At 29 weeks and 5 days I woke not feeling good, i felt a lot of pressure and just felt off. I decided to go down to the Dr. to make sure everything was okay since Danny was driving down anyway to go to work so I rode down with him. When I got to the Dr. he checked me and was very worried, I had dilated to 3 cm and was 70% effaced and he could feel a lot of pressure. He checked for a heartbeat and it was still strong, thank God! He decided to send me to Labor & Delivery to be monitored. I was put on the monitors and baby was fine, but I was contracting like crazy so they decided to keep me in the hospital. 29 weeks is WAY too early! I was given a steroid shot to mature the baby's lungs in case he was born and an IV was started. I was also put on Procardia to help calm the contractions down. I ended up staying for 4 days and then they released me on bed rest and medication.
I layed in bed for 7 weeks, praying our little man could stay in until he was full term. I had a Dr. appointment every week to make sure I wasn't further along though I continued to have small contractions almost constantly.At me 35 week appointment I was told I had progressed to 4cm and 80-90% effaced but to continue to wait, and he also had told me to stop the medications at 36 weeks.
On Saturday January 21st I was 35 weeks 6 days pregnant and decided to just stop the medicine that night. At 7:57pm I began having very very very painful contractions. We tried taking a walk since that stopped them previously but they got worse. At 9:55pm they were so bad we decided to go to the hospital. Danny drove like a mad man while I screamed and his mom tried to comfort me =). We got down to the hospital in 35 minutes which usually takes 50 minutes. When they got me to triage the nurse checked me and hooked me up to monitors and I was now 6cm and 100% effaced!!!! When the nurse said "You're having a baby!" i was so freaked but excited, he was coming!! I was put into a delivery room and immediately given an epidural (truly a blessing from the Lord!) and an IV and watched for a while. Around 11pm the nurse checked me again and i was at 8 cm and baby was lower. At 2am nothing had progressed so they gave me some pitocin to hurry the progress. Danny and I had finally fell asleep around 6:30am when all the sudden I wake up to 5 nurses in my room calling frantically for the Dr. to come in and they are telling me to push. I start to panic because they won't tell me what going on and I am still half asleep. I can't push very well because my legs are too numb and when they Dr. gets in she tells me to wait, she watches the monitor and says "its going back up." The nurse finally tells me that I am now 9.5cm and baby doesn't like it, his heart rate dropped from 175 to 100 and just stayed there but now it was back up. The Dr. watched him for about 15 minutes and decided to not go forward since he was okay now. I was terrified and just prayed with all my heart. Around 8:10 am they checked me one last time and said that it was time to push!! And by the grace of God I could slightly feel my legs enough to give a really good push. I could hear the baby's heart beat on the monitor so that really calmed me down.
I pushed for 17 minutes and Liam Daniel Capper was born! January 22nd 2012 was a great day! My prayer since the beginning was that I would hear him scream immediately after he came out. As soon as the Dr. put him on my chest he screamed and I praised God!!! What a beautiful, precious miracle Liam is!! A few minutes later they took him and cleaned him up and weighed him- he was 5 pounds 7.2 ounces and absolutely gorgeous!! They said he needed to go to the NICU for observation for a few hours, which broke my heart but I understood, they wanted to make sure all his vitals were normal and everything was okay since he was 4 weeks early. Danny got to carry him over there and stay with him. When Danny came back to my room he said Liam was doing pretty good but he wasn't able to keep up his blood sugar so they were going to keep him. He is now home and in my next post I will share about our 6 day, very emotional NICU stay. I love being a mommy. It is inexoressible how in love with Liam I am. Its such an example of how much MORE God loves us.
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