5:50a – After several hours of waiting and adjusting Pitocin levels to open the cervix and induce labor, the providers have initiated a procedure that breaks the water. They now can apply a monitoring devise to more accurately measure contractions. Breaking the water has some risks, but the process could hasten delivery, develop a better […]
8:30p – The epidural was successfully applied, although the process took a little longer than expected. Lara is doing well now. The Foley Bulb Induction procedure was successful, apparently widening the cervix to a lime or a kiwi – moving in the right direction. Lara and her Midwife are cautiously optimistic that baby girl could […]
At about 4:00p, Lara and the baby are making steady progress. The baby is moving. Contractions are 2 minutes apart but her cervix is still at about 1 cm. How I interpret it is that the baby is walking to a door but she likes to do it slowly, like she’s looking at Tik Tok. […]
The birth of our second child has begun. It began almost nine months ago on a warm July day in a non-de-script medical office building in the suburbs of D.C. After having Jaxon, we had the choice of creating another person – one who could perhaps bring balance to the force, or at least give […]
Lara had two appointments last Friday. These were the last appointments before the scheduled induction – March 6th. Mark your calendars. The induction process and the happenings of that day will undoubtedly be complicated I’ll try to discussion some of what will happen in a later post. The first was her final examination. I wasn’t […]