Kaleb Maddox Lane

Kaleb is here! He was born on November 14th via c-section (rough day and long story) at 11:33 pm weighing 8 lbs 4 1/2 oz and 19 3/4 in. I went to the hospital Wednesday morning to be induced because I was a week overdue. I was given a pill to put under my tongue to start contractions and the nurses warned me that it might not work. Well it worked that day and they kept me overnight, but the next morning when I woke up my contractions had stopped. I was given another dose and nothing happened so I went home. Later that night I started getting really strong contractions so I went to the hospital and shortly after arriving my water broke. The next day I was on pitocin and things were looking good until the contractions got to be too much. I finally asked for an epidural, but had to wait because all of the birthing rooms were full and they were busy. When I finally got my epidural I was excited that I was going to be comfortable and pain free! That wasn't the case, I had a window in my back that blocked the pain killers.

When it was time to start pushing (sometime late that night) I was happy the end of this labor was near. After a while Kaleb's hear rate was dropping with every contraction. The doctor said that his face was facing the ceiling instead of the floor like they wanted to I switched positions to see if we could get him to turn. He ended up turning halfway, but his head wasn't fitting, it was just getting crunched. He got down far enough to where you could see his head, but he wasn't coming out. Finally after about 3 hours of pushing I begged for a c-section because I was in so much pain and we weren't getting anywhere and I was worried about the baby.

After 25 hours of labor Kaleb finally arrived! When the doctors were getting Kaleb out during the c-section we found out that his umbilical cord was wrapped around his little body 3 times. My doctor told me that he wasn't going to come out naturally because of it, and that I would have had to get a c-section anyways.

Well it's been a month now and everyone is doing great! Kaleb has gained almost 4 pounds! Here are some pictures from the last month!