How It All Went Down

Life with a baby has been so exhausting!  It has been so much fun though loving and cuddling our little guy.

So here is how everything went down...

We had an induction scheduled for early Friday morning.  We had to call before we went in to make sure they had a room available for us.  We were all packed and ready to go when I called at 7:30 and was told to call back at 9.  We were so dissappointed.  We called back at 9 and were told to call back at 12.  To kill the time we went to Border's and walked around Target.  We called at 12 and were turned down once again.  We came home and fixed some lunch, and wondered if we were even going to meet our little guy that day.  At 2 it was Travis' turn to call (we were taking turns) and the nurse finally said to come in!  We were so excited!  We got our stuff and hurried to the hospital. 

We got set up in our room and were told about the different induction options.  Since I had been showing no progress at my last appointments we were assuming we would have to go with the process that could take up to 20 hours before they could even start the induction of labor by administering pitocin.  They hooked me up with the fetal monitor and the monitor that measures my contractions and apparently I was having contractions every 7-10 minutes and I was dialated to 3cm and 50% effaced.  This was all news to us.  I was in labor and didn't even know it!  I was started right away on pitocin and Travis officially started the clock on my labor at 4:30 pm.  As my contractions progressed I definitely started to feel them.  I opted for an epidural before they started getting more intense.  Why deal with the pain when I didn't have to.  The epidural was received and I was in heaven!  It went to work right away and I couldn't feel a thing.  I was checked again at 9 pm and had only progressed to 4.5 cm.  I wasn't moving very fast.  We had a feeling it was going to be a long night.  They upped the pitocin and we continued to wait.  The Dukes of Hazzard was on TV and Travis decided to watch it because the main character is named Beauregard "Bo" Duke.  Travis joked that we would tell Beau that he got his name because the Dukes of Hazzard was on TV when he was born.  Five minutes until midnight I was checked again and the doctor was surprised.  She said you are not going to believe this, but you are 10 cm, 100% effaced and his head is ready to come out!  My nurse was on break for another 20 minutes so they wanted to wait until she came back for me to start pushing.  She came back and I started pushing.  Less than 40 minutes later he was born!  It was a lot easier than Travis and I had expected.  I feel like the recovery has been the hardest part thus far.

We love our chunky monkey and feel so blessed that everything went well and that Beau is a part of our family.