HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCAS!!

My wife has done such a beautiful job on this blog, I thought I would help her while she is still in the hospital after giving an amazing birth to our son, Lucas Wyatt Power. I can only express now what many fathers conveyed to me before, that it is indeed...a life changing experience to see what we created enter into the world! Sarah was admitted on March 14th at approximately 8:30 PM. Shortly thereafter, the RN commenced with the inducement process. Her body was very receptive to the drug that most new, first-time mother's take considerably longer to have any positive results from. She was contracting so intensely (apx. 1 min apart) all night, that around 3AM, they pulled the drug out of her. Around 6AM, the RN began administering her Pitocin. A drug that makes contractions more intense and regular. Her nurse, and previous neighbor and personal family friend Nurse Laura (RN), was so caring and alert as to Sarah's needs based on Sarah's and Lucas' vitals. Sarah received the Epidural around 11:45AM and the contractions got very intense very quickly. She was having 3 consecutive contractions with only a minute in between, which, drew my attention to the vital monitor that showed Sarah's blood pressure at apx. 110/37 for quite a while and as she would have a contraction, Lucas' heart rate would drop to 68-90 BPS. Then, when the third contraction would end, his heart rate would jump to over 200 BPS. I didn't want to make it to obvious to Sarah I was getting anxiety due to the vitals quickly, and I was really honed in on the body language and astute feedback from the nurse. I walked out at one point to the nurse station and asked, "Are you nurses seeing the same numbers I am, or is this monitoring machine broken?" They kind of looked at me dumbfounded--Nurse Laura was also--very concerned! I caught her outside the door, and I said, "Ok give it to me straight, this is an issue, right?" She said, "oh yes, I have the doctor coming down immediately!" So she arrived within minutes, almost simutaneously admidst this current stress, there was optimistic hope...she was dilated to 9CM! Only because of this, she did not receive a "C" Section immediately. Doctor Tran immediately got her operating tray sent to her, and before I knew it, there was over 8 nurses and the Doctor and Nurse Laura. Janet and I were quickly recruited for important roles of holding the legs. I got the left leg, I think it's broken because I was pushing up on it with the anticipated hope she could do it!!! I can tell you it was more suspenseful than any situation I have ever been in my life! The babies vitals were still a major concern. The doctor made it clear we were going to do everything we could do to get it out naturally, but it the numbers continued, she'd have to take him to the OR. Sarah was nothing less than amazing...she pushed for 3 sets of 10 second intervals...and towards the end when Lucas crowned, the doctor made her push for over 1 min without stopping to get him out. Lucas came into the world on March 15, at 1:06 PST. He weighed 7 lbs., 12 ounces, and was the most perfect thing I've ever laid my eyes on :)! Janet was an awesome teammate, and I truly cherished this experience!