I promised those of you who read my blog that I would write if anything exciting in my rather boring life occurred. Well, if this is not exciting.... then I don't know what is.
Yesterday morning I was getting ready to go out and run my errands for the day. I pick up my father's cell phone and noticed that there was an unread text message. I open it up and the message said that my sixteen year old foster sister Ashley had just gone into labor. Needless to say, any of my plans for the day were immediately shot. I quickly pulled on some clothes, wrote a note to Dad and ran out the door. I lived about two miles away from the hospital. When I wasn't defying my doctor's orders and running, I was speed walking. I got to the hospital about a half hour after getting the message. By then, Ashley had been in the hospital for forty five minutes.
Throughout the day, she was on pain medication. She received her epidural at about five in the afternoon. She was fully dilated by seven thirty. The epidural wore off before she was fully dilated. When we asked that she get another dose, they refused. When the doctor finally arrived, it was time to get the show on the road. The delivery was very hard on Ashley, we helped to support her as she pushed, gave her encouragements, and coached her as much as possible. At about ten minutes after eight in the evening, she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. He came out blue, still, and silent; which caused great alarm to Ashley. The nurses chafed him and he started to wail. I cannot describe the feelings at seeing this precious boy when he opened his eyes for the first time and looked around. I had tears streaming down my face. I was so proud of Ashley.
They gave him his vaccinations, measured and weighed him, tested his blood sugar and gave him back to Mom.
This is the information about the baby:
Name: Lakai Brodyn Foster
Born: 02 June 2008 at 8:10 PM
Weigh: 9 pounds 4 ounces
Length: 22 inches
This was the first birthing I have ever witnessed, and to think, I get to do it again in nine months for my brother's girlfriend. It was worth the exhaustion!
ke7ejx
Yesterday morning I was getting ready to go out and run my errands for the day. I pick up my father's cell phone and noticed that there was an unread text message. I open it up and the message said that my sixteen year old foster sister Ashley had just gone into labor. Needless to say, any of my plans for the day were immediately shot. I quickly pulled on some clothes, wrote a note to Dad and ran out the door. I lived about two miles away from the hospital. When I wasn't defying my doctor's orders and running, I was speed walking. I got to the hospital about a half hour after getting the message. By then, Ashley had been in the hospital for forty five minutes.
Throughout the day, she was on pain medication. She received her epidural at about five in the afternoon. She was fully dilated by seven thirty. The epidural wore off before she was fully dilated. When we asked that she get another dose, they refused. When the doctor finally arrived, it was time to get the show on the road. The delivery was very hard on Ashley, we helped to support her as she pushed, gave her encouragements, and coached her as much as possible. At about ten minutes after eight in the evening, she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. He came out blue, still, and silent; which caused great alarm to Ashley. The nurses chafed him and he started to wail. I cannot describe the feelings at seeing this precious boy when he opened his eyes for the first time and looked around. I had tears streaming down my face. I was so proud of Ashley.
They gave him his vaccinations, measured and weighed him, tested his blood sugar and gave him back to Mom.
This is the information about the baby:
Name: Lakai Brodyn Foster
Born: 02 June 2008 at 8:10 PM
Weigh: 9 pounds 4 ounces
Length: 22 inches
This was the first birthing I have ever witnessed, and to think, I get to do it again in nine months for my brother's girlfriend. It was worth the exhaustion!
ke7ejx
3 comments:
How Exciting!! Dont you love miracles like that? Its amazing-I can't wait to be a mom someday!
Tell Ashley congrats for me!
The middle name is Brodyn....so his name is Lakai Brodyn Foster .... they were going to make his middle name his first, but too many people observed that Brodyn sounds like Rodent :-D
ha ha! I like his name- how is he doing? Is he being good for mom? You should post some pictures if you can-
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