Labor.

     My best friend moved to Mississippi to be with Michael, her baby daddy. So unfortunately i did not get to spend alot more time with her after the last ultrasound. From her phone calls I could tell she was fatigued, had to pee alot, and could not sleep comfortably at night anymore.

     5 days after her due date my best friend called me and told me to come to her hospital because they were going to enduce her labor. I drove 5 hours frantically to make sure I didnt miss a thing. I arrived around 6pm and got to spend time with her and Michael before the baby came. After a long night in an uncomfortable chair helping my friend make it to the bathroom and back several times, her water broke around 6am. She and I always thought that after the water breaks the baby comes out, but no. She was less than halfway dialated and her contractions were getting worse. A baby can still live 12 hours after the water breaks though(a fact i did not know), so the nurses were not in a hurry.
     She was given more medicine to enduce her, and none of it worked. With the contractions becoming more intense by the muinite she requested an epidural. Now, after the epidural she kept telling Mike and I she fely a stabbing in her back and that something was wrong and that the pain medicine wasnt working. The nurse came in a few times and assured her it would only take a minute to start working. After about 20 minutes of screaming clawying, crying and cussing, the doctor decided to check her eppidural, and it had slipped or was placed wrong. So she had to get the sppidural redone completely. After that the pain meds kicked in. . . and she literally fell asleep during labor, snoring and all.
     The doctor came in occassionally to check her dialation, but 2 hours had passed and there was no change. Shortly after her nap My best friend woke up, and her blood pressure plumetted, and so did the baby's heartrate. Mike and I could barely hold ourselves together, it was so frightening to watch her moniter's numbers drop so low. The nurse came in and put her on oxygen and around 11:40 the doctor decided it would be best to do an emergency C-section.

This is before they took her back for operation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ys6ZQePCJc


Then, there was this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-2IzuSaUI4


So now we welcome Ollie Dax into the world and wish Kristin goodluck in this beautiful new chapter of her life.



Love,


Hannah