Adilynn's Birth

Arrived at the hospital at 7:30am to be induced.   Gels and walking Gels and walking for 3 hours.  The nurse ready to send me home because I am stuck at a 4.  Me telling husband that if I get sent home, grandma is still keeping the kids - and we are going to go shoot or throw things.  (Anger is built up.)

My amazing doctor telling the nurse to do as she asked and get the me the petocin already, we are having a baby today!  (Me loving my doctor)  

Hubby and I waiting an hour to go into the new room.  Moving to that room and waiting another hour in that room before we see anyone.  WHY?  Oh a lady just gave birth and was bleeding out - whole wing of doctors and nurses were in there trying to save her- no big deal.  (Actually shockingly it didn't really freak me out I just wanted to have this baby already!)

Doctor breaks water at 8:30pm ish  (oh yes already over 12 hours)  Contractions are doing weird things - sometimes 2 min apart sometimes 4 min.  10pm  I get my IV drug that takes the edge off for 1/2 hour.  (No epidural that was $1,000+ more) 

 Getting back pain so nurse tells me to lay on my side - if baby is in the wrong position laying on my side can help.

 after that IV drug is nice and worn off I get the urge to push it's about 10:55pm and they say I am not all effaced and only an 8.  I hold back a couple of pushing contractions. . . 

They sit me up to push. I get a contraction NOTHING.  No urge to push.  I swear to all of them that I wasn't lying about the urge to push - but now nothing.  Wait for the next contraction (feels like 10 min - probably 3 min) NO urge to push.  3 more - NO urge.

Nurse suggests I try giving birth on my side or even on a SQUAT BAR?  I say lets try again - NOTHING.  On my side we go.  

I have given birth 3 times before - I know what I am doing - the urges etc.  The previous two times were also with out an epidural so I know - my body says push - i have a nice long hard contraction that helps me push the baby out.  3 pushes and they are out. . . 

Not Adilynn.  This little stinker decided to be face up.  Do you know what that means?  WAY more PAIN.   And for some reason - it meant for me anyways that I would have a contraction and only pulsating urges to push through out it.  I was so frustrated!  It was like I would start to push and my body would go NAH, never mind.  I would stop, confused and my body says "push dummy!".  

Finally I just decided to force it and push anyways.  I did have to stop after her head was out so that my doctor could turn her head and suction:

Then CRANK-the baby if you can't tell from the picture- so she was the "right way"

 This was so painful.  I felt her little nose, and every elbow, shoulder and knee.  Face up babies hurt.  Ok giving birth hurts - but face up babies REALLY hurt.  They are supposed to come out face down and all smooth like.  HUH!

 All that said, I was happy to have her out.  It is amazing how the body works.  The adrenaline just acts like a numbing agent for your body after wards and you just relax and are so glad it's over.   Unless you are like me - all I wanted to do was eat.  At an entire meal before I held her.  I was STARVED after just nibbling all day.  (With Talin I ate too much and threw up during birth so I had to hold back for what - oh yeah it had been 17 hours since i had a meal (breakfast).

So at 11:14pm a perfectly healthy baby girl entered this world.  The talk of the nurses and my sis in law (the picture taker) was how freakishly big her umbilical cord was.

They took her away to be cleaned.  The baby nurse was a little annoyed with me.  She thought baby was super hungry and I should nurse her.   I was like - UM all I have heard is how HUGE that cord is and it has been feeding her VERY well.  She will be FINE!    

(I am busy eating my sandwich)

I know I am terrible.

BLESSING FOLLOW UP POST

Remember the post "Can I bleed any more money?"

Long story short - insurance played all sorts of games with us. We had until June 22nd to decide if we were continuing coverage.  We paid the hospital cash $3,500 and should get almost $2,000 from insurance premiums towards that since we decided to drop them because of their games.  So instead of paying around $8 - 10K for the baby WITH insurance - we dumped insurance a month before having the baby (but with all the mess ups - had 4 months of premiums saved - and not deducted yet)  so I paid my doctor $2,000 for everything, hospital $3,500 and a few odds and ends of maybe $500.  

Total: 6K - 2K = 4K the original planned amount.  

Pay your tithing and have faith - He will work things out - even if it is in ways you never thought.

We are grateful for the blessing of her health so we could do it that way. 

And we are grateful for the most sweet and calm little spirit to enter our home.

She is my easiest baby yet!!!!