October 6th

So I made it home from the hospital around 11:30 and I barely made it in to the house before a strong contraction hit. I thought I was going to die! I figured if I already hurt that much and was on morphine I wasn't going to make it. I had no idea what the pain would be like, but I wasn't ready for what was about to come.

I tossed and turned in bed, hunched over the bed, got on the floor on all fours, nothing was helping. I slept about 15 minutes from 11:30 until 4 am when I finally told Corey that we are going back to the hospital. There was no way they would send me home this time and that if I had to stay and be monitored I would, but I was in desperate need of more pain medicine. We got to the hospital at 5 am and while crying at the front desk they realized that there was no point in being monitored in the Triage rooms and they admitted me right then. I got wheeled back to a room, hooked up, got checked (I was at 3cm and 90-100% effaced) and got an epidural all by 5:30 am.

I tried resting after the epidural kicked in since I heard that labor can be a long process and to rest before having to push. I believe the next time I got checked was at 7 am and there was no changed. They broke my water and then came back around 8 and started me on Petocin since there was no change still. After this the timing of everything was a blur. I remember watching the monitor of my contractions and Jensen's heart beat and seeing that every time I had a contraction his heart rate dropped. No one said anything for a while and I was starting to get worried. A nurse finally said that she had been in contact with Dr. B who had been watching the same screen in his office for a while and deciding what to do. They unhooked my belly monitors and put an internal monitor on Jensen. Then they put in a tube that put fluid back in to see if it would help his heart rate during contractions. They watched this for about an hour. Nothing was changing. During that time they also stopped the Petocin. My contractions because much smaller but his heart rate was still dropping.

I was at 100% and 5-6cm around 11am, but they told me that I would need a c-section due to his heart. The nurse said that his cord is wrapped around him somewhere and that I don't have any other option of getting him out. They brought in the scrubs for Corey and the lunch lady looking cap for me and I was off for surgery.

Then.....