Daniel is finally here, and I am finally updating the blog. He was born Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Here is the story:
My doctor decided to induce me on the 5th if the baby didn’t come sooner because we are going out of town soon. So I called the hospital Tuesday morning to make sure they had room for me and they told me that I wasn’t on the schedule so I might not be able to be induced that day I might have to wait until Wednesday but they would call me back and let me know. Needless to say, I wasn’t very happy. A short time later I got a call back from the hospital and they told me to come on in, I was shocked. It turned out there was another Stephanie Reed who delivered the previous week, so when they looked through the schedule and saw my induction they thought it was her’s and cancelled it.
I got to the hospital about 8 in the morning and the doctor told me that she was a little worried that the induction won’t work because I had been 1 cm dilated for the last 3 weeks, if I hadn’t changed then it probably wouldn’t work. So, she checked me and I was a 2! That was very exciting news. They put me on pitocin and let me sit for 4 hours. I still wasn’t having any real contractions so the doctor checked again and I was a 4, she then decided to break my water. 45 min later, I was having very painful contractions and told the nurse I was ready for an epidural. They gave it to me and then decided to check me again. I was an 8. In 45 min I had dilated 4 cm.
After I got the epidural my blood pressure dropped, which is normal (but kind of funny because with Michael my blood pressure was really high.) The bad part was it made Daniel’s heart rate drop into the 70′s. I got really scared, the nurse was having a hard time finding his heart rate so she called in another nurse. They put me on oxygen, found Daniel’s heart rate and it stabilized. About half an hour later I was fully dilated and fully effaced we just had to wait for the baby to get low enough. Around 6:28 pm I started to push and at 6:38 pm Daniel Darrell Reed was born. That is right I only had to push for 10 min (another huge change from Michael, with him I pushed for 2 hours and 45 min I think.) He weighed 8 lbs 7 oz and was 20.5 inches long. None of us could believe he weighed that much (Michael was only 7 lb 4 oz.)
Michael is doing such a good job with Daniel. He loves him very much and always wants to give him hugs and kisses. On the down side, Michael is not used to having someone else take his attention away so he is acting out. I hope this doesn’t last too long. I try to give him as much attention as I can.
I am so glad Daniel is here and a part of our family. With Michael everyone always said he looks like David, I’m not going to lie, I got a little jealous. Now with Daniel people tell me he looks like me, that makes me very happy! I love both of my little boys very much. By the way, Darrell is my father’s name, we decided to name Daniel after him.
