Friday, September 25, 2009

Better late then never!

I know I'm a week late of posting pictures and telling you how we are doing since Kyson arrived but like that old saying goes better late then never.
So just thought I would run our adventure of labor with all of you. Sunday the 13th I went to work not feeling my best. Not sick but just not feeling like myself. I had felt like I was out of body doing things on Saturday and Sunday. Well when I arrived at work my good friend Michelle Roman told me that I didn't look like myself. I had explained to her that I wasn't feeling like myself and I appoligized to her about if I'm alittle spacey that night. I turned around and went to start cleaning the labor rooms and making sure they were stocked. Well I got one done and came back out to the nurses station to sit down for a few because I was out of breath and hot. Michelle happen to be sitting there too and we were talking and my right foot started to hurt so I pulled my shoe off and both Michelle and I noticed my ankle was huge. She pulled me into the triage room and took my blood pressure which the first one was 135 over 97 well she became concerned and put a bigger cuff on my arm and retook it thinking that the other cuff was to small well not the luck we were hoping for. My blood pressure read was 146 over 105 even with the larger cuff. Well she told me that I needed to go clock out and go put a gown on because she was calling Dr. Tindall to tell him about my blood pressure. So I worked a hole 1 1/2 before becoming a patient.
I called Rhett about 8 that evening to let him know that this was it and that Dr. Tindall decided to induce me because I had become PIH (Pregnancy induced hypertention). So as he was heading up I also called my mom to let her know that I was being induced and so she headed for the hospital too.
Well the way Dr. Tindall does his inductions is different then the other dr's there at the hospital. What he does is put a 30ml foley in my uterus and pulls to make pressure on it and once it falls out then your 4 cm's dialated.

2115-2315: Foley bulb in and fell out
2315-0245: Sleeping and laboring
0245: Dr. Tindall into break bag of water
0400: Pitocin started to make my contractions harder
0600: Shift change Evonne Boone new nurse
0800: Lavender hands and feet message to relax me
1000: Up at bed side on labor ball
1200: Called Melissa for epidural. Now at 6 cm's dialated
1230: Pit to highest we can get it at 20 units
1430: Melissa in room to give epidural
1500: Turning from side to side with red peanut ball between knees
1630: Asked Evonne to call Melissa again so she can turn my epidural down so I didn't feel like a beached whale.
1700: Still turning from side to side
1800: Shift change again Michelle is my nurse again.
1815: Still at 6 cm's
1915-2100: Dr. Tindall in room watching America's got talent with Rhett mom and I.
2100: Pit turned off for an hour
2200: Pit restarted
2230: Still 6 cm's
2330: Still laboring away
0000-0300: Just laboring and praying I've made more change but nothing.
0300: Dr. Tindall called to let him know of no change. He then calls for a c-section
0400: Drinking nasty stuff for preperation.
0445: Wheeled back into O.R.
0500: Dr. Tindall starts to operate
0520: Kyson is born

Time after that I don't remember. I was knocked out with drugs and had a couple of throwing up spells.
So after that is pretty much explanatory. We are all healthy and happy and moving around just great. So I hope you enjoy the pictures below.

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