Birth Story

I think it's time to start remembering things about my daughter and her birth. First of all it was a pretty stressful time but a great time at the same time. I went in for my regular check up after having some worries about my blood pressure it was slowly escalating. I went in for my check up and my blood pressure was higher than normal. I was already dilated to 3. I had been experiencing a lot of back pain in the previous days as well. My appointment was at lunch time so they decided to send me up to maternity and check some things out. On the way up to maternity I ran into two of my co-workers who had been visiting a family member. I told them as I was wheeled by that I would be back to work. After being up in maternity for about an hour, they found out that my liver enzymes were elevated so they were going to induce. First though they had to get my blood pressure under control so they introduced me to magnesium sulfate - I don't recommend it because they have to put you on a foley catheter and it made me sick. It's not fun to puke when you haven't eaten since breakfast. At 4 o'clock that day they started me on Pitocin t0 speed things up. Not such an easy thing to do when you are using something to slow things down. For a while it was pretty boring except for being constantly sick. My mom, Aunt Becky and friend Erika were all there for me and that was pretty cool. Things progressed slowly. I think I actually started feeling the contractions around 11:oo pm that night, they honestly didn't register where the monstrous headache I had from the other stuff they were giving me. The nurses kept asking me if I wanted an epidural and I kept saying no. Finally I asked them if it would make my headache go away. So they sat me up and I said I think I'm going to be sick. They asked me if I could wait and I was like I don't think so. I got the epidural and went to sleep. I think at one point someone came in and said that nothing would probably happen until sometime the next morning which did not make anyone else in the room happy, they were all getting tired. Around 12:15 I woke up and was like I think I need to push. I had to repeat that more than once. They got someone to check me out and they were like yep the baby's ready and then they said can you wait a couple of minutes. At 12:30 the doctor came in and they still didn't think a baby would be coming rather quickly, 18 minutes later and a couple of pushes Morgan was born. She was beautiful and mommy was very excited but pretty drugged up and not feeling the best but I remember thinking I could so do this again. My aunt was like why isn't Cathi excited but I was and I was so incredibly blessed with a beautiful healthy baby girl, Morgan Elizabeth weighing 6 lbs and 1 oz. 21 1/2 inches long with lots of black hair. No taped on bow for her photos. God truly blessed me such a wonderful gift, Morgan.

More about Morgan next time...