Saturday, September 8, 2012

Still workin on it

It has been a whole day and a half now.  Zac and I are fully settled into the hospital.  The first night was rough....I won't lie.  Zac and I waited what felt like forever to get the ball rollin.  I tried hard to sleep, but the bed was killin me.  I had to roll over about every hour.  That meant my nurse was in every hour to adjust my monitor.  It was a long, long, night.  

The next part of our day was drawn out....
I wanted to update you guys forever, hoping that there was a plan worth celebrating.  
My in-laws showed up around 11, right after the cervidil came out.  At the time I was dilated to a 1, and  about 50% effaced.  I had to wait for a minimum of 2 hours. It ended up being more than that.  The doc gave me the option of pitocin, I opted for the second round of cervidil since he really wanted me at a 2 before I got an IV.  That went in at 2.  By the time my mom and sisters got here around 3:30 or 4, that was taking full effect.  I had pretty much constant cramps.  Long ones that I had to breathe through.  

After the shift change I got a great nurse named Debbie.  She checked me, told me I wasn't quite a 2.  
At about 7 I couldn't handle being awake anymore.  I watched bad t.v. and catnapped.  At about 10 I slept for a full hour straight and wanted to celebrate.  At 11ish I told Debbie I thought the cervidil had slipped.  She checked me, told me it had, and that I hadn't changed. 
 I proceeded to have a mini-meltdown.
  Mom and Maggie were here, so they joined me for a cry and then told me to go to bed. 
 I did sleep on and off until 1:30, then knew that the cervidil was coming out at 2 and couldn't rest.  Debbie checked it at 2 and said I was at a 2, a little more than 50% effaced.  Slight progress.  I still wanted to bawl.  Instead I did what I knew I should do, and went to sleep.  I rested until 4 and then got set up on pitocin.  Then Debbie did me the biggest favor of any of the nurses and pretty much ignored the monitor as I shifted all night long.  I can't tell ya how much that helped.  Both Zac and I slept lots.  I was even making it up to an hour and a half at a time.  

Shift change happened at 6.  I've been on the pitocin since 4:15. I've basically napped and napped as much as I could.  I thought I should not, I should sit up so my contractions were stronger, but I decided I would rather have slower progress than be exhausted this early on.  My nurse just checked me again.  I am almost a 3 and 80% effaced so things are heading the right direction for Cliffy and I.  

I must say, I am shocked.  Shocked.  Pitocin (which I had dreaded) has been so much better than the cervidil it is ridic.  I may not be saying that in a few hours, but I was able to sleep and am making progression without the back pain that was wiping me out.  They just bumped me to the max on pit....for how long that happens I don't know.  My doc is gonna come check on me sometime relatively soon and we are supposed to talk "plan."  I have a plan, keep doing what I'm doing.   They say the biggest battle is getting to a 4 and that can take 12 hours, so I still have 6 to go, assuming that things go as they have so far.  

So that's the news.  All of it.  I will probably not update again til Cliff is here.  I sure hope I dont have the time to.....
Keep up the prayers!

3 comments:

  1. COME ON OUT CLIFFY! the world awaits your arrival.
    hang in there little momma...you're doing grand.

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  2. Bless your heart! Hope tomorrow we have pictures of Cliff (Ford?)!

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  3. Ok, so you wrote this 8 or so hours ago...Im praying that you're holding that sweet baby. I went the Pitocin route too and wouldnt wish it on anyone...but I could feel and remember your frustration. I told you, I was sure I was going to be the first person to just be pregnant for.ever. my first child just didnt want to come out. Good news, she's been an angel ever since... :) praying for you and cannot wait for an update!!!!

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