Baby Boroughf has arrived!

 After my doctor's appointment, Matt and I returned home and ate a little lunch.  I had plans to have lunch with my friend, Cheryle, but wanted to spend a little time with Matt first.  Matt headed back to work and I headed to the bathroom.  Dr. Wong told me to call if I had any bleeding and when I found I was bleeding bright red, I called.  I also called Matt and told him to come back home just in case.  I also emailed Cheryle and told her we would have to reschedule.  I was pretty sure I would be heading to the hospital soon.

Colin's first picture

After waiting a couple of hours for a return call from the doctor, the nurse finally called and said that bleeding was normal.  By this time I was having more contractions and still bleeding.  She said she would relay that information to the doctor and call me back.  It was another couple of hours before I go the call from Dr. Wong and Matt had even headed back to work by this time.  She said that it sounded like I was probably in labor and I should make my way to the hospital.  It sounded like it was time to have a baby!

We arrived at L&D at just about 7pm.  They put us into a room, got me hooked up to some monitors and checked out how things were going internally.  Even with all the contractions, I remained at 4cm at the top and 5cm at the bottom of the cervix and also 75% effaced.  They wanted to monitor me for a couple of hours and see where things were going, so Matt and I decided to just start walking around and see what would happen.  After 2 hours of walking around, my contractions had increased to every 2-3 minutes consistently.  I was certain that I had dilated a bit more.  When the nurse, August, checked me, there was absolutely no change!

Colin on Mommy

The doctor recommended that we just go home and wait until the contractions got a little stronger.  Both Matt and I were a little concerned about this because it seems that I dilate without knowing it.  We were both concerned that things would progress too quickly at home and we wouldn't make it back to the hospital.  August listened to our concerns and agreed with us with my history.  She went back and discussed it with the doctor and they agreed to do a partial induction and put me on pitocin to help with dilating. So, I was hooked up to the IV and things got started.  My contractions became more regular, but they didn't seem much stronger in intensity.  I was even sleeping through most of them. 

8 lbs 4 ounces!

Around 5am the doctor came in a checked me.  I was still at 4-5cm.  Nothing much had really changed.  She asked if she could break my water to get things moving along.  I agreed because I was ready to have the baby and was willing to do just about anything to get it moving along.  Within about 10 minutes, the contractions were so strong that I started asking for an epidural.  Yes, I wanted to go natural, but I didn't think I could handle more than a few minutes of those contractions!

The anesthesiologist took a while to arrive and then the epidural took about 30 minutes or more to get put in.  Everyone says that as soon as you get it everything is wonderful, but I disagree.  Those darn contractions still hurt for at least another 15 minutes!  They checked my progression after getting the epidural in place and found that I was fully dilated and only had a lip left of the cervix!  Why did I get that epidural again?  I should have asked for them to check before they did it instead of after!  I didn't really need it since I was so close to being ready to go.

Daddy & Colin

For the next couple of hours I just rested and got ready for the big event.  Around 9am I started to feel some strong pressure/pain in my lower right side.  When I told the nurse, Dawn, this she said they could give me more medication or I could just try pushing.  I figured I would try the pushing since I didn't really want anymore medication.  With the first push she was excited that I did such a great job, so we just continued on.  We started around 9:10am and by 9:20am she said I was going to have the baby by 10am.  I kept pushing with the contractions and by 9:30am Dawn figured it was time to call the doctor in.  It was going to be sooner than 10am when the baby arrived!

Dr. Nath came in and took one look and her eyes got wide and she hurried to get ready. No waiting would be required.  I gave a couple of good pushes followed by a couple of half pushes and with one last push out he came!  I was shocked that I barely felt it!  He wasn't a small baby, either...


Colin Jack Boroughf
June 10th, 2011
9:36am
8 lbs. 4 oz.
21 inches 
He was crying right away and was a nice pink color.  His Apgar scores were awesome at 9 & 9.  Within a minute or so, he was put down on my chest and he continued to cry a bit, but calmed down soon enough.  I had Matt hand me my phone so that I could call my mom and let her hear him.  She started crying and was just about the happiest grandmother ever.

Calling Nana for her to hear his voice

Both Matt and I just stared at him in awe.  He was so perfect and beautiful.  I couldn't believe that he was the one who had been kicking and punching me in the butt all these months.  It just didn't seem possible that this little angel had come out of me.  I was able to get him to latch on and start breastfeeding almost right away.  He did a great job and I felt bonded with my little boy.

Exercising his lungs

The next couple of hours were so surreal.  It was calm and a bit quiet as we waited for the nurse to come and do her checkout on Colin and for my legs to regain strength so that I could walk to the bathroom.  We needed to complete both of these items before we could be moved to the Mother & Baby area.  Dawn held Colin while we gathered ourselves a bit and he graciously peed all over the front of her.  What a way for him to have his first out-of-the-womb pee!  We all laughed, but I am not sure that Dawn was too pleased to have the front of her scrubs soaked in baby pee.

A little resting time

It was afternoon before we finally made it to the Mother & Baby area.   Just a few minutes after our arrival, we had some visitors...Dolores, Krystalyn, and Nadia from work.  They were so sweet to stop by and meet Colin at just a few hours old.  It was exciting to share with them our beautiful little boy as well.  He had been long awaited by many people at work who had watched my belly grow over the months.