My Delivery

I had a friend who wanted to know how my delivery went. I thought I would write a post about my experience...

It all started May 29th... I had a planned C-section that day for noon. We drove anxiously to the hospital, as we arrived I was thinking wow next time I leave this hosptial I will have a baby in tow.

I was admitted into triage where we had to wait for my operating room to be ready. Well, we ended up waiting 5 hours. Here are some photos we took while we waited.

 Me and my giant baby belly

  My mom and Pete wearing matching blue colors!

Finally the doctor arrived and said "alright are you ready" Pete and I walked into the operating area, Pete got his scrubs on and I was taken into the operating room

I am about to become a dad!

The operating room was all windows so it was super bright and freezing but it felt so good. I sat on the operating table as they pulled out all the instruments. Then I just started to cry,  just waiting for what was about to happen had every emotion you could imagine passing through me. They let Pete come into the room to console me till they were ready to put the epidural in.

 I had the most amazing anesthesiologist. He was very calming and gentle. My OB sat in front of me held my hands and we made some jokes. The epidural was not painful at all just the sensations from it were strange and warm. I then layed on the operating table. (which was super tiny and thin I wasnt sure how I was going to fit on this thing) 

 Pete came back into the room, the curtain was up. He sat next to me held my hand and rubbed my head. I felt nothing, it was an out of body experience. I was so nervous the whole time I kept making jokes and everyone was cracking up. Every once in a while I felt my body being pulled and tugged around. Then my OB announced "baby is about to come out". As they pulled out the baby there was so much pressure on my lungs it took my breath away.  Then he was out, I was just in shock. The first thing I asked was "well is it a boy?"  They confirmed, then the OB said wow Annie you had a nice size baby. I saw him and said  HOLY COW thats a "big ass baby". Everyone had a good laugh. 

As Pete was checking out our baby and telling me how amazing he looked, my OB started taking out my amniotic fluid and I heard her say WOW WOW WOW over and over again. I finally said ok whats going on. She said "I have never in my life seen this much amnitoic fluid". She told me I had 1000 cc's of amniotic fluid. An average woman has 100cc's. YA no wonder my belly was so big, also the baby was just having a great time swimming inside me. He also came out almost perfectly clean. Then he was off to get the APGAR score where he received a 9!! Pete took some photos of Baby J while he was getting cleaned up.

They handed Baby J to Pete and we got to give him hugs and kisses for the first time, then he had to go back to the doctors. Pete then went into the waiting room where the Grandparents and two of baby's Aunts were waiting and he announced we had a beautiful baby boy.   I then got stitched up and sent over to recovery, where I got to hold Baby J for the first time.