Pax's big day!

This may be a repeat to most of you since Josh and I tried to text the big events yesterday but I want to have it on the blog also.

8:30 a.m. Arrived at hospital for scheduled induction.

8:45 a.m. I.V. is placed.

9:15 a.m. Pitocin is started.

11:15 a.m. 2 hrs of pitocin and we finally have a pattern to the contractions, every 2-4 minutes. Josh and I are playing Scrabble on our I-phones.

11:45 a.m. No real pain yet, holding off on pain meds.

12:30 p.m. My nurse checks me since we haven't seen my doctor yet this morning. Still at a 4, she increases the pitocin.

12:45 p.m. My nurse has gone to lunch and what do you know? Dr. O shows up to break my water. My cervix was extremely posterior so it wasn't easy for him to do it. The first try he actually hooked his own glove, ha! Lots and I mean lots of clear fluid.

2:00 p.m. Got the epidural. Pitocin had me contracting every minute literally. At a 6 now.

3:00 p.m. Epidural is only working on my left side. We tried to turn over onto my right but then the baby's heartrate dropped along with my blood pressure. Had to turn back to my left, put on the oxygen mask and get a shot of epenephrine.

3:25 p.m. One look at my face and my nurse checks me to find me at a 10, complete and ready to push. She calls the doctor and nursery to come for the delivery!

3:53 p.m. He's born, all 8 lbs 13 oz of him! He was 20 1/4 inches long with a 14 inch head! He was OP which means he was facing the wrong direction and on top of that his body was turned the opposite direction. Toughest delivery by far! His apgars were a 5 at one minute and then a 9 at five minutes. Little issues with respiratory and heart rate but it all cleared up. He was labeled Large for Gestational Age so we had to check his blood sugar every 4 hours for the first day. He only had one low test and all of the others were fine.

Daddy finally decided on his name - Paxton Emory Brown! We are all doing well and I'll have pictures up soon! Thank you for all of your loving support!