I went to a free spa day with my friend Chelsea, i got a 30 min chair massage and a 20 min dry hydrotherapy massage and then 15 mins in a "red light" bed ... and boy was i feeling relaxed! so when Chelsea and I finished with our spa day we went home and i started my caster oil regiment which was ... walking on a gazelle for 15 mins then taking a table spoon of caster oil then walking for 30 mins on the gazelle then taking a second tablespoon of caster oil then walking for another 30 mins .... i finished around 5ish and then i started feeling some contractions so i was super stoked to say the least that it might of taken , so i took a shower got dressed and headed over to Chelsea's place to help with dinner which was some yummy chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese (with real block cheese:]]) so we made dinner er should i say Chelsea did lol as she made dinner we heard the boys pull up(my love and Ryan) they had just gotten back from shooting all afternoon while us ladies had our spa day lol so they came in and we all ate then the boys went out side to hang Christmas lights while they climbed on the roof i go to the bathroom (im having some good contractions by then) and well i go back into the kitchen and sit at the bar and all i hear is this POP i don't know it if inside my head or not lol then i get this gush! and all i was thinking was why didn't this happen then i sitting on the toilet LOL ... so here i am yelling for Chelsea who had went outside and when she come back inside i tell her i need a towel and i need her to tell my love that my water broke ... so she goes and tells him and he thinks she is messing around so he takes his sweet time coming off the roof and when he comes inside he looks and me and i tell him and he still thinks im playing around! and i tell him it really broke and all he does is keeps asking me "are you sure it broke?" and i looked and him and said "yea im more then sure it broke!" so off i go my pants soaked and all to my house(i live next door pretty much so i walked there) and change clothes and im super stoked that it was really happening! so i get dressed and get my stuff together and off we go to the hospital ... my love asking me the whole way there are you sure it broke ... are you sure we need to go to the hospital?? and so on lol (i love him to death!) so we get to the hospital and get checked in and i changed into my own night gown and wait to be checked ....
The Hospital... 11/29/11
I got admitted to the hospital at 8ish and got checked and was told i was 3cm dilated and that i had some meconium which made me sad ... because its very common for that to happen if the baby is under stress :/ which made me feel bad ... but there was nothing i could do about it and i knew she would be out soon ... with that said we were waiting for our room to get cleaned and low and behold my mother in law and father in law show up bless their hearts! well so we then got transferred into my room and my sister was next to show up and one of the first things she asked me was if i was for the epidural... and i laughed and said no :]] i was just bouncing away on the birthing ball when my mom showed up..and then Sherri and Brianna showed up last ... then the contractions really started to kick in around 10ish and i was getting the tub ready for me and i was told i was 5 almost a 6 dilated so i then got in the tub and had my love play some jack johnson and i was relaxing and trying to as the nurse said make it through the peak which lasts about 30 seconds per contraction, the water was getting cold and i wanted to stretch out a little bit so i got out if the tub and got back on the birthing ball and got checked again around midnight and i was told i was a 7 almost an 8 dilated....
day 2 (after midnight now) 11/30/11
i was bouncing on the ball and my love was rubbing my back to try and help me ... by this time the pressure and contractions were overwhelming to say the least! i wasn't feeling the ball any more so i went for a stroll down the hallway (bad idea!) it seemed to make the contraction worse not better! so i had to stop quite a few time and im not going to lie i broke down and told my love i couldn't do it and that was when he told me i could and that i was doing amazing and that i was almost done.... so we turned a corner and he used the bathroom and i had a horrid contraction come on and as it was wearing off Brianna my niece came out of the waiting room and i looked at her and said dont you ever have kids bre! and then my love came out and we continued back to my room when we got there i wanted to get checked again around 1ish and was told i was 8 and thinned and i was going mad i tell you ... i wanted it to be over with so bad i kept telling my nurse i couldn't do it and she kept reassuring me that i could she told me that she did it with her kids and that i could do it because im that strong ... and so on it went .. the nurse had my raise the head of the bed and get on my knees and sway my hips which would help speed up labor and let me tell you it did but it hurt and i could not stand it! so i got on my side and held on to the rail and rocked my body back and fourth and then the nurse checked me again this was around 1:30is 1:45sih and said i was in transition and with that i saw the light but only for a second because before i could be optimistic i felt major pressure and a equally as bad contraction and i was screaming but not to much and i never once yelled at my love and i never once yelled at the nurses .. i wanted to really yell at myself for coming up with this idea that i could do this! at around 2 i had one the worse i have ever felt and i saw and heard my sis in law Sherri jump up from her chair and say she was going to get the nurse ... and i heard my love tell bre "go get your mom and tell her to calm down" well thank goodness she did go get the nurse because i was ready to push! and so the real fun began! they were telling me to keep my breathing calm and steady and i did i knew i didn't want to stress the baby out anymore and that i didn't want to pass out and by that time my doctor had came in and sat back in a chair and watched the proceeding ... he reminded me of like a king or something LOL well then it was time for him to get involved and i had to really start pushing so i could meet my baby girl .. so i was holding onto the rail and pushing with all my might!(dont ask if i pooped because i have no idea! and i don't care..) they told me then to turn on my side a push so there i was holding one leg up and pushing ... i can only image what i looked like LOL well i kept at it and i had some complications ... i was very small and the baby was having a hard time that's when my doc told me he was going to help me out and well he helped stretch me ... and it was not very gentle! but it help somewhat but not enough i still had to get a very small episiotomy but it was worth it because of the position i was in i was able to see my daughter come out of me and even my placenta! (big old meat bag! lol)they put my daughter on my belly and rubbed
her back to make her cry .. she took a min or so but she did it ... it was just very moist sounding :/ so they did weighed her and did all that stuff and told me to hold her before they took her to the nursery :/ i was very scared so i asked if my love could go with her and they let him .. she ended up having to be suctioned out and had to have oxygen blown on her face so she could breath right :/ i had to get two shots to clot my blood because i was loosing to much .. and then i had to lay there in bed a have them push on my stomach so my uterus would start to contract and to get all the blood clots out ... they then left me in my room for awhile and when they came back in to feel my stomach ..once they pushed on it it was like a dam breaking ... i just started gushing blood all over again :/ it soon slowed down and then stop besides the normal blood loss that occurs after pregnancy .. i didn't get to see my daughter till 5am that's almost 3 hours after i had her ... i went into the nursery and saw our daughter and i asked if i could hold her and they said no ... i started to cry because once again i felt like it did that to her :/ and i couldn't do anything to help her... so they took me back to my room and i laid in bed a cried and my love tried to comfort me but i was to upset to let what he was saying sink in ... so then around 7:30am i got told she could breath on her own and so i went to see her and i held her i then asked if i could nurse her and was told no once again because she had fluid in her lungs and they they think it could be TTN (where some of the meconium got into her lungs) or it could be a case of phenomena so she was NPO (nothing my mouth) until 12:30 pm when i saw her again and was told i could now nurse her ... she didn't latch on so i decided to pump everything i could because i knew she need what i had to offer more then ever if she was sick .. so i talked to the lactation lady adn had a pump sent to my room ... i was surprised to see how much i was pumping (at that time it was only a syringe full) so i would pump then i would take it to her to feed her with it and the rest i would have frozen until she was hungry again.... i asked if she could room in with me and they once again told me no ... so off i went feeling sad again! but i just kept pumping and thinking about her and praying for her ... around 4pm they came into my room and said she could now room in ... it was like my prayers were answered :]] she had an iv in her little arm it make me sad just thinking about it :/ but i was informed that her white blood cells were elevated and that only happens if she has an infection so they needed to start iv meds ... i was not happy about it but i figured they knew how to fix it better then i did this time ... so i said ok and she had to get iv meds for 48 hours ...
Day 2 12/01/11
she still wasn't latching on but i was pumping so much that i wasn't to worried about the latch i was just happy i could still feed her! i made a joke when my mom was visiting that i felt like a cow lol my love and my mom started cracking up :]] it was nice to hear laughter instead of my baby crying in pain from the poking and prodding from the nurses ... i had a nurse that night that would come in every time i would lay my Alisyn down and wake her up for her temp of b/p ... it was always something! so she would wake her up and have her screaming bloody murder! and it mad me so mad!!! and when i would finally get her calm and ready for bed here she would come again! ... around 4 o'clock she said she needed to fix alisyn's iv so i said OK and let her take her and i fell asleep and when i woke in a startle to find she still has not been returned at 5:30am i started pumping because i knew she would be hungry and then i went on the hunt! and i found her in the nursery the nurse said her o2 was to low and that she need oxygen ... but what i couldnt understand was how id all of a sudden dropped when i was with her night/day and it was fine ... so i picked her up and tried to feed her and she wouldn't wake up because she was so tired from them keeping her up all night! so i waited until the lab person showed up and took blood from her after she did that she was wake and crying i was happy that i could finally feed her but not happy how it went about ... then my daughters Peds Doc showed up and the nurse explain the o2 situation to her and the doc was just as confused as i was .. when the nurse left the doc reassured me that it was probably nothing ... i was with that answer :]]
The final day , day 3
Alisyn was cleared about the o2 and the xrays and she was fine no TTN or pneumonia :]] she was eating a ton and i was pumping more then enough for her needs :]] so we were golden! the peds doc came around noonish and said she was cleared to go after her iv antibiotics were finished ... and when they came in to do them i was super happy that we could go home soon and that she could have that damn iv removed! so it finished and she had to do her new born screening which she passed! and we were home free!
that is the gist of my 6 and a half hour L&D and our stay at the hospital :]]
** i had Alisyn Monroe Ritchie at 2:21am on 11/30/11 she weighed 6lbs 15 oz
i did it all natural no pain meds
and i firmly believe my L&D went so fast because i took EPO :]]
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