| On October 27, 1999, I was busily working, and training my replacement for maternity leave. at about 10:00 am, I started to feel something but wasn't quite sure what it was. Several people asked me if I was OK. by the end of the day, the baby had "dropped" considerably, and I was having what I believed to be contractions. I went home, and dh, asked "how was work?" I responded by "I think I'm in labour". Shock set in, he had me sit and time my contractions. I was scared and crying. This is it! The baby was 3 weeks early. My contractions were 5 minutes apart at 5:30pm. At 7:00 we had to get ready to play in a 8-ball pool league (we ended up not going). My contractions were 2 /12 minutes apart and not subsiding! I called the Doctor and he advised me to get to the hospital quickly since my contractions were so close together. My dh made me sit on a bath towel to the hospital in case my water broke. We were off to the hospital at 8:30 pm. I was 1 cm dilated at 9:00, we decided to walk through the contractions to try and speed things up. While walking the corridors at the hospital I can hear women screaming in pain "get it out, get it out, get it out! It HURTS!!" (I left out the profanity) I thought, my god, WHAT did I get myself into? It's a little late to change my mind now! After several hours of walking, at 11:30 I was checked, I was complaining of pain and pressure, 4cm! I was allowed to get an epidural. At 12:00 midnight I started to get my epidural. Yes, started. We were at a teaching hospital and it took 3 tries for the student to get the epidural in. By the time they were done at 1:20 am, the nurse checked me, I was 8 cm, and my water broke. Oh, the baby was coming fast! The called the Doctor, woke him up, and made him rush in for this labour. The baby got stuck! I started pushing at 2:00 am and continued to push until 3:30. They topped up my epidural so I could get some rest. My dh still comments on how he was watching the monitor, the contractions were going off the paper and I was SNORING through them. At 5:00 am I woke up. OK, enough of this, let's push this kid out. I pushed, and pushed, and pushed. Every position you could imagine, legs up everywhere. At 6:00 they wheeled me into the surgery room, wheeled by the nurses station, someone is looking for a Melissa & Dean, my mom was on the phone. She hasn't slept and wants to know what is going on, do we have a baby yet? They had to pull out the baby with forceps. It's a girl! She is mommies clone! Kylie Madelyn was born at 6:34 am, October 28, 1999, 20 inches long, 7 lbs 13 oz. At 8:30 am, I phoned into work, sorry, I won't be in for 6 months, just had a baby! I was in the hospital for a week. My water works broke down from the pressure of the forceps and had bruised my bladder. I could not pee on my own, amongst other things. I was cut and stitched from one end to the other. Good thing they stitched it up or my guts would've fallen out. |
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| BC Screen Name: KyliesCanadian Email: [email protected] Est. Due Date: Children and Birthdays: Kylie 10/27/99 |
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