Melissa's Moments: Ryan's Birth Story Part 2

So we made it home, and I tried taking a shower to see if it would help ease the pain in my back, no luck. The nurse said I would stop contracting now that the medicine was out, but It wasn't. My sister called the hospital and told them I was contracting every 3 min, and they were pretty bad. The nurse said to come back up if I was still having them by 7. At 7 we headed back up to the hospital, and re-checked in. The nurse checked me and FINALLY I was making some progress, I was dilated to 3 and 1/2 centimeters. She called my doctor to see what she wanted to do, and my doctor said to keep me there, we were having a baby!! They put me back in the same room I had just left 3 hours prior. I was having horrible back labor, the nurse gave me a some pain medicine in my IV and from what everyone says I was pretty funny. Well the pain meds started wearing off around 2, at 2:30 my nurse called the anesthesiologist. My sister and Husband were kicked out of the room, and She got to work. I loved my anesthesiologist, she was so nice and it was over in 5 min I swear. I finally got a chance to sleep. I hadn't slept since Friday night, and that was scarce because I was so excited. I'm not sure when I woke up, but I was having serious contractions and couldn't feel a thing. It was GREAT! Well around 9 o'clock My water broke, and I started feeling pain in my back again. My legs weren't numb anymore, and I was not happy. I told the nurse I was feeling my contractions again, and she told me that was normal, I needed to be able to feel a little bit to push. I wasn't just feeling a little though, I felt everything. The worse part was that they had to have me lay on my back because Ryan wouldn't stay on the monitor. The nurse came in again to check me and said I was 9 centimeters, but not totally effaced so I could not push or my uterus would swell, and I would have to have a c-section. That feeling is indescribable, everything in you is telling you to push, and to not do that is one of the worst feelings ever. Finally the nurse said we could try some practice pushes, it was the easiest part of the whole process, and felt good after holding off for so long. Then she said to stop pushing again, I wanted to cry, we had to wait 15 min for the doctor to get there. She came in got set up and said to start pushing. Well 3 rounds of pushing and out came Mr. Ryan. He was so beautiful, I couldn't believe he was finally here. My doctor put him on my chest for a minute, and then they took him over to the warmer to get cleaned up, weighed and measured. He was having problems breathing so they gave me a quick look, and he was headed off to the nursery.