In Labor

I am sitting here in Angie's labor and delivery room feeling awful for putting her through this, but not as awful as she is feeling actually going through this, I'm sure. Her contractions are coming every three minutes and they are a little delayed bringing the epid.ural she requested about 20 minutes ago.

We arrived last night and they gave her some gel at about 8:30 to help thin her cervix. She got another dose at about 1:00 a.m. She was having some somewhat regular contractions at the time, more than she had with her boys who were delivered under a similar scenario, and since they were born around 10 am, we thought she might be here even earlier than the boys were.

We both brought some (rather disparate) reading material to pass the time, but most the night was spent chatting with Angie's coworkers from the mother/baby unit next door.

Angie's Book of Choice

My Choice: Last Minute Cramming

However, the early-morning delivery was not meant to be. Smykeeny Baby wants to stay with her Aunt Angie a little longer, so for encouragement they started the pi.tocin drip this morning at 6 am. Her OB then came in at a little before 8 am to break her water and now, about an hour later, they are prepping for the epid.ural.

Angie is tough, and has been suffering in silence, not even yelling or snapping at me once, even though I managed to get about 5 hours of sleep last night to her none. My mom will be here soon with my chai tea and Angie will be getting her epid.ural momentarily, so we are both about to be much happier.

Hopefully the next time I post I will have an introduction to make.