Baby Addylin Jolene

Well, I've been gone for awhile but the boys are actually playing together and Addy is sleeping. So, I thought I would let you know how everything is.

I ended up starting labor around 9pm Sat the 1st. My contractions weren't horrible yet but they were about 5 min apart all night long. By Sunday morning I was exhausted and decided we should head to the hospital. We got there around 10. My contractions finally started getting a little harder but after a few hours they slowed to about 7 min apart. By 2 in the afternoon I was so exhausted and the contractions were very painful, so they decided to give me a shot of morphine to help with the pain and hopefully let me rest.

The nurse said it would take about 10-15 min to kick in. But I immediately started feeling warm and my hands were getting tingly. I told the nurse I thought I was hyperventilating but I thought that was odd since I wasn't breathing hard. She observed me for about a minute and noticed that it was just getting worse. My hands started to cramp and slowly the cramping spread to EVERY muscle in my body (including my uterus). She quickly realized I was having an allergic reaction to the morphine. I couldn't move and I just laid on the bed crying in pain as all my muscles were SO tight. She called for help and about 6 nurses came running in. She called for a crash cart and the Dr too. There were about 4 nurses trying to get an IV in me. My muscles were so tight and rigid though they were having a Terrible time. They started looking at my feet for good veins.

After about 10 minutes they got an IV in and started pushing in the medicine to reverse the morphine. I slowly started to relax. It was SOOOOO scary. It was starting to get hard to breath. And then the contractions felt WAY worse because my uterus had been affected too. Let me tell you it was horrible to hear my mom's voice crack and see my big tough guy husband with tears in his eyes. Everyone in the room was scared. Dan said the nurse was scared, she was fumbling around for the right needle and couldn't find it. I yelled at her to help me. I really got nervous when she started asking me if I could understand her and if I was still with her. I realized it was pretty serious then. But the reversal medicine kicked in and they gave me something else to help me relax and take the edge off the contractions.

The rest of the labor went pretty slow until about 8pm. The contractions were the real thing and I was finally dilating. By 10pm the nurse said I could have an epidural. I was so greatful for this because I was absolutely exhausted by this point. I got the epidural around 10:40pm. By 11:00 I was begging the nurse to let me push. I pushed twice and she was out at 11:23pm. She came out sideways with her shoulders up. It hurt like HELL! I screamed and cursed which I never did with the boys. And then I saw it was a girl and I couldn't believe it! She looked like an angel and everything I had went through was all worth it.