Our newest addition

 


Hello World!

Well, after a long absence from the blogging world - we're back.  And this time, with a new addition to the family - Austin Michael Pozsgay.  Austin was born on March 24th, 2012 at 10:57pm...just 6 days after his 'due date'.  He kept Mike and I on the edge of our seats all week that week, and we are just so excited that he has finally arrived.  While my pregnancy was quite textbook with no issues or complications, labor and delivery was definitely a different story.  For those interested, I've written out a pretty detailed version of Austin's birth story below. 



Contractions started Friday morning when I woke up, and progressively got closer together and stronger throughout the day.  Mike came home after lunch and we realized that we were probably going to go to the hospital later that night.  Around 7pm, my contractions were 5 min apart, 1 min long, and had lasted at least an hour so we called the OB and went to the hospital. Unfortunately when I got to triage, I was only 1.5cm dilated and they said my contractions weren't strong enough to be admitted.  We knew they were getting stronger, so we went across the street and walked around a shopping center for another hour or two before heading back in to triage.  This time I was admitted.  I was having a hard time walking or talking through my contractions, and they were extremely regular and strong when put on the monitor.  I was administered some pain meds through an IV and given fluid to prep me for my epidural.  Those few hours were pretty rough, but Mike and the nurses were great with helping me get through the pain.  At 3am I got the epidural and was so greatful that it allowed me to get quite a bit of sleep.  When we woke up in the morning, I was already 5cm and labor was progressing well.  They gave me pitocin to speed up the process and we were hoping to deliver in the early afternoon.  Unfortunately, that wasn't part of Austin's plan.  Even on the pitocin, it took until 5pm to get to 10cm.  At that point, his head was still very high up in the birth canal and the doctor recommended waiting another hour before pushing to give him a chance to decend a little further.  He did descend a bit on his own, but after over 3 hrs of pushing, he was only a little over 1/2 way through my pelvic opening.  My doctor checked me again and then said, "Well, at this point you know that the baby isn't coming out this way...lets go ahead and prep you for a c-section".  I don't think either of us were shocked at all, or scared of the procedure.  At that point we had been laboring all day friday and all day saturday and all we wanted was to be done with it and get to have our baby! 

The procedure was quick, painless at the time (I was pretty out of it), and a welcome end to 2 very long days.  The most memorably part for me was when they put him on my chest for the first time and feeling how insanely soft his skin was.  I think he took our breath away instantly, after all that we had been through it was a thrill to get to hold him!




Proud dad in the OR

We learned that Austin had a large head, which was facing forward, and the cord was wrapped around his neck.  All three things were definitely working against us as I pushed so we were greatful for the c-section. The rest of our hospital stay was a little rough.  I had some reactions to all of the medications and was very light headed for a few days.  Confined to bed for a day, still fairly swollen and numb, deprived of food for nearly 48 hrs, and extremely exhausted - I was not in the best shape.  But, with Austin rooming in with us it always calmed me a bit to see his little face.  After getting some food in me, walking around, and letting some time pass - I was feeling much better and ready to be discharged so that we could go home and start our own routine without the interuption of nurses and doctors every few hours!  We left the hospital Tuesday afternoon and things have been improving ever since!