Oh boy!

So here is the story of little Chase Matthew's entry into this world! On Saturday, my mom had taken Kate and Austin with her to my nephew Ryan's 2nd bday party down at Cedar Creek. I couldn't travel that far so me and Stan stayed behind just in case. We went to Carters for their Memorial Day Sale, Victoria Secret for a great underwear sale (nothing fancy, plain cotton ones I promise!), and then had lunch at Chuy's. I didn't really have anything spicy so no this is not why labor happened! Then we went home and did some house chores and took the dog for a nice walk (again not necessarily for the labor possibilities but because it reminds us of what we used to do before kids). Then about 9 we went to my mom's to pick up the kids after they had been exhausted from a day of water sliding and sun. We took them home and showered them and put them to bed about 10:30PM, super late for them. Then I went to bed about 11:30 and Stan followed at 12:30AM. By 2 AM I had gotten up several times already to go to the bathroom, not so much unusual. But at 2 I realized my contractions (that I have been having every night for 5 weeks now) were a little more uncomfortable than normal. So I just turned over and went back to sleep. A little after 2:30 I had two "uh-oh painful" contractions 3 minutes apart. So I woke up Stan and had him call my mom over. My contractions were at 2-3 minutes apart from then on and not so nice feeling. By the time she got there we were waiting for her outside to get out of there. We got to the hospital about 3:30 and they checked me and I was 7cm and in the worst pain of my life (even worse than Katelyn's labor which I didn't think was possible). I kept asking for the epidural but I had to get an IV run and answer a million questions for the computer. I was in super agony and behaving like one of those mom's on A Baby Story where you go, why are they screaming as if that helps, and no you aren't really going to die lady. I was screaming, cursing, praying, and pretty much hysterical in pain. Now remember I experienced 7 hours of 5 minute or less apart contractions with Katelyn without an epidural and I was in pain but I wasn't screaming at anyone. This was different, I had no control over anything I was saying, feeling, doing. So long story short I finally got the epidural in at 9cm shortly before 4AM. About 2 minutes after the glorious epidural went in, things went far South again. My blood pressue plumited down to 55/29, not good, not good at all. It all the sudden became an episode of Grey;s Anatomy where tons of people appeared in the room and the doctor keep shouting "Push another 10 of epi now!". I was short of breath, about to faint, and so not caring because hey I had that epidural and wasn't feeling those contractions anymore!!! Finally they got me stabilized and I was fully dilated pretty much by this point (an hour and a half after starting this crazy labor). But since the baby was still high and I was still enjoying my epidural, they told me not to worrying about pushing the baby out now, just relax and let him move down. So we did for about 2 hours we just chilled out and then we pushed 4 times and little man had arrived without pain, feeling, or complication at 6:39AM. So last Tuesday my baby size estimate was 6 and a half pounds, maybe even 7lbs. Yeah he was so 8lbs 4 oz (my others were 6lbs 14 oz and 7lbs 1oz born about the same gestation). He was the same length as Austin at 20.5". So I did not have to have an episiotomy like the first two but I managed to receive a 2nd degree re-tear of one of my old ones. So we had to stitch that up. Then a couple of hours later they discovered another 1st degree laceration that had happened at some point too. So I got another dose of meds in my epidural making me numb for another 3 hours and more stitching. So it took me a long time to make it to my postpartum room but now we are here and doing so much better. So thats mommy and Chase's story about how we finally met. I can't wait for everyone to come meet him, he is truly a man that works on his own timetable and he is such a sweet blessing to our now completed family of five!