Thursday, February 16, 2012

Dawson Paul Svancara























Saturday morning on the 28th at about 4am I woke up from feeling my first contraction. I sat up and started timing them. They were about 3-4 minutes apart, lasting about 30 seconds. They didn't really hurt at first, just made me a little uncomfortable. I decided to wake Mark up at 4:15 because the contractions were consistent and getting closer together. We called my mom at 4:30 to come over to stay with the kids so we could head on over to the hospital. My mom arrived at 4:45am, we waited for her outside because by this time my contractions were about 2 minutes apart lasting about 1 minute and were SUPER painful! A little background, I have never gone past 4cm naturally. I've always had my blissful epidural:) I am not good with pain, I hate pain. I am in awe towards the women who choose to give birth naturally. I'm sure it's the most beautiful and amazing experience. I just know that for me there is no way I could do that, or really want to to be honest. Props to you all that do it though. Ok, we arrived at the hospital at 5am where they made me go over and verify all the paper I had sent in months in advance. Isn't the whole point of registering a head of time to prevent you from going over all that stupid paperwork? I mean hello, I'm in pain, turning around every 2 minutes and holding onto the wall. Can't you just get me into a room, drug me up, and then go over all these stupid questions? By about 5:20 I was in triage and dressed in a gown. My nurse came in and checked me and let me know I was 6.5cm dilated!! I seriously went into panic mode! No wonder I was in so much pain! All I kept thinking about was getting that epidural on time. I got taken into the delivery room at about 6am. At this point I was in serious pain, I kept breathing, moaning, I seriously tried everything I hear people talk about. Let me just tell ya, none of it works! Maybe I was doing something wrong but no amount of breathing or yelling could of made that pain go away. At about 6:15 the nurse anesthetist came in to do the epidural. I've never been so happy:) He did his thing and then left. I noticed about 10 minutes later that it had only taken to the right side, I could still feel everything on the left side. He came back in at 6:30 to adjust it and left again. 10 minutes later I was still feeling it on my left side. My nurse asked if I was feeling any pressure, I responded "no" when in reality I felt pressure, I was just too afraid to tell her I did. I don't know why I thought in my head if I didn't say it out loud that it wouldn't make it true or it would make the pressure go away. 5 minutes later I had Mark go get my nurse because I was really feeling the pressure and this intense urge to push. It was a really crazy feeling. The nurse came in at 6:45am and checked me and said, "You are complete, 10cm!" I about lost it! Luckily the nurse anesthetist came back in and adjusted my epidural AGAIN, I asked him to push the button to add more medicine. He said he didn't think I needed it and I responded that I did and he better push the button just to be safe. Pretty much instantly I felt the warm tingly feeling down my left leg and knew that it was finally working! Dr. Huish came in and 10 minutes later and 1.5 pushes later our sweet little Dawson was born:) 7:03am, 7 pounds 13 ounces, and 22 inches long (can I just clarify that 22 inches is almost 2 foot long subs!)


Adding another one to the mix hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be. I've ventured out a couple times by myself with all 3, just for quick little errands though. I just feel so blessed! I have 3 beautiful healthy little red heads:) Being a mother is such an amazing job! Even though there are days where I want to run out my front door and not come back for a few hours, I wouldn't change the life I have.


PS my friend Jana had the same thing happen to her at Banner Gateway. When I was describing the guy to her, her eyes got all big and she yelled, "That's the same guy I had!" So WARNING to the pregger women, if you are going to deliver at Banner Gateway and are planning on getting a epidural, don't let the same nurse anesthetist do the epidural on you. I can't remember his name, BUT he looks like he is 3o something, has some tattoo's on his arm, and has a beard/goatee thing. Good luck:)

4 comments:

Clint, Marianne, Sage, Charlotte, Emery and Ivy said...

I LOOOOOOVE hearing delivery stories! Sounds like you were a major trooper. He was long! So glad it all went well. i love his name.

Kristin said...

What a trooper you are! You basically got through the entire labor without complete pain control. WOW. And thanks for the heads up on tatted RN sucks at his job. Can't wait to meet bambino three!

Monica said...

CONGRATS GIRLY!!!! So amazing. : )

Jenni Sue said...

Wow! That was so quick. :) I love reading birth stories. Thanks for posting yours. I'm glad 3 has been good to you. :)