Peyton Ann Marie’s birth story
August 7, 2014.
Around
9pm on August 6th I felt like I had wet myself, I went to go change
and saw that there was a smallish leak, it was really water and did not have
the scent of urine. I wasn’t feeling anything else so I figured it may have
just been discharge just a little more liquid than the previous mucus. About 20 minutes later it happened again.
Once I changed, I still wasn’t feeling pain but I called the office anyway to
speak with the on call doctor. He told me to go to l&d and have them swab
me for amniotic fluid. So I tried calling my mom while gathering everything so
its all close. She wasn’t answering so I was going to say forget taking
everything I’m just going to take the Aveo and go. Well as I walked out the
door my mom called me back, I told her I was bringing BradLee and going to the
hospital. She told me she’d come get me, I told her if she could hurry then
fine… She did not hurry. I was so pissed, by time she got to me, I could have
already had BradLee at her house and me to the hospital. While waiting for her
I started hurting a lot, mainly a pelvic pressure, and I yet again leaked
more. I had already texted Sam, and I
knew it’d be a little while before anything really happened, so I told him to
go ahead and wait till 10 to close the store, then meet me at Willis Knighton South.
When my mom got her I saw AJ with her as well. So my sister is what slowed her
down in leaving, and she stayed at the speed limit on the interstate. AJ kept
getting mad at me because I was not about to sit there and changed the radio
station for her after every song, I told her it was staying here and she has a
phone she can use.
I got
to the hospital at the same time as Sam, which I figured with how my mom was
driving. I know he pushed my car pretty fast and hard on the interstate. I told
my mom to just go home, She asked if I was sure. I told her I could guarantee
Sam was here, and as we pulled up to the ER side he had texted me asking where
I was. So me and Sam went to an admin to get her to register me. She called
L&D to tell them I was here and I thought my water broke, then she admitted
me and took us up with me in a wheel chair. Once up there they took me to one
side of the unit, its where everyone pre term and not in active labor go to get
checked out. Once we got situated on the bed they swabbed me and took blood.
The monitor wasn’t picking up contractions because I wasn’t having any just
yet. Probably about 30 minutes later the swab came back positive for amniotic
fluid. So they moved me to labor and delivery since we now had the 24 hour limit
to give birth. My GBS came back negative nor positive, so they hooked me up to
fluids and antibiotics, as well as gave me demerol. By this time it was around
1am. Hayden, Sam’s best friend came up there
for a while and hung out with us, I finally started contracting but not much. I
was now 6cm dilated but not going any more. Since it was going to be a little
while after hanging out some he went home.
When I
had come to the hospital I had texted Sam’s Ganny, and Aunt KK, as well as his
dad. His Aunt KK didn’t get any of the messages till like 4am, but his Ganny
had responded to me and she got dressed and pretty much slept in her chair just
in case she got a text in the night to come up there. After a few texts at 4am
his Ganny and Aunt KK came in at 6:30 to see how I was and wait with us. Sam
was still asleep some so they stood by my bed for a while just talking to me.
He finally woke up after I got the Pitocin. At about 7:30am I still wasn’t
really dilating so they gave me Pitocin. I couldn’t get any more Demerol
because I needed to wait for the anesthesiologist for my epidural. It took
another hour till I got that, so I had a little bit of pain I had to deal
with. I finally got the epidural and at
that point I dilated to a 7. His dad and step mom finally got there around
10ish. I was in and out of sleep, but
they pretty much sat around talking, when I was awake I’d be talking too. From
10 till 2 the nurses kept changing my position to try and get me to finish dilating.
Her head was ready but I wouldn’t completely dilate. I got another dose of my
epidural, a slightly higher one this time, and about 15 minutes later one of my
nurses decided to do some pushing on my stomach they got me to a 9. During this one of the nurses called my
doctor, everyone got sent to the waiting room, I texted Brittny who stayed in
town waiting for the text and Sam texted Hayden. Another nurse got everything
ready while a 3rd nurse was going to get me ready. Sam stayed next
to me the whole time while the nurse started covering me, and feeling around,
the nurse had me push a few times, she saw that my water was still slightly
intact, it never fully broke and that’s why I wouldn’t get to 10. She broke it
then while my doctor was getting suited up fully, she had me push, at that time
baby girl started crowning, the nurse was about to deliver her, so my doctor
had to hurry and they swap quickly. Sam had his phone ready and as the doctor
started to get her he started taking pictures while we watched the doctor. She
came out easy, just a few pushes. We watched the whole thing holding hands and
he took a ton of pictures of it all. She started to cry a little, but nothing
really loud at first. Once the doctor cleaned her face he pulled her the rest
and set her on my chest for us, while he started with the umbilical cord. The
nurse took Sam’s phone and took a few pictures of us and her together, as well
as Sam cutting the cord. Once it was cut and she was wiped down more, the other
nurses came to take her to the bed to clean her and get her all wrapped, Sam
followed her and took even more pictures of baby girl while ,my doctor
delivered the placenta. Once I was ready the nurse brought her to me to put her
on my chest for skin to skin.
After a
few minutes of skin to skin and me and Sam just admiring her my nurse went to
the waiting room to get everyone. They all looked at her and started talking
while she was on my chest, then Sam grabbed her to hold her for his first time.
The smile he had when he grabbed her was priceless, it was amazing, warmed my
heart so much to see. After we visited for a bit everyone went to smoke and
wait in our actual room for us. Sam and the nurse had to help me get into the
wheel chair, since the epidural was still full on working in my system. Once in
our room we had to wait a few hours for the nursery to take care of her and
feed her. We spent the time just talking, waiting for her. They brought her in
the room late, so no one stayed long enough. She got to stay in the room with
us though, which was nice.
Watching
Sam with her has been amazing. He was very attentive in the hospital and he
still is at home. I can’t express how happy it makes me to see him and her. To
have this whole experience, this whole pregnancy has been so much better than
my other two. It’s amazing, all I’ve ever wanted out of life was an actual
family, someone who truly loves me, children. He’s taken on my two boys as a
step parent amazingly, and we’ve added to our family.
Stats: Peyton Ann Marie. 5lb 3oz. 17in long. August 7th,
2014 @ 2:36pm
