The miracle of my son's birth began with a routine doctors appointment on February 26th 2007. I went in to have a non stress test and to be checked for any effacement or dilation. Good news was I was at 2cm dilated, bad news was my blood pressure had skyrocketed to 189/100. My doctor was located in the physicians building of Stonecrest Medical Center in Smyrna, Tennessee so she let me know that sometime today or tomorrow I was going to have my baby. Since the doctors office was attached to the hospital I was allowed to walk myself to labor and delivery on the third floor. On my short walk over to L&D I made a few calls to my mom and Ricky and a few other people about the plan for me to be induced. I had already registered before hand so I just went right up to the 3rd floor and I was checked in. By 2pm I had a room and a lovely (ha ha) gown to wear. I was put on fetal monitors and hooked up to a blood pressure cuff which was set to go off every 10 minutes to closly monitor the BP situation. Around 3:30 in the afternoon Dr. Wesley sent the orders to start the oxytocin to get the labor going. From here on out it was a waiting game. I was hooked up to the IV and the drugs started flowing! I was started on the lowest dosage of oxytocin so nothing much was happening. I watched some TV, read a little and ate dinner. I finally fell asleep and every hour on the hour a nurse came in to up the oxy dosage. I woke up really early the morning of Tuesday February 27th to slight labor pains. I always wonder how long I was actually in labor because some say from the time you get labor inducing drugs you are in labor (which I slept through) but I do not think I was in labor until my water was broken. At 8:00am Dr. Wesley came in with her long and pointy instruments and let me know that she was going to break my water. Now I am getting excited because my son is going to make his appearance very soon! Since I had such a high dose of oxytocin and the water was broken things happened VERY fast from here on out. I started feeling some pain and I knew that I wanted an epidural. About 10 minutes later I am resting comfortably waiting until it is go time.About 35 minutes after I got the epidural a nurse came in to check how I was dilating, she said I was only at 3cm. I had been at 2cm for days and had been on the inducing drugs all night and now my water is broken so the info is sent to Dr. Wesley. The Dr. comes in and can't believe I have not changed at all so she rechecks me to be safe and lo and behold I am 10cm and ready to push! At a little after 9am I started the pushing and after about 5 pushes with time in between them Nathan Kendall Deakins was born at 9:22am. Nathan was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life. He weighed in at 8 pounds 4 ounces and was 21.75 inches long. I can honestly say that the labor and delivery was wonderful. The stitches and healing and breast pain was rough afterwards but it was oh so worth every second of pain for my baby boy!
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