Brennan Eric Edward's Birth Story

2Reasons2Smile · #1 January 5th, 2010, 08:16 PM

Monday December 28 2009, I started my day as usual with getting Ethan up etc.. doing our daily routine, but just felt off and was pretty miserable. When ethan went down for his nap around 1pm I was starting to get uncomfortable and was having very irregular contractions, so I had laid down and read for a little while but that was not helping so then same as with Ethan I ended up on the computer lol. I updated my facebook status with "Is going to pack the hospital bag (finally only waited till almost 38 weeks), since I am pretty sure I am having some irregular contractions today, but my luck baby is just giving me a hard time cause he can!" this was at about 3:50pm. DH got home from work at about 4:30 so i told him to be prepared we may be having this baby tonight since I had been haiving irregular contractions most of the day. He took over caring for Ethan while I finished packing my hospital bag (I had nothing at all ready). My sister then sent me a text asking if we needed her to come for Ethan and then my sil called asking the same thing, my sil lives down the street so we put her on red alert that we may need her. At around 5:30 the contractions had became more regular 4-5 mins apart, so I decided to take a bath to relax, while DH and DS ate supper since I was not up to eating. Finally at about 7:45 I told DH to tell his sister to come over to stay with Ethan since I was in enough pain I wanted to head to the hospital plus the contractions were now around 2-4 mins apart and lasting upto a minute each. So sil got to the house at about 8:15pm and we were off to the hospital. We arrived at the hospital at about 8:40pm. Once we got up to L & D they had me into a room pretty quick and started on the little bit of paper work they needed to do, when they checked me I was 3-4cm dialated and very soft. i was asked if I wanted an epi and i said I was undecided since I was not overly pleased with how my labour with Ethan went and the after effects of the epi (I hated the numb leg feeling and the fact my epi with Ethan was too strong and i couldn't feel anything to push). So she said if I made up my mind to let her know right away. I laboured till about 10pm and was officially wanting the epi, my contractions were very strong, very uncomfortable and I was too tired. The nurse got my IV started (she tried 2 time and then she got a different nurse to come in for a 3rd try at my IV) my left hand and arm are bruised from the first 2 tries at the IV. They pumped in the needed fluids and at about 10:45pm the anestesiologist finally came in and started to explain everything. It was super hard to hold in position for him to do the epi while having contractions, but I managed, dh was in the room the whole time just like with Ethan. Once the epi was in and I was starting to get numb the OB came in, he checked me and I was at 7cms and he then asked if I wanted my water broke and I said sure, so he broke my water, this was at about 11:10pm. I could still feel my contractions a little bit and pressure, so I told the nurse this so she checked me again at about 11:35pm and I was fully effaced and 10cms with a tiny lip, funny thing is she asked if we wanted a Dec 28 or a Dec 29 baby lol. She said she would be back in a minute to hear what we decided on, (she was leaving to let the ob know he needed to come). When she got back we said it didn't matter which day he came. So she started having me do some practise pushes while they got everything set up, Baby was crowning by the time they were ready lol, I pushed for maybe 15 mins max and out came little Brennan at 11:51pm on December 28 2009. No assistance and only a small tear (with Ethan I ended up with an episiotomy and they had to use the vacuum to help pull him out).
DH went over to see Brennan since the nurse said he could take pictures etc... Eric didn't realize we had the camera with us since I was the one who packed it so I had to direct him to it so he could get pictures. Brennan did have some trouble breathing, the soft tissues in his nose were swollen so he couldn't breath fully through it, so a Nicu nurse had to come take a look at him. Once they decided it was just because the inside of his nose was a little swollen they let me hold him since it would just take a little time for the swelling to go down for him to be able to breath right. Brennan's apgar scores were 8 and 8 because of his swollen nose making his breathing harder. My labour once the contractions were regualr was maybe 7 hours and we were only at the hospital for about 3 hours before he was born.
Brennan was born December 28th 2009 at 11:51pm
Weighing 7lbs 10ozs (3460 grams)
Length 52.5cms (20.5")
Head Circumference 35cms
We came home from the hospital Wednesday December 30th 2009, Brennan was down to weighing 7lbs 2ozs, he has his first doctors appointment Thursday January 7th.

My last belly pic the day Brennan was born (37weeks 5days)