Asher Alan Decker

Asher was born Feb. 17th at 9:23pm, 13 1/2 hrs after I was induced. We got to the hospital around 6:45 am that morning, got admitted and then the nurse started me on pitocin to get my labor started. Every half hour she would increase the levels and around 2 the doctor was called in to break my water. Shortly after this my contractions became increasely more powerful and close together. The anisethisiologist (don't know how to spell that) came in about half hour later and administered the epidural. Yay! Those are great! It wasn't until around 7:30 that I began pushing. After several sets of pushes my doctor told my nurse to have me stop and rest a while because Asher's heartrate was a little unsteady. When I started to push again my doctor was still finishing a c-section on another patient and I was told to stop again because Asher was almost out and I needed to wait for her. Once my doctor arrived it was only about another 20 mins of work and he was here!! So total pushing was probably about an hour or less. Not too bad. He weighed in at 7lbs 11oz measured 20.75 in long. He was sent to the NICU after they cleaned him up because he swallowed mechonium at delivery. They kept him there a few days and we were FINALLY able to bring him home Sat. 2/20/10!