Charly's first week at home.

At home pictures, The difference in her swollen head from the Hospital until now is amazing.She now is the real beauty queen that I see everyday. This ladies and gents is the worlds cutes baby.

charly!!!!!

leaving from the hospital in her first outfit. This outfit was gave to her from gramdma hunsaker for going home. This is a newborn size and it drowns her. Thats was she is so happy in this picture.

Top picture, Charly in her Mini hospital bed wrapped up in the best swaddle ever, and since I left the hsopital and the wonderful nurses i have not been able to get the that swaddle again. I wish i could have one of them at my house for a personal baby care.

Middle picture, Charly very soon after delivery and the first time i got to be with her with out the doctors and nurses pokin and prodin.

Baby charly's poor head right after delivery.

This is the result of the vacume used by Dr. Dyson in the final attempt to get her out.

birth experience 1of 3

This story may get graphic, if I describe is how it actually happen it may be disturbing.

I checked into Providence hospital at 7:30 am on Thursday November 8Th, to be induced.
I was shown around to room number 9. I don't even remember the hallway, the directions we turned, or the colors of the hospital, the only thing i was thinking was (well i wasn't thinking just scared).

Then they took me to into the room where I will labor, deliver and recover all in the same room. they gave me the butt showing gown and told me to get naked and in the bed, which I didn't realize at the time that was the most horrible bed i will or have ever layed in. The original bed in the room was a surgery bed used for c-sections but after they asked me if i was scheduled for a c-section and i energetically shook my head "no" they replaced the bed with the bed nightmares are made of.

Then the wonderful labor and delivery nurse Summer(who was as wonderful as a summer breeze, in San Angelo, Texas during late august), got me all comfy in the bed and told me about the process in which I was about to take part (willingly/stupidly). I answered many questions about my past health and about my family and about how the earth was made, (which i think was all a ploy to keep your mind off the pending process), then finally they came at me with a huge IV needle which Cory says was the biggest needle he had ever seen in his life (pre epidural).

I had never had any medical procedures in my 27 years of life and now lucky me i get to experience it all in 1 day. Then they flicked my vein and tied it off like a heroin junky(not that i know what junkies do) and jammed a #2 pencil in my wrist. After they took 2 liters/ syringes (who's counting) of blood from me they set up my drip bag of much needed fluids, and pain in a bag called pitocin. Across the room Cory looked a little pale and at that point i wasn't sure if he would make it through the entire process. Hell, I was still optimistic and thought it would be easy, if millions of single 14 and up years olds can do this many times over then I would be a cake walk. HAHAHAHAH.

At 8:30 am Dr Dyson came in to the room and said spread em.... He tried to touch my rib cage from the inside and then got this huge white 2 feet long Crockett hook and poked it well ya know where he poked it. Then goooooossssshhhhhhh!!!! Niagara falls was now in my room, I wasn't sure if I was peeing or well I don't know what else i would be doing down there but it was not a natural feeling. The water just kept coming out draining and draining, I guess there is an entire liter in there, who would have thought! The water had maconium in it, this is the first problem in the beginning of a long tramatic day.All was well at this point and all Cory and I could do was be happy smile and think of what our precious little charly was gonna look like. As Cory and I laughed and had conversation the water just kept coming out, it was a little..... or alot gross. I thought about peeing just to say i peed the bed then I could have at least a little of each body fluids left in the delivery room. At 9:00 am my wonderful nurse summer came into the room and increased my pitocin drip from 2 -4 and just then i felt them....

The first serious contraction, I thought "so far so good I can handle these, it feels like a menstrual cramp on the first day of a bad period".Cory and I just sat and relaxed watching TV, and day dreaming. Then at 9:30 the nurses came back in and increased the pit drip from 4-6 and wham i felt em, still not so bad that i couldn't keep my head on, just getting more intense with each contractions. I could tell the second that the nurses increased the pit drip cause a doozy of a contraction would creep up on me. Summer asked me if i had thought about pain management? I told her i wanted an epidural, and if i can go through this labor process with out pain than that's good for me. When they increased the pit to a 6 they asked me if i was ready for a epidural? I told them no I was on top of the pain at that point. This was my first mistake, i should have taken it when it was offered. For all of you reading this with out the wonderful birthing experience this is the 1st rule to remember, If pain meds are offered take em!!!!! All of a sudden out of nowhere about 10:30 am I was breathing deep and tyring to remember all the blasted things they taught me in my waste of $ childbirth education class. I was in with the nose and out with the mouth breathing and closing my eyes trying to shut out he pain. Then Dr Dyson came in to check on my progress, i was dilated to a 4 and 100% efface. Charly's heart beat was a little to sporadic and the contractions were a little to strong for the progress being made during that time. Doc decreased the pit drip to 4 and ya know ,that didn't decrease the pain at all, in fact at that point i was in a perfect contraction rhythm and steadily increasing. I was holding/squishing Cory's thumb between the bed railing and my hand and i was squeezing as hard as i think i could. The contractions were the worst pain at that point i have every felt in my life, at that point. I thought i couldn't do it anymore and i was thinking with every contraction " if i have one more contraction I am gonna puke." The pain was almost unbearable.... I found out later that i just about dislocated Cory's thumb.He don't need that thumb anyway that's just an extra finger. He was my hard place and i needed him to be by my side and holding my hand throughout the entire process. I told Cory to call the nurse about 11:00 am and get me some relief..

Summer came into the room checked me and said she would call for the anathzologist to start my epidural. The contractions just kept building and building and Cory's thumb kept swelling and swelling. The at 1:00 pm the Anatizeologist came in and prepared his tools of small peacefulness on his table. He had Cory come around to face me and help me sit up on the edge of my bed with my back facing the Doc and all hunched over my belly in the most uncomfortable position along with extreme contractions FUN! Cory came over to my front and proceeded to hold my arms. The Doc said "no he needs to sit down, he did a epidural one time and the husband was holding his wife then the monster of a epidural needle came out the Husband passed out banged his head and died, so I need him to sit down." Thne as I watched cory's eyes get bigger than I had ever seen eyes get I felt the pressure of the needle. Then I felt a contraction and everyone is yelling at me to hold very still. I just watned to yell back " you try to hold still while a bulldozer plowing into your stomach", but i did and the needle was out the plastic covering was going on and the nurses were helping me to lay down flat and wait for the miracle drug to kick in.