The Birth of Jasper

On June 5th I went to the hospital for my doctor's appointments. First appointment I had to go to was my ultrasound where they checked the fluid and everything. They measured the baby and told me he was measuring small for 40 weeks and 5 days.

I then went upstairs for my NST to check on the baby. During testing he wasn't moving much and his heart rate wasn't doing what it was suppose to it was on the lower side too. So they gave me apple juice to see if it would get him moving and it didn't do much at all.

After that I had to go to my Ob appointment where my blood pressure was crazy high. At this point to I was having blurry vision and terrible headaches. I had preeclampsia So with the baby meausring small, low heart rate and preeclampsia they decided to induce me.

So I headed to the 2nd floor to labor and delivery. They hooked me up to the monitors only to find out I was already in labor with contractions already about 5 minutes apart or so. So they went to start my pitocin and out of nowhere all these nurses and doctors came in. His heart rate dropped like crazy I had to flip from side to side and have oxygen to try and get it back up. This continued for a while and they were worried with the heart rate dropping like it was I would need a c section.

So they started pitocin.. Oh I forgot to say I was at 3cm when I went up to labor and delivery. For a few hours I made no progress so they broke my water. Not long after I went to 4cm.. I wanted to do a natural labor but I was in a full body Flare from my RSD and Fibro and I couldn't handle the amount of pain I was in. They gave me some medicine until I could get an epidural.

So once I got my epidural I went to sleep for about 45 minutes.. Until I felt like I needed to go to the bathroom. I told the nurse and she told me that she didn't think I needed to go to the bathroom and that she thought I was ready to push. She checked me and I was at 10cm. So in 45minutes I went from 4cm to 10cm just like that.. They had to call my doctor mind you she went home so I had to wait for her.

All I wanted to do was push and they told me I couldn't. It was so hard not to. My body just kept trying to push. About 15-20 minutes my doctor showed up and it was time to push. I started to push and the baby's heart rate dropped.. This went on the entire time I was pushing so they had to make me stop pushing a lot of times which was hard.. They told me the head was coming out and let me feel his head it was wonderful.

15 minutes of pushing with stopping due to heart rate dropping and Jasper was born into the world on June 6th at 12:59am. His cord was wrapped several times tightly around his neck. This is why his heart rate kept dropping. Thankfully they got it off pretty quick and he was healthy!

The nurses couldn't believe this was my first delivery because of how calm I was. I didn't make a sound while pushing I just did what I had to do it came so natural to me. Seeing my son for the first time was the most amazing moment of my life. My husband and I are so blessed to have him.

He weighed 6lbs 9oz and was 20 inches long. He was on the small side for being almost 41 weeks but I was also a small baby at over 40 weeks when I was born. I feel lucky to have had such a fast labor. In total I was in labor for under 10 hours.