Jacob’s delivery

I’ve got some “downtime” right now…Jacob and Mommy are sleeping so I figured I would give you the short and sweet play-by-play on how Jacob entered the world.

Sunday, Aug 15

1am — Victoria’s water breaks

2am-10am — she goes to the “bathroom” once every 20-40 minutes

10:30am — I talk to Mimi and Aunt Sandy and Grandma.  Consensus is call the doctor as it might have been her water breaking.

10:40am — the doctor says go to the hospital

12:30pm — we arrive at the hospital and find out her water did break early that morning

3pm — they move us to labor and delivery room #2.

3-8pm — Victoria is having contractions every 3 to 4 minutes.

8pm — dinner arrives and amazing her contractions stop.

9:30pm — we go to bed

Monday, Aug 16th

8:30am — Victoria gets breakfast in bed (eggs, pancakes, sausage, coffee, etc…)

10:45am — Dr. Hurt arrives and says there will be no ultrasound and they will start inducing labor soon.

11:30am — they give Victoria pitocin and antibiotics.

1:30pm — contractions start

3pm — Victoria asks for an epidural

3:30pm — Epidural is given to Victoria

3:35pm — 2 cm dialated

3:45pm — Victoria takes a nap

5pm — Victoria wakes up

5:30pm — Mimi and Papa arrive

6:15pm — Victoria feels pressure and Daddy calls for the nurse.  (Jacob is right there.)

6:20pm — The doctor is paged, Mimi and Papa go out in the waiting room.  The labor and delivery room is prep’ed for Jacob’s birth.

6:45pm — Jacob is getting real close to “delivering himself”  (Victoria is not pushing, just contracting and breathing easy.)

6:55pm — they bring in another doctor as Dr. Hurt was still about 5 minutes away (via car).

6:59pm — the stand in doctor is rubbing Jacob’s head and kind of holding him in place.  We see Dr. Hurt running across the parking lot in her scrubs and the nurses are laughing.  Saying, “If Victoria makes it through this contraction, then Dr. Hurt can deliver him.”

7:01pm — doctor arrives, puts her gloves on, Victoria takes a deep breath, pushes for 2 seconds and Baby Jacob was born.  Daddy cried like a baby!  Mommy was so amazing and happy.  She didn’t remember Connor’s actual birth because of all the difficulties.

What an amazing time!  Victoria and Jacob did such a great job.  What a difference between the two births!  No major issues with this labor and delivery…and there were even so “light moments” (like the doctor running across the parking lot).

More to come on Baby Jacob (and his big brother’s first visit Tuesday morning)…

Love,

Donnie