From Charlie’s Baby journal

April 27, 2005 We officially found out we’re pregnant! I’m so excited. Now we just wait and pray that everything will be fine.

August 11, 2005 I’ve been felling flutters for awhile now. And the Drs are pretty sure I was feeling the baby hit my ovaries very early on due to the enlarged cysts. But yesterday and today this little one has taken to KICKING! Full fledged kicks. No more flutters. We’re almost to the 20 week mark and halfway done.

September 19, 2005
Insomnia stinks! I’ve been getting up at 4-4:30 the last few mornings and it stinks. I can’t go back to sleep. But getting up so early meant we saw and felt kicks on Saturday! I was watching TV and Steve was sleeping when all of the sudden my night gown moved as I felt baby kick. So I waited a few minutes and s/he did it again. It was great! I tried to get it so Steve could feel too but he was too asleep and dropped his hand on my tummy. Of course Baby Charlie/Sweet Pea really doesn’t like that and moved right away. Kicks are getting stronger and happen much more frequently! It’s hard to believe we’re over halfway done and everything is going so well.

January 7, 2006
We arrived at the hospital January 5th at 3:45 pm. Our time for set up according to the OB was 4 but when I got there they told me it was 5. Then informed me that they hadn’t ordered a dinner for me and if I wanted to eat I should probably go get something. So we left and went to get dinner. Unfortunately for us it was the slowest place around but we were able to make it back right at 5. All of the LDR rooms were full so they put me in the antenatal monitoring room and hooked me up. That’s when the fun begins! Charlie had been pretty calm all day and to the point I had told Steve I was worried a little but since we were going in in a few hours I wasn’t calling the OB. Well of course as soon as they hooked the monitor up, Charlie decided to swim forever and the alarm just kept going off.
At 5:40 pm, my OB’s partner came in and placed the cervidil. I really don’t like her and the whole meeting with her was just awkward. She never really said anything to me. It’s a good thing I had done the research and new what was happening. So I had to lay flat until 7:40 pm. At that point they had an LDR room open for me and I was able to walk across the hallway and get into a nicer room. Of course they’re making me push fluids and even brought me some grahm crackers to eat around 9 so I could have something on my stomach before midnight came. Grahm crackers are not my thing and my OB had told me that I could eat whatever I wanted until 11:59 so I had brought a brownie back with us from dinner. MMMMM Was that good. Well pushing all the fluid also meant peeing all the time. And of course cervidil has the little string to it so you can’t wipe, just dab. That worked fine until 10:30-11. When I went to the bathroom again, the cervidil fell out. Of course the nurses freak and call the OB. She says not to worry about it since it was in for 5 hours she doesn’t think I need another dose.
The nurse came in around 5 am and told me to take a shower. (Yeah she wasn’t very nice) Then she checked me at 7:30 and told me I hadn’t changed at all. My OB came in at 8 am and started his rounds. Of course I had to be the last one at the end of the hall so I was the last to be seen. At that point I was dreading that he was going to send me home. So first he checked me and low and behold he says I’m at 2-3. (HMM I changed 1.5 cm in half an hour) Then he broke my water and started the Pitocin. Well the water breaking was definitely an experience and one that I’m not sure I want to relive. They said throughout my pregnancy that my water amount was perfect but now they’re rethinking that and think I might have had too much. I soaked the bed 5 times before it finally started to slow to a trickle. And forget moving cause that just caused the dam to burst again. The contractions started getting closer and more intense. They decided to put a scalp monitor on Charlie since he was still moving and setting the alarm off too much. My plan had been to wait for the epidural until I was 5-6 cm. But the nurses don’t check you without a reason. So I waited until 10:30 and I was having a hard time breathing through each contraction and asked the nurse for the epidural. She was actually on her way into the room to up the Pit again and tell me that anesthesia was having some issues and they would be in the room next to me shortly and if I wanted an epidural anytime soon I should probably go ahead and get it. So I signed myself right up.
At 11 am, the anesthesiologist came in and placed my epidural. They say you spell relief TUMS but I say it’s EPI! Around 2 the woman in the room next to me delivered her baby and my OB was her OB. So he of course went ahead and checked me while he was there. At that point I was 6 cm. My parents left to pick up Steve’s mom so she could be at the hospital too. Thankfully we live an hour away so the last 2.5 hours of labor were just me and Steve. At 3:30-4 the OB came in again and checked me before heading to his office to do some paperwork. I was then at 8-9 cm. The grandparents came back and were only in the room for 15 minutes before the nurse came in to ask me how I was doing. I was feeling a lot of pressure at that point. So she asked everyone to get out and checked me again and was ready to push! So pushing officially started at 5:10 pm. But I say it didn’t really start until 5:30 when the switched the people who were holding my legs. The one little girl just wasn’t helping at all. They had called my OB and told him to come back. (His office is literally in front of the hospital not a few hundred yards from the LDR) Well around 5:45 I got another urge to push and started, OB’s not there yet and they tell me to stop. This baby was coming too fast and he wasn’t there to deliver. The LDR ward is locked and to access you have to ring a doorbell. So I was told that as soon as I heard the doorbell and wanted to push I could and I did. 2 contractions later at 5:56 pm Charles Connor was born. He doesn’t cry he screams! His apgars were 9/9.
I would have loved to have had a video of the waiting room. I had specifically asked that no one be in the room other than Steve. So the grandparents were all in the waiting room and as soon as the baby was born they played Brahm’s lullabye over the loud speaker. My mom evidently jumped from the couch screaming “The baby’s here!” My MIL couldn’t hear the loud speaker and had no clue how my mom knew. Then she was able to hear Charlie screaming. The doors into the ward have two windows. Well to insure privacy they’ve covered the windows with contact paper but there’s a 1/2 inch gap at the very bottom of each window and my understanding was each grandma was peeking through that 1/2 inch gap.
We’re obviously home and doing well. Charlie had some jaundice and had to have a lot of blood work done Sunday through Tuesday but he’s eating better and his bilirubin has gone down.
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January 3, 2006After a month and half of horrible pelvic pain, swelling and severe carpal tunnel, my little one is coming! We knew the best place for Sweet Pea was right where s/he is but Thursday is my due date and the OB said it’s time

. I haven’t had much of a cervical change in 3.5 weeks. I’ve gone from 1 cm to 1.5 cm and a little more effaced. Sweet Pea is still really high. My OB knows that I’ve been under alot of stress because of the pain and decided this morning that it was time to be done. DH and I were really expecting to have to argue with him in order to get a definite plan but he was the one that immediately said it’s time to induce. The other thing is I absolutely love him. He knows I can’t really stand his partner. She just gives me the willies for some reason. So we were a little concerned when he said he wanted to start the Cervadil on Thursday and Pit on Friday since we knew that wasn’t his normal induction day. But then he explained that he wasn’t on call on Thursday and therefore I would have to have the baby by 5 pm on Friday or his partner was going to deliver. Now tell me I feel special. He has three patients on the schedule for inductions on Thursday and we all know that not all of them are going to deliver by 5 pm. So this looks like it for me!

October 3, 2005
WOW another month gone and we’re almost done. It’s hard to believe that we’re so far into this pregnancy. I have another OB appt tomorrow and then we start every two weeks. The third trimester actually starts on Thursday and that just seems to have come so fast. Braxton Hicks have started so that’s definitely one of the questions for tomorrow’s appt. yesterday was a pretty bad one. I actually thought I might have to call Steve and have him come home.
Steve’s gotten so cute. Every night he gives me my kiss good night then rests his arm across my side and rubs my belly as he tells Sweet Pea that he loves him/her and wishes him/her a good night and then kisses my tummy. It makes it feel a little more real. Of course I wish our little one hadn’t decided that 4 am is a great time to be up and play. Sweet Pea got the hiccups the other morning and I’m not sure if the hiccups were that forceful at the end or if Sweet Pea just wanted to pounce around but s/he was head butting my side.

January 3, 2006After a month and half of horrible pelvic pain, swelling and severe carpal tunnel, my little one is coming! We knew the best place for Sweet Pea was right where s/he is but Thursday is my due date and the OB said it’s time. I haven’t had much of a cervical change in 3.5 weeks. I’ve gone from 1 cm to 1.5 cm and a little more effaced. Sweet Pea is still really high. My OB knows that I’ve been under alot of stress because of the pain and decided this morning that it was time to be done. DH and I were really expecting to have to argue with him in order to get a definite plan but he was the one that immediately said it’s time to induce. The other thing is I absolutely love him. He knows I can’t really stand his partner. She just gives me the willies for some reason. So we were a little concerned when he said he wanted to start the Cervadil on Thursday and Pit on Friday since we knew that wasn’t his normal induction day. But then he explained that he wasn’t on call on Thursday and therefore I would have to have the baby by 5 pm on Friday or his partner was going to deliver. Now tell me I feel special. He has three patients on the schedule for inductions on Thursday and we all know that not all of them are going to deliver by 5 pm. So this looks like it for me!

ell me to stop. This baby was coming too fast and he wasn’t there to deliver. The LDR ward is locked and to access you have to ring a doorbell. So I was told that as soon as I heard the doorbell and wanted to push I could and I did. 2 contractions later at 5:56 pm Charles Connor was born. He doesn’t cry he screams! His apgars were 9/9.
I would have loved to have had a video of the waiting room. I had specifically asked that no one be in the room other than Steve. So the grandparents were all in the waiting room and as soon as the baby was born they played Brahm’s lullabye over the loud speaker. My mom evidently jumped from the couch screaming “The baby’s here!” My MIL couldn’t hear the loud speaker and had no clue how my mom knew. Then she was able to hear Charlie screaming. The doors into the ward have two windows. Well to insure privacy they’ve covered the windows with contact paper but there’s a 1/2 inch gap at the very bottom of each window and my understanding was each grandma was peeking through that 1/2 inch gap.
We’re obviously home and doing well. Charlie had some jaundice and had to have a lot of blood work done Sunday through Tuesday but he’s eating better and his bilirubin has gone down.

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