He's Here
At 8am, I admitted myself into the labor and delivery area at our local hospital while Joel dropped off Sophia and Millie for a fun adventure with Aunt Cole, Uncle Dan and some of her BFFs named Roscoe, Millie, Linus and Calvin. She's forgotten about us now.
At 9:30 am I started my pitocin drip.
At 9:40 am, I started major contractions and begged for my epidural.
At 10 am my water broke while going to the bathroom, still begging for my epidural.
At 11 am I was dilated at a 7 and I was still begging for my epidural.
At 11:20 am I finally got my epidural only to let my nurse know that it was time to push. The doctor was paged urgent and by 11:45 little Freddie was born at 9lbs and 21" long. He looks just like Joel and a gremlin and Frodo. I think his old man face goes perfect with his old man name and we're already totally in love with him.
So the moral of this story...I pushed out a 9lb baby with no results of an epidural. The epidural kicked in 10 minutes AFTER I delivered. What a waste of money.
Yesterday was a long day of recovery even though labor was only a bit longer than 2 hours. I'm feeling a lot better today and I truly believe a hot shower is better than Tylenol. Percocet? Probably not, but showers get me through.
Here's to you Freddie. May you bring us as much happiness and joy that our little gnome has brought us these past two years!
At 9:30 am I started my pitocin drip.
At 9:40 am, I started major contractions and begged for my epidural.
At 10 am my water broke while going to the bathroom, still begging for my epidural.
At 11 am I was dilated at a 7 and I was still begging for my epidural.
At 11:20 am I finally got my epidural only to let my nurse know that it was time to push. The doctor was paged urgent and by 11:45 little Freddie was born at 9lbs and 21" long. He looks just like Joel and a gremlin and Frodo. I think his old man face goes perfect with his old man name and we're already totally in love with him.
So the moral of this story...I pushed out a 9lb baby with no results of an epidural. The epidural kicked in 10 minutes AFTER I delivered. What a waste of money.
Yesterday was a long day of recovery even though labor was only a bit longer than 2 hours. I'm feeling a lot better today and I truly believe a hot shower is better than Tylenol. Percocet? Probably not, but showers get me through.
Here's to you Freddie. May you bring us as much happiness and joy that our little gnome has brought us these past two years!
posted by Stephanie at 10:55 AM
3 Comments:
Yay! You and Joel did another fantastic job pro-creating!
It is so nice to meet Freddie. Great job Stephanie!! I can't wait to meet him in person :)
He's beautiful! I can totally sympathize with you about the epidural! I had 2 failed epidurals! After I pushed Caleb out, they realized they were going to have to do an emergency
C-section to get Kevin out, I ended up having to be knocked out and I missed Kevin's birth!
Congradulations! Hope we get to meet him and Sophia soon!
Post a Comment
<< Home