Daddy’s New Birthday Twin

I turned 37 weeks on Saturday. I was really anxious to get our hospital bags finished and the car seat bases installed. Good thing too, because I lost my mucus plug on Saturday morning. I started having period like cramps coupled with low back pain about once an hour Saturday and Sunday. Sunday night, at about 11 pm, I woke up with the same pains, just much stronger. I didn’t realize they were contractions. At 2 am, I realized that I should be timing them, and they were 5-10 minutes apart for 3 hours. At 5 am, I woke up my husband, and called the doctor. We ended up going to the hospital to be checked, and I was 3 cm dilated, 80% effaced, and baby was at a -2 station. My contractions fizzled out while at the hospital, so we went home. We had lunch, went on a walk, and I fell asleep for like 15 minutes. I woke up to a horrible pain in my back that nothing would help. After dealing with back pain and contractions that started lasting 4-8 minutes every 6-12 minutes, my husband called the doctor back. During that time, I had an 11 minute long contraction 😩😩. We got to the hospital, and I was dilated to 6 cm, 90% effaced, and a station -1 baby. At that time, my contractions started coming every 1.5 minutes and lasted for a minute each. They were that way for over an hour while we waited on some blood work so I could have an epidural. The epidural was amazing. I was able to relax, and get the rest of the way to be able to push. I pushed for 2.5 hours to get baby down. It turned out, he was trying to go down facing to the side, so it was more difficult for him to pass. We tried forceps as a last ditch effort to avoid a c-section. They worked, and less than 10 minutes after the forceps procedure started, my beautiful baby boy was born on his daddy’s birthday.

He’s 7 lbs 9 oz and 20.5 inches long, and I’m still in shock that I grew such a beautiful creature 😍😍😍😍😍