So the next day, January 22nd, I decided to get the ball
rolling on this whole labor thing. I ate pineapple like it was my job
and I made some hot wings for lunch. The spicier the food the better.
Then for dinner I made mac and cheese, but put a buttload of jalapenos
in it (yum). I will spice him out of me if it's the last thing I do,
haha!
Bobby gets home at around 6, and while we're waiting
for the mac and cheese to cool, I felt a little stomach pain. I just
looked at him and was like "ow. Ok that was weird." and didn't think
anything else of it. We ate and then decided to run to Walmart to pick
up some overnight diapers for Bianca. Every so often I'd feel a pain,
but thought it was just typical pregnancy pains, so off we went to
Walmart. Oh my goodness, I could hardly walk around the store, but I
waddled through it anyways.
We got home and just relaxed and watched TV and I
kept having pains every now and then. Bobby was like "maybe they're
contractions..." but I still denied it. It couldn't be. Ha! It was funny
too because everyone at Bobby's work knew it was our due date tomorrow,
so they told him they'd better not see him tomorrow and there'd better
be a baby here. I laughed it off. Ha!
We put Bianca to bed and then got ready ourselves
(after watching Catfish of course) and then I was having the pains
pretty regularly and I couldn't sleep...exactly what happened with
Bianca. Uh-oh! Maybe everyone else was right and I was wrong. I told
Bobby I'd let him sleep for as long as possible and I went to the
computer and did what I did with Bianca, timed contractions online and
played Mahjongg. But the contractions were already about 5 mins
apart...uh-oh. So I waited an hour to follow that 5-1-1 rule and yup,
they stayed 3-5 mins apart. Crap. So I made Bianca and Bobby sandwiches
in between contractions and finally around 1am I told Bobby I wasn't
sure if we should wait any longer. He only got like 2 hours of sleep
this time, sorry baby, blame Cameron.
Luckily we have some awesome friends
here and I called up my friend who offered to watch Bianca while I had
the baby...at 1am. I felt bad calling so late, but her husband was out
of town so she offered to come here since Bianca was sleeping. Yay! So
we packed up our last minute stuff and got ready so that when she came
we could peace out. She came a little after 1:30 and off we went, eek!
We got to the hospital and they put us in a room and
I was indeed in labor, and at 5cm. Seriously, after about an hour I was
up to 7cm. This little guy was coming and fast! And I was thankful for
that especially after Bianca's crazy delivery. They tried to have me
labor in different positions, but I did not want to move. I was thankful
though that I didn't need pitocin. They offered it to me at one point,
but I declined, and it was good because I delivered him quick enough.
Luckily my doctor was on call so she got to deliver
Mr. Cameron, which was a relief. She broke my water so that it'd go
faster, which I welcomed. I was stuck at almost 10 cm with just a sliver
left to efface for a couple of hours, but it was fine as long as
pitocin wasn't involved. Evil medicine haha. I felt bad because since I
was so close I kept feeling like I had to push, so we kept calling the
nurse, but it was never time. Oops, sorry!
Finally, maybe around 5am they set up our room for his
arrival and they decided I could start pushing, hooray! I pushed for
less than an hour (maybe even a half an hour, I wasn't looking at the
time too much for obvious reasons) and he was here. I did do some crazy
pregnant lady yelling again, but this time it was "GET HIM OUTTT!" haha!
I'm so silly in labor. But I did it med free again, yay! :-D
He was born at 5:53am on his due date and he was too
cute. I remember he had a perfectly round little head with cute little
features on his face and I thought he was tiny even though he was 7lbs
11oz, bigger than Bianca was! I gave him a kiss, Bobby cut his cord and
then they went and weighed him and cleaned him off and such while my doc
took care of me. Everyone complimented me on doing it naturally, even
though I didn't think I did THAT well, with my crazy yelling again. I
didn't even take any pain meds after (my dislike of swallowing pills is
to blame here, so don't call me brave, I was just being stubborn haha).
Here is Bobby's take on the whole thing:
"I couldn't get over how different this delivery was from Bianca's. Bianca's seemed to drag on forever, but then it seemed like Cameron came so fast. As soon as I saw that boy of ours for the first time, I knew he was a pal!
And of course I couldn't believe what champ my wonderful wife is! Everyone at the hospital kept telling me how wonderfully Erika did, and boy did she!"
So after everything, I wasn't hungry
this time, but very sleepy seeing as how I'd been awake for 24 hours at
that point. We tried to sleep some, but it's hard when nurses are coming
in and out every hour or more. Bobby went and got Bianca around
noon-ish and brought her to the hospital. She had lots of fun with
Christina and was excited to meet baby Cameron. They came into the room
and Bianca runs up to me and waves to baby Cameron, as if he'd been here
all of her life, like it was no big deal that he was here. Silly girl.
We gave her her own baby Cameron doll to play with and she loved it! She
had a lot of fun at the hospital. "I love visiting mommy in the
hop-pistal." She got some special treats in the snack room (this
hospital was cool and has a snack room for patient's families) and got
lots of attention from the nurses. We were getting worried because Bobby
wanted to spend at least one night with us at the hospital, but luckily
we have such great people in our ward that one lady offered to watch
Bianca for the night, even though we've only talked a handful of times.
SO NICE!
Bobby dropped her off there at night and when he got
back we had our special meal, yay steak! Boo to it being more well
done, but Bobby says that's how it's done out here in OK (lammmeee!).
But it was yummy. We got sparkling cider and the best cheesecake ever.
Yum! It was nice having him there that night to help hold him and such.
At least we got some sleep in.
The next morning he got Bianca and hung out. Cameron
got circumcised that morning, and he did so well. I guess they let him
suck on a nurse's finger with sugar water or something on it, and she
said he didn't cry at all (which I was worried about). Bobby took Bianca
home at nap time, then came back for a little bit. We didn't have a
babysitter for the night, so they had to go home :( sad. They left
around 9. And Cameron and I were up every hour that night, of course.
But he is too cute so he made it more worth it. They came back early the
next morning and we were released at around 11:30, YAY! I loved our stay
there. The food wasn't as good as in Ithaca, but the nurses were
awesome (except the 2nd one that took forever to give him a bath, but
even she wasn't THAT bad) and it was a really nice experience! We took
the little guy out and he did very well, slept the whole way home. And
here we are, a family of four and we couldn't be happier. <3 Enjoy these pictures of our sweet little boy, Cameron Preston Hall!!!
WELCOME HOME, CAMERON!!! WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!
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