Ryder Boyd

We were induced on August 31st, 2015! Daniel and I arrived at the hospital at 5:00am. I don't know about him but I did not sleep at all! I kept waking up to look at the clock to see if it was time to go meet our sweet boy yet. What a strange feeling! We started the admitting process right away, they got me all hooked up and that was followed by torturous blood work. That was by far the worst part of the day. For both pain and it made me super queasy after having 2 veins blown and seeing blood everywhere! The nurse, Sarah, who was absolutely wonderful, started pitocin at 6:45. The doctor was there to give the epidural at 7:00 and followed up by breaking my waters at 715. I was only dilated to a 2 and 70% effaced when he broke my waters. We were checked again at 9:00 and had progressed to a 4. Mimi got there about this time. We spent the morning trying to rest, Daniel tried to read a book but every time he opened it there was some kind up distraction. It was pretty difficult to get comfortable as Ryder preferred me to lay on my left side so my left leg felt like it weighed 1,000,000 pounds because the epidural goes with gravity. By 10:30 we had progressed to an 8. I asked the nurse how long it usually takes to get from an 8 to a 10 (because I'm so patient). She said she's seen it take minutes to hours. It took a few hours to make it from an 8 to a 10 with Rowdy so I didn't have my hopes up. She walked out of the room and all of a sudden i felt really intense pressure. It scared me to go from feeling absolutely nothing all morning to feeling like my bottom was about to explode. Cue the major melt down and awful labor shakes. Nana & Papa walked in at this time. The nurse came right back in the room to check me and we were ready to go! I pushed three times, and Ryder was here at 11:05am. He weighed 7 lbs 0.5 oz and was 20in long! The whole labor and delivery was so calm and I felt very relaxed. Just look at this PERFECT sweet boy!