Greg and I went into Arrowhead hospital so I could be induced on thanksgiving night (6:30pm to be exact). I had told my doctor along with the nurses there that I wanted to hold off on the poticin for as long as possible. I wanted to see if I could go into labor myself after a little bit of stimiulis. So the nurse put me on an IV, and gave me antibotics along with my fluids and then gave me cervical cream. I got two doses of the cream which made me dialate to 5 cm, but then I was stuck. To make matters worse whenever I had a hard contraction LoraLee's heartbeat would drop drastically so the nurse called the doctor and he said to hold off on the poticin and we will see how she is doing in the morning. I got little sleep in the night due to the contractions and of course I carried most of them in my back, and Greg also got little sleep. My parents and sister were there to help relieve Greg from rubbing my back so they got little sleep also. The next day it seemed that everybody, including Greg, was trying to get me to consent to an epidural. Being stubborn and still not in too much pain I didn't want one, however I did consent to have the anesthologist come in and talk about it. He went over some statistics with me, and also told me his qualifications. His ending statment was I'm not going to try and convince you to have an epidural, but I'll give you one if you want it even if you are dialted to 9 cm. Well I thought about it and after about 30 minutes I decided to get one because the nurses were going to start the poticin and I hadn't moved from 5 cm. Now the epidural was nice, but at the same time I didn't like not being able to feel my legs or move them. Well things seemed to happen quickly after that. They gave me poticin and broke my water and found that LoraLee couldn't tolerate the contractions because she had her umbilical cord wrapped around something. They gave me medication to counter act the poticin and told Greg and I that they needed to do an emergancy c-section.
When she was delivered to our suprise she had her ubilical cord wrapped around her neck 4 times, which tied the record. Not to stop there when she was attached to the heart monitor after delivery she decided to wrap that cord around her hand and arm, so we now know to keep her away from all cords.
We are so very thankful for the wonderful doctors and nurses that were there so now we have a safe and silly little LoraLee.
Even though she was delivered through a c-section Greg still got to cut the embillical cord.
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