Landon's Birth Story!

Landon Michael

Born January 4, 2012

6:28 P.M.

7 Lb 3 Oz

19.5 inches

Daddy is in love! Right after birth.

Little baby boy! He is pretty cute! 

First mommy/son encounter!

First outfit that wasn't the hospital shirt! 

Daddy and baby. Just relaxing together at the hospital!

I really wanted to get Landon's birth story down as soon as I felt up to it so I could remember as much as I could! Hope you enjoy!
 So on January 4th I was scheduled for an induction. I had to go in on the 3rd to start one drug that would start the whole process. Well we got there at 7 and there were basically just 2 or 3 rooms left! We could not believe how busy they were! So we got in to a room, Nate ran down and got me all checked in. So 8 rolls around, 9 rolls around, 10....we are just watching tv at this point. At 10:30 finally things started happening. I had been on the monitors for awhile because they want a good reading on my contractions and the baby's heart rate. Finally they put the first drug in. This one essentially stays in all night. I remember I was sleeping off and on and around 4:45 a.m. I started feeling some pain. My dr came in around 8, checked me, I was 1 cm dilated and 15% effaced at a +3 station. All of this means no where near delivery! They decide to go ahead and start the Pitocin which hopefully would start me dilating and effacing. So I was feeling contractions probably about every 5 minutes or so. They allowed me to walk around so we did at this point. It really helped with the contractions. Around 12 I noticed I was having a really hard contraction and it wasn't letting up at all. I looked at Nate and said I can't do this! A couple of minutes (which seemed like hours!!) later the nurse said lets turn it down, and I was thanking her profusely!! Haha! Around 1 my dr came over to check on me and guess what, still a 1!! After all those hours of laboring for nothing!!! So at that point he says, well I am really worried that his head can't come through. You have a really narrow birth canal. I suspected this about a month before I gave birth. It was just a feeling I had. So he said he would be back around 5 and either I would have a c section or I would have to come back and try again. I told him I cannot do this again. So if I still haven't then it's a c section.
At 2 the contractions were getting really hard to get through. So I asked for help. They gave me a drug that took the edge off and made me drowsy. So I slept a little here and there. I asked for more around 4 and they said we think we are going to go ahead and do the epidural. You will need it either way, so might as well. They checked me again before and they couldn't even reach my cervix anymore...yay. So we planned for a c section. The epidural wasn't too bad. I jumped when he put the numbing needle in. But other then that I really didn't mind it.
Around 5:30 we were wheeled in for surgery. I was sitting there a bit scared I was going to feel something but I didn't. They held up a mirror as my dr pulled him out and I just started bawling. He was born at 6:28 P.M. Nate just kept saying "he's out Tami, he's out!" they laid him on my belly and Nate cut the umbilical cord. They held him on my left side so I could see him, and then him and Nate went to do all the testing and first bath.
 I remember sitting there laying on the table and just being in shock kind of that it was all over. They took me back to my room and I was shaking profusely. I think it was from the drugs they used. I of course still couldn't feel my legs because of the epidural. Finally Nate and Landon came back, Nate walked in saying "we have a healthy baby!" and then he was placed in my arms. I can't even explain all the emotions. He was SO sweet and precious, fresh from heaven. I was in AWE that my body had made this sweet little boy. Scared that I had no clue how to be a mother.
 We have been home for a few days now and I will say it's not easy. He has his nights and days mixed up, so I am up most the night with him which is HARD! I am really starting to get scared for when I am home alone starting next week with him when Nate goes back to work. But hopefully by then I will be more confident. So that's the story!