New Arrival !

He's here! Camron Aaron May made his debut last Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 2:07 pm.

It started on Valentine's Day. We were getting ready to go out for dinner and I was putting on my sock....then I felt a litttle pop and a little gush, and I ran to the bathroom to sit on the toilet. I was thinking my water just broke. I called Aaron up to the bathroom and after calling his sister to question her on water breaking, I called my doctor. They had me wait for a half hour to see if I had anymore leaking or contractions. I didn't, so we left for dinner....must have been a false alarm. But then an hour later we were up on Peach St. looking for a place not too too busy to eat dinner....and I was thinking McDonald's was sounding better and better, because I thought I was starting to have a couple contractions. So then Aaron, Jaron and I ended up having dinner at McD's and we left in a hurry because I needed to get to the hospital. We went to drop Jaron off and the story begins......

We checked into the labor and delivery unit at Hamot Hospital at 7:30 pm on Valentine's Day 2009....Aaron, me, and mom. They set me up in my bed and got my antibiotic IV started. I was having contractions about 4 minutes apart, nothing too unbearable though. The nurse checked me and I was already dialated to 5 (on the scale to 10). At this point I thought we'd be having a Valentine's Day baby. As the contractions grew more painful and closer together, I made it to about 11:30 pm before they checked me again...only dialated to 6....not ready for the epidural but I got an IV with a pain medication called Nubain. It worked wonders on the pain, I felt wonderful. Unfortunately this narcotic made the baby fall asleep and he didn't wiggle around much anymore for about 3 hours. So we were at a standstill and into the next day....

Sunday around 5:00 am the contractions had picked up enough to get things going again. I was now dialated to a 7, and just about ready for the epidural. But the anesthsiologist wasn't available yet, so they wanted to give me some more Nubain to tide me over. I was weary because I didn't want to take another time-out. But they assured me that once the epidural got there, they'd hook up another IV called Pitocin, that would speed up contractions. Well, they lied, because I got the epidural and the Pitocin, and about 2 more hours went by with no activity. Subtotal 18 hours.

At 11:00 am, I was just about fully dialated and ready to start pushing. They called in my midwife, Peggy, and said by 11:30 we'd start. I had other ideas, it was 11:20 and I wanted to start now. So Aaron left the room, and I was there with his mom, his sister Jennette, and my mom. The rest is kind of a blur. For almost two hours, I breathed and pushed....they had me pushing the regular way and then they got this big bar and I had my feet up on it to push and then they put a towel around it and had me pulling myself up with feet on the bar. He wasn't coming out. The called in Dr. Vemulapalli to try to turn him, but she said my pelvis wasn't big enough, they were gonna need to do an emergency C-section. About 30 minutes in between pushing and C-section, Aaron came in to hold my hand. By the way, if someone tells you not to push when you need to push, it hurts....ALOT! They started me on a catheter and then the anesthsiologist finally got there to up my epidural meds and I was feeling great. Off to the surgery! Mom gowned up and came in with me, Aaron waited outside the door. Five minutes later, after cutting me open and suctioning the baby out, my mom saw him for the first time. I told her to go over and see him while they stitched me up. They cleaned him up and took him to see his Daddy, and to the nursery.

After an hour of recovery, I was wheeled to my new room and waited to see my baby boy. He was born at 2:07 pm and I didn't get to see him until almost 8:00 pm when everyone but Aaron had gone home after a long couple of days. He was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for a story I will have to tell about another day....but he was beautiful !