Labor and baby

   Mike here! Day 5 of the babies life is here! It has been a crazy week! So, Kim went in to labor originally on Wednesday night of last week (Halloween night) . Then, after a quick trip to the birth center, we were told that she was only 1cm dilated, and we were sent home. She stayed on and off between active labor and early labor from Wednesday night until Friday night/Saturday morning. Needless to say she (and I) did not sleep much those nights.

    On Saturday morning, we went back to the birth center. After 10 painful hours of laboring, Kim's water finally broke. She labored for 6 more hours that night, with 2-3 minute long contractions, and 1 and 1/2 minutes between each. After all this, she was still at 6 cm, which is where she was before her water broke. She was given saline, and sent to the hospital. She found out she was in back labor, and was finally, after 3 full days of pain, given an epidural and ptosin. As the day progressed, so did her labor. Then, around 2:30pm the time came to push. With the pushing, I noticed the babies heartrate decrease each time she pushed really hard. The nurse noticed it too, but the doctor didn't worry about it. Then, things began to go wrong. The baby was trying to come out, but getting stuck. His heartrate started to drop, and Kim started bleeding profusely. I started to feel quite dizzy, knowing that this was not normal. The nurse called the doctor, and within 10 minutes the room was a surgery room, with at least 6 people other then us in the room. She was told that she had to push now, and there was no time to go to the O.R. She pushed, and the babies heartrate started to drop drastically and disappear at times. I almost passed out at this point. The doctor used a forceps, and it did not help. Then, he used a vacuum to suck peanut's head, and the forceps again. Finally the baby came out, and everyone was happy to hear a vigorous cry after his lungs were cleared. It was a boy! Kim was too tired and weak to celebrate. She had to get patched up as I went with the baby. She had a 3rd degree tear, and needed 2 blood transfusions. The problems came from the baby being turned sideways, and a problem with the placenta. I went with the baby... he weighed 6 lbs, 12 oz, and was 20 inches long. He had quite the conehead from the pulling and sucking! However, he was ok.

   When I got back to the room, Kim was VERY PALE. Her blood pressure was 80/46. After a few long days in the hospital, they both recovered as well as possible, and we went home. The baby, who's name is Logan Samuel Johnson, is wonderful. Kim has been awake and feeding every two hours, and I am loving being a father. We were blessed with so much prayer, and the fact that I am not a widow and my baby didn't die is a miracle of God! Now, we have a son, and we plan on taking good care of him! More to come later!