 Dexter Bodhi Tay, born September 23, 2009 |
As previously mentioned, Sara had her OB appointment on Tuesday and her doctor said Sara was ready to pop. After experiencing the 5-1-1 contractions that night, we went to the hospital at 1am. Nothing was really happening so they asked us walk around for an hour to stimulate dilation. btw, I think it's completely sadistic to have us walk around for a full hour at 2 in the morning - *I* was tired, nevermind Sara in her very preggo state. It didn't help that the hospital was very busy and did not have any open delivery rooms - we ended up sleeping in the uncomfortable triage room until a room freed up at about 6am.
We moved to the delivery room and again waited for stuff to start...and waited...and waited. Nothing was happening, Sara was not dilating any further nor experiencing stronger or more frequent contractions. Sara's OB arrived at 9am, surprised that she had not been paged earlier. She examined Sara and it turned out Sara had regressed overnight! The OB decided that since we're at the hospital, we may as well deliver - she's pretty laid back about things like that :) She broke Sara's water and then let things run their course. Sara started to feel stronger and much more painful contractions... until she got Epidural, after which she felt nothing except happiness. :)
The nurse came examined Sara a few more times through the day, and at 4pm expected that we'd deliver "around dinner time". I went to the cafeteria to grab some food since I figured we had a couple hours, but 15 minutes later I got a call from Sara: "Get up here! I've dilated to 9.5cm and am about to give birth!" I quickly rushed back to the room to see the nurse prepping for delivery. Everything was thankfully uncomplicated and unexciting compared to Cam's birth; it was all very calm and orderly with only Sara's OB and a nurse present. The pushing stage was pretty easy -I know, I know, easy for the father to say. Before you flame me, just know that I'm comparing this to Cam's birth- and after a few mighty pushes from Sara, Dex entered the world at 5:10pm on Wednesday September 23, 2009. It was absolutely incredible to witness the birth of our baby boy.
As soon as Dex came out, I thought he looked way bigger than Cam and when they lay Dex on Sara, she felt that he was much heavier than Cam. We were right on, as Dex weighed in at a very hefty 8lbs 3oz, almost a full pound heavier than Cam's birth weight of 7lbs 8oz. I still can't believe Sara gave birth to an 8 pounder!! I also think that Dex is cuter than Cam was as a newborn, most likely due to the fact that Dex spent way less time in the birth canal and so didn't come out all messed up like Cam.
That's it for now, I need to get some sleep. I'll blog more later, in the meantime enjoy the pictures I've posted!