My Unexpected Birth Story! 😶

I posted a short "my baby has been born" post when he was born but was very loopy and didn't get to tell my whole story/experience.

My original due date was August 25th. Around July 22nd, I went into my doctors office to return my 24 hour urine collection, because I was thought to be pre-eclamptic. I was with my first pregnancy- and around 31 weeks with this one, my blood pressure started going through the roof and I was put on Procardia for that as well as preterm contractions. I had been having real (not Braxton hicks) contractions since about 28 weeks. Anyway, I turned in the urine collection and they sent it off to the lab. A couple days later I had gotten a troubling call that my protein levels were over 500, and they needed to contact my high risk specialist to see what needed to be done that they hadn't already done. A week went by, still getting very strong contractions every day. Each day getting worse. I didn't hear anything from either one of my doctors. I went in for an appointment with my regular doctor at exactly 35 weeks and they told me that I needed to stop the procardia, and they would do nothing to stop my labor at this point if I went into active labor. Fair enough, but my first was a csection so I wasn't looking forward to labor pains. My csection was scheduled for August 11th, at exactly 38 weeks. Well, I went to my high risk appointment on August 4th at 8:30 am. They did the usual routine they did every week. Non-stress test, an ultrasound, and a talk with my high risk doctor. The nonstress test was non reactive which hax never happened before. They took me straight to ultrasound where they immediately started checking baby out, looked at his heart, and made sure he was practicing his breathing movements. He had always been on point at every high risk appointment on the ultrasound, very cooperative. Not today. He wouldn't practice his breathing. So, the doctor came in for our usual chat and she had just received the note from my doctor about my protein levels. She looked at me and said, "You're pre-eclamptic. I don't feel comfortable treating you outpatient with your levels so high. It could really hurt, if not kill you and the baby. Go straight to the hospital. You're having a baby today." My jaw dropped. I was exactly 37 weeks. I thought I still had a week to prepare... so my husband and I rushed home, grabbed our hospital bag and shoved every thing we had forgotten to put in it in the bag. My husband grabbed the bag and started rushing me to the truck when I was stopped in my tracks by a horrible contraction, making me double over in pain. Then I remembered: I lost my mucous plug yesterday! The contractions kept getting stronger on the way to the hospital. The car ride there felt like a year, but in all reality it was only 10 mins away. As soon as I got there (They knew I was coming) they put me in a room. I was then hooked up to the monitors when the nurse told me something even more mind-scattering: the baby's heart rate is past 180. He needed to come out and the only person there who was able to do a csection was in the middle of performing one! The nurse looked at me and nervously asked, "are you feeling these contractions you're having?" I told her yes I was. She was in shock that I wasn't screaming in pain... an hour went by and I was rapidly dilating. Finally, the anesthesiologist came in explaining what was going to happen. I agreed to everything, this wasn't my first time. Finally I was taken to the operating room and my husband put on scrubs and came with me. I got my spinal and laid down on the table. The doctor came in and said, "you ready to have this baby?". Yessss!! Let's do this! They began. I kept experiencing some side effects of the spinal. They kept giving me medicine. Next thing I knew, the pediatric nurse had my beautiful baby in my face so I could kiss him and say hello. They cleaned him up, closed me up and took me to recovery where my husband brought our second born son. We both fell in love instantly and I'll never forget this story. It was so much of a better experience than my first. It's almost three months late, but please meet and help me welcome Mason Jacob Sievers. Born on Thursday, August 4th, 2016 at 3:41 pm weighing 6 lbs 14 oz and 20 1/4 inches long. Our miracle & rainbow baby.

P.s. I was already in active labor when I arrived at the hospital, so he would have been born on this day either way!