The Story of the Birth, Pt. 1
Daddy May 17th, 2006
Since this is supposed to be a running story of Alex’s life, we thought it would be good to start from the start.
Mommy had been feeling contractions off-and-on for the last week or so, but they never felt like what the doctor called "table grabbers" so it didn’t look like things were progressing all that quickly. On Monday, May 8th, we had an appointment with the OB doctor to find out how close she was. (For those that don’t know, Mommy’s due date was May 7th.) The doctor was optimistic, but Mommy was only 2cm dilated, which she had been for the last week.
Since we were past the due date, the doctor wanted to schedule a date for inducing labor. She looked at the calendar and the soonest labor could be scheduled was May 18th. Well, this just wasn’t going to do for the expectant parents. Mommy was starting a new job on July 3rd, regardless of when the baby would arrive. We pleaded with the doctor that it would be really helpful for us to be on the schedule sooner so that Mommy could have time to recover before she started her new job. Since she is so great, the doctor looked into a few things and was able to get us on the schedule for May 9th, the very next day. Luckily, it wouldn’t matter anyway…
That evening of May 8th, we went out to dinner with some friends to celebrate our friend Sabah’s birthday. We had a delicious dinner at Grizzly Peak Brewing Co., one of our favorite local restaurants, but the whole time Mommy just wasn’t feeling all that good. So, we left the party a little early and headed home.
When we got home, Mommy called the hospital just to see if they had any advice and it was decided that she should come in to be checked out. We got to the hospital at 10:15, and after a short examination it was determined that Mommy was now dilated to 4cm and would be admitted. So she had moved 2cm in a little under 10 hours – needless to say we were getting excited!
And then the waiting started.
We were admitted to a room with a soaking tub, so Mommy took a bath right away to help ease the pain from the contractions.
And then we waited.
Every once in a while, a doctor or nurse would pop into the room to check Mommy out, but there was very little progress.
And so we waited some more.
At about 2 am the doctor decided to break Mommy’s "bag of waters" to help move things along. That was a funny feeling! Now we were definitely stuck at the hospital until the baby came out, but unfortunately Mommy wouldn’t get to take any more baths in the nice soaking tub.
And we waited.
With our excitement up and people constantly streaming in and out of the room, sleeping was hard to do. We tried, Mommy in bed and Daddy in a reclining chair, but we didn’t get very far.
And thus we waited and waited.
And to help you get into the same mindset, you can wait too for the end of the story in a little bit…
- Birthday
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