I am so excited to share our birth story with you! Our precious boy turned 2 months old today and it has been a wonderful blur of joy, love, stress, and exhaustion. I hope to get back to blogging soon but for now I am just taking one day at a time. Loving this new adventure of mommy-hood and am completely smitten with my little man! Porter Hayes you are perfect!!!
Our Birth Story - Porter Hayes Lakin
As many of you know, I was working full time as a second grade teacher this fall. I was very blessed to have a job share with another teacher so that when Porter arrived, I would be done for the rest of the year. I had originally planned to work up until my due date (November 18th). Everyone (including my OB) said that I would likely have him late and I was feeling really good. However, as that date grew closer I decided it would be best to stop teaching that week so that I could have some time to rest before the marathon that is labor and delivery. That Monday (Nov. 14) was very relaxing and I made plans for the rest of the week (nail appointment, grocery shopping, freezer meal prep, laundry, cleaning, ya know all the things you need to get done before baby arrives...). Matt and I went to Outback for dinner because I was craving steak :) We went to bed around 10pm and I was relaxed and ready for a busy week of "nesting". Our little man had other plans...At around 1:00am I woke up with stomach pains. I sat up in bed and it went away. A few minutes later it happened again. I got out of bed to see if it continued. I turned on the Hallmark Channel (duh) and quickly realized that these pains were happening about every 6-8 minutes. After a half hour I woke up Matt and told him that I thought I was in labor. We began timing contractions and they got closer and closer together. By 4:00am they were 3-4 minutes apart and much more intense. Matt called the hospital and they told us to come in. I protested because everyone I know was in labor for days so it couldn't be happening this fast. Fortunately Matt convinced me otherwise and we got to the hospital around 5:00am. We got checked in and the nurse informed me that I was dilated to 7 cm. I couldn't believe it! I was actually really proud of myself because I don't handle pain well and I was doing pretty good for being at 7 cm. I immediately let the nurse know that I wanted an epidural, asap! I was taken straight to the delivery room and they got the epidural going. It was awesome. I didn't feel a thing but could see the contractions happening on the monitor. They told us to get some rest while I "labored down" for a little bit. After an hour it became very apparent that I could feel the contractions again. It got worse, and worse, and they finally gave me a "topper" that was supposed to numb me up again. Here's the biggest surprise of our birth story, the epidural had officially stopped working! If you have had a natural childbirth, you get it. If not, y'all it hurts so bad!!!!!!!!! Once you transition, contractions are so painful. Then they had me start pushing. It felt so unnatural and hurt so bad. I was like one of the women you see in the movies screaming/moaning as I pushed. Fortunately, it didn't take too long. After about 45 minutes of pushing, our sweet boy made is arrival into the world! The nurse started telling me "look down!" and I actually got to seem him emerge! It was so crazy. When they placed him on my chest it was the most surreal feeling in the world. He was so perfect and beautiful and I was overwhelmed with emotions. Then that feeling quickly turned to pain as the doctor began to stitch me up. Ouch! Porter remained on my chest for over an hour before they weighed and measured him. He was 7 lbs. 13 oz. and 20 inches long. We later learned that the reason my epidural didn't take was because Porter's head was so low that it literally blocked the liquid from where it needed to go to numb me. The initial injection only lasts an hour and then a drip kicks in. By the time the initial injection wore off, the drip wasn't able to do its job. From my first contraction to getting to hold my baby boy took around 8 hours. The doctors joked that I should be prepared to have my next baby in the car because it happened so fast. It was a crazy whirlwind and unfortunately we had a few bumps in the road after that with Porter's eating and weight loss. That is a story for another time. At the end of the day, we brought a beautiful baby boy into the world at 9:27am on November 15, 2016. He is our whole world and we could not feel more blessed to be his parents!
Thank you so much for reading! I know it was a long post but I wanted to write down as many details as possible so I don't forget :) I hope to get back to regular posting including lots of mommy posts! (I already have so many ideas!!) but for now, my focus is on my sweet boy. Hope you're 2017 is off to a great start!
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