Welcome to the World Wyatt Tiller!
October 3, 2011 at 7:59
8 pounds and 15 ounces
Wyatt is now three weeks old and I feel like I am just now stopping long enough to think about blogging! Wow! Our world has really changed and it is wonderful. Ryan and I welcomed Wyatt into the world on October 3rd. This was eight days past my due date so, as you can imagine, we were very glad when he finally arrived! Here is how it all played out! I went into the hospital on Sunday, October 2nd to be induced. They were going to do cervadil (sp?) that night and start pitocin on Monday morning. When they hooked me up to the monitor they saw that I was having contractions pretty regularly. I had no idea that I was having contractions! So, they didn't do the cervadil and just let me sleep through the night in hopes that things might start on their own. I took a sleeping pill that night too which helped me to get a pretty good night of sleep. (The last full night of sleep I have had!) At 5:15 on Monday morning my nurse woke me up. I got a shower and then at 6:00 they started the pitocin. I made it until 10:30ish and then wanted the epidural. I was two centimeters dilated and was nervous that the epidural would keep me from progressing but my doctor assured me that it wouldn't. The epidural was wonderful and I highly recommend it to any pregnant woman! After the epidural I slept for the rest of the labor. My nurse would just come in and check on me every couple of hours. I progressed like this.....2, 4, 8/9ish, 9 1/2, 10. I was ten centimeters at about 5:30 and they had me start pushing at 6:00. Wyatt was born at 7:59! The labor and delivery itself was really good looking back on it. BUT, let me go back and tell you that when they broke my water, they saw that their was meconium in the water. So they knew from that sign that Wyatt had already had his first bowel movement in my uterus. When he was born, Ryan cut the cord and the nurses took him right away. They had to put tubes down his nose and mouth and work on him for a little bit before he could breathe on his own. Poor little guy! He was strong though and was okay very quickly. While they were working on him I was distracted because I wasn't delivering the placenta as easily as I thought it was supposed to happen. My doctor, whom I love, got really serious and I knew something wasn't right with me. After a few minutes I was really uncomfortable because the epidural had worn off during the two hours of pushing. I asked her what was going on and she said that the placenta had attached to my uterus and that she was having to remove it little by little. I won't go into graphic details but I will just say that forty five minutes later she was finished with me. She was able to remove all of the placenta and stop the bleeding. At one point during all of that she told me that if she couldn't stop the bleeding then they were going to have to take me to surgery. Thankfully she was able to do what needed to be done and surgery didn't happen. I spent those forty five minutes after Wyatt's birth trying to stay calm knowing that he was finally okay and that the Lord was in control of what was happening to my body. Afterward, my doctor told me that there was no way of knowing that was going to happen to me. She stayed at the hospital that night just in case anything went wrong with me. The next morning she came to see me and was very positive about future pregnancies. She just said that next time she would be prepared! I have to say though that my doctor is in a practice with several doctors. Any one of them could have been on call that day but she happened to be the one there. I know without a doubt that the Lord had it planned for her to be the one there. I trust her so much and know that she is very good at what she does. She is the same doctor who performed my mom's hysterectomy.
I could probably go into a lot more detail about the whole experience but I will spare you! We are so happy to have Wyatt here and every minute of the past nine months is totally worth it! Children are definitely a blessing from the Lord! Ryan and I have already learned so much and we can't wait to be a part of this precious boys life!
