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To: Intrepid1 who wrote (3274)	8/12/1999 2:39:00 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (11) \| Respond to of 63513

Babywatch 99 - The Details Presented unedited and as dry as possible.... Jackson Thomas was born at 9:24pm, August 10, 1999. Weight - 8lbs 4ozs, Length 21.5", Hair Reddish Blonde Lisa's water broke at 1:36am. We were out of the house about 45 minutes later. Not rushed as we had bags packed by the door. Got to the hospital and it was determined that, though she had some contractions....no labor. By 7:00am, the doctor ordered Pitocyn (spelling). This, as suggested earlier on the thread, is because once the water breaks, they want the baby out within 24 hours. Lisa was going to see if she could do this without pain killers/epidural etc. Lisa dilated up to about 4cm before the pain become unbearable. I did take a beating, but nothing compared to the beating she was taking. Her contractions were registering 145 on the little machine that goes "bing". Let me tell you, Lisa is a tough chick and can take far more pain than I would ever dream of. She called for the epidural and the hospital staff did not wait for our Doctor to get there before administering it (which would be normal procedure). Epidurals are a cool thing if you are a woman in labor and you need to catch some sleep. Of course, if you are an expectant father with a type "A" personality it would not offer any opportunity to add to the 1.5 hours of sleep that you would have had in the past 36 hours. Another thing is that all of those really cool birthing classes become a moot point as the only "coaching" that I was doing was to not disturb her sleep. They upped the pitocyn. Lisa dilated up to 8cm and the contractions started getting significant enough that we needed those birthing class breathing techniques again. And then.....Lisa goes into an 8 minute contraction. Jackson's heart rate dropped to 75 (below 100 rings red alert) and the fire drill started. They moved all of the furniture out of the room, put an oxygen mask on Lisa, changed her position a bunch of times, all trying to relieve the stress on the baby. Nothing worked. Kill the pitocyn, add drug that stops contractions. Jackson's heart resumes normal rate. Jorj X. McKie spends the next hour calming Lisa down and convincing her (with the help of the professionals) that the baby is all right. After about 1 hour they start the pitocyn at the lowest level and slowly start dialing up the dosage. Doctor comes back around 8:00pm. The baby's heart rate is still reacting adversely to each contraction (much more normal contractions at this point). And the baby's heart rate never fell below 110 in this phase. Lisa however is in pretty extreme pain again and has started to shake uncontrollably. This is with a pretty strong epidural in place too. Doctor examines Lisa, she is back down to less than 7cm. Doctor says "time to throw the towel in". Ceasarian prep starts up and Lisa is relieved. She was ready to throw the towel in an hour earlier, but was just waiting for the Doctor to get there to confirm. She has absolutely no regrets that we delivered Ceasarian and neither do I (it was pretty cool to watch). Turns out that Jackson was face up and had his cord wrapped around his neck very tightly. Natural childbirth was pretty much out of the question from the start, we just didn't know it. Lisa needed to have painkillers administered during the procedure as her shaking was making the procedure very difficult. She was mildly aware at the time of birth, but rapidly retreating. By the time that we were done weighing and measuring the boy, she was sawing some serious logs. I had to run interference with the family that wanted to see Lisa. Easiest way was to pose for a bunch of incredibly touching photos through the nursery glass. Spent the night in the room with Lisa (good those convertible chairbeds are uncomfortable) and managed to get some sleep in between feedings. We have opted to have Jackson spend the night in the nursery until he needs feeding, at which time they bring him to the room. The Doctor sent me home to get some rest as I will be Lisa's personal slave while she recovers, after she gets home from the hospital. Jackson Thomas is totally cool and he stops crying when he hears my voice and looks in my direction. I changed his diapers 10 times today, this is up from 0 diapers changed in the past 36 years. Going back in the morning.... Tom:-) P.S. I will point out that I added another lump of carbon to Lisa's rock collection.