The Wilders: Birth Story

Colts Birth Story

(39 weeks and 5 days)

On Friday morning I anxiously got ready for the day knowing that soon our family of three would be a family of four! At 5:30am I checked in at the Hospital. It was weird in the beginning because I went back by myself and they made Ryan stay out front. They took me back in my room and asked me a bunch of medical questions and put my IV in (OUCH). I forgot how much that hurts. Then they let Ryan in to the room. I sat and waited uncomfortably because I was having contractions, the IV was hurting me, and I didn't want to be sitting down but had to with all the monitors hooked up to me. At 7:30am my nurse Jennifer (who I loved!) checked me and I was 75% effaced at a 3. Then at 7:37am they started the pitocin. By 10am my water broke on its own. I remember thinking the baby kicked me really hard(it hurt) and it made a loud popping sound on the monitor. I turned over and was trying to get up because I had to go the bathroom. It just started coming out and at first I really thought I was peeing but then I realized what was going on. Ryan was sleeping on the couch (ya there work is hard) and I said "I think my water just broke!" and he didn't respond! I said it two more times yelling at him on the last one. haha I didn't realize how much fluid comes out when your water breaks! It just wouldn't stop! My contractions started getting stronger and closer right away. I asked my nurse when I could get my epidermal and she said whenever I wanted. Good thing because I wanted it now! So at 10:30am I was given my epidural and boy was that more painful than I remember too! It took her a longer than I remember it being with Jett. Anyways, after she was done and about 15 minutes later I was feeling GREAT! I LOVE EPIDURALS! I love not being in pain so I can enjoy the experience :) I can't remember when the nurse checked me again but it seems like not long after the epidermal I was at a 9.5. I felt a lot of pressure but they wanted me to wait to push and just let the baby work his way down. No rush or anything. I told the Doctor I didn't want to tear so her solution was to let the baby come down slowly and sit for awhile. It was such a different experience than with Jett. It was really laid back and the Doctor and I just took our time :) She let me have a mirror so I could see the babies head. WAY COOL! By 2:15pm baby Colt arrived and because of him slowly taking his time to come down, he had a really nice cone head! haha. But I loved that the Dr. let me reach down and grab him to hold him. They cleaned him off on me and I just got to snuggle with Colt for a little bit. I remember being a little worried because they kept saying he was "wet"( or something like that) meaning he still had liquid in his lungs and I guess it was taking them a long time to get it out. Of course I was worried but everything was fine. I couldn't believe when they told me his weight was 8lbs! To me that is a big baby! Jett was 6 lbs 15 oz. I was proud of my "big" baby. Wonder what he would have weighed if he came on his due date or a few days after. Anyways, I had another positive experience with delivery and loved every moment of it!

Love kissing my baby!