7 years ago...

Just 7 short years ago I gave birth to my first child..Owen !! No one ever forgets their birth story and every ones story is special to them. Here is my story of Owen's birth....

I had went for ultra-sound on the 25th of May( a Friday afternoon) due to having pre-eclampsia and the fear of a large baby. My sister came along to catch a peek of her new niece or nephew. After the ultra-sound they had me sit out in the waiting room for what seemed like an eternity. At this point I told my sister that I felt something was wrong because they never held me over this long afterwards. The ultrasound tech said that she would have the Dr. look over it as soon as he could and she dismissed me. My sister and I finished out our day with some shopping and then I came back home to discover a message from my o.b.'s office telling me to call them a.s.a.p. Once on the phone with them they told me that I was to go to labor and delivery to get a non-stress test done, even though I had one scheduled for Monday (Memorial Day). I left my Jason a note told him where I went and why and that I would hopefully be back before he got home from work... That never happened. Once I finally saw the o.b. on call for the weekend he sat down and had a very long talk with me on how my baby was gonna be deformed. His head was bigger than his chest and he was gonna weigh under 5 pounds.. OMG!! did I just hear this correctly!! And worse case scenario was that he would die.. Oh did I mention how I had high blood pressure before.. .well this news caused it to sky rocket. When I was admitted my BP was over 200( I can't remember the bottom number). Needless to say they scared the crap out of me. They decided the baby would be better off to be born that to stay inside me. I was still 2 weeks away from my due date of June 9th. So they started me on pitocin so get labor going. By this time I was finally able to call Jason and let him know that I wouldn't be leaving the hospital until I had the baby.... It was a very LONG labor. The jump started me around supper time on Friday... let's not forget that I had been in there since 2 or 3 in the afternoon.. The Dr. was afraid that I would start seizing due to my eclampsia so they gave me magnesium sulfate by I.V. to keep that from occurring...Saturday rolls around and still nothing is going on. I had my parents and me brother in from time to time to help pass the time away. I was bed fast since I had to monitored the whole time. Later that evening my water broke. I remember this so clearly. I was sitting there in bed, my dad and brother were in the room eating McDonalds( I was very upset with them over that cuz I was hungry and I wasn't allowed to eat) and all of a sudden a gush of relief happened. It was a neat feeling. That was the moment I knew I was having my baby!! Saturday night turned into a stormy night... thunderstorms.. & I love storms. Around midnight I finally got my epidural. As the anesteseologist was jagging me in my spine.. the lights went out.. my mom and sister were waiting in the hall and Mom was having a fit!! The lights weren't out long before the generator kicked in.... about and hour later I was gettin ready to push!! Yay almost there. There was an specialist team ready for when the baby was born (NICU) in case there was something wrong like the ultrasound suggested. I had a hard time pushing due to the epi.. I didn't know if I was even pushing like I was supposed to be doing. The on call O.B. vacuumed my baby out.She was in a hurry to get him out so the specialist team could examine him. He was out within 15-20 minutes of my first push.. So either I was doing it right or she was the.... Owen was born at 1:56 a.m. ,May 27, 2001 He weighed 6lbs. 7 oz. and was perfectly healthy!! What a blessing! Happy Birthday Owen Jaymes