Corbin's Birth Story

My due date with Corbin was October 16. My Dr had scheduled me for an induction (if I wanted) for October 15. Honestly, I didn't think I would go to my due date because I had always heard that the second baby comes faster and sooner than the first. Colton was 12 days early and my labor + delivery was about 3 hours. With Corbin, I started having contractions at 33 weeks, so I really thought he was going to be early. Since 33 weeks is pretty early, I had a list of things to do from the nurses on how to stop contractions, but obviously if none of the things worked, then to go to the hospital and they would try to stop them. So from 33-36 weeks, I had contractions weekly. Not Braxton Hicks...full on contractions. Of course once I got to 37 weeks, they stopped completely. So we waited...and waited. I felt like a ticking time bomb.

Well the Wednesday before my induction date, I went to my last dr appt. I was 70% effaced and dilated to about a 3 1/2. My dr was out of town, so I saw the nurse practitioner. She said she really wouldn't be surprised if I went into labor over the weekend and I wouldn't be induced on Monday. But since Colton came SO fast, I had more questions about being induced and the whole process.

Saturday (October 13), I felt perfectly fine. That evening, I picked up Colton's toys in the living room and we went to bed. About 4:30 am, I woke up, thinking that I needed to go to the restroom. I did and once I was finished, I realized my water was leaking. It was exactly what I felt with Colton. Then I felt a tiny pop and a little gush. I went to the bedroom and told Adam my water was in the process of breaking. I knew it hadn't fully broken yet because with Colton, it full on broke and what I had experienced wasn't quite like that. So, Adam got up, we both got dressed and I called my mom so they could come over and stay there with Colton until he woke up. We put my bags in the car and waited for them to get there. By the time they got to our house, about 5 am, I was having contractions about 5 min apart. They weren't absolutely horrible, but I wasn't comfortable either. The hospital is about 7 minutes away and by the time we got in the car and on our way, they were closer to 3 minutes. We get to the hospital, get checked in and once I got to triage and was checked, I was dilated to a 4 1/2. By how badly my contractions were hurting, I thought I would be further than that.

I was moved to the delivery room, got dressed, answered some questions, assured them I DID want an epidural and fast! At one point, I told them that my first baby came really quick, so once they heard that, they kind of stepped things up a bit. I was checked again and was at a 7. Still didn't have the epidural. OUCH! Once the lady got there with the epidural, I got in position and she gave me all the risk statistics, numbed me and stuck in the epidural. Once she was done, my whole mouth went numb, then my face, then my ears started ringing. The epidural had gone the wrong way. At this point, I felt like I needed to push. So after for sure knowing that the epidural didn't work, she got ready to give me another one and the nurse said she felt like she needed to check me again. At this point I was at a 9...in a ton of pain and thinking I was going to do this without an epidural. I got into position again, she numbed my back again and did the epidural AGAIN. This time, it worked!!! They called the Dr on call in, he asked me to do a practice push and said I was ready. He went and got a cup of coffee while I pushed. The nurses are amazing and pretty much do all the work...the drs come in and catch the baby :) So I looked at the clock when I I started to push because I wanted to know how long I was going to do this. It was 7:40 am...

Well the epidural worked pretty good and I couldn't exactly feel how I was pushing. Once I got the hang of it, she kept saying she could see him and he was making his way down. At one point she said he didn't have much hair...then a little while later, she said he had a lot of hair. About 8:15, she told me to push again then said wait wait wait...she called the dr to come in. I pushed a couple more times and he was here at 8:22 am. At first, I thought he looked SO much like Colton. They weighed him and he was 8 pounds 13.4 oz and 20 inches long. And man did he have some lungs on him!! Yes, he has a ton of hair too!! After almost 4 hours of labor and delivery, we had we welcomed our second little boy. I was now a mother of 2, Adam was a father of 2 and Colton was a big brother.

Adam and I held him for a little bit, then he went to get Colton in the waiting room. When he walked in with him, I got a little teary eyed and he crawled up in my lap and told me he loved me. It was SOOO sweet!! We introduced him to his baby brother, but I think he was a little weirded out by the machines and everything. Then my family came in to meet Corbin. Colton seemed to warm up more and touched Corbin and kissed his head.

On October 14, 2012 at 8:22 am, we became a family of 4. I am now the only female in this house, but I have a wonderful husband and 2 perfect sons and I could not be happier!!