Logan's Birth Story

Well, I started having contractions Thursday night on April 30th. For the most part they stayed 10 minutes apart for until Wednesday morning. Then they started to really pick up. So, I called Katie and told her that they were really close together. They kept coming for awhile, but then they slowed down again. So, we went out to breakfast, then went to the chiropractor, then went walking at the zoo to see if they would pick back up. Oh, somewhere in there we figured out that my water had broken at about 2:30 that morning. I wasn't sure, but they tested my pad and found amniotic fluid. So, after all the walking, my contractions were even further apart. I was miserable. So, they had me taking cotton root to stir up contractions. It worked a little, but it never got me to the point of labor. Then, we did caster oil. It didn't work either. Finally, they approached me with my options. Because my water had been broken for almost 24 hours something needed to happen. I could try to sleep at home and see if anything happened by the next day or I could go to the hospital and get an epidural and possibly have to get induced. Everything in me told me that it was time to go to the hospital. So, we traveled for and hour and a half to the hospital in Manning, SC because that was where my consulting physician, Dr. Moore was and it wasn't an emergency. On the drive up, my contractions picked up to the point of being in labor. So, I got and epidural so I could sleep. When I woke up at about 6 on Thursday morning, they told me they had to give me Pitosen to induce labor because my contractions had slowed down again. My epidural started really wearing off on my left side during labor so I had to get more medicine. I started pushing at 8:00am. After two hours, still no baby. The doctor told me he would let me push for one more hour if I wanted, but after that, we would have to do a c- section. Logan just wasn't able to come out. I ended up pushing for two more hours instead of one because there was an emergency c-section that had to be done so the operating room was occupied. I was in the most pain I have ever felt in my life. When we went in to do the c-section I had to get a special spinal epidural because my left side still didn't stay numb. I had the hardest time of my life with this and even now being home, I'm not doing the greatest yet. But every day is getting better. There was tremendous relief when I heard Logan cry for the first time. I cried right when I heard him. So did Mike. We love him so much! God has given us such a beautiful boy!