Baby Born

**Long post but a great ending**

Finally getting a second to post my birth story while I’m sitting here nursing my sweet boy.

Sunday August, 18 we went in to start the induction process. They started me on cytotec at 8PM to help soften my cervix since I wasn’t dilated or anything yet. After 3 rounds of the cytotec I only dilated to 1 cm.

Around 8:18 AM Monday morning doctor decides to (painfully) break my water and start pitocin to get the ball rolling. Fast forward a couple hours to horribly progressing contractions and my cervix still stuck at 1 cm. I decide it’s time to get the epidural even though I had hoped to go natural. I couldn’t take the vomiting and contractions any longer.

8 PM Monday night, 24 hours after trying to start labor my doctor checked me again and I was devastated to find out I had only progressed to a 1.5 cm. We made the decision to go ahead and do a c-section.

I immediately broke down and felt like a failure. My body wouldn’t do what it needed to do and I couldn’t bring my son into the world in the way I planned. As they came in to prep me for the OR I started panicking and shaking uncontrollably. I was absolutely terrified. I hadn’t prepared and I was so worried about the safety of our little boy.

Once in the OR and waiting for them to bring my husband in I began to get incredibly nauseous. I told the anesthesiologist I was going to puke and not two seconds later I turned my head and started vomiting. I never thought I could vomit so much with nothing in my stomach. They brought my husband in and the first thing I said to him was “I puked in my ear” 😂

After about 10 minutes of them getting started (it seemed like hours to me), and tons of uncomfortable pulling and tugging my husband says at here he comes! And at 10:39 PM on August 19, I hear his sweet little whimpers for the first time. They had to give him to the NICU team right away because he was blue and having trouble breathing. They started putting me back together and after another eternity they finally brought him around the drape and let me kiss his sweet chunky cheek.

Husband leaves to go with baby to the nursery and I stay to get stitched up and taken to recovery. They gave me medicine for the nausea and it made me high as a kite! Finally get to recovery and start skin to skin, and after an hour they take me back to our room. At this point it was about 12-12:30 AM (I can’t remember since pain meds and nausea meds had me out of it) and I continue skin to skin for another 3 hours since he was born early.

All in all I did not have the birth I planned, but I definitely got the sweet baby boy we planned 💙 c-sections are rough and I certainly wasn’t prepared for his recovery, but I’d do it all again for our bitty boy.

Welcome to the world Theo Davis 💙 born August 19, 2019 at 10:39 PM. Weighing 5lbs 15oz and 19 inches long. We don’t know what we ever did before having your gentle spirit in our lives!

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Poor baby can’t fit in any of his clothes even though they’re newborn 😭