Thursday night (10.13.2011) we had spicy Mexican food and I
went for a walk. I started having irregular, but painful contractions.
Friday morning (10.14.2011) I called the doctor’s office because I was
still having painful contractions, but they were still irregular. They said to
come in for my appointment at 1 unless the contractions were 5 minutes apart
for 2 hours!
The contractions did not get regular so we went in at 1 for
my appointment. I was only dilated to 2cm, which was only one more since the
week before. I cried most of the way home because I was frustrated that the
painful contractions weren’t doing a lot.
My mom asked if I wanted anything and I told her I wanted
cherry 7 up. We took a nap and she came over a little after 5 with some cherry
7 up. As she was pulling into the driveway, I had a very painful contraction as
I was walking down the hallway to let her in and after that they came at least
every 5 minutes.
My mom left with Lilly a little before 7 and I waited until
7:30 (two hours after they started 5 minutes apart) to call the doctor. He asked
me if they were getting more and more intense and I said, “I don’t know, I
think so!” He said to go ahead and come into the hospital and they would check
me.
After that, I was totally doubting myself so we decided to
take a walk around the block before we went to the hospital. We but only got to
the corner before a cop pulled over and told us to go back to the house because
there was a man with a gun in the area! We found out later the Starbucks down
the street was robbed and they were looking for the guy. We walked back to the
house and I had to stop a few times as we were walking up the driveway because
they contractions were SO painful.
We got our stuff ready and headed to the hospital. The ride
was pretty uncomfortable. I think I asked Rhett to not go over any bumps! When
we got to the hospital, I told Rhett to leave the bags in the car because I
still was thinking they might send us home. HAHA! We walked inside and I had to
stop a few times because the contractions were hurting so much. Then we went up
the wrong elevator and couldn’t remember how to get to the birth center. We
finally found our way there and they showed us to the birthing room and I
changed into a gown and got in the bed.
The nurse came in and checked me around 8:45 and I was 4 ½
to 5 cm dilated! I was so surprised and happy that all the pain was doing
something! She asked what my plan for was for dealing with the pain and I said
I had dealt with enough, I wanted an epidural! She said the anesthesiologist
was doing a c-section, but she would let them know I was ready as soon as they
were done.
The plan was for my mom to bring Lilly to the hospital and
Grandma Chadlee and Aunt Rhaean would take her home and bring her back after
the baby was born. My mom was planning on staying with Rhett and me for the
birth. So since I was having very painful contractions really close together we
called my mom and Rhett’s mom and told them to head over. When Lilly got there,
I still had not had an epidural and I was in a lot of pain. She looked pretty
concerned about me so I asked Grandma Chadlee and Aunt Rhaean to take her out to the family waiting room
until I got my epidural.
Once the anesthesiologist was done with the c-section he
came in to do my epidural. When it was in place my right side felt good, but my
left side hurt really bad. The nurse rolled me over to try to get the medicine
to flow to my left side. When that didn’t help, she checked to see how dilated
I was and I was 9 ½ cm and completely effaced! After that everything happened
really quickly! She said I was progressing too fast for the epidural to take
full effect. She put my feet up on the stirrups and let me push on my next
contraction. She said the baby was right there and ready to come out so she got
the doctor. When the doctor came in, the same doctor I had seen earlier that
day for my appointment, it was the first time we had seen him since we got to
the hospital. He said, “Wow! You really were serious about having this baby
today!”
Once the doctor was ready, I only pushed through a few
contractions and Korbynn Ann was born at 10:25PM! The cord was wrapped around
her neck, just like Lilly’s was, but they unwrapped it and I got to hold her
right away. After a few seconds she started to cry. She weighed 7 pounds 14.6
ounces (just .2 ounces more than Lilly) and was 21 inches long (just ½ inch
longer than Lilly).
Rhett went to tell Grandma Chadlee and Aunt Rhaean not to go
anywhere because the baby was already here! He brought Lilly back into the room
to meet her baby sister. It was such a sweet moment and my mom got it on video.
After Lilly had a chance to meet her, Grandma Chadlee and Aunt Rhaean came back
to the room. As we were visiting, the anesthesiologist walked in and said, “Just
seeing how you are doing in here… Oh! It’s a baby!!” He came in to see if my
epidural needed to be adjusted and was shocked to see that the baby was already
there!
I think after my 30 hour labor, 3 hours of pushing with
Lilly, EVERYONE was shocked that after about only two hours at the hospital Korbynn
was already born! I felt so much better after the delivery than I did after
Lilly’s. I didn’t tear and since there wasn’t even time to get a catheter after
the epidural I didn’t end up getting one at all. I was able to walk (with the
nurse’s and Rhett’s help) to the bathroom shortly after she was born.
We are so blessed to have two sweet little girls! We love them both so much!
