Finn joined our world on February 13th!!
He was faking me out the whole week leading up to this with lots of regular contractions. Several times they were about 5 minutes apart or less for several hours but I never progressed past 3 cm so I got to be induced once again.
We went in just after midnight and it always takes a little while to get set up. They did one more ultrasound before getting everything started and the obgyn on call said that after measuring 2 times, this little guy was probably going to be 9 lbs 15 oz (no... not bigger than Ellie please...) When they started pitocin at 2 AM I was 4 cm and they turned up the dose about every 30 minutes. Around 4 AM I decided to go ahead and get my epidural.
*I had a few misgivings about my epidural. Ellie's worked perfectly but Adelaide's wore off slowly and by the time I was ready to push I had full use of my legs, the button you can push did nothing, and I could feel everything. hah, I'm not cut out for unmedicated child birth so I was really hoping everything would go smoothly this time.*
After about 1/2 an hour my epidural had only numbed everything below my hips, not my intensely contracting belly. They leaned me way back to help gravity move it and the anesthesiologist came and adjusted some levels of some things. Whatever they did worked within about 10 minutes :) :) :)
At 6 AM I was still at 4 cm just like when I came in. They broke my water around this time and I started to progress a little more, though still slowly. They had me shifting from side to side to loosen my hips for him to come down. At one point I switched sides and I guess he really didn't like that because within about a minute I had 4-5 new people (doctors and nurses) in my room and my original nurse had switched me back to the other side. It happened so quickly that I didn't realize it at the time, but baby's heart rate must have dropped and I think they were all ready for an emergency C-section at a moments notice. After a few minutes of them all standing in my room watching the monitor closely, everybody cleared out. I think after having 2 kids, I just expected everything to go without a hitch. This little moment kind of brought me back to fact that things can always go wrong and you have to be mentally prepared for all outcomes.
After that, things just went slow and steady. I pushed through 2 contractions and Finn was here at 10:45 AM. They didn't weigh him for several hours but when the time came he clocked in at 9 pounds even.
During my prenatal ultrasounds they found a couple of concerns with Finn. 1st was that one of the ventricles in his brain was slightly enlarged. Soon after he was born they did an ultrasound on his head and found everything to be normal. YAY!!! 2nd was that one of his ureters was dilated. It seems like this is fairly common, and he's already projectile peed on my dry-clean only winter coat but we have an appointment for an ultrasound and urology consult in a couple weeks. Also, Finn failed his original hearing test. They retested him and 1 passed/ 1 failed so we have another appointment to retest again. Lots of doctor appointment. At least he wasn't jaundiced!
We are SO excited that Finn is here and in our family. I'm so grateful he's on the outside of me and that we managed to finalize his name!
