Baby Parker is Here!

It was a long process, but here we are! After making my decision to stop working after Tuesday, things really began to happen. Wednesday was a nice relaxing day at home. There was snow that began that night, and it snowed, and it snowed, and it snowed. Mr. S. had this feeling that he should get a start on the driveway just in case. I just laughed at him and said we would probably be waiting until his induction date the next week.

Thursday at 1am I woke up to some contractions. I didn't think much about it because it had happened before. I started timing them and also realized I couldn't sleep through them. At 5:50 I woke Mr. S. up and told him about my contractions and that I was going to call Labor and Delivery to see what to do. They weren't really consistent so they told me to wait about an hour and see how things were going. I waited and things weren't changing, so I called my doctor and they told me to go on to L&D.

Mr. S. went out to scrape the driveway of the 7-10 inches of snow we got overnight. Ugh! We got to L&D after a slow drive. I was in pain with my contractions, so they let me in a room and started monitoring me. They decided to keep me because of the weather and the fact that I was in early labor. This was at 10am, so I had been in early labor for about 9 hours.

I went through contractions all day and night. At about 2am I received an epidural. At 5am they gave me pitocin to get my contractions to do something consistent and closer together. I wasn't dilating past a 5 and there were some other issues going on, so we had to make the decision of a c-section.

At noon they wheeled me in and by 12:35 we had welcomed Parker into the world. I have never been happier. He is a bundle of adorable joy!