Brett Koamalu is here. He arrived on Friday, June 24th at 3:54pm. He weighed 9lbs 3.8oz and was 21 inches long. Big guy, huh!! Let me fill you in on labor. As with the rest of my pregnancy, the labor and delivery were completely different from the girls. Since nothing could get this baby here including a bouncy dune buggy ride from my neighbor, than the induction was scheduled. At my last apt. before the delivery, the doctor was concerned with how big I was. She hoped that it was more fluid than baby but during a quick ultrasound there was plenty of both.
Friday morning arrived and after dropping the girls off at the babysitter, we were at the hospital bu 8:15. They got the IV in (but I think it was infiltrated due to pain and swelling but who am I to argue with the nurse) and the pitocin dripping. Not much was happening and then at 11:30 they started my epidural. A nurse anesthetist started it and at first I didn't think it was working very well. My right leg was completely numb but my left could feel everything. She kept reasurring me that the main area we wanted numb was my female area. Dr. Lesser came at 12:30 and broke my water which I didn't even feel and then I started to dilate more even though the baby wasn't dropping very fast. During this time, they kept rolling me to get the baby to drop and things to pick up. Every time they rolled me, I was super nauseated. Unfortunately it was mainly dry heaving.
Finally things started getting going by 3:15. The nurse started having me push during contractions and then Dr. Lesser took her place and started working on getting the baby out. Scott was standing next to me and he said that Rosemary was working pretty hard on getting the head and the arm out. At that time, the nurses all rushed into the room. One nurse stood on the couch next to my bed and began pushing on my stomach trying to get the other shoulder under my pelvic bone. There was another nurse on the other side pushing on that side of my stomach. I could tell things were tense and then Scott leaned over and told me he had the cord wrapped around his neck. I then became a little worried and we focused on watching them work on him. He squeaked a little bit but there was no crying. Rosemary basically showed Scott his son (who was extremely blue), clipped the cord and then handed him over to the other nurses to work on getting him breathing. As he started to cry, tears were coming down my eyes. The atmosphere then relaxed and Rosemary thanked us for keeping our cool and not being overly emotional. She said the total time was 90 seconds to get him going and that it was a long 90 seconds for her. The nurses were even trying to figure out whether his APGAR score should have been 1 or 2 at birth. Scary but we were blessed with a knowlegdeable doctor and nurses who worked so well as a unit. He's here, healthy and huge!!!!
A big thank you to the Stone's for watching the girls overnight and to everyone who visited! We are extremely blessed to have so many people look out for us by providing us meals and stopping for a visit.
