Brooklyn Danielle Smith was born on October 19, 2012 at 5:36
AM. She weighs 6lbs 1oz and is 19” long.
Thursday October 18, 2012 I had my membranes striped at my
Dr appointment at 10:30 AM. Right after that I started getting contractions but
they were not painful and very far apart. At about 9 that night they started
getting stronger and closer together but still not very painful so I just kept
timing them until they were 5 min apart. At that point I felt like I should
just go get checked out at the hospital. When we got there it was 11:00 PM and
my contractions were 3 min apart but still not that painful, they checked me
and I was still only 3 cm so I walked the halls for an hour and then they
checked again, this time I was at 4 cm. My Dr asked me if I would like her to
break my water and get things going and of course I said yes. There was no way
I was going to be able to sleep with contractions every 3 min.
At 1:00 my water was broken and the contractions got painful
but still manageable so we called my sister Breanne and told her if she was
coming to come now. We were then moved to the delivery room and I got in the
shower. I sat in the shower for about an hour and a half and the contractions
started coming every min and were still getting stronger. I started getting
dizzy in the shower because of the heat but I was shaking because I felt so
cold so they said I should get out. The contractions were so much worse out of
the water so I decided to get some morphine to help me relax a bit. I made it
to 7cm by this point but I wasn’t dilating fast enough so they decided to give
me oxytocin to make the contractions stronger. I did not like this idea because
they hurt really bad already but I was ready to get her out so anything they
thought would help I was willing to try. As soon as I was put on oxytocin the
contraction pain tripled, I was crying and could hardly breath during one. It
only took about a half hour to an hour for me to get to 10cm and ready to push.
I pushed for 10 min and she shot out, it surprised the Dr. they put her on my
chest right away. The labor was a total of 4 and a half hours.
Everything was fine until the Dr. pulled on the cord and it
snapped so they had to push on my stomach really hard to try and get the
placenta out. It was only coming out in pieces and I was starting to clot and
losing a lot of blood so I was given a bunch of drugs and they kept pushing on
my stomach which hurt almost more than labor. At this point I was yelling at
them to stop but I knew they really had no choice. After a while they were
satisfied that they got most of it out but I had lost way to much blood so they
kept me in the delivery room for 3 more hours to monitor me.
We were then moved to our room and got a few hours of sleep
before Madison showed up. She loves her sister and is always giving her kisses
and hugs. Whenever Brooklyn cries Maddy runs over and tries to help me take
care of her.
I love both my girls very much and feel so lucky that they
are both so well behaved.
