Loving Every Minute Of It: Welcome to the World Logan! 7/17/07

Logan Alexander was born on 7/17/07 at 7:08pm. I checked into the hospital at 10:00pm on Monday July 16th and they put in the Cervadil to soften my cervix. At 5:00am on Tuesday they took it out and let me shower and get prepared for the long day ahead. At 6:00am they started me on pitocin. The doctor came in around 8:30am and checked for dilation and I was about 1-2cm so she broke my water. As soon as she broke my water the contractions started coming about 1-2 minutes apart. I was in a LOT of pain and they almost immediately started some pain meds thru my IV's. The doctor came back around 10:00 and I was dilated to about 3cm. I asked for the epidural and got it at about 10:30. Life was good after that. I seemed to be progressing pretty good for the doctor, but Logan was not dropping. By about 4:00pm I was 5cm, 100% effaced and Logan was still at -3. We discussed that if she came back in a few hours and he had not moved then we should talk about a c-section. She came back in at 6:00pm and nothing had changed. We decided to schedule the c-section. After that everything went so fast. The anesthesiologist came in at 6:30 and started me on the extra-special c-section epidural. My body was completely numb from the chest down it was weird feeling. At about 6:45 they started rolling us down to the OR. Once we were in the room it seemed to go by so quick. They prepped me, pulled up the blue screen, put the oxygen mask on, called Ben in the room and started the surgery. At 7:08pm Logan came into this world!!! Here are some pics of the wonderful day!

He was not a happy camper!

I had a fever going into surgery so once he was born they took me to recovery and then he had to go to the nursery to be checked to make sure he didn't have a fever. They started me on antibiotics and gave him some for 24 hours. Everything was fine though. I went to my room at about 9:30pm and Logan was rolled in shortly thereafter. There were about 15 people in the room. It was so great to finally be able to show off my little boy. Ben is such a proud daddy. He did such a great job in the OR and took some great pictures!

We were in the hospital until Saturday. Those 4 days were filled with meds, visitors, sleep, tv, etc. We were able to get some sleep at night while Logan rested peacefully in the nursery.

We came home on Saturday and I had a rough few first days at home. Grammy McCracken came over on Sunday and has been taking real good care of him while mommy is getting better. I got some medicine to help and it seems to be working. I just have to say, hormones are crazy!!!!