Labor and Delivery

At the doctor's visit on Monday March 21st they told us to head on over to the hospital because the baby wasn't getting bigger, based on ultrasounds, and Alicia's fluid level was okay but a little low.  We walked over to the hospital since our doctor's office is in the building right beside Henrico Doctors and checked into our Labor and Delivery room around noon.  Here are some pictures of the room, aka my home away from home til Tuesday night:

Alicia is all smiles at this point, no contractions and HAPPY the baby/alien will be out of her so we can meet her.

This is the machine that monitors the baby's heartrate and her contractions, I watched this screen alot because it had all the other women's contraction rates in the other l&d rooms, so I'd say to Alicia, "Room 6 had a good one...come on Alicia we need to beat the height of that contraction"  Before the epidural she didnt find this too amusing...

This is Tuesday around 2, they gave her some food before they broke her water and I've never seen somebody so happy to eat hospital jello and italian ice.

After the doctor broke the water they started the pitocin again and her contractions started causing her a good bit of pain, she wasn't trying to be a hero so she made a signal to the anesthesiologist in the bullpen and he came in and gave her the epidural.  This helped a lot but it only worked on one side, so we had to call in the lefty aka new on-call anesthesiologist, to reposition and redose the epidural.  Once they did this she went so numb that her leg flopped off the bed and I had to lift it back on....

The pitocin kept flowin and she got up to 6cm by around 6pm.


This is me doing a dilation dance,,,,,similar to a rain dance....

The dance didn't work........, it's probably because white guys dont have too much rhythm.....go figure, because she didnt dilate anymore from 6pm to around 8pm and stalled at 6 centimeters, they gave her an internal contraction monitor to get an accurate calculation of her conctractions, once they did this they realized that she was only in low to moderate labor, the nurse said labor is on a scale from 180 to 300 and Alicia was 190, so they started moving her around in the bed and upped the pitocin. 

Moving her around in different positions and an upped dose of poticin did the trick because from 8-930pm she became 'fully complete' and the nurse said it was pushin' time. 

The picture below is the warming table and the cart with all the necessary tools and gadgets to get the baby out.

Alicia pushed for about an hour and little Aili came shootin' out screamin', she was probably thinking "PUT ME BACK IN"  and who can blame her, it's a 98 degree hot tub with an all you can eat buffet.  Aili was not a big eater because she only weighed 5lbs 9ozs and she was just over 19 inches long.  She was screaming on the warming table but she calmed down and was alert and looking around wondering where in the hell she was......

After the doctor got done tending to Alicia and she was alright I went out and meeted the Bialkowski greeting party and brought them into the room to meet the little peanut, here are some pictures of Bialkowski clan and of course the star of the show, THE BABY:

Aili on the warming table screaming, I'm right beside her taking pictures like an asian tourist.

Another baby pic.

Here are some proud and tired parents.

Alicia and her happy mom.

Bialkowski clan, from left to right, Cousin Hayden, Aunt Vicki, Me, My Dad, Aunt Hayley, Grammy

Happy mom with baby.

Charlie Sheen is on a drug called Charlie Sheen......My mom is on a drug called Aili Grace.......hahaha.

More posts to come......so stay tuned