Following the weeks leading up to babe number two’s birth it was pretty stressful. At 36 weeks I was tested for GBS and found out I was positive, which meant antibiotics prior to delivery and no stripping of the membranes. I felt like the stripping really helped me with my first pregnancy and not being able to have it done with this irritable pregnancy I was experiencing it totally stunk. I was dilated at 1cm and 70% effaced. I was around 37 weeks when Torrey became sick. His doctor advised that he should go get a COVID test, the wait time was up to four days. Four days full of anxiety. I was so nervous that I would go into labor during the period of wait time and scared that he wouldn’t be able to go into the delivery room. So much so that I made myself have back to back contractions for hours! Once we got the test results back, negative thank gosh, I scheduled my OB appointment. I was hoping that all the consistent contractions would have done something. They didn’t, I was still stuck at 1 cm and 70% effaced. I was super bummed out and discouraged. 38 weeks rolled around and I was almost 3 cm and still 70% effaced. Still having a ton of mild contractions with no consistency and what felt like zero movement towards true labor I told my OB doctor that I was done. I was super grumpy, uncomfortable, not sleeping, and peeing constantly throughout the night. So babe got served an eviction notice.
October 7th, I arrived at the hospital at 0700. My best friend Holly was able to be my nurse. She greeted me at the entry of L&D and we walked to room 622. I changed, got hooked up to the Toco monitor, vitals taken, and an IV placed. With being GBS positive I had to receive two rounds of antibiotics prior to delivery.
The atmosphere was very calm and relaxing honestly. I wasn’t nervous about the process and my anxiety was at ease finally. I was ready to have this baby. I was put on a low dose of Pitcoin that was titrated up every 30 minutes roughly. I got up and moved around as much as possible until I got my epidural around 1200. Received my second dose of antibiotics and then my OB came in and broke my water after 1300. Holly was phenomenal, she took such great care of me. I was so blessed to have my best friend as my nurse. My contractions started to pick up some more, and my uterus wasn’t really allowing a relaxation period so we backed off on the Pitocin just a tad. Shortly after Holly came in and had me do a few turns in the bed from side to side and breathe through some contractions. Then she checked me and I was complete. It was time to have a baby.
Holly got ahold of my OB and he came right on in with a Resident. He checked and the head was right there, they broke down the bed, and then it was time to push. I grabbed onto my legs and gave two good pushes and out came babe number two. We were ready for our surprise!
Torrey announced, “It’s a girl”! 1534 Olivia Evelyn was born. 6lbs 9.4 oz and 19 1/4 inches long. Evelyn has been in my family for four generations. Torrey picked out Olivia’s name and it fit her so well. She was prepared to nurse right away and my goodness nursed almost all throughout the night and slept most of the day. Little piranha! We got to go home the next day close to 1700. We were so excited to get home to see big sis.
Welcome to this crazy world Olivia, we love you so much!
Side note: It was so weird only having us in the hospital this time around. It made the time pass slowly. We were bummed that big sis wasn’t able to come to the hospital, as well as friends and family. COVID definitely put a dent in the experience of such a exciting time in someone’s life. I was very thankful that Torrey got to be there with me, extremely grateful that my best friend was able to be another support person for me, and super blessed at how smoothly my labor went.
Aiesha
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