Crosley Bartlette Evans

After a very long, scary, and painful couple days our little miracle has finally made it into the world. God was watching closely over him! I went into labor (on my own!) on tuesday morning at 5:30 am. I labored all day and night (making little progress) and ended up going to the hospital on wednesday morning around 6 AM. The contractions weren't quite close enough to officially go, but my doctor said just go and we will help you along. As soon as we got settled in they went to start my IV and during them putting that in the babies heart rate dropped then for the first time. I saw it go as low as 50. They immediately put me on oxygen, broke my water, and turned me on my left side. They couldn't find the heart beat for a little while. SCARY! When they got the internal monitor hooked up the heart rate had come back up so they continued with the plan. IV, epidural, then pitocin. They put in the epidural and after that I felt nothing! It was a welcome relief after having contractions anywhere from 6 minutes to 30 minutes apart for 24 hours. After they put in the epidural they started the pitocin and the contractions were coming pretty regularly. I had the pitocin running for several hours and the baby kept having episodes where it's heart rate would drop after a contraction (late deccelerations). They were watching it and after several hours and it happening more frequently they decided to turn off the pitocin. (about 6 PM) After the pitocin was turned off I was still having contractions and it was still happening. The doctor called in a OB specialist, he decided to try an amnio infusion (put more fluid in the uterus) They started that and not long afterwards the babies heart rate dropped (as low as 25! but was hanging out about 65) they couldn't get the rate back up, so at that point they decided no choice but to get the baby out NOW! I'm not sure if my epidural wasn't working or if they had another reason but they had to give me general anesthesia which knocked me out. Because of that Chad wasn't able to be in with me either. So neither one of us was able to see the birth! They told us later that when they finally did open me up Crosley had the cord wrapped around his neck, body, and arms. They said they couldn't even pull him out they had to unwrap him slowly. We are so thankful that God kept him safe during this time. This could have been a devistating experience, but God saw us through and saved our little boy. We have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!!! Today Crosley had some blood work done and found out that he has jaundice so he is spending the night under lights. We should be going home tomorrow about noon. We're excited to start our new life with the little one! Chad had to go home and make some changes at the house since I did have to have the C section. I'm healing really well, able to get up and walk around with little pain. I sat up on the couch most of the day today and spent the majority of the day out of bed. It felt good! I have been taking meds to help with the pain. And so far it's been very bearable. Breast feeding is going well, after some trouble the first day and a half. We definately need to work on it some more, but it's going much better.

I'll keep you all updated as much as I can!