Liam Adam Harper
September 9th, 2011
6 lbs 12 oz
20.5 Inches
-The Birth Story-
Liam Adam Harper was born on September 11th, 2011 at 1:37p.m.
I had been having Braxton Hicks and had been dilated at a 1 1/2-2 and 70% effaced for the last month. I tried not to be disappointed when every Dr's appointment was the same prognosis...no progress! I thought this baby is never going to come, but at the same time I was so nervous that I was ok with him coming late. I had an appointment on the 9th of September, the day after my due date and things were still the same. I was scheduled to be induced on the 16th of September. I really wanted him to be born on 09-10-11 so I bounced on the exercise ball and bounced and bounced. I had contractions all day and at the end of the day I noticed them to be more consistent but they weren't hurting so I didn't pay much attention to them. Adam and I hung out with friends and then Adam and I took a walk. Right before I went to sleep I noticed that the contractions felt a little different and hurt a little bit. I woke up at 2 a.m. and tried to go back to sleep but couldn't sleep through them. I started timing them at 2:30. They started at 5 minutes apart and got closer together. I woke Adam up at 3:30 and we timed them for another hour before we decided to go to the hospital. I did not want to get sent home so I tried to wait to go to the hospital as long as possible. We made our bed and cleaned up a little before we left. I had made sure the house was clean the two weeks we had been home but that Saturday I didn't clean and it was kinda a mess..of course! We got to the hospital a little after 5 and went to Labor and Delivery. They checked me and I was at a 3 and 90% effaced, and I was thinking great they are going to send me home, but the nurse said that was great. We waited around for an hour until they came and checked me again at 6:30 a.m. I was the same......not surprising! A new nurse was on shift and she(Paige) told me I could go home with some drugs to sleep through the contractions, I could walk around and try to get things moving faster, or they could call my Doctor and see if she wanted to start me on pitocin. My Dr. asked the nurse what I wanted to do and Paige said I think she should stay and have a baby today, so I did!
They started me on pitocin and I got the epidural. It was nice! I called my Mom around 8 and told her she probably wouldn't be going to church.
Luckily my mom had decided to come to Utah on Friday just in case this baby decided to come on his own before my scheduled induction. She was in Layton with my Sister Adrienne and luckily my other sister Jessica had stopped there on their way home from St. George. So the three of them came.
When Paige checked me I was at a 4 and totally effaced. The next time she checked me I was at a 4 again. So, Dr. Harrison came in and broke my water to hopefully speed things up. An hour later I was at a 6 and so Paige came in a little later and stopped the pitocin. 50 minutes later I was at a 9. We hung out for a bit. I was dilated to a 9 1/2 a little while later. Paige couldn't believe how active he was in my belly. She was surprised he hadn't broke my water on his own.
I was having major contractions and so she called Dr. Harrison who was 20 min. away. Paige had me push once to get to a 10 and then she decided to have me push on a contraction and the baby crowned. On the next contraction she told me, if I say stop- stop pushing! So I push and she says stop but Adam was hilarious. He was right there and he jumps up and says, "wow ok stop, stop, stop". Paige put my legs down and then together and Adam said, "maybe we should hog-tie those legs".
Dr. Harrison was five minutes away and when she came I pushed through three contractions and he was here!! He was born at 1:37p.m. My Mom, Adrienne, and Jessica got to stay in and it was just a party! Paige was the best nurse and Dr. Harrison is such a great doctor.
