Blake Christopher Beatty

October 10th, 2010 came and went....

October 12th, 2010
Jason and I went over to Jason's friend Tim's apartment so that we could have dinner with him and his wife Amber. During the time we were there I started feeling weird and very uncomfertable... Around 6:30p I started having contractions, they were strong but very far apart... I kept an eye on them as we went home but they weren't getting any closer together.. Jason went to sleep because we didn't seem to be getting close, he had work the next morning and hadn't slept the night before. I was extremely uncomfertable and just layed in bed with him while he slept. During those hours I kept having contractions and the night seemed to take forever. The contractions stayed very stong and slowly came closer together. Randomly I would get up and do things around the house. My mother in law was coming in the next day (13th) and I wanted to make sure everything was ready for her arrival even though I was having contractions. Around 2:30a on the 13th my contractions were way too stong for me to just lay in bed and do nothing but be in pain so I got up and was walking around the house, I managed to put sheets and blankets on the air mattress to make it up for my mother in law and got my hair and make up done because I knew these contractions weren't going away, I would be having Blake sometime on the 13th!! (yes, I did my hair and make up... too many pics were taken) The contractions started getting to hard to bare and my breathing was much heavier and around 3:45a my breathing woke Jason up because he knew it wasn't normal. He got me through a few more contractions which were now about 8-10 min apart and we decided to get going to Carteret General Hospital where I would be delivering Blake.

We got into registration and headed up to the labor and delivery floor about 4:30a. The nurses checked me and I was 3cm and about 40% dialated but my contractions were where they should be so they called one of my doctors to see if he wanted to keep me there at the hospital or send me home until I progressed more (which I wouldn't have gone home)... He told them to keep me there and set me up on all the monitors and watch me progress.. A nurse name Jodi took care of me and she was amazing and so sweet. My contractions were really getting to me and started making me nautious I thought I was going to throw up and she took care of me and calmed me down along with Jason. While I started not feeling well, Blake's heart rate started dropping and they were getting concerned, they started monitoring me even more and I was put on oxygen for both of our sakes. It wasn't very often that a nurse wasn't in the room with us. During this time I gradually progressed but the doctor didn't want to break my water just yet. At 7a the shift changed and Dr. D'Andrea came on as my doctor she spoke with the other one and she decided that she did want to break my water because my contractions were about 4-5 min apart and she believed I was far enough along...

They ordered my epideral to be put in and they got it in and started the dosage and it was supposed to kick in. Just after 8a Dr. D'Andrea came back in and broke my water, instantly Blake dropped big time and i was 100% effaced and 8cm dialated. About 15 min later, the contractions were getting the best of me again, I could barely breathe even with the oxygen, I about made Jason's hands break off with every contraction and the pain was so unbareable. All the nurses rushed in and the doctor and I couldn't help but be screaming in pain, they were trying to get the meds put in for the epideral and the doctor announced that I would most likely have him in the next contraction or so and they needed to get set up extremely fast because I wasn't going any longer....

I have never felt as much pain and had never been so scared in my life, I had gone through this all before with Hayden and yet it was COMPLETELY different. During delivery with hayden i was able to breathe through it all and I didn't scream, three pushes he was out.... With Blake I could barely breathe, my heart was racing, and all i could do was scream and push and want my baby out... I still concentrated on what they were saying, and once again three pushes and Blake FLEW (no joke, she had to catch him real fast)out...

Jason was crying and so relieved it was over, I slowly tried my hardest to calm down quickly, they put him on my chest so I could see him and I was yet again instantly in LOVE.. He was so beautiful and had so much hair! I was so thankful he was finally here. They stitched me up and cleaned up the room while I watched them wipe him off and suction liquid from him. It took them longer to get him ready for us because apparently I had an over abundance of liquid in me (more than normal pregnancies) and it had affected him...

Blake was 21in long, 8lbs 5.6oz!

He had to stay longer in the hospital because they thought he had an infection of some sort. We spent three extra days in the hospital and he couldn't come out of the nursary because they had him undressed and on monitors the whole time. He also had to be put under the UV lights because he was slightly Jaundice. The reason they were monitioring him was because his heart rate would drop extremely low while he was sleeping. He was sleeping extremely hard and it was scaring Dr. Mac. They continued to monitior him, Dr Mac spoke with different docs about his case, they ran EKG's on Blake and we cared for him when he was awake.

Tim, Amber and my mommy in law came to see Blake while he was in the hospital and we fed him whenever it was time.

Through those three extra days the tests all came back negative for anything bad and his EKG's became normal, his heart rate would stay up and his jaundice went away. They finally let us go home with Blake on Saturday October 16th during the early afternoon and we couldn't have been more excited!!

Jason was the most amazing partner during the delivery and through everything. He rarely left me and only did if he had to run somewhere real quick or to take his mom back to our house and he came right back to me.

It was an emotional time delivering Blake because all we had was each other because our family and friends were here in AZ for the most part and Blake was stuck in the NICU and when Jason would leave it was so hard not to cry sometimes not knowing what was happening..But God was definitly with us and was watching out for us and our precious baby boy. Thank you to everyone who prayed for us and kept us in their thoughts! We love you all..

Blake is doing AMAZING (he's a little over a month now)! He eats like a champ, is getting chunky, he cries a lot, more than Hayden ever did because he is super gassy, but he's getting through it and is slightly getting better with that.

We couldn't LOVE him more :)