Welcome Baby Evan!

 She's finally here and she's absolutely perfect!  This delivery was much different than Korbyn's, thankfully Colton and I wrote everything down the day we got home so we could remember.

 We arrived at 8 p.m. on Wednesday.  By the time we got in our room, got settled, I got hooked up to the monitors and got my IV started it was 9:30 p.m. by the time they checked me and I was at 2 cm.  We watched TV, talked, and at 11:30 p.m. the nurse came and checked me again.  I was still at 2 cm but she said since I've been hooked up my contractions have been 3-5 minutes apart for two hours straight.  She asked if I've felt any and I told her no.  The exact same thing happened with Korbyn.  She said normally this is when they start the pill that softens my cervix but she can't give it to me because my contractions have to be less than three within 10 minutes.  She called my doctor and they decided to push fluids to possibly help space them out so they could start the induction.  At 1 a.m. she checked my contractions and they weren't slowing down at all, so they decided to start a low dose of the pitocin.  Colton and I got NO sleep.  The IV pump was obnoxiously loud, the monitors were so bright it was like a spotlight in the room, I had to get up and pee every 30 minutes which meant I needed Colton's help.  I only asked him a few times, because I was going so much I started to feel sorry for him if I knew he had dozed off for a few seconds.  Around 4 a.m. the storm hit and the nurse kept coming in to check on my monitors and call button to make sure they were working because the entire hospital was running off of the generators because the storm had knocked everything out.  When I say no sleep, I mean no sleep.

At 7:45 a.m. my doctor comes in and checks me and says that I'm at 4 cm.  She decides that since I'm progressing without even needing the other medicine they're going to break my water and then get the anesthesiologist in for my epidural.  Well I guess they thought that it would take a while for everything to get going, we were wrong!  At 8 a.m. they break my water, Colton steps into the bathroom to take a shower and by the time he comes out I'm in tears because my contractions are so strong and about 1-2 minutes apart. They had two anesthesiologists in my room and Colton said he overheard them talking that they were afraid they "missed" when they put it in because they couldn't get it to numb anything.  At this point I'm kind of starting to worry that the same thing is happening that happened with Korbyn, the epidural won't work. 

Around 8:30 a.m. they finally get my epidural to kick in.  They said because I was progressing so fast, the epidural literally couldn't keep up.  Colton said they injected me with about five syringes one after the other and then they even gave me some kind of stronger medicine than normal.  While they're trying to get the epidural in, I'm still contracting very hard.  So the nurse's hand became my squeeze toy, I felt really sorry for her.  I had to sit up over the edge of the bed for them to get it in and I was leaning on the nurse.  I could see that every time I contracted my water would come gushing out (sorry if this is too much info!) and the nurse's scrubs were completely soaked by the time we were finished.  When they were done putting it in, I quickly pointed to her pants and said "oh my gosh, I'm so sorry."  She didn't even notice!  She looked down and said "oh...that's ok...I'll just go change scrubs."  She was super nice about it but could tell she was grossed out.  We all had a little laugh and Colton said "at least it didn't get on your tennis shoes,"  she looked down and said "well...it did."  Bleh! 

The nurse checks me and I'm at 7 cm already.  She says "wow!  Ok, I'm going to call the doctor because it looks like a baby will be here VERY soon!"  I start telling them that I need to push and that I feel a lot of pressure.  She checks me again a little before 9 a.m. and said "oh honey, you're at a 10 already!  You ready to have a baby?"  I start pushing at 9 a.m. and miss Evan arrived at 9:25 a.m.  SO different than Korbyn's birth.  This one happened so fast!

 We're absolutely in love!