Adams Birth Story!

Adam Robert Ackerman: 5-27-07, 6:50am 7lbs 8ozs, 20"3cm

As soon as I got off the phone with Trivona my close friend who lives far away I started having intense contractions this was a little after 10:30pm. I wanted AJ and I to get some sleep before we worried about having to go to the hospital. So AJ fell asleep as I sat in the bathroom for hours I felt like I had toBM but couldnt. There was tons of discharge and a bit of blood, I was starting to get scared and I wanted AJ to get a few more hours of sleep, of course the baby had other plans. So finally at 3am AJ woke up to pee and I let him know I was having contractions every 2 mins. Lets just say he was not happy that I didnt wake him earlier. So we got everything ready and called the in-laws for a ride, I felt bad having to wake everyone up but if I didnt I would have had the baby right in the bathroom.

We got to the hospital and I was still having contractions ever 1-2 minutes, I wanted to cry I didnt remember being in so much pain with my Daughter.

They checked me and I was 7cm already so instead of wheeling me to my room they took the whole bed, I found this very amusing.

So when I was in my room I was thinking okie this will be fast Im already 7cm and 90% effaced. After looking over my charts they notice that I am strep b positive so they decided I had to try to hold out for at least 2 hours so the meds could fully be in my system. My contractions were so strong and I couldnt stand the pain I was biting AJ and squeezing him so hard Im surprised I didnt hurt him. The midwife kept trying to get me to be calm, it was so hard to but I managed to breath threw my contractions with out hyperventilating. After waiting what seemed like 2 days the midwife told me it had been 2 hours and I could start pushing anytime now.The mid wife checked me and secretly ruptured my water, she told me not to tell the other midwife. When my water broke it had maconium in it. I knew from doing lots of research while pregnant that this was not a good thing and it can cause lots of problems if it gets in to my babys lungs.

It took me about 5-10 minutes to push my little baby boy out, this part was not as bad as with my first baby.

I was looking forward to getting to hold my baby right away and latching him on, but because of the maconium I was not allowed to. The nurses had to make sure his lungs were clear. Thankfully none of that icky stuff got in to my sons lungs.

When I finally got to hold my baby boy I latched him on to my breast right away, he latched on so well and he ate really good, I was in my glory, I dont even remember what else was going on around me it was just me and my baby boy.



We had to stay in the hospital for 3 days. I relaxed while I was there it was a nice stay. I will admit that I cried and cried when AJ and Chloe left the hospital.

Adam your name is special it was picked just for you, you have your daddys first name because you are our first son and daddy is so proud to have a beautiful bouncing boy that he wanted you to have his name,