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January 28, 2005
A Proud Father
I tell you what. Words can not describe how proud I am of my little girl and her mother. Jess was amazing in the delivery room. It all started Thursday morning around 4:30 am. Jess started to feel contractions. The nurse examined her and she was 3 centimeters dialated and 80% effaced. She She suggested we go ahead with an epidural since the contractions were pretty hard and painful. After that Jess was in heaven. She could feel slight contractions but was comfortable enough for a little sleep. Around 9:00 the Dr. Pohl came in to examine and she was at 4 centimeters and he called it 75% effaced. He told us that normally you move at 1 centimeter a hour giving us 6 more hours until we could start the pushing porocess. So we all figured it was safe that we would start pushing around 3:00pm and deliver the baby around 4-5pm. Not the case. Around 11:30 Jess had hard contractions that the epidural could not ease. We told the nurses and they said it was normal and gave he "the button" to push when ever she had pain that was unbearable. At 12:15, Jess was moaning for me to get the nurse again because of the pressure she was feeling. The nurse instructed me to make her use "the button" to relieve the pain and they would be along when they could get by. Jess agian told me to get the nurse because she thought that the baby was on the way. Again I rang the nurse and they were pretty much annoyed by my constant interruptions. This time they came by and examined Jess. Well. the constant naggin wasn't for nothing. Jess was now dialated to 10 centimeters and +2 station. Needless to say the nurses worked quick to get the doctor in the room for delivery. After only 3 hours Jess had gone from 4 centimeters to fully dialated. After Dr. Pohl came in it only took Jess about 30 minutes to deliver!
I sat back and video taped the whole process. Jess was a champ through it all! I have never seen her more determined in our 5 years together and I can not tell her enough how proud I am of her for how she handled it all. For more pictures of Bailey click here.
Bailey Elizabeth Norhtcutt
DOB: 01-27-2005
Weight: 7.6lbs
Length: 19.5"
click the picture to see the slide show
Posted by PNorthcutt at January 28, 2005 12:50 PM
Comments
congrats to you both on such a beautiful baby girl! we especially loved the last picture in the slideshow of bailey! she looks like a 1 month old smiling-she is so adorable!!!
Posted by: jeff and jody ledford at January 28, 2005 6:39 PM
Congrats, brother!
You're going to have a blast. You both look like naturals and Bailey is gorgeous. (Was there ever any doubt?)
Emma can't wait to meet Bailey. She's already looking forward to a trip home!
Posted by: Todd, Marla, Emma & Henry at January 29, 2005 12:17 AM