...the “stats”
| labor: | 52~54 hours |
| beginning: | 2:17 am 09-13-95 |
| ending: | 8:05 am 09-15-95 |
| pushing: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
| baby born: | 8:05 am 09-15-95 |
| weight: | 5 pounds, 15 ounces |
| length: | 19.25 inches |
| APGAR: | 7/9 |
...the gory details
I went into labor at 2:17am on Wednesday morning, September 13, 1995. This was almost 2 weeks before my predicted “due date” of 09-25. At 3pm on Thursday I went to my OB/GYN (a regular appointment, scheduled weeks in advance) and she did a sonogram to see if I was ready to be admitted into the hospital.
Dr. Reed decided that I had too little amniotic fluid left, and so she wanted to induce labor. I walked out of her office and through some double doors, and was admitted into the Labor and Delivery ward, on the 8th floor of University Medical Center in Tucson, AZ. (I myself was born in this very ward.)
My mother, having flown 3,000 miles to speak at a conference in Boston that morning, had just flown back early, and arrived at the hospital. My husband went home with her to get the video camera. My childbirth instructor came to sit with me, (a wonderful woman…she stayed for the whole thing, and even held one of my feet during delivery.)
At 6pm they added Pitocin to my already dripping IV. Not too much later I was given an epidural. The epidural made my hips and legs feel numb…even number than numb…touching my right thigh, I would have been tempted to bet money that it was a “trick” and that it was someone ELSE’S leg, not mine. The left side, however, kept “coming back” and I had to have the epidural ‘recharged’ twice.
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