Well it is official! We have a new little baby girl! Her name is Adriana Cleo Barnette and here are all the details! On Friday March 6th I was having contractions apparently for an hour before I realized what they were. They felt more like stomach cramps and I was up and down a lot during the night. I tried to sleep through them but that didn't work out because at 5AM I got up to use the bathroom again and my water had broke! I woke Tosh up and within a couple hours (we had everything packed we just didn't want to rush it you know?) we were at the hospital. Tosh drove like a crazy man but we never saw a police man and we made it in plenty of time. They wheeled me up to the Birthing Center and once at the desk we found out they had 6 c-sections scheduled that day and they'd had several walk-ins too. There was no room for me at the moment but then someone who they'd put in a room was moved out because her water hadn't broken yet and mine had.
So we get put into a room and hooked up on all the monitors. Things are looking OK. Tosh is there and my Mom and Dad weren't far behind us. They had to take care of our dog. Contractions were happening but weren't too awful bad. As the day progressed, so did the contractions of course. I labored for 16 hours straight with nothing but 1/2 a miligram of Stadohl at one point. It slowed my contractions down though and then when they returned it was much worse. I hardly laid in the bed at all. It was 100 times worse when I was laying down than if I was sitting or standing when I had them. Most of the time I labored was standing up. Once we got to the point that I had to get back in the bed, it was push time. And that didn't go so well. I pushed for about 2 1/2 hours with no luck. The nurse kept saying I wasn't pushing correctly or something and I was ready to kick her out the door! How do you PUSH CORRECTLY? I was pushing with all I had and nothing was working. You could just barely see her head and my midwife said it was moving but my Mom and Tosh said it wasn't. Eventually I was at my breaking point. No pain meds, exhaustion, completely wiped out... I started to lose it a bit and was ready for a C-section. At no point was Adriana ever in distress that we could tell. Her head just wouldn't fit through my pelvis.
So quickly things changed -- they brought in the spinal guy, he talked and talked and I had to answer questions all the while trying to hold back from pushing, then came in a different Doctor, (whom we'd met previously in case this had to happen) and it was all a blur after that. They gave me a shot to stop the contractions then wheeled me down to the C-Section room. It took them 5 times to get the epidural in for some stupid reason -- all the while I'm feeling like I'm in some dream or something. Nothing seemed real to me.. I felt like I was watching someone else go through all this.
And before we knew it, they finally get things going, Tosh is there, and we have a baby girl! They gave me some good drugs that made me sleep for awhile and all the time I'm hearing people talking in my room and thinking in my head, "WAKE UP! You need to feed her or else you'll miss the window of opportunity! WAKE UP! COME ON!" But I just couldn't. I hardly got to see her before Tosh took her to the nursery when I was in the C-section room. I got to give her a quick kiss on the face and that was it. So when I finally woke up and they brought her to me I was so emotional. She is the best little nurser- ever! She caught right on and we've had no problems with breast feeding. I'm so glad I took that breast feeding class before hand. It taught me so much!
She was born at 10:32pm, weighed 6 pounds 10.4 oz. and was 19 1/4 inches long. She has dark hair and looks like Tosh. I want to write more but Mommy duty calls. We've been home now since Monday and things are very different. We are enjoying our time with her and can't wait to share her "in person" with all our friends at LBC.
Please say a prayer for us -- we are so new to all this and it is very overwhelming. I'm just thankful we have extra hands from my parents right now. It sure helps out.
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