You can do ANYTHING for 2 hours!

Introducing Rebecca Helen

We had a beautiful baby girl Rebecca Helen. She weighs 6lbs 14oz and is 19 inches long. She has tons and tons of black hair and is a joy to have.

If you want to know about her birth read on...if not we hope you enjoyed the pictures.

I went to get induced at 7 am on May 27, 2010. I got there and they started my IV and antibiotics right away. My Dr. had a C-Section planned and came back after an hour at 8:30am to break my water and check me. I was still only a 2-3 when we thought I would have progressed to a 4-5. So they started me on pitocin and I wondered if that was the best choice, but I wasn't having any contractions when I got there (which was why I was being induced.) So anyway, the anesthesiologist came in and talked to me about an epidural but I was doing fine at the time so he wanted to come back when I was a 4-5. About an hour later I was calling for the anesthesiologist to come and give me an epidural I was in sooo much pain. The contractions were out of control and they weren't reading them on the monitor nor were they reading Rebecca's heartbeat very well. I felt a little silly getting an epidural so soon and thought I was being a major wimp this time around. The anesthesiologist was busy with someone else so I had to wait 10-15 minutes. When he came in he gave me a little lecture about how this is a teaching hospital and I can't always have the most the experienced person on. blah, blah, blah. (I really didn't want an epidural from the new guy on, my nurse had told me)

Well I had to get my legs off the bed and I was bent over a table and try not to move for a few minutes. OK I could do this I kept telling myself. Well during the don't move time I felt an unbelievable urge to bear down. So as I am sitting up, still as can be, with legs hanging off the table I'm giving birth to my daughter. Literally. When they finally had me turn around in bed I told my nurse that I was pushing. She checked me and sure enough I was a 10 with the baby at +2 and no epidural kicking in yet. Everyone looked amazed. My nurse grabbed two residents and I delivered the baby in about 4 pushes. One of the residents wanted to know if I could breathe through my contractions and wait till the Dr. got there. Ummm NO! Are you kidding me...I was pushing while I didn't have contractions because I was in so much pain.

So Rebecca was born in 2 hours and I had the lovely experience of natural childbirth. Except my epidural did kick in for the stitches and maybe even delivering the placenta. Lovely!