The story begins here...

Saturday, October 17th started with lots of cramping and contractions. With my Mom and Doctor out of town until Monday I was beginning to worry. I showered, packed my bags and waited to see what might happen. NOTHING. So we carried on with our weekend and started the new week. Tuesday I went to the Doctor...

Labor and delivery was packed so he decided to put me on the schedule for Wednesday. I was #4 on the list and was told to be ready by early morning. I promptly called the family and set up the "last supper" lunch at Cafe Rio. The rest of the day was spent getting ready for the big event.

Around 9:15pm the Charge Nurse called from Labor and Delivery. She said that they were going to start calling in the inductions at Midnight. In anticipation of a middle of the night call we called my Mom and Dad to see if they would like a visitor for the night.

What we thought was going to be a great night sleep turned into a restless night. 7:00am rolled around and no call. I called L&D and the Nurse said that my Doctor had called and said not to call me until 12:00pm. That would have been great to know!

So the wait started all over. 12:00 came and went. Eric and I decided to get a sandwich. In walked a Doctor on the phone. He was telling the Nurse to check his patient and see if she was really in labor. Sure enough...she was... and sure enough she took my room! What are the chances? We headed back home for a nap.

I had given up on not eating and I was thinking we might be pushed to the following day. We all went to Pasta Factory for dinner. Once we ordered my phone rang. Of course...they wanted me in right away before someone else took my bed.

A CNA hooked me up to the monitors and said I will be right back with your Nurse. She was never seen again.

6:45pm Finally, Nurse #1 arrived.

7:30pm the pitocin was started and I was on my way.

9:30pm Doctor Ott broke my water. Not much change. Dilated to a 3 plus, 75% effaced.

11:00pm Epidural!

12:00am Nurse #2 arrives. Loved her. Started getting hot sweats and my blood pressure keep dropping due to the epidural. Trying to cool off with a washcloth and hide the double chin from all of the fluid they were pumping in me.

1:30am Doctor Ott was sleeping in the on call room, but decided to go home because of no progress.

2:30am Starting to dilate more...but this kid was not dropping.

2:31am-4:00am Finally at 7cm.

4:30am Nurse #2 tells me to hurry and have this baby before she goes home. I sit up and re-apply my make up for the big delivery only to wait longer!

6:00am Nurse #3 arrives. Loved her too! She was just in time for me to start getting sick. She walked in the room to me throwing up. Nice welcome.

7:00am Still at 7cm. 100% effaced. Baby dropped.

7:10am Started telling Eric and Mom to get the Nurse I was going to have this baby. They didn't move very fast because Dr. Ott was going to be doing rounds any minute. Eric finally went out to find someone.

7:14 am In came Dr. Ott and he set up the room himself, sat at the end of my bed (yes, he didn't even drop the bed) and coached me through 4 or 5 contractions.

What a long night it was, but it was a really easy delivery. We were so relieved that he got here safe and sound. He was covered in the white stuff(don't know the medical term) but healthy as can be.

Corbin was born with his...

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Due to the Swine Flu, I had to pick 2 visitors for my whole hospital stay. They were banded and could not switch. This was so hard. Lucy and all the Grandparents could come up and look in the Nursery window at Corbin, but that is all. In the end it turned out pretty good because I was able to sleep that first day. Eric would roll Corbin into the Nursery when visitors were there to see him, and I just slept in my bed.

We were all feeling pretty good by Friday morning so after Corbin's long circumcision(no pun intended) we were discharged.

It was good to be home. Lucy did pretty good with the new addition, with only a few melt downs. She was recovering from a cold and being away from Mom and Dad for 3 long days.

Corbin's color looked so good. He has a very red complexion so I never would have thought that his repeat Bilirubin(spelling?) test would come back high. Sure enough it did. So Sunday evening...

was delivered. I was so sad, but glad he didn't have to be hospitalized.

What a nightmare this bed turned out to be. We didn't sleep for 4 nights straight. He had to be in it 24 hours a day unless he was eating or getting a diaper change.

Day after day we took Corbin in to get tested and we kept getting told to repeat the test in 24 hours and continue the lights.

All dressed up...only to go to the hospital to get his heel pricked and then back under the lights.

At Corbin's Dr's appointment on Wednesday I was hoping to hear that we could get rid of the bed. Dr. Marsden looked up the results of Wednesday's blood test and it was not what he wanted to see. Corbin's #'s actually went up. How could this happen? Long story short...I had to quit breast feeding for a couple days. My breast milk was causing his Jaundice to get worse.

Friday night we finally got the great news that there was no need to retest Corbin and that the Bili Bed could go back to the medical supply.

I finally have my perfect baby boy back. He sleeps great, eats great and is so much fun. Lucy cannot get enough of him. She is awesome to hold him, change him and try to comfort him. We are so happy to have him in our family.

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