Evan Lucas Shaffer

September 15, 2011

4:24pm

8lbs6oz

21ins

  I arrived at the hospital for my induction at 530am on sept 15th. Was brought straight back to my room to get prepped and to do all the paperwork etc... The doctor came in and did a cervical check and a quick u/s to see what kind of induction method would be best.. At that time( about 6-630am) i was 2cm and about 60% effaced but my cervix was still fairly firm.. The doctor had decided that a quarter dose of cytotec(a med used to help ripen the cervix) i s what we would start with. The pill would be inserted and after 2 hour i would be checked and either do another dose or start pitocen and a Foley bulb... So fast forward to about 830 and the cytotec was inserted. I had to lay down for the first hour, and then would be  allowed to get up and walk if i wanted.. Well within that hour my contractions started. They were not very strong at that point but i was feeling them.. I got up at about 930 and  sat in the rocking chair in the room. I sat there and rocked for about 30mins when i felt a gush. Yep water  broke.! The nurse was surprised as thing were defiantly progressing with very little medical intervention.. I continued to labor in the chair and my waters also continued to break.. (this is where time got very blurry) I think at about 11ish i got back in bed.  My contractions started to pick up and were 2mins apart at this point. The doctor came in at some point to check me and i think i was about a 5, not sure.. So labor was defiantly in full swing and i did not need any other help(like pitocen, YEA) At some point(maybe 12ish) a nurse(she was not my main nurse) rushed in and told me to turn to my side and put on a oxygen mask, baby's hear rate was dropping.. She was very frantic about it all but after a few mins thin calmed down fort a bit anyways.. I was in extreme pain by this point, and questioning if i could do this naturally.. Baby didn't seem to be tolerating the contractions well at all. I was on oxygen for this whole time. I think it was 1ish when i finally  broke down and got my epidural, i just could not do it any longer(i was 7cm when i got the epi. I was having back labor and baby was posterior.. I got my epi fairly quickly and it was a million times better than it was with Logan.. Soon after getting my epi, baby's heart rate was looking worse  and not coming back up. So the nurses had to give me a shot to slow down my contractions.. That seemed to help, thank goodness... I'm clueless to what time it is at this point. I just know the nurses where in and out trying to get a reading on baby, but having a hard time. So they decided to put a internal monitor on his head(now this may have happened  before i got that shot of meds, i really cant remember. Ya i was that out of it).. So some time passed and i was ready to push this baby out.. I had 3 nurses and  2 doctors in the room for delivery. As they where worried he was very large, and needed to be there to assist if he got stuck. I was warned as to what may happen if he got stuck, and it really freaked me out.. I ended up only pushing through 3 contractions, so about 5mins.. And out came my baby boy.. They whisked him  over to the table to make sure he was okay since he looked so bad during labor.. They doc said it looked like he was compressing his cord.. I didn't get to see him for about 15mins, while they did all they needed to do.. My little poop machine, pooped 3 times right after birth, and hasn't stoped since, ha ha... When it was time to get his weight all the nurses and doctors gathered around for the big reveal(everyone thought this boy was gonna be huge like 9-10lbs).. Well he wasn't huge at all, not tiny but just PERFECT! After that i got to hold my sweet boy and we named him...

As of today we are doing well!! Evan ended up losing 20oz(went down to 7lbs2oz) of his birth weight(13%) and was back to his birth weight at 2weeks1day .. He is a tall skinny boy! He is a pretty very easy going little guy.. I'm doing well too. It took just over a week to recover, but I'm feeling good now.. I struggled emotionally, it was really hard the first 2weeks for me.

If there are any typos in this(which im sure there are), just remember i have a newborn, hehe...

Last belly pic, 39weeks

first born

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