Weston William Frazier (William is from my side of the family, my Dad's middle name)
He came 6 (or maybe 8?) days past his due date. My whole pregnancy I thought my due date was Oct.3 but at my last OB appointment they said my chart showed Oct.5. So weird. It's only a 2 day difference but when that's been the most focused on date for 9 months, it's strange to hear that it was wrong.
Either way, he was overdue! Each day past Oct.3 seemed like a whole year. I was having contractions off and on but nothing too painful or consistent. Starting the night of the 8th, I had mildly painful contractions through the night but they didn't get closer together and were gone by morning. That happened 3 nights in a row and on the 3rd night (Oct.10), they were longer and more painful - but still not getting closer together than 10min. During one of those long contractions I felt and heard a 'pop'. I went to the bathroom and sure enough, my water had broken. It was 1:45am (Oct.11). Thankfully, Ed and Glo had just gotten to our house an hour earlier - couldn't have been more perfect timing!
We were out the door by 2am. I was still only dilated to 1.5cm but it progressed to 5/6cm in an hour and a half. Those contractions were the strongest Id felt between all three labors - long and intense! At that point I got an epidural. Ahhh, such relief!
Both my nurses were awesome! ...but they did keep giving me false hope that the baby would be born "within the hour". Several of those hours passed by without progressing much. He wasn't dropping and things were just slower than they expected.
The doctor on call (Dr.Gooch) came in and discovered that the baby's head was face up instead of face down. Somehow he was able to twist the head and it stayed that way. Weston was able to drop quicker after that.
The only scary part was that his heart rate kept dipping low and even slowed down so much at one point that the nurse came bursting in the room. As soon as she did, the heart starting beating and got back up to a normal fast rate - she said "Phew!!! That one scared me!". Well, that definitely didn't make me feel any better. After Weston was born, we found out that the umbilical cord was (loosely) wrapped around his neck. During the stronger contractions, it caused his heart rate to drop.
Once I felt pressure and was ready to push, the doctor and extra nurses came in. Each of them commented on how much hair they could see on the crowning head!
He had be do one big push and 2 small ones and then I saw my baby boy! Kyle cut the cord and then they placed him on my chest right away - so sweet. With our other two, they wiped them and wrapped them before handing to me. He was so warm, chubby, puffy, red and sweet! He kept his eyes closed for a lot of the first couple days.
We are so happy that he is finally here!!! We all love you so much, Weston William!
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