Well, C woke me up a little after 2 this morning, "Beeeeen - my water broke!" So we're at the hospital now [edit: now=0300 hrs] in one of the birthing suites, and she's actually feeling her contractions this time around.
[time passes]
Man, C was a bit pi55ed off.... She was at 5cm around 0500... The contractions were pretty bad, so she was going to get an epidural.
I was watching the monitor, and was thinking to myself, "that waveform looks a LOT like the pattern we saw in our birthing classes that indicates the final stages of labor. Huh. Must be a wonky monitor trace."
By the time the anethesiologist rolled in at 0530, she was having the baby! The nurse told him, "forget the epidural, get the doctor and the baby catcher!" boy Carmen was mad... "WHAT? THIS IS SO NOT COOL!"
So after not quite 3.5 hours of labor & bit of pushing later, baby Hunter was born at 0538. He's 5 pounds and a bit over 10 oz, and 18.5 inches long.
They whipped him right into the NICU because he didn't look very good... Some of the meds they gave her at the beginning that should've been out of her system by birth didn't have time, so he was affected.
NICU pronounced him good to go... And he's currently [was approx 0700?] getting his first meal right on tap :)
Anyhow -- I've uploaded a bunch more pics to flickr, so check out the link.
http://flickr.com/photos/benjaminellison/sets/72157604459422075/
[edited to fix link, add tags]
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4 comments:
Congratulations! What beautiful baby! Enjoy the hospital help, once you get home you are on your own.... SLEEP WHILE YOU CAN!!! :)
Richard
Woo hoo! Way to go Carmen!
Pricipitous labor is usually more intense/painful than longer labor. You are a birthing warrior! :)
Actually that's what happens a lot of the time - that last bit of dilation tends to go super fast...usually starting at 7 cm though...and transition is the part of labor where many women are "done" and 20 minutes later it's time to push.
You do realize that if you have more babies they probably will go even faster? :) Usually twice as fast, on average.
Congrats - Hunter looks adorable.
Kristina
PS - Rich sent the link to your blog over - via Ryan I think
Congratulations!!! He's adorable!
Its Wendy
I am not sure if I did this right the first time so I am trying again. The baby is beautiful. My first was just about the same way as yours in arriving. Ricky weighed 5ls8oz and was born at 0533 and I believe I was in labor about 21/2 hours Mom and I went to the hospital at 0300.
He is so beautiful and I know that you are a proud mom and will spoil that boy badly. Lucky Hunter. You take care and get back on your feet. Your figure will return in no time. After my third I was back in a bikini in 2weeks. No lie. You will too.
Love you and keep posting those pictures.
Wendy Chedester
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