12/28/16 It makes me sad to think that I never fully documented Ty's birth story. I sort of did an outline that I was probably planning to come back to to fill in the details but of course, never did. I love going back to read Luke's and Paige's stories so I'm going to do my best to remember everything I can....
Work was getting super stressful. We had a special audit going on and I was the point person for it. So as I'm trying to make sure everything is ready for my leave, I was also trying to make sure this audit was going well. Around noon-ish I was feeling some contractions and decided I needed to leave. To be honest, it was more so that I was just completely over work and was on the verge of tears dealing with the auditor so I just needed to go before I lost it at work. I fully expected to be back the next day. (When the auditor came back the next day, but I didn't, my co-workers joked with her that she put me into labor. The funny thing is, I think that is actually mostly true - ha!)
I didn't pick the kids up from daycare on my way home so I decided to just take a peaceful walk with Nala and maybe start to get something going.
I continued to feel "something" so I decided to go for another walk around 8:45 PM. I still wasn't convinced this was it though. I'm not sure why I was in Paige's bed at about 10 PM (maybe she woke up and I laid back down with her), but while laying there, I felt a small trickle. I wasn't certain but I thought maybe my water broke. I got up and went to tell Wally what happened. It continued to slowly trickle down my leg. There was no big gush.
It was time to call our parents so we had someone with Luke & Paige before we headed to the hospital. Oddly enough, Wally's parents were in Joliet at the casino and were just getting ready to leave to head home. His mom had this weird intuition and just felt like they needed to be close that night (crazy!) So they made their way to Monee rather than back to Peru. I still wasn't feeling much as far as contractions went. I do remember Wally sitting down at the kitchen table and eating. He said he knew he might not get to eat again for awhile so he wanted to fill his stomach. I mean seriously - cracks me up! With Paige he needed to shower before we left and now he needs to eat. Who is the one that will be doing all the work??? Ha!
We headed to the hospital around midnight. At 12:30 I was only at 2 cm and still very thick. I was super discouraged because I knew there was a long night ahead of us. I was beginning to wonder why we came to the hospital so early in labor.
We started walking the halls - up and down, back and around - over and over! Around 2:25 walking became more difficult as the contractions picked up. I was still hoping for no epidural but needed something. They gave me some Stadol (pain medicine) around 3 AM to take the edge off. I was still only at 3 cm but was finally thinning out. I fell asleep for about a half hour and woke up feeling the need to push. When they checked me at about 3:45, I was at 9 cm. Hallelujah! It turned out that the Stadol relaxed me enough to let my body work.
The doctor was on her way - I pushed for about 5 minutes and Tyler Jeffrey was born at 4:17 AM!
It truly was a great labor & delivery. I was blessed with 3 great deliveries and 3 beautiful, healthy babies.
Work was getting super stressful. We had a special audit going on and I was the point person for it. So as I'm trying to make sure everything is ready for my leave, I was also trying to make sure this audit was going well. Around noon-ish I was feeling some contractions and decided I needed to leave. To be honest, it was more so that I was just completely over work and was on the verge of tears dealing with the auditor so I just needed to go before I lost it at work. I fully expected to be back the next day. (When the auditor came back the next day, but I didn't, my co-workers joked with her that she put me into labor. The funny thing is, I think that is actually mostly true - ha!)
I didn't pick the kids up from daycare on my way home so I decided to just take a peaceful walk with Nala and maybe start to get something going.
I continued to feel "something" so I decided to go for another walk around 8:45 PM. I still wasn't convinced this was it though. I'm not sure why I was in Paige's bed at about 10 PM (maybe she woke up and I laid back down with her), but while laying there, I felt a small trickle. I wasn't certain but I thought maybe my water broke. I got up and went to tell Wally what happened. It continued to slowly trickle down my leg. There was no big gush.
It was time to call our parents so we had someone with Luke & Paige before we headed to the hospital. Oddly enough, Wally's parents were in Joliet at the casino and were just getting ready to leave to head home. His mom had this weird intuition and just felt like they needed to be close that night (crazy!) So they made their way to Monee rather than back to Peru. I still wasn't feeling much as far as contractions went. I do remember Wally sitting down at the kitchen table and eating. He said he knew he might not get to eat again for awhile so he wanted to fill his stomach. I mean seriously - cracks me up! With Paige he needed to shower before we left and now he needs to eat. Who is the one that will be doing all the work??? Ha!
We headed to the hospital around midnight. At 12:30 I was only at 2 cm and still very thick. I was super discouraged because I knew there was a long night ahead of us. I was beginning to wonder why we came to the hospital so early in labor.
We started walking the halls - up and down, back and around - over and over! Around 2:25 walking became more difficult as the contractions picked up. I was still hoping for no epidural but needed something. They gave me some Stadol (pain medicine) around 3 AM to take the edge off. I was still only at 3 cm but was finally thinning out. I fell asleep for about a half hour and woke up feeling the need to push. When they checked me at about 3:45, I was at 9 cm. Hallelujah! It turned out that the Stadol relaxed me enough to let my body work.
The doctor was on her way - I pushed for about 5 minutes and Tyler Jeffrey was born at 4:17 AM!
It truly was a great labor & delivery. I was blessed with 3 great deliveries and 3 beautiful, healthy babies.
