The whole birth story!

Well, I have not been feeling great lately, but I finally have enough energy to relay Luke's birth story. It was quite traumatic for me as a first time mom, but I feel blessed that things turned out the way they did because it could have been much worse. Well Wednesday night, Drew and my mom and I headed to the hospital to get induced. We arrived at around 7:30. After admitting and getting paperwork done, they gave me cervadil at around 8:45. At around 10:45 the nurse noticed that Luke was not responding well to either the Cervadil or the Ambien they had given me earlier. The doctor was called. As soon as she arrived, the decision was made to remove the Cervadil immediately. Then the Dr. broke my water. I immediately began having harder contractions (I had arrived having contractions and was in early labor without the induction being started) So the contractions were coming on strong. I dealt with those for about 3 hours, and was checked and was between 3 and 4 cm already. I asked for the epidural, and received it about 45 minutes later. By 5am I was 7 cm dillated. Things had moved pretty quickly up until that point. My body had not responded well to the epidural and basically would work for a while and then not work at all. Later the anesthesiolgist said he could not figure it out and had never dealt with a case like this. I continued laboring until about 12pm and was still around 8 cm. They started Pitocin to go the last bit and contractions were very painful and the epidural kept wearing off. They kept giving me a dose shot to help with the pain. By 2pm I was finally at 10 cm. I immediately was in extreme pain and felt like I needed to push. The dr. had already arrived and we began pushing. I pushed for about an hour when things for Luke got bad. He was in distress and from the looks of things was posterier (face up) and had an arm up by his head. He wasn't coming out. So the decsion was made to do an emergency c-section. I was pretty exhausted by this point after 16 hours of labor, and the epidural had not been working for the past hour. My oxygen levels were not good at all, so I had an oxygen mask on with my glasses fogging up and began feeling a little panicked. Everything happened so fast at this point, but they had to give me so many drugs because I could still feel the knife after I shouldn't have felt it. Finally I was numbed completely besides feeling everything going on without the pain. I overheard the dr. talking when trying to get Luke out and it wasn't making sense but I knew things were not going well. They finally got him out and he had swallowed meconium and was still in distress. His apgar was 3 and then 8--not the most ideal. However, the nurses and dr.'s were great and got him feeling better about 20 minutes later. I could still overhear my dr. talking and things were not looking good for me either. Se called in help because I had a hemorrage and was bleeding uncontrollably. When she had gone to get Luke out I had a really long tear in my cervix that caused the hemorrage and put him in distress. Needless to say I was in surgery for the next hour and a half. She said she almost had to do a hysterctomy and was trying at all cost to avoid that. Well, afterwards we got the explanation that my cervix may be irreparable and will definitely be incompetent. I am biding my time in the hosptial trying to avoid infection and seeing if things are operating as they should. I got a cat-scan yesterday to see about internal bleeding and will get another Monday to ensure that things are flowing properly. The dr. said there is still a chance for a hysterectomy if things do not go well. So far things are going better. I did need two blood transfusions because I had lost so much blood and my body was shutting down on me. However, I feel like I have turned a corner today. Luke is doing great. He has improved everyday and is gaining weight already. He is precious and our little miracle. Please keep us in your prayers as I continue to recover and hopefully avoid the worst. It is in God's hands and we are trusing in Him completely. The dr. says we should still be able to have more children but nothing is for certain it all depends on the healing to come. We love you all and can't wait for you to meet Luke.