Saturday, March 12, 2011

I can explain!!

It has been such a long time since my last post, but honestly, I have been a bit busy with this;
Huck Stephen Toll

Huck was born January 4, 2011.  He was a difficult pregnancy - completely zapped me of any kind of energy!!  It was not a fun time, but I have my beautiful baby boy and couldn't be happier!

So his delivery was interesting.  I fully planned on having an epidural because, why suffer if I didn't have to?  I started having contractions around 1am, but I thought they were just the Braxton Hicks contractions.  They were a bit more uncomfortable so I started timing them and they were about every 5 to 10 minutes for an hour so the nurses at labor and delivery told me to come in to get checked out because I live so far away.  So my mother (aka God's Angel sent here to take care of me!) came over to stay with Ava so she wouldn't have to wake up, and Matt and I left for the hospital.  When we got there, the nurses checked me and I was 4 cent. so they admitted me.  We called Jerri and Kayt because they said the second baby comes quicker and both of them wanted to be at the delivery.  They then asked me if I wanted an epidural and I said 'Heck Yes!!!' The contractions were starting to become a little more uncomfortable, so they gave me a pain killer in my IV to tide me over until the doctor got there.  Well, that was fine at first, but then it really started to suck.  I felt like the drug had drugged me so much that I couldn't breath and at one point I almost passed out.  I got tunnel vision and couldn't hear anything, so the nurses put the bed down and turned me on my side and I started to get better.  
Then the anesthesiologist came to put the epidural in and that went well, but it never really took all of the pain away.  If I'm paying for it, I don't want to feel the pain!! Kayt and Jerri were there by now, and I was progressing although slowly and we were talking, watching TV and laughing.  Dr. Prendergast, my OB, wasn't on call that day, so I was kind of sad because I really didn't like the doctor that was going to end up delivering Huck.  At one point, I was getting really uncomfortable and the doctor was getting impatient so they started to have me push.  Nothing happened, apparently Huck had changed his mind and decided to go back up the birth canal, plus I was only 9cm.  
The anesthesiologist came back to dose me up again, because I was really uncomfortable.  I guess he didn't realize that I take pain medication like a 300 lb. man and not like a girl (yeah right, I'm not telling you how much I weighed!!).  Any-who, it was about noon and Matt and Kayt were getting hungry, I was feeling fine and wasn't going anywhere, because Huck and snuck back up the birth canal, so they went down to the cafeteria to get something to eat.  About 5 minutes after they left, the epidural stopped working on my right side.  That hurt really bad.  The nurses turned me onto my right side so the drug would go over there.  The OB on call and the anesthesiologist were in a C-section surgery, so I just had to handle it.  Then the epidural completely stopped working.  Oh good God.  This was specifically what I had wanted to avoid.  I cannot even explain how badly that hurt.  I'm screaming, I'm crying, I'm yelling to get that damn doctor out of surgery for 5 minutes to fix my freaking epidural.  Matt and Kayt come back to a completely different situation.  I remember looking at the clock, it was about 12:30 and the nurses said that the doctors couldn't get out of surgery for about 45 minutes to an hour.  I was like 'Heck No.'  So they went to get permission to let me push because pushing helps alleviate the pain.  The doctor said sure because they figured I was at least 1 hour if not 2 hours until delivery. I remember thinking, "There is no way I am putting up with this pain for any longer, I HAVE GOT to get him out!" 
So the nurses came back and said, go ahead and push, it will help with the pain.  2 contractions later, Huck's head was starting to come out and they were yelling at me to stop they had to get a doctor. Kayt slapped on some gloves to catch Huck incase I couldn't stop pushing.  Apparently, Dr. Prendergast was assisting on the C-section, so he came in to deliver Huck.  I was so happy to see him, I almost cried.  He walked in the door at 12:46, Kayt helped him into his gown and at 12:47 Huck was born.  

It was pretty tough, but totally worth it!!

Everything is wonderful, except that bill from the hospital.  Can I refuse to pay the pain meds bill if it didn't work, like returning a stereo if it doesn't work?  Hmmmmmmmm

Oh well, now I have the best two kids and husband in the world and couldn't be happier!!