I was due on the 17th. I chatted with a girl that was due on the 16th and I kept telling her I'm going first! I'm going first. I don't know how many weeks it was either times but I had to go up to the hospital 2 different times. The first one I know I was only like 3 months. I was having horrible cramping. Sara took me up there while Larry was on his way home. It was nothing---just my muscles stretching. But a few days before that my Dr. scared the living crap outta me cause I called him bout the cramps and he said its either my muscles or my body was preparing for a misscarrage! talk about crying a river.
I had to go back a few months later and it was soooo funny cause Sara at 6mths looked like she was gonna explode any second now. And while we where in the elevator at the hospital, one of the nurses looks at Sara and says "OMG is it time? I can have this elevator go straight up with no stops if needed!!!" We laffed and Sara said "No, we are here for her" and points to me LoL and we had to reassure that I wasn't in labor and that I was farther along than Sara. Again that was nothing.
Well When I got 7.5 mths Courtney decided the best place to hang out was in my ribs! If I ever wanted to rip her out that would be the time. Everyonce in awhile I would get this sharp scratching pain inside my cervix. at one of my Dr.'s appts. i asked my Dr. what it was and he said---oh your daughter has long fingernails!!! NIIIIIIIIIIIIICE! Attacking me already---if the ribs weren't enough! Courtney stayed up in the ribs for a full 2 mths too!!!!! By this time I had been begging and begging to be induced. I was done! I couldn't take it NOOOOOO more! He kept telling me no. There is no reason to.
Well On the 12th of Nov. I had another checkup. Just one of the routine ones. While on the computer chatting my call wave answering machine picked up and it was the nurse from my Dr.s office asking to call her back as soon as possible. So I tell the girls ok---I gotta call my Dr. I will brb. I call and talk to the nurse and she said "Dr. Richter wants you to come in today as soon as possible" I start panicking and asking what for. And she has NO idea. She says I can page him and have him call you if you like and I said please.
I wait--a few minutes later my phone rings (mind you this is a monday and his office is closed on mondays ) its my Dr. He said "that phone call wasn't supposed to freak you out!" Uh to late! He then tells me that he wants to check my cervix and see how its doing. If its ready to go---i have to be at the hospital at 6am on the 12th to start induction. If its not im admitted to the hospital that night to get a cervadil. I said ok. Call Larry---Come home dear---its time! He comes home.Meanwhile im getting ready---have to run to the bathroom cause i gotta throw up the breakfast i JUST ate. Nerves--gotta love it. Get to the Dr's office and end up waiting 2 hrs. Dude--your office is closed on mondays LoL
He checks and then tells me---"ok enjoy your last few hours of peace cause I want you at the hospital at 6pm! Go home and pack---no i wasn't packed yet---had Court's bag ready for MONTHS!!!
get a cervidil and it does its job! 530am i get woken up to "freshen up". Get started on pitocin! 8am water breaks and its all down hill from there. Contractions started at I wanna say noon or 1pm. I was dialating ever so slowly. Contractions start coming every 30-seconds to a minute. Larry went out to get something to eat and I was laying on my left side---it was KILLING me--a nurse was in to check on me and I ask if i can switch to my right---she goes to call my Dr. and he said its ok (im trying to cat nap too) I flip--fall back asleep---next thing I know a nurse is hauling ass into the room and tells me to wake up--she throws an oxygen mask on me, im crying hysterically--Larry isn't here---they wont tell me anything. Larry comes in and immediately asks me whats wrong and all I can say is I don't know---they finally tell me---Courtney wasn't getting enough oxygen. I have to stay on my left side permanently or on my back. around 7pm Larry mom and aunt come in. My only visitors. It was nice---they where timing for me. Nurse checks me at 730 and says want an Epi??? What kinda question is that! HELL YES! she calls the anistegiologist. 8pm im getting an epi. They ask Larrys mom and aunt to leave the room while im getting it. Working like a charm. Didn't feel a thing. Ma and his aunt come in in the middle and say they are going to leave for a bit then come back. No biggie. They leave. 830 my Dr. comes in to see how im doing. I think i slept for like 15 minutes LOL Im at 6cm. niiiiiice! he feels for Courtney----she moves back up! Damn kid Then her heart rate drops dramatically-----the verdict---- C-section! Epi made me sick!
So there I go---I was so drugged up that when they where going to move me onto the op table i said---ya'll aint gonna be able to move me---im to fat.! LoL meanwhile im throwing up LoL ever try throwing up when your on your back and your strapped down and you cant move cause ya cant feel your body---all you can do is turn your head---not great! And you have an audience at the same time!
I tell my dr. ya know--i knew i was gonna have a c-section---he then tells me why didnt ya tell me sooner we coulda had this planend. Smart ass!
Ok my story is long enough--
at 919pm November 12,2002 Courtney Jo came into the world weighing 6lbs 15.5 ounces and 21.5 inches long. And she did have some long ass nails!!!
BTW-My recovery was great! I was even allowed to go home a day early because I was doing so well. The pain was hard but I delt. I felt like I got hit by a truck though when I was first allowed to get outta bed. Its so hard to walk when everything inside you has been smushed around and what not.