Grayson Matthew Dawdy

Grayson Matthew

December 19, 2009 1:37pm

Wow he is finally here. I still can hardly believe it. It seems like he has been with us forever when really it has only been a few weeks.

Of coarse I made it to my induction date, I told you I would.

9am: We got to the hospital and the first thing that the nurse did was check me. I was dilated to a five. Her eyes got real big and she looked at me and ask me why was I not in Labor? Like I know. I had tried everything to go into labor.

They hooked me up to an IV and Pitocin and she told me to let me know when I wanted my Epi, I said how 'bout now. She said lets wait a minute to see if things are rolling along. Fine. *PS I had this young little student nurse following my nurse...hold onto your seat for more stories about her.

10am: I am most definitely ready for my Epidural. Call the nurse tell her I am ready. She can see I am in pain and goes to call the Anestheiologist. Comes back, "I forgot that is is Saturday, he is not here but on his way he lives like 10 minutes away." GREAT!

10:30am: I am dying, where is that blasted man? Don't shower, don't stop for a soda, don't even kiss your wife just get here!!

11am: Finally Mr. Wonderful announces himself at my door and kick everyone out. He knows I know I need this drug but does he have to be so rude and have such an ego, just because I would give him anything for the drug he has on his little cart does not give him the right to be so rude.

11:15am Epidural in, Daddy almost out. For some reason after the doc gave me the drugs Aaron decided to almost pass out on me. He got to a chair and got the blood running again and we were fine. *Little miss student nurse is commenting on everything the doctor is doing. After ward telling me "That looked really painful, did it hurt? You are so tough. I forgot how hard child brith could be." Shut Up! Do not get on my bad side, I have never yelled at anyone during my labor but I really want to smack this girl in the face.

12:30pm I am really feeling the need to push. I call my nurse to ask her if she will come check me. Evidently it was a good time to go on Lunch break because that is exactly what she did. Another nurse came in to check me. You know those times that you need to act cool under pressure, not letting on that something bad could happen, but you try to stay cool so you don't freak anyone out. This nurse was having one of those times. She checks me and says "OH! well, you are at a nine and we will get your room ready. I know for a fact that I was not a nine,I was probably an 11, because after she left there were lots of people in my room running around getting stuff ready. Then this fill in nurse says, "we will call your midwife and see where she is. We are turning off your pitocin, oh and by the way, DO NOT PUSH!"

I am thinking my midwife is not even here, and don't push, this lady is crazy! Soon my real nurse came in with her "shadow". Nurse says, " you wait until I go on break to start the fun." Yep I planned it lady. Miss thing behind her says to me "you look really good for being in labor"...again, Shut up! Nurse says to me my midwife is on the way. She is on the freeway at 106th south. Don't push.

1:30pm Midwife arrives, finally. Everything is set Midwife says to go ahead when I am ready Two pushes later I have my little guy on my tummy he is not crying, and he looks disgusting. Nurse takes him. I can hear her telling Aaron that he is not breathing right and that they need to take him to the nursery. And with that my baby is gone.

Everyone is cleaning the room up, Aaron left with Grayson, my mom is there with me. I look at her and think, what the hell just happened here? I know I just gave birth to a baby but where is he? It was a very weird feeling to be sitting in the bed, the place where my baby should be is empty and in comes the student nurse with a tray of food asking me if i am hungry, yes I am but I would really like my baby. She tells me how good I did and that she does not know if she wants to go through with that herself....Shut up!

I later learn that Grayson had a hard time "transitioning" and that he had a lot of fluid in his lungs that needed to be sucked out. 2 hours later I had him in my arms and the world was right again.

We are so glad to have him in our family. Now we are complete. He has a brother that just adores him and calls him Mr. Cute Stuff, a sister that will not let you call him anything but BABY Grayson, and a mom and dad that would give the world to him.

Welcome Home Grayson!

Special thanks to my friend Erin Wood for taking such amazing pictures of my little guy.