Wyatt was born at 10:03 am on Friday. He was 6 lbs 12.3 oz (3071 grams) and 19 inches long. His older brother Ethan was 6 lbs 11.7 oz (3054 grams) and 19 inches long. I had the same delivery room, room 509.
My check up with doctor was on Thursday 7/9. Doctor said I was almost 4 cm dilate and 80% thin. I told her that my husband thinks baby will born on the same day as his older brother which is the next day 7/10. She said if we want to, she can schedule me to deliver tomorrow. So we did. She scheduled us to go in at 5 am.
This time it wasn't as easy as the first time. I started to count contractions at 12 midnight (since I couldn't sleep...too excited). They were about 3-4 minutes apart. We checked in at the hospital around 1:40 am or so. My water didn't break so it took a long time. I thought doctor would break my water so I would dilate faster. I was 8 cm and I wanted to push. Nurse kept telling me to wait til 10 cm but I couldn't. When you want to push, it's hard to stop because when you have contraction, it helps to release pressure by pushing. I think I pushed 2nd time or something and water broke (gush out) so nurse finally called my doctor. She told me not to push but I couldn't help it. Eric said I pushed 2 times and baby came out. So, I delivered my baby without doctor there. My doctor came after few minutes to stitch me up because I had 2nd degree tear (like last time). This time local anesthetic didn't help much. I could feel the pain when doctor tried to stitch me.
Afterwards I felt ok and nurse helped me to stand up and go to restroom. I didn't feel dizzy the first time. The 2nd and 3rd time I went to restroom by myself, I thought I was gonna pass out. My head was spinning like crazy and I had cold sweat. I felt awful. I felt dizzy because a lot of blood and blood clots came out at once. So I told the nurse and they tried to find out why I bled so much. She kept pressing on my tummy and blood and blood clots came out. It really hurts when she did that. They gave me a shot on my thigh to stop the bleeding but I still bled more than normal. My doctor came after she's done with her patients at the clinic. She told nurse to push me to operating room so she could examine me closely. I had anesthetic through the spine. I was out of operating room about 40 min or so. Doctor told Eric that I ruptured a vein on the top left of my vagina which required 2 stitches. After she stitched me up, my bleeding was at normal rate.
We left the hospital the next day because we missed Ethan and hospital bed is not comfortable. Every time when he woke up, he would look for us and felt sad that he didn't see us.
Ethan was happy to see us and his little brother Wyatt. He kept saying baby, baby.
Hospital food wasn't good this time...disappointed. I was looking forward for the food and French toast.
Wyatt loves to drink milk, so we don't think he'll have jaundice.
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