Happy Baby Stuff

We are home. I stayed at my mother’s a few days and babymooned and I am home now.
Like Peony mentioned, we had an Election Day baby. The name we picked was Dominic Jose. Dominic after St. Dominic and Jose after St.Joseph and my husband’s grandfather.
He is doing very well, nurses like a trooper and no sign of colic. I am on cloud nine. He is just so tiny and so cute.
The birth went well and was actually kind of funny. On Tuesday (11/2) the doctor came in and broke my water at around 9.30 am. For a couple opf hours we watched ER and Judging Amy on TNT much to my husband’s chagrin while the nurses kept coming in and asking me if I was having contractions. I was having a few mild ones, but the nurse said it was not enough and they might have to put me on pitocin. Yuck. The monitor showed contractions every 7 minutes, so they decided to check me. Thankfully, I was in labor and did not need to go on pitocin. After that they filled up the tub for me which was a relief because I did start to have one or two contractions. Also, the gravity relief was awesome. The only thing was my husband got the remote control and changed Judging Amy to annoying sitcoms. I think I got in the tub around 2, and my husband started watching I think the Steve Harvey Show which I never heard of and remembered that during a couple of nasty contractions wishing badly he would just turn the darn thing off. At about 2.10, they sent their medical school studen t to ask me some questions. I remember his name-Dr. Garrick Tong- and he was just too young and cute and I wanted him to go away. Actually I wanted them all to go away, but it all seemed a bit more humiliating with handsome young doctors around. So like I said it was around 2:15 and the nurse came in and asked how many contractions I had and if I felt any pressure. I said I had like one bad one at the point but no pressure and they were about 3 minutes apart. They were very specific that I could not deliiver in the tub and needed the doctor there when I delivered due to the gestational diabetes. So I told them that psychologically I was feeling with each contraction that I wanted to stop and go home, so that was probably a sign things were moving right along and maybe they should check me. The nurse said “Ok” she will call the doctor and left. The next contraction was a long hard one and in the middle of it changed to a “pushing” contraction. My husband said I screamed to which he asked “is everything alright?”
I said “no, the baby’s head is out”.
I never, ever saw my husband look so anxious as then. He called the nurse in and the nurse started yelling for other nurses. Apparently there was a midwife there who picked me up and said “OK, out of the water” (I was not allowed to deliver in the water due to the GD). I remember thinking first “you gotta be kidding” and then “take one step, then another” I also remember asking if I was going to squish his head by walking. Thed bed was two steps away and I made it to the bed. I reached for the other side of the bed, got one knee up to climb up, and my husband caught the baby.
The maternity ward nicknamed Dominic “Speedy”.

27 comments

  1. Conratulations!
    Most earnestly!
    Though after reading your story I am envious since we are still waiting for our arrival … we feel like we’re in the third period of overtime here!
    I can relate to the TV narrative … our first was born in the hospital and, though it was 10 years ago, I distincly remember that when my wife was being induced and we were waiting for things to start, the movie ‘Smile’ came on the tube … I had heard of the movie and that it was supposed to be pretty good … it is a 1970’s critical parody of a beauty pagaent … I was excited to finally catch this flick but my wife shut it down after the first two minutes which had one of the contestants from the southwest bragging to the media about her guacomole recipe … I guess this was not a good time for her to watch such nonsense! I also guess labor has a way of etching television in your mind!
    Awesome job on the baby … enjoy this period of bliss with a new member of the family.

  2. lol Welcome, Speedy…umm, I mean, Dominic! Great story Pansy! I’m so glad things went so well!

  3. Congratulations, and welcome to young Fredegar! “Dominic Jose” is a fine name, full of promise and certain of top quality patronage.

  12. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
    I still can’t believe you actually did get out of the tub. I would’ve told that nurse a thing or two and stayed put!!! I’m so glad everything went fine

  13. Oh, now, *that* was a really cool birth!!!! Send some o’ dem vibes my way!!!
    Congratulations!!!
    (you do know that all of our comments are complete understatements, right??)
    Sandy

  14. Oh, Pansy, how wonderful that he’s finally here! Congratulations! May his patron saints watch over him and inspire him to holiness.
    Aren’t babies the best? My 3-month-old is busy talking to the aquarium fish right now. 🙂

  15. congrats! a wonderful name! I’m sure Matt will think so too when he gets home tonight 🙂 I’m glad the suspense is finally over.

  17. Many congratulations~!!!!! May little Dominic quickly find his place in the world (and figure out the whole sleeping at night bit while he’s about it, too.)
    God bless you all!

  18. Yay Yay Yay Yay!
    Love the name! (Dominic is Zteen’s confirmation name, and we have quite a devotion to him around here.)
    Lovely, just lovely.

  20. So happy to hear that everything went super well. I am so happy for you all.
    (Isn’t it funny how mildy annoying or even likable TV shows can be so disturbing when you are in labor? We had more than one labor in which I shouted at my husband to “turn that blankety-blank thing off – NOW!) 🙂

  24. Glad all is well Pansy with you and Dominic. May he be an easy and good natured baby and feed well.
    Is the diabetes fiinished now that you are not pregnant

  25. I am pretty sure the diabetes is done. I, um, haven’t been doing finger sticks, so maybe I should not assume. My doctor said at 6 weeks they will do another glucose tolerance test to make sure because of small percentage of women remain diabetic. I have a feeling that these are very obeese women who have numbers above 200-300 and struggle with it a great deal.

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