The Delivery. Yikes, is all we can say about it! It was crazy. It all started out like a normal day. Hannah and I set out to walk to the elementary around the corner to pick up Nick from Kindergarten. I suddenly got an intense pain. I had never felt something similar before (it didn't feel like a contraction) but I couldn't even walk it hurt so bad. I was only a short 5 minute walk from Nick's school but I felt like I couldn't even walk that far because the pain was so bad. Of course, I had forgotten my cell phone at home so I couldn't call Marc at work. Fortuneately, a nice neighbor lady who was walking down the street noticed I was in distress and insisted on helping me. I walked back to the house while she pushed Hannah in the stroller and by the time I made it back to the house the pain had stopped. I climbed in the car and picked up Nick. I didn't feel anymore pain after that and so I didn't think I was in labor or anything. Marc insisted that I call the doctor and the doctor had us go to the maternity testing center to get checked out. I was fully expecting to go back home but after the nurse checked me, I was dilated to 5 cm already! I hadn't even been having any regular contractions. Anyways, I was admitted right away. I couldn't believe that I was already dilated to a 5 without any major pain so I was feeling pretty confident that I was going to progress quickly. My last two delivery's took forever to dilate to 5 cm. To progress more quickly, they popped my water. It didn't accelerate the delivery much so they started me on pitocin. After the pitocin is when the pain really started. They gave me an intrathecal (AKA "walking epidural"). Well it worked for seriously like five minutes and then I was having major pain again! During this whole time I was hardly progressing at all, I was still at 6cm. The baby's heartbeat was going up and down which was a major concern. After an hour of this and no progression at all they decided to do a c-section. At that point I was in so much pain that I was thankful that they were going to cut me open. After the c-section, my blood pressure dropped extremely low and I wouldn't stop bleeding. I was wheeled back into the surgery room (they put me out this time) to find the cause of all the bleeding. I was very delirious during all this, so it's a bit hazy now. I still don't even know all the details of exactly what happened. All I know is that it was a miracle that they didn't have to remove my uterus and that the source of the bleeding had suddenly stopped after they opened me up again - so they never found out exactly what was causing all the bleeding. I feel thankful because we still plan on having one more baby (crazy I know - especially after all this craziness). So after two blood transfusions and some very sore days everything is going well. I'm happy to not be pregnant anymore and so thankful to have a healthy and strong baby.
