Julen's birth story (extended)

Julen Taylur Glynn Birth Story
Category: Life
Date: June 8th, 2009
Time: 7:42 pm
Weight: 7 pounds 11 ounces
Length: 19 inches
Emergancy Cesarean Section


At four am on monday june eighth i woke up and noticed that the silly contractions i had been having for a little over a week were suddenly very strong and painful. I paged my midwife and she was excited to tell me that this was the real deal. Anyways, my mom and her boyfriend Donny picked us up and we headed for the hospital. When we arrived i was checked at at four centimeters and contracting very nicely. Over the next few hours i sat in the bath tub or walked around. I asked for something to take the edge off and they gave me fentanel. It worked nicely for awhile and i felt good but my labor was progressing very slowly so it was decided that they were going give me an epidural and Oxytosin to get things moving. I started to dilate a tiny bit faster but hey progress is progress. After what seemed like all day i was happy that i had reached nine centimeters. At this point courtney, his mother, his sister and my mom were present. But that is when things started to go very wrong. Julen's heart disappeared off the monitors the nurse called in for back up suddenly there were ten more people in my room and all they could say was c section. They wheeled me down the hallways with courtney followin dressing in his sterile gown. They transfered me from the bed to the operating table strapped me down and knocked me out. I woke a few hours later to hear that he could not breathe on his own and needed to be hooked be machines and must be transferred to emanual hospital immediately. I got to see my son for twenty seconds and then he was gone. Courtney and his family followed the ambulance and i was sent to recovery alone. Later in the night julen's condition improved but he will be in nictu for the next four days. I'm being discharged to join him tomorrow. He is seven pounds eleven ounces and his five minute apgar score was a three. Courtney got to touch him, tomorrow is my turn.