forever be changed from this moment on. I am so in love with this little person I get to call my own. <3
Apparently the cord was wrapped around his neck. Thats why he was in distress. We are really blessed and thankful that everything turned out okay and our little guy is here and safe and healthy. It was a very scary situation!
