Easton James Verkley - It's a Boy!
We couldn't be more excited to share our baby boy news with you.
After 41+ weeks of pregnancy we looked into induction on October 1st. We talked with an OB doctor at the Ajax hospital and found out that there was no space for us but they would call us if something freed up. So we went home to wait and that night is when labour naturally began at 2am on October 2nd.
Contractions went for about 6 hours at 6 minutes apart and then slowed down to about 20 minutes apart.
We called our midwife Jenni in the morning and she came to provide us with our options now that contractions had begun.
We opted to have a great lunch and explain to Hadley what would be happening that day. Hadley stayed with her grandma Verkley while we headed to the hospital.
It was all very relaxed. We checked in, put our stuff away and then by 2:30pm they broke my water and within minutes of walking around I was having contractions that were three minutes apart.
At 5:30pm I was 6cm dilated and requesting the epidural and by 6:30pm it was administered as 4 hours of 3 minute apart contractions was quite a lot to handle. God bless the epidural!
While the pain was now gone the next four hours had us monitoring decelerations of the heart rate with some of the contractions.
Jenni, our midwife called in some of the nurses for assistance and at 7pm with no other babies being born, both the day staff and the night staff all came in to help.
He was a ladies man right from the beginning.
The craziness that happened: I had an extended contraction that didn't stop. Jenni hooked me up to Oxygen while calling the OB.
Glenis checked my vitals, Robin got the delivery kit ready just incase something had to be done quickly. Lisa got the IV compression kit ready to get fluid into me more quickly than it was already going and another nurse who I can't think of her name right now came in with nonapeptide oxytocin (I am pretty sure that is what it was called). She gave this to Karen who basically waited with it by my tongue to administer as soon as she got over the phone OB orders. This drug relaxed the contraction after only two sprays under my tongue and everything was calm again.
That was scary but all explained very well to me while I was going through it.
At around 8pm I was administered Pitocin at 8cm which brought me to 10cm by about 10pm.
At around 10pm the OB Dr. Eltayeb came in and made the call to get the baby out. Easton was really still too high to do a vacuum assist delivery but that was the only option with no anesthetist currently at the hospital to administer more drugs for a C-section.
At first I delivered Easton's head and arm, then they cut the cord that was wrapped around him and at 10:34pm they placed my beautiful baby boy on me to hug and hold.
He was a little blue but with the excellent care around him, I heard him cry and then all was well.
He had an APGAR score of 9 which is great!
He is absolutely beautiful!
In fact both my children are. To see photos of both of them around the same approximate age check out the two following websites:
ajax.verkley.com/easton
ajax.verkley.com/hadley
I can't thank the midwives, nurses and doctors enough.
Brian was a real trooper too with all the help to get through each contraction. I can't thank him enough!
The details:
Easton James Verkley
Born October 2, 2010
21 inches
9 pounds 7 ounces
The day after he was born Hadley came with her grandma to visit her brother for the first time.
Her comments on the phone went from "I didn't know my sister was going to be a brother", to, "I don't like boys", to "I love my brother" when she finally saw him.
Now at 4 days old he weighs 8 pounds 15 ounces.
Only some of the 0-3 month gender neutral clothes from Hadley fit him, but I am loving that I get to embrace the blue!
Comments
Dr. Eltayeb was amazing with Theresa post-natal, and we can't say enough good things about midwifery. We spread the word whenever possible. :)
Brian, yes, both Dr. Eltayeb and midwifery couldn't be spoken highly enough in our eyes also.