Malachi's Birthstory

Well, after six weeks of having contractions off and on, I woke up Friday, September 14, 2007 around 4:30 am feeling very uncomfortable. It wasn't until I got up at 6 that I realized what it was, I was having contractions, but since we had all the false alarms I sent Matt to work, promising to call if anything changes. Boy, was I miserable. By 4:30 I was calling Matt to make sure he didn't decide to pick that night to work late. After he got home and the kids got picked up we took Mysia to Granny's and headed to the hospital. We got to the hospital around 7:30- 8:00ish checked into Triage, where they put me on the monitors and checked me I was between a 2 and 3 so the doc on call decided to let me walk the halls for an hour and see if there was any change after that. So we walked, by the time the hour was up I was stopping ever 2 min to breath through the contractions. We went back to the triage room and the nurse checked me again, not much had changed, but after listening to me try and breath through the contractions and being unsuccessful at hiding my pain the nurse convinced the doctor that it would not be a good idea to send me home and it was a good thing too, by the time they got me moved to the Labor and Delivery room, had my blood drawn and got my epidural (about an hour and a half) I was dilated to a 5. The doc came in and broke my water and I napped a little. At about 2:30 am I was an 8 and some of the nurses got a little ahead of the game and got all of the stuff out and ready for the delivery, sending everyone but Matt out of the room. It was about an hour later when my epidural was beginning to wear off and I started feeling the urge to push, unfortunately the doc was in the middle of delivering twins, so they made me blow through the contractions and stay laying on my side, with my legs closed, that was really hard because I could feel him sliding down and I couldn't stop it. Finally the doc got there and they flipped me on my back, which made me get sick and vomit, but then I was able to push and felt him slip out. The next thing I felt was some thing wet splat on my leg, the nurse brought the towels over so they could lay him on my tummy but the doc sent her straight back over to the warmer with Malachi then we heard a weak cry. Matt told me he had the cord wrapped around his neck, twice. They whisked him away to the NICU where he stayed for the next 5 hours. But now he is doing great and we are home recooperating
Lydia

Malachi Update

We haven't had much sleep yet, hopefully we will later!

Malachi was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck twice, so we didn't get to even held him until 8am! He was pale, and having respiratory problems. But Malachi is ding fine, he is pink now and breathing pretty good. We are were having some time getting him fed (well, Lydia is anyway!), but thats not too unusual with newborns! We've got to hold him several times, and have passed him around to friends and family who have stopped by.

So far, Mysia has only seen him through the nursery window (his temperature was a little low when she was here). So we're hoping that the next visit of hers later this evening will have better results. She was excited, but a little restless waiting in the room. Oh, but when we were commenting on Malachi when looking through the nursery window, Mysia must of thought we were being too loud, because she turned around to all of us and said, "Shhhhh...! Be Quiet... he's sleeping!" LOL... two year-olds are sooooo much fun!

~Matt

He's here!

Finally little Malachi Lee has arrived. He was born at 3:40 am on September 15, 2007. He weighs 7 lb 14 oz. There was one minor complication; he was born with the cord wrapped around his neck twice and is currently in NICU because of respiratory problems. We haven't even got to hold him yet, it's really hard, but I know that they are taking every precaution necessary to help him get on his feet quicker. 7:48 Matt just came back from getting breakfast and said that Malachi is out of NICU and they're bringing him over to feed in just a few minutes. PTL
I'll post more on the birth story later.
Lydia