Jameson Madden

Birth Story

Saturday, December 3

Jameson’s Birth Story

We're back home! The past few days have been so amazing. So as you all can see, stripping my membranes gave me the push that I needed.

Wednesday we spent the day running some errands and relaxing. We hit up the mall, went out to lunch, and I got a pedicure. I was having contractions throughout the day, but that was normal for me so I didn't think too much of it. They started getting regular, about 4-5 minutes apart, at around 7pm. We made sure to lay around and relax as much as possible in case it was the real thing. Patrick was able to get a few hours of sleep in, but my contractions were getting too strong to sleep through. I tried doing whatever I could to keep my mind distracted.

At around 11pm, the intensity picked up and I woke up Patrick to tell him that we'd be going in soon. I called my mom at midnight and she came over. We started getting ready to go and finished packing our bags. It was snowing and very icy outside so we took our time and got to the hospital at around 1am. They sent me to Triage and I was only 2cm! Very discouraging to hear. I was so afraid of going in too early and it seemed that I may have. They said that they would be back in around 3am to check me again.

 At around 2-230am my contractions picked up and I thought that my water had broke; well it was either that or I kept peeing all over myself. I really was hoping that it was my water! At around 330am they checked me and I was at 4cm and my water had broke so they admitted me and we walked over to a birthing suite. My contractions were getting very intense and the back labor was killing me. At around 4-430am I needed something to take the edge off. I wanted a natural birth so instead of pain meds they gave me a sedative. I had to have an IV for it and to help out with dehydration because I was getting sick on top of everything. The sedative did nothing for the contractions but I was able to nod off a bit and relax in between them which helped out a lot since I was so tired.

After that everything seemed to run together. The pain was so much worse then I could have imagined and it took everything I had to get through them. Time went by very fast. All of a sudden my contractions changed and my body started pushing.  They said that I was only at 8cm so I had to stop. Well that didn’t happen, but I did get to 10cm very quickly. The nurse finally told me that I could do a little push, and I guess that he was crowning already so she ran to get the doctor. I don’t really know what was going on at that point but everything seems so fast and hurried. They were setting everything up and pulling me into position; it was overwhelming.

Finally I saw my doctor and he told me to start pushing, he was very surprised at how fast I went. He was only on call until 8am and he was sure that he would be gone before I had him. Well, after one push his head was out and after another he was born at 5:36am. I couldn’t believe how fast everything went! It was such an amazing experience and I felt so much better immediately after I saw him. I wouldn’t change anything about the entire experience, we’re so blessed that everything turned out as perfect as it did.

 

Wednesday, November 30

Had my doctors appointment this morning. I've made some progress since last week so I was happy. He also tried stripping my membranes. Who knows if it'll work or not, I've heard mixed things about it. I guess that we'll have to just wait and see. I'm just glad that it didn't hurt as badly as I thought it would! 

 

Tuesday, November 29

Still no baby....I had talked with him weeks ago about coming today, but I guess that didn't work. So, we're just waiting and spending a lot of time relaxing. We haven't had too much on our plate for the last few days; it's nice not having anything to do for a change. Tomorrow we have another doctors appointment in the morning. It's up at the hospital so I'm hoping that we don't get delayed too long. I'm guessing that we won't hear anything new, just the normal "see you next week". I'm beginning to think that I may never go into labor. But at least I've been feeling much better the past week and I've been sleeping fantastic. So I can't really complain about these last days and I'm trying my best to enjoy them. Sometimes I think that Patrick is more anxious then myself. I like seeing him so excited about this.

 

   

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