The Labor and Delivery

So as you all know, our Carlan is finally here. My water ended up breaking at around 930 am on Sunday morning. I wasn't sure if it really was my water breaking, but after a few minutes I immediately knew it was definitely my water. So we called the on call nurse and she told me to go to the hospital. We had to take showers (who knew when the next one would come) and gather a few more things to throw in the hospital bag. I think Gabe was more frantic than I was! We got to the hospital less than an hour after my water broke.

They immediately checked us in and assigned us a room. They brought in some paperwork that we would eventually need to fill out before being discharged from the hospital. The nurses came in to check on me and the on call doctor checked my cervix and I was dilated to 4 cm at that point. My contractions were coming on quick and strong, about every 2-4 mins. I got up and walked around a bit, relaxed in the jacuzzi tub with aromatherapy oil and finally got my epidural when I was dilated to 6 cm. Getting the epidural slowed down my contractions and I received pitocin to speed up the process. I was ready to push at 1230 am.

Gabe and Melissa were fantastic. Even though Melissa felt like an idiot counting to 10 as I pushed it helped a great deal. I ended up getting a fever of over 100, I was sweating like crazy and had to get put on antibiotics because it had been almost 24 hours since my water broke and was developing an infection. Carlan didn't want to turn and descend down, her head was stuck! The doctor tried to turn her because she was "sunny side-up" but was unsuccessful. They tried the vacuum and that didn't work either. At that point the doctor said that we had to do a c-section because of the infection and the baby and I getting distressed.

Melissa stayed back while Gabe put his scrubs on and waited while they set me up in the operating room. It was quite frightening and the epidural and run out a little while before they took me in for the c-section. I was in crazy pain, it sucked. They finally got me all set up and Gabe came in the operating room and they cut me open and got her out, she arrived at 514 am. She was beautiful. 8.47 lbs, 19 in long. They cleaned her up and cut her cord and had to take her to the nursery to get checked out. Gabe went with her while I got put back together.

Carlan had to get antibiotics because of the infection and I got antibiotics. They drew her blood and had to give her oxygen. They ended up having to keep her in the nursery for a few hours. I was taken back to our room, hooked back up to the IV and given pain medication. Gabe came back about an hour later. We slept and the nurses brought her back to the room a little after 900 am.

It was quite the ordeal and not the best labor and delivery experience I guess! I was exhausted and in quite a bit of pain. It was worth it for our beautiful baby girl. Welcome Carlan Kapilialoha Mondoy-Honaker.