He's Finally Here!

Mason Jayce Lawrence entered the world on Wednesday, June 18th at 6:20 am. He was 7 pounds 12 ounces and 18 inches long. Monday night after having Jamie's parents over for a late father's day dinner, I finally started having regular contractions. Jamie and I were watching Oceans 11 after his parents left and that's when it started. I kept watching the clock to see how regular they were and for an hour they were five minutes apart. All through the movie, I didn't tell Jamie what was going because I didn't want to jinx it. He kept seeing me look at the clock and telling me the movie's almost over. He thought I was watching the clock because I was ready to go to bed. When I told him, he stayed pretty calm and started getting our bag filled with our last minute things we needed. We called the OB to see if the contractions were close enough to come out. The nurse said it was my call so we headed out. We called Rosie's sitter and headed to to the hospital. Dr. Okie said I still was only dialated to a 1 or 2 but thought I would be progressing fast because of my consistent contractions. They started at 11:45pm at home and quit completely at 1 am. So Tuesday morning Dr. Okie decided to start me on Pitocin to induce me. My contractions were getting stronger but were not helping me dialte. Tuesday night I got my epidural and lordy did that hurt. Everyone tells you how great they are but no one shares how much they hurt going in. My anesthesiologist was Dr. Pai, who is the nicest lady ever. She had such a hard time getting mine in because she said it was hard getting into my spine. ouch! Hours later it wore off and i could still feel my left side. soooooooo I got another one and this one was not nearly as painful because I was already half numb. This was sure did the trick because I was on Cloud 9. It was great. Well two different times the pitocin was increased so much that it made my contractions too close together causing the baby's heart rate to go up because he couldn't catch a break. Both times I was put on oxygen and it helped regulate the baby's heart rate. Well Wednesday morning Dr. Okie said I was still only dialated to a 4 and my cervix was still thick and the baby was not dropping farther. I had started to become swollen and the baby was going to be too big to deliver naturally. I was so scared and so upset that I could not stop crying. Minutes later I was being rushed into surgery to deliver by c-section. Scariest moment of my life. When they strapped my arms down to the table I was shaking so bad it looked like my body was having a seizure. Finally at 6:20 Mason arrived and was very healthy. He scored a 9.9 on the Apgar scale. I was very happy everything was okay. The hardest part was having him here and not being able to be with him immediately. As soon as he came out, they took him and Jamie to the nursery while they finished up on me. 2 hours later I finally got to see my baby. I was so happy to see him. Words can't express how relieved I was to have a healthy baby.