Rainbow baby birth story🌈💕

I lost my first son July 7th 2018 an hour after he was born. My heart was shattered and I never thought I'd have room in my heart for another baby. That all changed rather quickly. About a month after the loss of our son my husband and I decided we did want to try again. I talked to my doctor and she said it was safe to start trying but not to be surprised if it takes a while to conceive again. We started trying in September and got pregnant that same cycle. When I got my positive I was so scared. I started second guessing if i was ready and if I could handle another pregnancy right away. The entire time i was expecting the worst. Every appointment I had I was waiting for bad news. Finally around 35 weeks I decided to let myself be excited and not wait for something bad to happen.

At my 37 week appointment my blood pressure was pretty high (I had high blood pressure my entire pregnancy but the past couple appointments it was higher then usual) they sent me to the ER to have a bunch of tests done. I didnt have preeclampsia or anything like that but they said they wanted to induce me the next morning. Due to my blood pressure being so high and the baby is considered full term. I went home and I couldn't believe it. I was so excited and so scared. My husband and I got the last bit of setting up and cleaning done and I tried to sleep but the excitment was overwhelming. We got to the hospital at 6:00 am and they started me on pitocin by 9 When I went in I was about 2cm dilated and by 10 am I was at a 3. I got a little nap in before my family came to visit. Around 12pm I was 5 cm dilated and they asked me if I wanted an epidural and said I should get it at that point because if I waited it might be to late to get one 🙄 so I agreed and got one at 5cm. Of course the epidural stopped my contractions and froze my labor for 2 hours so they increased my pitocin. By 3pm I was at a 7 and my contractions were coming in strong. I started to feel them pretty intensely so they adjusted my epidural and stopped it off. I got in a small nap but by 5pm I was in so much pain. My epidural wasn't working at all at this point. I said quite a few unkind words to everyone and begged for the anesthesiologist to come fix it. He topped it off 2 more times and I felt nice I felt a bit of pressure so I asked my nurse to check me. I was fully dilated but the baby was still pretty far up so she told me I needed to push him down to get him to crown. At that very second my epidural stopped working again I was screaming at everyone lol. I get him about halfway down and I just start puking this bright green vomit it was so gross but me puking got him down where he needed to be lol he started crowning and I had to stop pushing even tho I just wanted it to be over. The doctors came in got everything set up and 6 more pushes and my baby was here at 6:51 pm!! They laid him on my chest and everything went away. Everything was worth it. All the worrying and pain. I heard his cry and I knew everything was going to be okay.

Jonas William-Scott McCartney

7lbs 12oz 19 inches long