This labor was so different from the others in a very pleasant way due to the help of epidural, the miracle drug. When we got to the hospital at 10:30am, I had already been in labor and in a lot of pain for 7 hours. As soon as the nurses took me into the delivery room, I said, "may I have some drugs, please". It took about an hour for the anesthesiologist to give me the necessary ingredient. At one point, the nurse thought it would be better for me to just do without it, in which I said, "noooo, I'd really like it if at all possible...." whine whine.
After he shot me up through my spinal cord, the relief came in second, and I really mean seconds. The contraction immediately after the injection, I felt nothing. Pat, looking at the fetal monitor, said "you're going through a pretty big contraction" to which I said "oh really?"
I stayed in bed like that and Pat and I chatted, and took a nap and let a few hours go by. It was so nice. This was really the first time that the epidural actually worked for me. With Terran, I did get it but it didn't work at all. With Sisi, there was no time. And now, here I was, all comfy and restful when I was suppose to be screaming and cursing. I didn't feel bad at all. I felt like I deserved a cozy for my third child.
There's no escape from pain of delivery at the end. The nurses decreased the amount of miracle drug flowing through me so that I could feel pain and the urge to push. I gradually regained all the sensations and Aidan was born at 3:19pm. He looked a lot like Sisi when she was born. They passed him to me, all bloody and gooey. He was beautiful.
Pat and Aidan immediately after birth!
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Congratulations!! By the way, it's been over four years since you guys left California and I swear Pat looks exactly the same -it looks as if he hasn't aged a day. How does he do it?!
Thanks for the comment on Pat. I will take the credit.
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