Yesterday was Owen's 2nd Birthday. I cannot believe he is 2! He blesses our family so much. He is so silly, sweet and just full of so much life! We love him greatly! I wanted to share his birth story. I wrote this a few days after he was born. Enjoy!
Owen’s Arrival
First, I am so blessed to have had 2 wonderful pregnancies
and deliveries. I am so thankful for that.
I was 3 days past my “due date”, so
I was very anxious for Owen’s arrival and not to be pregnant anymore. On Wednesday May 12th, I had told
Don that I felt like Owen was so low and could basically fall out at anytime.
That night as we were about to go to sleep my water broke at 10:50pm as I was
lying in the bed. And it was a lot of water. I asked Don to change the sheets
because I wanted to go back to sleep and I wasn’t having very strong
contractions, but after talking to Dr. Wilson she urged me to come to the
hospital. As we were driving to the hospital my contractions started to come
about every 3-4 minutes. They were growing in intensity, but still not too bad.
As we waited in the emergency room I had to start concentrating on my
contractions more. I would close my eyes and envision my contraction growing
and then going down. It helped me through Eden’s labor, so I figured it would
work with Owen’s and it did. It was 12:30am by the time we got checked into our
room and they checked my dilation. Dr. Wilson was surprised that I came to the
hospital. I think she thought that I would just stay home and have the baby. I
was 7cm and about 90% effaced. So, I had progressed pretty quickly.
I sat on my birthball for about 10 minutes as Don put warm
pressure on my back with a rice sock. And as my mom and Chris gave my legs
support when a contraction would come. After about 10 minutes of that I felt
very sick. I had to spend the rest of the time in the restroom. I will spare
the details here. But Don was in there with me and I knew I was almost
complete. Once all that had passed the nurse came in and said she could check
me again, but I told her I knew I was complete and he was ready to come. She
checked me and I was right. I was at 10cm. The hardest part with that was lying
down in the bed. I hate being in hospital beds and hate being on my back for
labor, but it was quick.
Dr. Wilson told me I could start
pushing whenever I was ready. Sidenote… She is a wonderful doctor! I love how
she doesn’t rush labor or try to do any unnecessary interventions. I pushed in
a squatted position with Don in front of me. Pushing with Owen was so hard! At
one point I had rather just endure the contractions than push. But once I got
in a good rhythm with it and was making progress I was encouraged. Once he was
about to crown Dr. Wilson wanted me on my back, which I was fine with at that
point. I kept my eyes closed through the last few pushes and I remember saying
I just want him out! Once his head was out they told me to stop pushing because
the cord was around his neck twice. Dr. Wilson quickly removed it and placed
our beautiful son on my belly. I warmed him and wiped him off and we waited
until the cord stopped pulsating before the cord was cut. He was born at 2:17am
on Thursday May 13th. Only 3 hours and 17 minutes of labor. One
thing that was different with Eden is that her whole body came out so quick,
but he was much slower and I had to push his body out…. Probably because he was
bigger. It was a beautiful delivery. I just praised the Lord that he was here
and safe. It did take Dr. Wilson about 30-45 minutes to stitch me up because as
she described it, my tore was “creative”. It was a 2nd degree. After
she was done he easily started breastfeeding. He was 8.8lbs and 20 ¼ inches
long.
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