MITCHELL
JOHNATHAN REED
BIRTH DATE 4/10/03, 8:37 A.M.
Mitchell Johnathan
Reed:
Melanie gave birth
to Mitchell on Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 8:37 a.m. Mitchell
was 6 lbs, 5 ounces and 19 inches in length. The delivery did
not go as planned in that there was no time for any epidural
anesthesia but Melanie did fine. The story of how we ended up
just making it into the Hospital door is that we were at the
Hospital on Wednesday but Melanie was not far enough along so
she was sent home. We went out to dinner, walked around
Costco and and went home. Melanie made it through the night
with some periods of contractions but nothing to made her go
to the Hospital and her water did not break. However, the
Nurses emphasized that Melanie should not come back to the Hospital
until her contractions were 5 minutes a part and she was having
a good deal of contraction pain. Obviously, this advice is for
first timers because it clearly was not the correct advice for
Melanie. Melanie never did have contractions that were
less than 5 minutes apart and her contraction pain was not enough
to make her go to the hospital. Melanie took a shower in
the morning but was having some strong contractions about every
7 minutes. We dropped Marcus off at his school at 7:30
a.m. and arrived at the Hospital at a quarter to eight. Melanie
felt like she had to push as soon as we got into the delivery
room and the Nurses after examining Melanie started racing around
the room and put Melanie on her side to try to stop the urge
to push. The OB Doctor arrived in the next five to ten minutes
and literally ran out of the house and raced to the hospital.
There was a discussion if we should try to wait for the
Anesthesiologist but Melanie made it clear that she had to push.
Dr. Lawton suggested to Melanie that she should have the
baby now and try to push. Unfortunately, Dr. Lawton did
not move out of the way in time and when Melanie gave a strong
push, Melanie's water broke and almost covered Dr. Lawton. Everyone
in the delivery room laughed including Dr. Lawton since she was
the one who told Melanie to push. The room was cleaned
up and Dr. Lawton changed in the next couple of minutes before
Melanie had another urge to push. In about 25 minutes,
with four major pushes, Mitchell was delivered. The labor pain
according to Melanie was not bad except for the last two pushes
before Mitchell was delivered. Mitchell was healthy and
was born with light brown hair. During the first day, Mitchell
continued to nurse well and appeared to be content. Marcus
was introduced to Mitchell after going to a Pizza Party for his
T-ball team. The baby gave Marcus a remote control car
and Marcus seems fine being the big brother after months of talking
about the new baby. Mitchell came home on Saturday and
continued to nurse like a champion. Mitchell even slept
for 5 hours his first night at home.
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