He's Here!

Friday night (Dec. 21) at about 11:50 PM I started having contractions. They were 8 minutes apart for 2 hours, then they went to 5 minutes apart for 3 hours, then 3 minutes apart for 1 hour, which is when we called the hospital and told them we were coming in. The drive is a 45 minute drive so by the time we got to the hospital it was 10:15 AM Saturday morning. They checked me at 10:35 AM and I was dilated to a 3. My contractions slowed down a bit so I started walking which, of course, made them more intense. At 1:55 PM the doctor broke my water, then things really started to pick up and I got an epidural at 2:20 PM. At 3 PM we had a scare because Ty's heartbeat dropped dramatically. The nurse pushed the red emergency button and said, "I need some help in here", then all of a sudden about 5 people came running into the room. They put me on oxygen and flipped me to one side...didn't work so they flipped me to the other side...didn't work so they wanted me to get on my hands and knees....don't forget I am completely numb from the waist down. That was a challenge but I had like 3 people holding me up and I was using a lot of arm strength. That seemed to help and Ty's heartbeat picked up but only a bit. They put me back down on my side. My doctor showed up and checked me and I wasn't really dilated anymore and he had only moved down the birth canal a little bit. The doctor and nurses sat with me for a while watching every move the baby made and then at 4 PM another little scare. The nurse pulled my gown to one side and saw some blood and pulled my gown up and I guess there was blood everywhere. The doctor jumped up and checked me again and they didn't really know why I had started bleeding really bad. Anyway, they removed Ty's heartbeat monitor from my tummy and switched to the internal kind they put on his head. The doctor and nurse intensely watched the monitor for about an hour. It was really intense. I'm not sure at what time, but the decision was made to do a c-section. His heartbeat never came back up and every time I had a contraction it would drop pretty far, and they said I was having some really intense contractions. They think his umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck, which was also causing the problem of him not being able to move down the birth canal. I was prepped for the c-section and was being wheeled down the hallway to the operating room and I told them to stop, that I had to sit up for a sec...I couldn't really breathe. They stopped and I sat up and threw-up about 5 times in a row all over myself in my bed. It was really bad. They rushed me into the operating room and tore off my gown and and tried to clean me up as fast as they could. They needed to know why I was throwing up so the anesthesiologist could be confident I could have the pain medicine to go ahead with the c-section. They got it all under control and started the procedure right away. Whew! After all of that...Ty Spencer Jarvis was born Saturday December 22nd at 6:19 PM. 6lbs 6 oz, 21 inches long. I only got to see him for a second then he was wheeled off to the nursery. Spencer went with him and they finished stitching me up. I was taken to "recovery" and had to be there for 1 1/2 hours and Spencer or the baby couldn't come and see me yet. It was really hard to not have Spencer by my side and to not be able to see my baby yet. I finally saw Spencer at 8:30 PM and then Ty got to come into my room at 9:30 PM. It was so good to hold him and get to know my new little son. He is so cute and precious. He is a little small for how long he is. The first night was good but by Sunday morning it all went down hill. Sunday morning his respiratory rate jumped really high. It is supposed to be about 60ish and his was 120-130. They had to hook him up to all sorts of monitors. Then his blood sugar levels dropped and his oxygen level dropped. Poor little guy. As you can see he was on all sorts of machines and I couldn't see him anymore. I was on strict bed rest for a full 24 hours. It was so hard to not be with him during this hard time for him. Spencer was by his side all the time taking care of him through all of this. Finally Sunday night at 6 PM I was taken of bed rest and made my way down to the nursery to see him. It was so hard to see him on all his machines but he was staying strong. All of this lasted about 1 1/2 days, then he started to get better. His levels slowly returned to normal and today, Tuesday, Christmas Day he was taken off all of his monitors but his IV. He has made a quick recovery and is doing much better. We think they will let us take him home tomorrow. We have been so blessed through all of this and are so happy Ty is doing better. I am recovery very well and doing great!