Meet Cohen

Cohen Timothy came into this world at 8:48am on Saturday April the 5, 2014. It all started around 5am that morning. I woke up and heard a little pop-like noise. I thought, Hmm. That sounded like when my water broke with Luke. But I didn’t feel anything. I decided that since I was awake I would go to the bathroom. When I got back in bed, a little water leaked out and I knew my water had broken. I was 37 ½ weeks along. So I woke Francisco and started making phone calls to have someone come stay with the boys. We got to the hospital about an hour later. I had only 1 or 2 contractions during that time.

At the hospital we were brought to a teeny tiny room for triage? Or something. Just to make sure I was in labor. I told the nurse that I wasn’t really in labor, but my water broke. I (and Francisco) also kept mentioning that my labors were very fast and that I needed the antibiotics for Group B Strep. They moved me to a delivery room and after what seemed like forever, started an IV. She checked my progress and I was dilated to 6cm. I decided that I would get an epidural in hopes that it was still early enough in labor that it would actually work.

By the time I got the epidural (maybe an hour later?) contractions were coming about 4-5 minutes apart. The nurse checked me again and she said something like, “Nope.” And Francisco replied, “No, like she hasn’t progressed and is still a 6?” and she replied, “No, I can’t feel the cervix at all. You’re complete. Let’s get a doctor in here.”

Even though my OB, Dr. Downey was the doctor on call that weekend, he still wasn’t the one to deliver Cohen. The hospitalist that was already at the hospital, Dr. Levy was the one to deliver him. He was nice. The epidural worked well and I was happy that it was enough to take away the pain of the contractions but I could still feel my legs and enough pain to motivate me to push harder to get Cohen OUT and get it over with! I was also able to get up after delivering to go to the bathroom.

He was 6 pounds 13 ounces and 19 ½ inches long. He looked a lot like Luke when he first arrived, but once the swelling went down, he didn’t look quite as identical. He was healthy.

I delivered at Methodist of Richardson. The hospital stay was fine. It wasn’t as luxurious as my stay at Medical City when I had Sam, but it was better than Mountain View Hospital when I had Luke. 

We are home now and recovering fine.