Owen's birth

On June 30th I was scheduled to meet with my doctor at 4 P.M. I was anxious as soon as I woke up since we were already past the due date. Early that morning I got a call from the doctor's office saying that my doctor had called in sick so I had the option to meet with the on call doctor or wait until July 7th to reschedule my appointment. WHAT JULY 7th I don't think so. I immediately said I would come in at whatever time to meet the on call doc. So at 11:45 Matt and I meet with Dr. Fife. She determines that not much has changed since last week and I am still dilated to a 3. We quickly let her know that we are ready to be induced. I was terrified of not knowing when to go to the hospital and from previous pregnancies just know that I never really progress with labor without the pitocin. Normally the doctor's like to be able to delivery for their own patients so they don't induce for other doctor's but since my doctor called in sick we had no idea how long she would be out. Since I tested positive for the Group B it was important that I got antibiotics at the time of delivery so Dr. Fife said that she didn't want my water to break at home and not have enough time for the antibiotics. So that was reason enough to write up the paperwork for me to be induced. Woo Hoo! We arrived at Providence Birthplace at 12:02. It was awesome that Matt new a lot of the nurses so they were happy to see us. By 12:30 I was settled in the room and getting hooked up to the monitors. By 1:00 the iv's of pitocin and penicillin are started and the waiting begins. At 3:45 I get my epidural(that is a beautiful thing). I got the epidural not because the pain was unbearable at that point but because the doctor wanted to go ahead and break my water so they want the epidural to kick in. At 5:30 Dr. Fife breaks my water and I am dilated to 4. I am having a pattern of contractions but not feeling much discomfort at this point. At 6:30 of course during shift change I begin to get sick. No idea if it was all the meds or what but that seems to be a pattern with me during labor. I seriously got sick with all the boys. At 7:30 we meet our next nurse Katie, she checks and I am still dilated at 4 so she ups the pitocin and tells me to keep talking to her about my pain and if I feel any pressure to push. At 8:00 I am feeling all of the contractions, starting to think I just can't do this. Matt is totally watching the monitor and I can tell by his facial expression whether or not the contraction is going to be strong. The stronger they are the more excited he gets because he knows that means it is almost time. Gotta love that he works on all that equipment so he knows how to read all the machines. At 8:15 I have one contraction after another, I am feeling lots of pressure and Matt goes out of the room to get nurse Katie. What do you know, in that 45 minutes I went from 4 to 10 and it is time to push. Dr. Fife had just arrived so it was perfect timing, they start getting prepared. I am totally nervous by this time. Crazy I know since I have been through this before. The doctor starts talking me through what I need to do. Seriously two pushes later Owen Alexander Frank is born at 8:34 P.M. weighing 7 lbs 5 ozs and 20 inches long. He has a full head of dark hair, long eyelashes and was holding his arm.

Will update this post with pictures soon! For some reason I am trouble with uploading the pictures been working on it for days.