Knox Michael

What an interesting week it has been. On Tuesday morning, March 16, we welcomed the arrival of our son Knox Michael into the world at 0051hrs. He was 19.5 inches and 7.6lbs and one of the most handsome little men I have seen.
Now to back up a little at my doctors appointment the previous week he had decided to induce me that Monday because I have been getting severe headaches that I couldn't get rid of. The baby was doing fine and I had no other health issues at that point but since I was unable to take anything stronger to get rid of them my doctor answered my prayers and decided it was time. That Monday we spent waiting around for the phone call. I was told if I hadn't heard from them by 4pm to give them a call. We had everything worked out as far as who would be taking care of Alyssa and had the dog boarded. I didn't get a call so I called them and when I spoke to the nurse we talked for a little while and I told her I was still miserable and they were going to move me into the next day because the maternity floor was pretty busy.
After talking with her a little more and her calling my doctor, who happened to be the on call doctor that day, said they were going to do everything possible to get me in that night and if I didn't hear from them by 6:30 to call the doctor directly. That's what ended up happening and Dr. Sundwall informed me that he was doing everything possible to get me in and it was shift change at the time and they were calling in nurses because they were short handed. Come 7:30 we got the call that they were ready for us. I couldn't believe it and was so excited to finally get rid of the pain and to meet our little man.
We got to the hospital around 8 and was checked in and by 9:30ish iv's in, had seen the doctor, who broke my water and said I was around 5-6cm dilated. The nurse started the patocin and we were off and running. Cory's mom was on her way to the hospital and when she arrived we had decided it was on for a scrabble game. Yes, we brought scrabble to the hospital and I was planning on kicking some major butt! Well my contractions were coming very close and very strong so after picking our first letters I asked Cory to tell the nurse I was ready for my epidural.
After about a half hour the anesthesiologist came in and started to prepare me for my pain relief. Well while I was trying to get that my contractions were coming pretty quickly and very painful. By the time she was done with giving me the epidural I told the nurse I really feel like I needed to push. She checked me out and sure enough I was fully dilated and I started pushing. The doctor was called and the real fun began.
I pushed for what seemed like maybe twenty minutes if that and our baby boy was here! It honestly was a very easy delivery and was a little in shock over how quickly and smoothly it all went. Knox was perfect and very healthy!
Everything appeared to have gone well and I was discharged that same day after dinner, thank goodness! The next couple days I continued to get headaches and I started not being able to even stand up and walk without being in complete pain. Well it turns out I had got a spinal headache from the epidural. Which is the most painful thing I have ever had. I would honestly rather give birth over and over than have that. I was told to go to the ER where I got a blood patch to hopefully stop it. What happened was they had a hard time giving it to me because I had progressed so quickly and the ligaments were relaxed in my back and there was a hard time finding where it needed to be put in. When this happens it can be put in too far causing a hole and having the fluid that is around your spine and brain to leak, causing a severe headache. So long story short I'm starting to feel better still have some pain in my neck back of the head area but it's slowly going away and the blood patch did take the majority of the pain away.
Other than that we are all settling in and enjoying our family. I will write more about Alyssa and Knox later, I think this is quite long enough ; )