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Sebastian Jared Ulysses Croft's Birth

When I found out I was pregnant again I was not very happy, we were in financial hell and losing our home. so of course the idea of a second baby was not pleasing.

Things began to ge a little rough, friends were yelling at me to abort, the doctor was telling me twins were possible. My husband and I had no idea what to do.

We decided to keep the baby, my daughter was from a previous marriage so my husband had no blood children.

Things were going all right and we got anew place to live, it was a dinky apartment in a bad neighborhood but WHO CARES! it was a home.

My cousin planned a baby shower, and gave out the wrong address so no one showed up except for my dear friend Davon. This made me feel terrible, and that night she (my cousin) flipped on me about smoking. i told her not to smoke and blow it in my face. She decided to beat me up and try to kill my unborn son.

Only a week before that I had been in the hospital to get a shot of something to stop contractions so of course I panicked.

Anyway, I was not feeling great throughout this pregnancy. The days when I did feel good were soon ruined by my ex-husband who figured he'd take me to court over my daughter and stress me out. The panic attacks began ... boy did I feel like crap.

My son wasn't due until February 26, 1998. He was born January 31.

The stress and my husbands "friendliness" caused my water to break at 3 am (plus that day my mother had moved into our complex..god what hell I went through during this pregnancy). Since I tested positive for Beta Strep I had to go to hospital immediately. I had been in earlier that week and the nurse kept telling me that I was only faking labor to be induced. At that point i was so angry I think that helped go into labor.

My doctor , who by the way is the best doctor in the world for me, rushed to my side and wanted to know what I needed. Since i had no contractions yet, she gave me tons of pitocin. She told the nurses to give me and epidural immediately because i dilate quicker that way, but they wouldn't do it.

When the contractions finally started it wasn't hat bad, William and I played UNO and talked to our Priest and his wife. The the pain hit.

They were 1 minute apart and 45 seconds along. If Steve, our priest, hadn't been there I think I would have gnawed through my husbands arm. finally I was put on the bed again instead of being forced to walk and sit. I was given NUBIAN for pain..HA it didn't work. I remember telling steve that I felt orange. i don't know what I meant but i remember feeling orange and i really did feel that way. He and Kat, his wife, went out for food and everyone that had come to see me said they'd be back around 4 pm.

At 3 pm I was screaming so loud with the pain that the nurses sent an anastesioligist to give me drugs before i frightened all the other women. I went night night after the epidural took effect.

I woke up around 4 pm to all these people staring at me, my blood pressure had dropped severely and they had lost he baby's heartbeat. They put this things inside of me and on his head to make sure he was ok.

Then Dr Tan told me to push. My husband, my god, was holding my hand and taking hits off of my oxygen mask looking very pale. Dr Tan couldn't reach something that she apparently needed so William had to get it for her (he is 6 foot and she is around 5 foot) as they turned their backs POOF my little guys head began sneaking out, they turned to see him pretty much falling out. They all started laughing, me too.

At 4:11 pm Saturday January 31 Sebastian Jared Ulysses Croft was born. 6 lbs 4 oz and one month early.

I felt so great that I had ten people visiting and ate then pulled the IV out of my arm and jumped in the he shower. i went home the next day, no stitches or nothing!!

I still have mixed feelings on the whole pregnancy birthing bit but it wa worth it. My little demon Spawn is 3 months old and adorable. He adores his big sister to no end. Licia