Bronson has arrived

On my last blog entry i said that Monica maybe going into labor...well she was. AT abouth 10:45pm we left to go to the hospital..around 11:30pm she was finally sent to the room to be monitored. she was still only dilated 1-2 cm. They called linda to see what she wanted Monica to do and Linda said "walk for 1hr and be rechecked. That didn't work too well because her contractions were so close together (3-4mins apart) and they were pretty hard. So they gave her til 1am and examined her again. She was still just dilated 1-2 but her contractions were still close together and hard so they called Linda again and she said to admitted her. so she was admitted at 1am and put in a labor and delivery room. She was checked again at 4am and dilated to 4cm.. Around 5am she decided that she needed an epidural (which she did not want to get but come to find out was probable an intervention from God). After the epidural she wasn't checked again until 6am..she was dilated 6cm. The nurse estimated that it would take her until around 9am to dilate to 10cm.but they came in at 8:30 and checked her and she was dilated to 10 and ready to push so the nurses prepped Monica and Linda went to put on her scrubs. From that time it took 40 minutes for Bronson to arrive..just before his arrival, Linda said he was having a hard time moving under her pubic bone and was trying to help his head to go under it (here is the intervention from God). In the process of her trying to help his head under Monica's pubic bone Linda noticed that Bronson's umbilical cord was wrapped around Bronson's neck. Every time monica would have a contraction Bronson heart rate and oxygen level would drop. They gave Monica oxygen but that didn't help. Linda said "i'm gonna have to cut her" we said "do what you have to do" we could also overhear the nurses trying to get a doctor paged because they thought he would be born lifeless (Monica was oblivious to all of this but me and my sister were listening to everything) so linda gave her a pretty good size Episiotomy.. I truley believe that if she did not get the epidural that she would have had to have and emergency c-section to save Bronson, but because she was numb linda just made him a way out (thanks linda to your good work). Bronson Eli was born at 9:10 am weighing 7 lbs 14 ozs and was 21 in. long. Both Monica and Bronson are doing wonderful. He is so alert and has taken to the breastfeeding very well... I will get some pictures posted but I haven't had time to upload them yet...(still trying to recover from being up almost 40hrs with no sleep)