PARENTHOOD THE SAGA: Welcome to the world baby Bobby V

After 29 hours of labor, with an induced delivery with pitocin my baby boy made it safe and sound to this world!!

10:30 AM .March 7th 2017

I was so relaxed, just had breakfast when suddenly my phone rings and I ran to answer and; SURPRISE!! A message from my OB doctor saying that I had to go to the hospital immediately because they had to induce me to deliver Bobby. The reason because my test for choletasis positive, and all that rash and itchiness was a sign for it. So the best thing for me and my baby boy was to go the hospital and get him out before both of us were in a big risk.

i was shocked, confused, scared, happy, anxious and a lot of mixed feeling. Of course it wasn't how we planned. I wanted to have the perfect birth. Put in practice all the exercises from the Lamaze birth child classes. I wanted my mom to be with me in the hospital. She was 2 days away from her flight.

I had a whole list of things of all I wanted to do during my contractions, my spotify playlist, my suitcase wasn't even ready. So I thought well I'll take my time. They're going to induce me anyway so I took it easy and I tried this remedy my mom told me about in order to accelerate the contractions and dilation.

Basically you put in a pot to boil clove and lemon leaves, you drink a cup of it and take a shower with the rest of that water and in fact it worked because by the time I arrived to the hospital I was 3 cm dilated (Oh yeah).

11;30 AM

Running around the house like crazy! Getting the bags ready for me, baby and husband, extra pillows, extra blankets, snacks, water, drinks, ipad, chargers, books, makeup, etc.

1:30 PM

Calling everyone, family and writing last post on this blog.

2:30pm

Driving around getting taco bell for hubby (He was so nervous and junk food makes feel better he says)

3:00pm ish

Going to the admission at St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank, the put me in a wheel chair and I'm like "Wait a second, I can walk" but it was a policy from the hospital so well let's ride this wheel chair.

3:30 PM

Getting the fancy hospital gown and trying to reach the doctor so he could explain what's was going on and of course we wanted to know more about the drugs they were using on me.

4:30PM

Yummy hospital food, the last food I tasted without knowing I would be on ice chips and water only for the next 2 days.

6;00pm till 3;30pm the next day

They put IV and Pitocin

An induction with Pitocin means your doctor or midwife will induce your labor using a medicine called Pitocin, which is a synthetic version of oxytocin. Oxytocin is the hormone that your body naturally produces to induce contractions, as well as serving as the famous "love" hormone. This drug make contractions more intense, stronger, longer and close one to the other.

I really don't wish this to anyone, the contractions were violent!!!!!!!!

Painful and stronger that normal, of course you can expect something like this since it's not natural. I was trying to focus on some other stuffs I didn't sleep for 2 days in a row, I was in so much so we asked the nurses of they unplugged the machines for a while and let me take a hot shower so I was in the shower for 30 min and let me tell you; the natural contractions were much much but much easy and less painful comparing to the ones with the drugs,

I can't really describe that pain but it feel like every single bone in your body is breaking, it feel like burning inside, like something stabbing you from inside, it's hard to breath, to talk, to think, to do anything.

Yes, I tried breathing techniques, music, dancing salsa, cumbia, twerking, massages, phone calls, swearing, laughuing and NO!!! Nothing helped me. The pain was to intense and the contractions to close one to another. I gave and asked for an EPIDURAL!!!

I DID IT, AND I DON'T REGRET IT!! I ASKED FOR AN EPIDURAL

Yeah sure, I wanted the most natural birth and most relaxed environment but sometimes life gives you challenges and you gotta take them.

Even thought knowing the risks of having an epidural and the sides effects, I thought it was the best for me, without it, I never ever couldn't handle it.

I can remember, how I felt the pinch on my back but that doesn't compare with the pain of the contractions. I felt some liquid running in my veins inside my back and in 5 minutes the pain went away, I still was able to move my legs and I tried to take a nap but I couldn't I was so anxious to hold my baby boy.

I started to feel some mild contractions.

10;00 PM March 8th 2017

I have to be graphic to describe this but I feel like I wanted to poop and we called the nurse, and she came and checked on me and in fact the baby's head was coming out!! She even asked me if I wanted to feel his head and I touched him and it made me soooo excited I just wanted to keep pushing to hold my Bobby V.

In the next 10 minutes my doctors and their staff came in and the party started!! I remember my husband's face when all sudden (10:47pm) I hear my baby crying and right away they put him on my chest and made skin to skin contact. I was crying of happiness, When I saw that beautiful 9 lbs baby, my heart explode and I fell in love with this little rascal, immediately!!

It's the most sublime feeling, the love in pure essence, nothing in the world makes me so happy but him. I still can't believe I made such a beautiful little human. I am blessed and lucky to have him. Despite all the complications we had during pregnancy and labor and delivery nothing compares to this great love I feel for him. My sunshine, my heart, my angel, my life!!!

Welcome to the world baby Robert Joseph Scheib V!!!