Here is where we left off…

It was still somewhat early in the afternoon and not long after arriving in the delivery room, the nurse strapped me onto the monitors then the IV. I really hate those IVs and I later found out that the nurse hooked it up wrong!! I decided to eat (I didn’t have breakfast that morning) because once the pitocin was hooked up, I could not eat. A nurse brought me a turkey sandwich, chips, cookie and a itty bitty cup of juice. This food was just a tease for me. Also, I knew that I would not be eating again for a long while… so I asked JT if he could get me something else to eat when he went to the cafeteria. After eating the above mentioned foods, I had a hamburger and order of french fries, plus a couple of more juices. You know what? I was still hungry .

I had to wait two hours after eating before the pitocin could be hooked up to the IV. I was overly anxious about the day’s events… I thought that the augmentation would really speed things along. Boy was I completely wrong.

JT remained by my side and visits from my mom and best friend helped speed the evening along. Otherwise everything was a waiting game.

And then came the pain.

My contractions began to feel more painful and closer together in sequence that night; however, they were still not labor contractions. I remained at one centimeter dilated, but by the look on my face and the contractions on the monitor you would think I was actually in active labor.

Thursday.

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Two months ago, on Tuesday, September 14, 2004, God blessed my family and I with two beautiful angels, William Nathaniel and Keisha Nicole. Thirty eight long weeks end with bundles of joy weighing in at 6lbs 12oz, 20 1/2 inches in length and 6lbs 5oz, 19 1/2 inches in length respectively.

My so called labor began the Wednesday after Labor Day. JT and I went in for a routine weekly doctor appointment. My doctor decided to send me across the street for a follow up in labor in delivery because my blood pressure was high and the nonstress test (NST) showed that I was having regular contractions. Only days before this, I had visions of my doctor sending me across the street after an appointment… only in my vision things were a lot more dramatic. The receptionist called someone over to wheel me across the way. The two buildings are connected by a closed walk way over the street, so we didn’t have to go outside at all.

The labor and delivery (L&D) evaluation room of the hospital is the most frustrating place a pregnant woman can be in. L&D is the place where a pregnant woman goes for everything wrong relating to the pregnancy except for the pregnant woman who is in actual labor. If you are in actual labor you go straight to a delivery room. The problem with L&D is that you wait, wait, wait, wait and then you wait some more. Then, someone straps the heart rate and contractions monitors to you, asks a bajillion questions (which includes the health history of my entire family), a nurse takes your blood pressure… then you wait, wait, wait, wait and wait. You can see the theme here right?

Unless the baby is crowning out of your vagina, you are pretty much going to wait.

And wait we did.

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