Lorenzo’s Birth Story
On October 24 I was 5 days over my due date with this little
baby, and I finally began to have contractions at 9am every 5-15minutes until
around 1pm when the contractions went from 3-8 minutes apart. Mike and I were getting really excited that
we will be having this baby soon and we started cleaning the house and van like
crazy. At around 5pm the contractions
are getting more intense but not closer.
By 7pm I could not talk while a contraction was happening and I needed
to breath through it. I kept waiting for
them to be closer together but by 10pm I said “Mike call your mom and dad, it’s
time to go to the hospital.” As soon as
we got to the hospital the contractions
got closer together about 1-3 min. Apart.
When we had Roxy we also got to the hospital at 10pm, and I didn’t want
to have the baby at 5am so I decided not to lay in the bed and walk
around. I kept walking around the room
until my water broke. My water has never
broken naturally before and that was weird/awesome. I then went on the bed and things started to
get intense. It’s midnight at this point
and I said to Mike “I think we will see this baby at 2am”. They had me turn around on the bed on my
knees to even out the pressure of the
baby on my cervix. I was given the gas
and it wasn’t long before I could feel the baby coming. I turned around and they began giving me
fentinall for the pain. I was breathing
very heavily on the gas and starting to get really scared about this baby
actually coming out. I now am beginning
to do very little pushes and they took the gas away from me. Then I got serious and did one big push and the
baby came out in that one big push. The
nurses were trying to get me to stop but I couldn’t, and I’m pretty sure I woke
up the whole hospital with the loudest scream ever. Lorenzo Fredrick McCullough was born at
12:39am on October 25 2015, weighing 7lbs 14.5 ounces. They
placed him on my chest and I held him for a little while before they needed to
check him and count his toes. I began crying from the shock of everything happening so fast and feeling so grateful to have this baby finally here. Mike held
my hand and got me ice, or water when I needed and was perfect in every
way. He was so clever by bringing his
own hospital bag full of things to eat and drink. Ones the doctor was finished with Enzo we
walked over to our room and I got to do my favourite thing of lying in bed and
looking at this new baby that I love so much.
Enzo is now 8 days old and is doing amazing. He weighs 8lbs and 2 ounces today and is eating
and sleeping very well. He is perfect in
every way!
we are trying to post pictures
we are trying to post pictures
