Addison Noka Kaman

Addison Noka Kaman is HERE! She was born on May 6, 2010 at 6:21pm weighing 9lbs 4oz and was 21 inches long. Talk about a chunker. Now everyone knows why I was so desperate to get her out of me! So here is the story:
On May 4th we made a visit to the hospital becuase I thought I was in labor. I was having severe back pain and contractions were 2 minutes apart. We went to labor and delivery and they observed me for a few hours and sent me home because the contractions were taking me nowhere. They said the kind of contractions I was having could last up from a day or weeks. I was not happy to hear this. The next day I slept until 4:30pm because they had given me a sleep aide and it definitely worked. I got up that day and ate dinner and was still feeling miserable so I went back to bed.

Around 1:30AM on May 6 I woke up feeling like I had to use the bathroom and so I went there but nothing was happening. Around 2:15 the pain increased and I just knew that the pain were contractions. I was having back labor. Let me tell you that back labor is AWFUL. Mine was especially awful because I had either one on top of the other or nothing. Around 5AM they were just becoming awful so we headed into the hospital.

I got there and they observed me for a bit and said that I was not in full, active labor yet. However, they weren't going to send me home either because I was in a TON of pain. They got me the epidural as soon as they could in hopes of easing some of my pain. However, the epidural ended up almost being a disaster because when it finally kicked in I HATED it. I couldn't feel anything or control the bottom half of my body. I hated the feeling of not being able to control my body so much that I finally asked them to turn the epidural off. They thought I was crazy but I would have rather had the pain instead of not being able to control myself. So they turned it off and while it was wearing off the midwife had decided that I needed pitocin to really get things going since it had taken me over 5 hours to go 1 cm. Well when the pitocin finally kicked in the epidural had worn off and my contractions were coming one on top of the other. They were non stop and there was NO relief. I was miserable. I made the anesthesiologist come back in and turn the epidural back on but not administer the usual 3 big doses to get things numb as quick as possible. This worked just fine because the epidural kicked in and the pain was eased and I could still know when I was having a contraction and mostly maintain control over my body which was what I wanted.

We did have one scare during all the epidural and pitocin dilemmas. The midwife came rushing in at one point and said that the baby was having an irregular heartbeat and that she needed to break my water and put internal monitors on the baby's head as quickly as possible to see if I needed an emergency c-section. It turned out to be nothing and was actually a good thing because I went from 6cm to 8cm in less than 2 minutes!
When I finally felt ready to push I told Ralph that he needed to get the nurse to get the midwife quickly. Well the midwife was in another delivery and I had to wait a few minutes for her to get to my room. When she finally got there and checked me she said, "Oh. Hello. You're right there." Refering to the baby and the fact that she was coming out whether I wanted her to or not. So I began pushing and I pushed and pushed and pushed and I felt things pop and tear as she came sliding out and it was awful. Her head was so hard to get out. I was exhausted but after an hour of pushing she finally came out.

They put her on my chest and I was so exhausted and overwhelmed. I kind of was out of it at that point and it didn't really hit me that the baby laying on my chest screaming had just come out of me and was mine. She was though and I felt extremely happy even though no one could tell.
After she came out I had a lot of repair to get done. She tore almost everything on her way out. I'm talking about internally and not externally. I did not have an episiotomy and I have no stitches on the outside.

As for this experience, I have come to the conclusion that no one in their right mind would actually do something that crazy so therefore it didn't happen. So my next question is, "When is the next one coming?!" Lol...JOKING. Below are some pictures for you all to see.
Addison Noka Kaman. She looks like me from the tip of her nose to the bottom of her chin and the bridge of her nose up is Ralph.
Ralph giving me a helping hand while I was pushing.

Ralph Waiting for Addison to arrive...or at least make some progress in that direction.