Nora Joy Tirado, October 5, 2009

whew!! So I have had Nora Joy now. I went in on Sunday morning and got checked into the hospital to be induced, once in robe and in bed, the doctor tells me that it was a mistake for them to ever schedule me an induction on a Sunday morning. So he tells me to get up and walk around for a few hours and try to soften my cervix, ummmm HELLO 41 weeks and 2 days didn't do the trick, so what makes him think a few hours more is gonna do anything? Since he is the doctor, I did what he said (very reluctantly). I got to hang out with Penny Callie, Jillian, Megan, Mom, and Hector the whole time until 11 am. And that is when I had my last meal, Zaxby's, who could ask for anything better!! So then I get back into bed and get what they call a cervix softener... 8 and a half hours later, my water breaks!!!!!!! After that I pretty much started to go into labor naturally, My contractions were getting pretty strong so I got the IV meds and they made me feel crazy loopy, they took a little edge off of the contractions, so I could at least stand them. At that point I was thinking hmm maybe I wont need and epidural, but... one hour later when the pain meds ran out, they informed me I couldn't have any more for another 3 hours! Yikes. So I went a little while without anything and Hector was so great. Not one time did he just lay down and not worry about me. He was constantly rubbing my legs or my back and just talking to me trying to keep my mind off the contractions. So finally I mention that I want the epidural, and Hector is kinda hesitant due tot he fact that my whole pregnancy I said I was gonna try not to get one, but then he realized how much pain I was in and how my contractions have became constant pain instead of like bursts of pain. So I got the epidural and my mom AND Hector had to go out of the room, so I was in there with just the anesthesiologist and my nurse. WOW!! That man must be like God in the hospital cause he took all my pain away!! My legs were so numb I kept thinking they were falling off the bed or something. After that I was just sitting up having conversation and my contractions on the monitor were crazy high and I couldn't even feel them!!! So I got the epidural at 1 am, and after that we stayed up for a while but Hector and I eventually fell asleep. Every 2 hours the nurse would come in and check my dilation to see how far along I was. At about 8 30 am she wakes me up and says that I am 10 cm dilated!!!! And the pushing begins!! Jillian, Mom, and Hector were in the room with me during the actual process of pushing. They had my legs up on these stirrups and I was sitting pretty much all the way up and That really helped with the whole process. Every time I pushed they would bring my legs real far back like to my chest, That was Hector and the nurse's job. Jillian and Hector watched the whole thing in live detail!! After an hour of pushing I finally had my baby girl at 9 23 am, October 5th, 2009!!!!! 8 lbs 3 ozs and 21 inches long, with a full head of black hair!!!!! She looked just like me when she came out, except with some huuuuggge lips!! One of the first thing Hector said was, "I have a white baby!?!" She was (is) sooo beautiful! I got to hold her as soon as she cam out right after Hector cut the cord. And then they cleaned her up (in the same room) and I got to nurse her right there! It was amazing! She latched on perfectly, but then they had to take her away for her tests and stuff, but good thing Hector got to go with her so there was no baby switching non-sense!!! Everyone came to visit that day (which was a bad idea considering I was so tired) and I was up walking around and stuff it was pretty great, my hips were the only thing that were sore on me from the position that I was pushing from. We spent 2 nights in the hospital with Nora Joy and everything was great. She had a mild case of Jaundice but all is well now. SO everything went good and we have a heathy, happy baby, I will write more later but I figured I would cover the birth and hospital stay first. (Nora Joy is now 2 weeks old and still perfect as can be!)