The Brown Life: Our little man!

I know way late but here we go anyways.....

Introducing

Griffin Oliver Brown

8 lbs. 3 oz.

Our amazing little man decided that he wanted to stay inside of mommy as long as he could. I had different plans for him, he was going to come on his due date, Oct. 20. I had never really gone past my due date, only 6 hours with Torrey and my boys were early, because of induction. I was not group b strep positive with Griff so I did not want to be induced. I wanted him to come naturally and right around his due date. Really I did not want him to come early, I was fairly comfortable and I knew that it would be much harder with him out instead of in and I kind of went into panic mode, what were we thinking. We can't have 4 kids. I know, way to late for that!!! I had been somewhat progressing since 37 weeks and my Dr. kept telling me it could happen any day. Then the due date started to approach and I realized I did not want to go past so maybe I should start walking/running and eating all different types of food that are supposed to put in labor. I had pineapple, spicy food, eggplant parmesan. Nothing....well there was a huge movement inside of me. It hurt, really bad...and I pretty much came to the conclusion that he had just turned. He was head down and now I didn't think he was after that. My due date came and went, which I actually was relieved, only because my Dr. was out of town. I went in for my next Dr. appt. on October 23, I saw Dr. James because Dr. Priebe was still out of town. Dr. James said that at 41 weeks we would schedule an induction and I said, well how about tomorrow. He kind of chuckled and went to go check the schedule. I was in luck Dr. Priebe was on call at Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland. Alright lets do this!!! I was not really nervous just a tad disappointed because I was being induced again! But as I was getting ready that night I received a firm conformation that this was the right thing to do. My little man was ready to come.

On to the labor story....we arrived around 7:30 and started do all the check in stuff and poking me a thousand times because they can never get a vein. But we were all ready to start the pitocin and get going around 10:00am. Everything kept moving along and they were able to break my water around 1:30pm, after that they had to take me of pitocin because I was laboring on my own and the contractions were super hard and close together. I don't know if you have ever labored with pitocin, but it sucks. I delivered my first naturally and the contractions with pitocin hurt so much more. I don't know why. Anyways I got off of it and we were still progressing, but then the back labor kicked in. I had back labor with Colton and it is so painful. Even when the contractions stop your back is still in so much pain. Once that started I decided that I should get an epidural. I was somewhat nervous only because during my last two pregnancies my blood platelet levels drop below 100,000. Which basically means that I am risk for not clotting and some anesthesiologist will not give you an epidural if they drop below 80,000. I think I was right around 90,000. The reason why anesthesiologist don't like to do it is because you are going numb in your legs and if they accidently prick your spinal cord you may not feel that you are going numb permantley, yes I mean paralysation. So needless to say as my anesthesiologist is explaining all of my risks I look at Clint and just start crying. I am so torn, I knew my risks going into labor so it did not come as a surprise and I was just fine delivering Porter. But this time my levels were even lower than before. I don't know why I was so upset, maybe because he was kind of a harsh Dr. or maybe because this was not my plan because I wanted to go in on my own. My contractions were so bad that the pain finally won through and I also knew that I was going to be alright. This was the right way to go! After a little while I felt so much better. Yea!!! No pain only pressure. It was actually a fabulous epidural, Dr. Priebe and the nurses were very happy that I could lift and move my legs on my own, but the harsh pain was gone. Well after a few hours it was time to go....by then I think the epidural wore off because wowza it hurt!!! I would push through the contractions and once they stopped Dr. Priebe would not let me stop, apparently he was transverse and he was in destress and needed to get out. I have had to be on oxygen during each of my deliveries because they have all been this way. I pushed for about 15 straight minutes as they were trying to turn him and finally we were done! It was a good thing it was only 15 minutes because I was so ready to be done!!

All done!!! Medical Center of the Rockies is a baby friendly hospital, that being said, they did not want to bath Griffin for the first 24 hours. They wiped him down and then let me have him. It was actually not that bad, supposedly it is suppose to help mommy and baby bond and something like that!

He nursed about 2 hours after he was born, but then did not want anything to do with it for the first 24 hours. He had tons of fluid in his tummy that he kept spitting up so I am sure that was why!

The family meeting him for the first time. It was snowing so the kids made up a song, "Griffin was born in the snow in the snow!" They kept singing it over and over!! Love them!