Baby Olivia - A Birth Story

April 25th 2012

4:06 am  6 lbs 13 oz  19 inches long

Baby Olivia showed up a few weeks early! Her due date was May 16th but she couldn't wait any longer to get here! I was spilling protein in my urine so they wanted to go ahead and deliver her early, I really wanted to avoid a C-Section so we got started on some progesterone on Tuesday evening at 5:30 to see if I would start to progress at all. I was having a lot of contractions but nothing big or painful until about 10pm I had a contraction that woke me up almost in tears from pain, but we didn't think much of it and i fell back asleep. 30 mins later my nurse walked in to get me ready for a second dose of progesterone and before she could even say hi my water broke and I was dilated to a 2, we started the pitocin and an hour later I was having super strong contractions about a minute apart, the nurse came in to check me and I was at a 4 and going pretty quick so I asked for my epidural and got it right away, it was working fantastic for about 30-45 mins and then i started feeling my contractions again but very lightly so I just pushed my button for an extra dose {since it takes 20 mins} and thought I'd be good to go, but no such luck the contractions just kept getting worse so we had the anesthesiologist come back in to check it out and everything was fine so he asked what I was dilated to and I was already at an 8. He explained that because my contractions were so strong and quick that was why I could still feel them, he said a normal contraction is about a 3 and mine were probably going at about 7, he offered to put something else in my IV that would make it so i didn't feel anything but I figured with how fast things were going I'd just deal with it. at about 3am on Wednesday morning I was already at a 10 and my nurse called the Dr. We started to push at about 3:25am and 40 mins later at 4:06am Olivia was born! 

I shocked everyone with my delivery. My Dr had told me we could try to push her out but I was very unfavorable since I wasn't dilated at all or effaced, he and the nurses thought I'd get my two doses of progesterone start on the pitocin and be in labor for 12 hours after that and end up in a c-section. It was really nice to prove them wrong!! 

When they took her down for her bath and to check her vitals they found that her blood sugar was at 12.5 {it should be at 100} so they took her back up to the NICU for an IV but said she would probably be doing fine in a few hours and bring her back down. that "few hours" has turned into two days and she is still there. Her levels have been consistent for a day and the Dr ordered for her IV to be weened off within 24 hrs. Shes now just got to get a hang of eating she'll be home! They did start a feeding tube until she learns how to nurse good on her own, and since she hasn't had a lot of food to poop out she is starting to get a little jaundice and they are putting the billy ruben light on her so she can get rid of that before its an issue. The Dr today also heard a +2 grey murmur so he ordered an echo just to make sure its nothing and he said not to be worried about it for now, so I'm not. She's doing so good and I'm hoping to have her home in a day or so. 

She is the most beautiful thing in the world and I love her so much. I love watching Kasey stare at her and love on her, he is going to be such an amazing dad and is already so in love with her! We are both dying to get her home so we can just snuggle her all day long and give her so much love! 

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So much hair!!!