When I went in to my doctor’s visit on the Monday after my due date I expected the doctor to say he would induce that Thursday which was Dec 2, 2010. Since my B/P was a little high he decided not to risk it anymore and induce the following morning. I have to admit I was overjoyed. Two reasons I was super excited to finally meet my little one and happy to gain my own body back. We were scheduled for the induction at 9am Tuesday November 30th. I'm pretty sure I was glowing all day because I could not come down I was so happy. This was a huge blessing in disguise because Anthony's normal days off are Tuesday and Thursday. so being induced on Tuesday meant that he would probably only have to take one day extra off.
Tuesday morning we were up early for obvious reasons and about 45 minutes before we were scheduled to be induced the hospital called and said they were extra busy today and I would have to wait until they had a room available. We were devastated, we had no idea how long that could be or if it would still be the same day. To try and fill our day we decided to go and get breakfast at IHOP to blow sometime in the hopes that while we were out the hospital would call and say to come in and we could get the "party" started but no such luck. So we came back home and began packing up the house. I've been kinda slacking considering we're moving in like 3 weeks and all the art and stuff is still on the walls and to be honest very little was packed. We finished packing up all the art on the walls and our desk and still no call so I asked Anthony if he would like to go inside and play his new video game he just got since we had nothing better to do and he isn’t going to have the time to do it later. As he was loading the game the hospital called and said they were ready for us to come in for the induction. We were ecstatic to say the least. We made a few phone calls to family and let them know what was happening and we were off. I was so excited I could barely contain myself and I’m pretty sure that Anthony was overexcited as well because he sped all the way there. When we got there they were ready and waiting for us. We sat in the waiting room for about 10 minutes while they shuffled stuff around and they placed us in a room. I had two different nurses just to be admitted to the labor and delivery department. The first thing they did was hook me up to the monitors and already there was a problem. Madison’s heart rate was off the charts, she was running in the 180’s to the 190’s. Because her heart rate never came down they held the induction until she remained stable for at least a half hour. We were admitted at 11am and they didn’t begin the induction until 4pm.
Tuesday morning we were up early for obvious reasons and about 45 minutes before we were scheduled to be induced the hospital called and said they were extra busy today and I would have to wait until they had a room available. We were devastated, we had no idea how long that could be or if it would still be the same day. To try and fill our day we decided to go and get breakfast at IHOP to blow sometime in the hopes that while we were out the hospital would call and say to come in and we could get the "party" started but no such luck. So we came back home and began packing up the house. I've been kinda slacking considering we're moving in like 3 weeks and all the art and stuff is still on the walls and to be honest very little was packed. We finished packing up all the art on the walls and our desk and still no call so I asked Anthony if he would like to go inside and play his new video game he just got since we had nothing better to do and he isn’t going to have the time to do it later. As he was loading the game the hospital called and said they were ready for us to come in for the induction. We were ecstatic to say the least. We made a few phone calls to family and let them know what was happening and we were off. I was so excited I could barely contain myself and I’m pretty sure that Anthony was overexcited as well because he sped all the way there. When we got there they were ready and waiting for us. We sat in the waiting room for about 10 minutes while they shuffled stuff around and they placed us in a room. I had two different nurses just to be admitted to the labor and delivery department. The first thing they did was hook me up to the monitors and already there was a problem. Madison’s heart rate was off the charts, she was running in the 180’s to the 190’s. Because her heart rate never came down they held the induction until she remained stable for at least a half hour. We were admitted at 11am and they didn’t begin the induction until 4pm.
To start the induction I was hoping they would just go straight to the pitocin which causes contractions but my cervix was not effaced at all and I was only dilated to a 1. So they used cervadil. When I heard those words I was very upset because I knew that meant 12 hours of medication that probably would yield very little. At that point I knew that this was going to be a very long process. So for an hour I laid flat on my back for an hour while we watched surf’s up on our handy dandy new portable DVD player. I got a couple of contractions but my goal was to go all 12 hours without pain medication. It took some doing but I did it … 12 hours with some contractions and no pain medication. When they came in at 4 am to check if the medication had yielded any results…the news was devastating very little had changed. They said okay let’s do another round of cervadil and I refused I told them do a C-section or find another way but no cervadil. The nurse came back in about an hour later and asked if I would do another medication called cytotec. They explained how it worked and I agreed. They gave me the medication and I laid down for the half hour required. Then when Anthony got back from getting some breakfast we went down stairs to the first floor and we walked up and down the halls for four hours. About a half hour into walking up and down the hall we knew the medication was working because I was feeling major contractions and they were strong enough that I had to stop walking while they were happening. After the four hours I went back up I had some lunch and after lunch they checked me. I was dilated to a two and was effaced about 50%. We did another round of cytotec and walked for another four hours. By this time it was 8pm on day two of the induction, when they checked my cervix I was dilated to a 3 and ready for the pitocin. This is when things really got started. The contractions started to get stronger and at about 1 am I asked for some pain medication so they gave me nubain. About a half hour later the anesthesiologist came in to give me my epidural. I really didn’t want it yet but they said it was now or never so I went ahead and agreed. That was the most bizarre feeling ever but it was not painful like I expected it to be. Around 3am the nurse came in to check on my progress but nothing had changed and she said the baby was stuck in the same position and was having head molding because the bridge of her nose was stuck on the front of my pelvis. They said they were only going to wait a half hour longer and then they were going to stop everything and I would be scheduled for a C-section at 7am. I really didn’t want the C-section at this time since I had worked so hard to make things happen naturally. At about 5 am I told Anthony to call the nurse because I really felt like I needed to push. She came in and checked me I was dilated to a 9 and only had a small rim around Madison’s head that I had to wait and not push. So I decided that I did not want her to deliver Madison and I held on and did not push for almost 2 hours to wait for the morning nurse to come on at 7:30. Her name was Arianna, she was also the day nurse on our 2nd day there. I told Anthony at 7:30 that I couldn’t hold her in any more. He went to get Arianna and when she walked in she said to practice pushing. I pushed once and she said to stop and not to push anymore because she could see Madison’s head and there was no doctor. She turned to the night shift nurse and told her to get Dr. Wong (my ob/gyn) right now. I pushed for 15 minutes or so and she was here. It was the hardest thing I ever did but I had amazing support by my side and once she was on my chest there was nothing in this world that was better. At that moment I understood a little better the love Heavenly Father has for his children. I never thought I could love someone more than I love Anthony and I didn’t lose any love for him she just increased the capacity my heart and mind could understand in loving another person. FAMILIES CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER THOUGH HEAVENLY FATHERS PLAN…and I’m so grateful for the knowledge of his true and ever lasting gospel
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