Ok, so I can not believe that just three weeks ago they were preparing me mentally for possibly having to have a C-section. Crazy how the time goes by. I thought that I would share Brody's birth story. Bright and early at 5am, we were at Methodist Germantown. Well, I guess you could say it was early. No sun yet at 5am. It was just icy and snowy. They started the pitocin around 6:30am, and around 6:50 I started feeling contractions in my low back. These were not bad, just uncomfortable. Then around 7:30 or 8 Dr. Tinker came in to break my water. Ok, for all of those that have to have this done, I feel your pain. He could not completely break my water because Brody was still so high, but he was able to puncture it. Anyway, and thankfully he did not have to come back in to break my water anymore. I kicked everyone out around 10, and it was just Bryan and me. At 11:30, I had had enough and wanted the wonderful drugs. They came in around 12 and by 12:30 I was feeling no pain. Then my wonderful weird body had all of the side effects that one can have from the epidural. Throw-up check, almost passing out and blood pressure going to 90/40 check, heart rate staying at 130 check. Around 3 I started running a fever. I never run fever, so this was pretty shocking to me. They checked me and I was still at 4 1/2cm. I had not dilated anymore in hours. This wonderful nurse started preparing me for what could possibly happen. She was really great. All of my nurses were, but she was very good. They started to administer antibiotics around 4:30. They checked about an hour later and still no progress and my fever had gone up. Dr. Tinker called me around 6 or 6:30 to explain that it was the safest thing to go ahead and do the c-section. How many doctors call their patients when they are at their sons basketball game?. He is wonderful. Anyway, one of his partners Dr. Bannister came in around 7:30, and said that it was just not healthy and that the baby nor I could take it anymore. By this time my heartrate had been in the 130s for about 8 hours and Brody's had been in the upper 100s spiking to 225 on occasion. So, they prepped me and whisked me away to have the C-section. Thankfully, Brody was born healthy and everyone was fine. They did have to take him to the NICU because he was running a fever and his color did not look so good. He also wasnt giving them strong enough crys. For precaution, they kept him on antibiotics until the day that we got to come home. They had to administer these by IV. Poor little guy. I'm glad he won't remember any of that.
He is a very healthy bouncing baby. He has been starting to give me little smiles, and he is starting to really recognize voices other than mine. He loves music. One of his favorite songs is "I go out walking after midnight" by Patsy Cline. He could be crying up a storm, but when I start to sing that song, he stops. Crazy Kid.
Ok, so after a very long blog, I will wrap this up. Thanks for being patient with me. I really wanted to get this down somewhere before I forgot. I hope that you all have a great week.
