Thursday, April 10, 2008

Play by Play

While we were waiting for Kaden's arrival Joel had time to blog what was happening...
Unfortunately the delivery room had poor wireless connection. Can you believe that?
Technology fails us! 

So here is the play by play the morning after!Writing at 11:10 p.m.


8:30pm

Lisa and I got to the hospital @ 7 p.m.  on Thursday April 9th, 2008

They took us to an exam room right away and then hooked Lisa up 

to a bunch of wires to check Kaden and Mommy's heart rates.


By 8 p.m. the doctor told us Lisa was 5cm dilated and moved us to a birthing room.

That's when we started making the calls and texting to everyone.


It's 9:30pm

Mommy is a trooper and taking on the contractions like it is no bodies business.

Taking into consideration all of the previous mommies advice Lisa decided to 

take the epidural  around 9. 


From here it has been smooth sailing... (so our friend Annette says!)


10:20pm

The nurse checked again at 10ish and Lisa

is pretty much fully dilated.  It's Go Time!


11:00pm

The nurses have been running around setting up the room 

to welcome baby Kaden.  Doctor Orsini suggested we break 

the Lisa's water to help the process along.


11:30pm

So the doctor took this (well I won't go into detail...) Let's 

just say mommy's water is now broken and we wait...



It's now 11:54 p.m 

...it doesn't look like

Kaden will be coming on the 9th.

Lisa is sleeping and building up energy for

the birth...  She's had the shakes for the last hour, but 

the nurse just put an oxygen  mask on her and it seems

to have settled. 


It is amazing watching Lisa through this process. She is so happy 

and has not complained at all.  As an expecting dad I wish I could do 

more, but really I wouldn't want to be the one giving birth right now.


11:58 p.m.

Again we wait. 


12:00 a.m.

No baby... !!!


12:05 a.m.

 It seems like eternity!!!


12:15 a.m.

LISA Puked!

good thing she didn't eat a lot before we came...


12:20 a.m.

Doctors decide they should get started...


12:50 a.m.

Ahhh!!!! IT's Time!

.....We're gonna START this thing!




3 comments:

Jessica said...

Yay for play by play! :) Way to go Lisa!!! It's such a surreal experience, huh? Treasure it! Can't wait to meet Kaden . . . Love ya!

Lisa said...

haha felt like I was there! lisa makes it as if everyone was lying about the whole birth experience! hahaha

-Lisa N

carol said...

Congrats to the proud parents of Kaden! What a blessing. Lisa I am so happy for you both. Cherish every moment it all goes by so quickly.
Carol