Jack is Born!

Jack Henry Briele
born Feburary 4, 2oo9 at 6:23 p.m.
8lbs 2oz
21 1/2 inches

Well Feb.3rd came and went and no Jack, so Alex suggested we go eat at Jack's to get our mind off of him not coming. The next morning I woke up around 6:30 am with what I thought was either cotractions or gas. So I decided to time the "contractions" and they were about 7 minutes apart. I woke Alex up and then they started to get more intese and about 5 minutes apart. I had a doctors appointment at 10 am so I called my doctor to see if I should go in to her office or to the hospital. At this point it was about 9:30 and I knew at this point that this was the real thing, the contractions were now unbearable and less than two minutes apart. Alex packed our bags and off we went to the hospital. When we arrived I was at 4cm dialated so they wheeled me up to labor and delivery...I pleaded and begged for an epidural. I had been nervous about getting an epidural...the needle in my spine frightened me but I didn't even think twice about it by that time. After the epidural was in I thought I can do this, this is easy...needless to say I was feeling good! I started to progress faster than normal for a first time baby. Within two hours I had dialated 3 more cm, so they thought this was going to be a fast and easy delivery. Not so much... The doctors were noticing everytime I would have a cotraction the baby's heart rate would drop from the 120's to 80's. Jack was having a hard time recovering from the contraction. By now I was ready to push so I pushed and pushed with all my might. Jack's heart rate still would drop so the doctors said one more push and if things don't change we are taking this baby out with forceps (he was crowning so it was too late for a c-section) No go..he was caught on my pelvic bone. So they said o.k were taking him out now and wooosh there was about twenty people in the room. The next thing I know there was twisting, turning, tugging and pulling and then our beautiful baby was here. They rushed him to the side to check him out and to get him stimulated. The delivery was pretty hard on my body as you could imagine so it took them about an hour to stitch me up. Jack actually came out with one arm, something the doctors never had seen before. Alex went by our new baby's side to be with him. I loved seeing Jack's daddy watch after him. it was such a precious sight. About 20 minutes later they brought him over to me. He was beautiful...he was pretty beat up but just beautiful to me.