Birth Story 2 of 3

They layed me flat on my back and they docs and nurses kinda just hung out for a while to make sure they got it in the right place and i wasn't paralyzed( thank goodness). The anasteziologiest was being paged and he looked at me and said I am with a patient and each patient get 15 min of my undivided attention( prob to make sure he did it right) then it happened. I felt all warm and tingly and no pain just slightly numb. With in seconds i was the happiest person in the hospital or maybe in the world at that point. Then after the Doc saw everything was fine he left. I told him he was the closest thing i have ever experience to GOD.
I looked at the clock for the 1st time in hours and saw that it was 1:45 wow the last time i saw the time was before masses of contractions and it was 10:30 I had been at this for quite some time hurray for me!!!! Cory and his mother decided to let me rest,go get some food, and take a break from the stillness of the room. I watched TV for about 30 min (not realizing that the 30 min of TV time was the last 30 i will ever have to my self) when they came back and showed me the purchases they made from the hospital gift shop.Cory bought a wish snowman that open at the top and you put your wishes in it and Verna bought a glass pacifier.
As we watched the contraction monitor and i felt so relieved that i didn't have to feel those awful pains anymore , then out of nowhere i started to feel something, i wasn't sure if it was a real pain or if my poor overworked brain was just remembering the pains i was having only 45short min ago. Just then i felt another and another and i soon realized that the beloved epidural was no longer working. In a flash the pain was back, i was pumping that button like it was my tongue air pump to make me run faster on my elementary Reebok shoe, but nothing was happening, i told Cory "get the nurse" in a frantic tone.
Summer came into my room and checked me I was 10 centimeters dilated and it was time for Charly to See the world. I told her "give me something for the pain"! she told me the worst news i had all day (up to that point) the only pain relief you are going to get is to get his baby out.
I started to panic as the pain became much worse than it was before the damn epidural.
I was thinking after the birth was over ( there was not much thinking during the birth) that i believe it would have been not only financially better but physically better not to have had the damn thing in the 1st place it only let me think for a brief moment that this was going to be easy.
So the birth begins and nurse summer tells me we are going to prepare you for the delivery.
I wanted this to be a shared moment with just Cory and myself as we welcomed out new baby into the world so the nurses told Verna she needed to wait out in the waiting room and they would get her when Charly was finally here.
Things kinda happened very quickly for everything but Charly from that point on. !st the Nurses call for the Dr, then they bring in the bed for charly to lay her pretty little head for the 1st time ever and they start preparing the warm towels and blankets. Then the attention was directed back to me. Okay said Summer grab you knees with your hands bring your chin to your chest and when you feel a contracting you push. I did as i was told and some relief came to me doring the contraction it actually felt better to push during a contraction than to just breath through it. So there i was Pushing when i felt stuff come out some water was laking so was some poo, now i think about it and um gross then however i couldn't care any less. I did this for ever when they decided that Charly was in a breech position and i needed to lay on my side so she would turn.They turned me on to my right side and it took both nurses and Cory for me to turn i believe at that point i had no control of my body. Oh my gosh that made the pain so much worse......
I didn't even want to put my leg down after a contraction cause it hurt way too bad,so there i was laying in bed with my butt, front bum and boobs just hanging out and ya know what i didn't care in the slittest. (Amazing) Now because of the pain after a contraction i have my leg being helped up by Cory so if you were in the front you defiantly got a full view. thank goodness Verna left cause i imaging it would have been a site.
I pushed and push for 2 day it felt like and nothing was happening in fact the nurses were just caring on a conversation about a movie they was and i was lying in that bed dying i wanted to tell them what the hell cant you see i am dying dying dying...
Just to add to the pain of this entire experience i got the heartburn, and i got it bad with each contraction i felt the entire contents of my stomach trying to come up just then i thank my dr for telling me to not eat for a while before i came in. I was trying to ride it out like i had done so many times before, but this wasn't like before this was my insides tring to come out and if they couldn't come out the hole down below provided they were gonna come out my mouth. I told the nurse help me i have pure acid creeping up my throat, she ran out of the room ( i almost felt bad cause she was about to tell the other nurse the plot to the "best movie she had seen in many years". She came back into the room with a small brown cup looked like a butter cup you get at Denny's when you order toast. She said this stuff tastes awful but it will for sure help i told her i don't care about tastes give it to me. I took the biggest sip i could from the butter cup in between contractions and once that flavor hit my tongue i could have stood up and walked out of there it was so overwhelming that it made me briefly think out that amazingly indescribable taste instead of the pain. I handed it back to her and said thanks but i will live with the heartburn.they should give that to coma patients i bet they would wake up and walk right out like nothing happened. Summer asked me if i wanted to finish the rest and i guess the look that i gave her said 1000 words cause she threw it down and apologized. I have no idea what time it is now or how long i Had been doing this laborious task( great name for it by the way, labor is what i do at my job all day giving birth is something i could most diffidently not do everyday),but they finally let me roll over back onto my back and the pain let up a tiny bit, the Dr came in a checked me again and said okay now we can Begin the real pushing ( what!!!!!!! i don't know where he had been but i had been pushing for hours) I just thought to my self "self this is about to get a whole heap worse".

Charly's 1st Christmas...

Charly's first Christmas. We went to the Coast, next year we are going to the snow.She was so excited and alert like she knew she was getting presents. We didn't actually buy her anything all the gifts there are from Grandma Hunsaker, Aunt Margie and cousins. The Things we got for her are the Stanford and Duke university applications and resource books. In the Pictures she defiantly shows witch one she prefers. When we got home from the Newport there was another pamphlet in the mail that said early Duke regristration is December 28Th. ( we were wondering how early we can register, we can make it by the 28Th, for the fall of 2025.) The mail also contained her Yale application and resource book it just didn't make it to us before Christmas.

Duke University is where the t.v show host on (O.P.B channel) Charlie Rose graduated. So it is kinda set in stone so far. We just gotta make sure she gets a scholarship cause 45,000 a year is a bit much for us.