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Christopher Yu Olson's Birth

Christopher Yu Olson was born Sunday, June 9. He was two weeks over due. Things were not going the way I had "planned". This was my first pregnancy and things did not go as I expected. First of all I gained 90 pounds. Nope that's not a typo. My face was so swollen that I could hardly smile. I had to take off my wedding rings when I was only three months along. I had to wear slip on shoes that were extremely loose when I bought them and so tight that they left marks a week later. None of this had anything to do with what I ate. Anyway. I worked all the way up to my due date. I quit then because if I would have had to listen to one more person say "You haven't had that baby yet!" I would have shot someone. to make matters worse my doctor told me that since I was 100% effaced and 2 cm dilated that I would have him at least two weeks early. Needles to say when my due date rolled around I was miserable. A week later I begged my doctor to induce me. He agreed to meet me at the hospital so I waddled myself all the way down there waited two hours only for him to shine a light in my eyes and say that he wouldn't induce me. I cried all the way home. The next week he finally agreed to induce me. I went to the hospital on Saturday night to be gelled and I went into labor. My contractions started out at four minutes apart but soon they were so close together that I could barely get a sentence out before the next one hit. I was hooked up to a fhb monitor and one to measure my contractions both were external later they also gave me two internal monitors. I was given nubain through an i.v. which made me throw up almost constantly. I finally asked for an epidural which helped some. After nine hours I started to push. Christopher did not want to be born. I pushed for four and a half hours. I had a left mediolateral episiotomy and the doctor had to use forceps three times. I was given oxygen because his heart rate went down and I was also given pitocin to make my contractions stronger. He still would not come out so the doctor told me that I had a half an hour to get him out or me was going to do a c-section. I started to cry and five minutes later at 9:26 a.m. Christopher was born. He is wonderful. Christopher is the easiest baby you could ask for. He is always smiling and always happy so even though it was a hard pregnancy and delivery he was definitely worth it.

Tami