You know what day I'm talking about - yeah, that Friday Oct 23. As I posted earlier it was the day when I was scheduled to be induced. We called hospital at 6:30 in the morning to confirm that it is still ok for us to come. The evening before that I had doc appointment when they did (what they did to start the process) and it did started it "so well" so we thought that we'll get to the hospital even earlier than we were scheduled. Well, either my body or baby decided that it's not just time for it and I fall asleep for at least 5 hours (Scott slept only 3 out of those 5 since I was still making all those "funny" noises that pregos have during their last weeks of pregnancy when their body is getting swollen in all kinds of areas). Anyway, we got to the hospital between 7:30 - 8:00 am - "special thanks" to the morning traffic :) and as soon as we got here - we've been admitted within like 3 minutes and they put us in our labor-delivery room.
Here the precess started but not what I wanted it to be. I was dilated 4 cm in the morning which was good since the evening before it was only 2 cm - so that balloon of water did work but only for dilation not for softening the cervix. So next few hours doc and nurses were working on that with all kinds of technique - making me funny walking, bouncing on big birthing balloon, drinking a lot of water etc etc. Somewhere in there they broke my water and sometime after I started having fever.
Nice! What else can go according to the plan??? (with thick sarcasm) Anyway the rest of the day and night they were fighting with that fever and having me progress to the needed level. By 8 am Saturday morning doc came and said that at this point we have two options (I thought they were something like: 1 - they sending me home or 2 - there is no way we delivering this baby...) but she said:
You are dilated 9.5 and cervix is completely softened, we can start pushing as soon as your fever will be below 100 F. So the pushing itself will probably take another 2-4 hours for first time mom but there is a big chance of infection that we are fighting from spreading to your baby. Or we can do C-section in next 30-45 minutes and you'll see your baby before you know it.
Of course we chose option with C-section. I was exhausted and in a lot of pain (yeah, epidural wasn't working the right way, I mean it would numb left leg completely and right leg only for couple of hours). So we got into OR and "the show" began.

Our cute baby boy - Dominic Chritopher Peterson was born at 10:00 am Oct 24th 2009. He is 9 pounds 5 oz, 23 inches long and his head circumference is 14,75 inches. He is over the 100th percentile in all three measurements according to the charts at this hospital. One nurse said he is the size of a month old baby and the other said - he looks like 3 month old baby. But anyway we love him and we glad he made it here :)
