Hey ladies!

It's finally my turn! Hehe - so here it goes!

As you guys know, friday afternoon I started bleeding so I went in to the hospital and got checked and monitored for about an hour and then sent home.

Well, friday night I started bleeding again and I was having pretty regular contractions. But I didn't want to go in again because I didn't want to get sent home.

So finally saturday afternoon I went back in and they monitored nathaniel's heartrate and my contractions for about two hours. Well the doctor saw some things he didn't like (nathaniel's heartrate was dropping with contractions) so the admitted me to the hospital to be monitored over night.

And at about 4:45 sunday morning the nurse came into my room and asked me if I was in pain and I said yes, and she told me that my contractions had become very regular. So she checked me and I had dilated to 2-3cm. So they went ahead and put in my iv and were gonna give me some demoral for the pain (i was having extremely bad back labor) but right before the nurse was going to put the demoral into the iv nathaniel's heartrate dropped really low. So she went and got the doctor and they started me on pitocin and magnesium because they decided it wasn't safe to keep him in there much longer.

So my pain got extremely intense about 5 minutes after they started the pitocin so they gave me my demoral. Haha - good stuff by the way..And then they gave me the epidural at 3 cm. I was so drugged up I dont even remember getting it, or asking for it for that matter. But yeah, then I slept through the entire thing and all I remember was waking up to a bunch of yelling and crazy people and some nurse saying "go get doctor mcquirk!" I was so drugged up I had no idea what was going on but I found out later from my mom that nathaniel's heartrate had dropped below 100 (dont know how much though) for about 5 minutes and wasn't coming back up. And to tell you the truth I don't know what else happened after that. Next thing I know I was pushing and then there was nathaniel!! I only had to push through 3 contractions.

And I can't really tell you guys any of that stuff about apgar or how many stitches I have because I don't know. My nurses wouldnt tell me anything! I didn't even know how much he weighed or how long he was until about 8 hours after he was born and I felt good enough to go the nursery and see him.

He weighed 5 lbs. 15 0z. And is 19 inches long.

Anyway, he is doing pretty good right now. I still havent gotten to hold him and it will still be atleast 24 hours before I can...But he is doing better. I am going back to the hospital in a few hours to sit with him.

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i will post pics later...I am tired and don't feel like messing with villagephotos....