My ankles have disappeared 3003Engram Hmmm, my problem is that my blood pressure is low normally, that what is well within normal range for most people is high for me. 90-60 is my standard "active" bp...
Things didn't go quite the same way as with our 16 month old. For that the wife's water broke, we went to the hospital, she was in labor for 40 hours and had an epidural and all was funky.
This time, her water never broke, we got to the hospital, she asks the nurse about an epidural, she's like 'well, lets wait for the doctor to take a look at you', lets put you on an IV first, you need to have a full bag of fluid in before we can do an epidural.. Wife keeps asking for doctor. Takes the doctor 20 minutes to finally arrive, he says there's plenty of time for an epidural, my wife completely disagrees and is in even worse pain. Contractions are about 4 minutes apart. Doctor leaves, nurse says now they need to get the lab up to take blood before the epidural and "that could be a problem". Now wife is about 2 minutes apart, is feeling the urge to push and I've never seen her in this kind of pain. She's yelling to get a doctor in here, nurse is telling her just to push and ignoring her request for a doctor. 5 minutes later, doctor shows up, takes a look, says it's way too late for an epidural and to start pushing. It was very scary for me to see my wife in this much pain, shes crying, trying not to vomit, begging and screaming at the top of her lungs. The lab shows up to take her blood for the epidural as baby's head is halfway out. Great. I was trying to video the birth of our daughter, but I had to put the camera down to help and frankly I don't think anyone will ever want to or be able to watch this video :(. We were at the hospital for probably no more than 90 minutes before we had a baby.
Baby and mom are doing great now though.
