Sugar, Spice and Everything LIFE: Jase Edward Bozzo 4/4/13

Scott and I arrive at the hospital at 7:00 AM to check in for our induction. We are escorted to our delivery room and start paperwork and vital checks. The nurse at this point asked me if I was feeling my contractions. I was shocked she asked me that since we hadn’t been there long and I though I was only hooked up to fluids at this point. I told her no, and she said well you’re contracting on your own every 10 minutes! Apparently my body had already started to prepare a little that morning! At that point she checked me and I was dilated to 2.5 centimeters and 70% effaced. The nurse said they would notify my doctor and thought he would come at lunch and break my water.

Around 8:00 AM I was completely checked in and we started the Pitocin to get the contractions closer together. It did not take long before I started to feel the contractions and was already asking how soon I could get an Epidural! Haha, I didn’t last very long! Between then and 11:00AM I was laboring through each contraction and not really paying attention to anything else going on. Scott said this was the worst part of the labor because he felt helpless. He was great at helping distract me and doing whatever I asked to ease the pain!

At 9:00AM my doctor came in to check me (WAY sooner then lunch time). He said I was 3.5 centimeters and 80% effaced. (After only and hour on Pitocin -amazing!!) So he broke my water to keep things moving along. At this point he told the nurse to put order for the Epidural. Shortly after this my mom came to the hospital to hang out and give Scott and I some support. The Anesthesiologist came in around 11:00AM to give me the Epidural. THANK GOODNESS!!! Soon after that Scott’s parents and grandma came to hang out for a bit.

Now that I had the Epidural we could all relax a bit again! I was feeling better and we were watching some movies we brought in. I think we watched Elf, Star Wars (the Family Guy one), The Hangover and Shreck! Around 3:00 PM the nurse checked me again and I was 8 centimeters and she said she could start to feel his head, so we were close! (or so we thought). At some point during all this time my Epidural had worn off a bit and I was feeling contractions again, so they had to up my medicine. Close to around 4:30 PM I told the nurse I was feeling a ton of pressure and really wanted to be checked. Around 5:15 PM and everyone is really anxious to see the progression I had made since I had been progressing so fast. Nurse checked me and I was complete and ready to push!

After a little over 2 hours of pushing (due to him having a hard time traveling down my narrow pelvis and breaking my tail bone on the way out) Jase Edward Bozzo was born on 4/4/13 at 7:43 PM, weighing 8 pounds and 20 inches long. Originally we wanted to do skin to skin right after birth, but Jase had a pretty bad cone head/sweeling and had some mucus in his lungs so they had to take him away. Scott was able to take pictures of him being weighed and measured though. I can tell you that feeling of your new baby being taken away from you and you’re lying helpless is not a fun feeling. BUT he was healthy and shortly given back to me. My body did react to all the hormones after birth by shaking which was also a no fun feeling, but that only lasted about an hour and I was feeling somewhat back to normal. During that time Scott got to hold onto his new son!

Overall the delivery was great and lasted about 12 hours, which for the induction and me being a first time mom is pretty fast! I have some healing to do still, but Jase is SO worth doing it all over if I had to! We are SO IN LOVE! Enjoy some pictures!