Dramatic Birth Story

Robert Cole Davidson is a week old today! He was born October 29th at 1:33pm at 37.6wks. He was due nov 13th.

I had had preterm labor at 17 wks, 34wks, and 35 wks that we managed to stop. No one expected me to make it to term considering at 34 wks I was dilated to a 3 and 75% effaced and Cole was at -2 station. Some how 37wks came and Cole hadn’t!

I was home alone the night I went into labor as my husband works 24hour shifts as a paramedic. Something woke me up at 3am. I decided to get up to pee but as I rolled over I felt my panties get wet. I hurried to the bathroom were I assumed I peed myself. But as I emptied my bladder I realized I had no control over the fluid that continued to come out. We had planned for a situation like this. My neighbor would drive me to my husbands station or the hospital if he was on a run. Station is 45mins away. Hospital is an hour. I get dressed and call my neighbor... no answer. 26 phone call attempts later I knock on her door cuz at this point it’s been 35 minutes and I’m now having contractions! No answer at her door. Managed to wake my mom up. She drove 35 mins to come get me. My husband literally beat me to the hospital by 35 minutes. I finally got to the hospital at almost 6am. I was 5cm 100%. Contractions were 1-2 minutes apart. Took 6nurses and over 14 attempts to get my IV. My veins just did not want to cooperate. I was begging for my epidural by the time they got my fluids in to give it to me. Finally around 8:30 I got my epidural and by 8:45 I was a very happy lady. By 11am I was complete and ready to push. We started pushing at 11:15 (they had to set the room up). Cole unfortunately decided he liked where he was at. I pushed for 2 hours and 15mins! He was stuck above my pelvic bone. My OB was literally having the let’s go a csection conversation with me when a contraction hit. I stopped him and asked if we could continue it was this contraction. Suddenly while I was pushing everyone started yelling for me to look down and push harder. I was so confused why they wanted me to look at my vagina cuz I hadn’t been able to see it in months. Then they laid my sweet red headed boy on my chest! He had suddenly popped under my pelvic bone and his head was out. By the end of the contraction he was in my chest. Amazingly despite his sudden rapid exit I only require 1 small internal stitch. He came so fast the nursery nurse wasn’t in the room or even assigned one yet. The lactation consultant from the next room who used to do nursey nursing ran in and started his care. I don’t even have any pictures of him from before our skin to skin cuz no one was ready with a camera. But it’s okay. He’s here safe and sound and absolutely perfect!