HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYDER!

One year ago on Oct 10th 2007 @ 10:02 a.m. Ryder Robert Hobbs was born. He came in at 6lbs 14 oz 21 inches long.
His Story...
on the 9th of oct. I wasn't feeling very good so I went to bed early. I woke up a few time during the night, but didn't think anything was wrong. Sky went to work at 7the morning of the 10th. I got up and cleaned the house some. Around 8 I started feeling contraction. not gradually but full on hard core right from the start, every two minutes. During each one I thought I was going to die, but in between them I thought to myself these are not even real. So I finally convinced myself to call my Dr. but I would need to wait till the women center opened at nine. finally nine came around and I called, told the nurse I thought I was in labor but I was not due for another month. She knew who I was because I had spotting throughout my whole pregnancy. She was trying to transfer me to labor and delivery...whom I should've just called to begin with but it wasn't going through. She ran over to the hospital to tell them what was going on and they said come in ASAP. I called Skylar and told him that I thought I was in labor and the hospital wanted me to come in..he took it lightly because he thought they would just stop the labor once again. He told me his mom would come in a little to get me. I wasn't having a contraction at this time so I said that would be fine. I ended up getting more house work done and I got in the tub with Parker. I was in so much pain at this point, Parker new something was wrong(p.s. the bath doesn't help) If you know Parker he is a fighter. He fights with everything I try to do. So I turned to him and told him he was not allowed to fight today. I knew this alone would not work so I said a little prayer that he would do what I told him. We washed up got out and I got Parker dressed, hair done, teeth brushed w/o a fight. I packed a few things in a bag and started doing my makeup (I didn't want to scare anyone) I called Skylar again and asked where is mom was, he said she was on her way. I could not do my make-up I was shaking so bad. Sandra came to get me around 9:20. When she came in I was not having a contraction so she thought that I was fine, we put in the car seat and off we went. I had a few contractions on the way to her house where we were meeting her mom(skys grandma) and Skylar to take Parker. when we got there I was crying a little the pain was so bad and sky went and got some towels in case my water broke. I still thought they would stop my labor and so did he. He said that he would finish up some work and come down. (Sky has to work, seven other people don't work if he doesn't) We left Parker and headed for Logan. I was having contractions one right after the other at this point and Sandra called the police to get an escort. They said that they do not do that and they are sending out police to pull us over if we are speeding. I called labor and delivery to tell them I am on my way but couldn't talk so Sandra told them they said they would be waiting in the parking lot. We stopped at every red light from Smithfield to the hospital in Logan. What we didn't know at this point is that Skylar had called his dad who he works for and told him that Sandra took me to the hospital, his dad told him to drop everything and leave..so he was just minutes behind us getting stopped at every light as well. I thought I was going to throw up so Sandra rolled down the window for me, but I didn’t. Which was a good thing, imagine seeing some lady throwing up out the window of a speeding car. We ended up passing three cops that were going the other way all together..we knew they were looking for us. so at about 9:40..good timing, we drove up and they were all waiting. They got me out of the car. They said since my water had not broken that we had plenty of time, one of the nurses said it was way to early for the baby since I was hardly showing. Sandra told her I carry my babies in the back but that it was still a month away from my due date. They wheeled me in and I got changed in the bathroom by myself, thank you I knew I could do it. Then they laid me down. Every person known to man was in the room and all I wanted was for someone to give me drugs!! Dr. fowers came in who is not my dr. but I knew him he had stopped my labor a few weeks before. He checked me and said you are an eight and he could feel the babies head coming way down. So he said let me check you again real fast and...yes with the same gloves he checked me and said you are a nine. So at this point I asked if I could still get an epidural..he looked at me and it was like everything went in slow motion, he said yes but I knew that he was lying so I wouldn't freak out. He said let me check you one more time..same gloves people that is how fast this was all going. He said you are a nine and a half. So in comes the nurse with the IV I know that she is speaking to me but I have no idea what she is saying ...until she gets to the part of "is it okay if a student nurse in training puts in your IV" The horror stories from my friend Merrilee made me scream no at her but he still came over and started to put one in. in-between my wrist and elbow on the inside of my arm..what kind of place is this first off. He put it in during a contraction and it blew the vain I looked at him and I said "missed!"..in this mean horrible voice. I'm sure he went home crying. All this only took less then a few seconds. I told them I wanted my epidural and the dr. was checking me again..once again same gloves..he did not have time to change them. He looked at me and said, "you are a ten and the baby is coming out right now. You can get your epidural and it won't even kick in before the baby is out, or if it does kick in baby might not be out for another hour. Just a few pushes and he is out and you are done. I know you can do this." What the Hell is he saying..is this him telling me I have to push out this baby with no drugs not even an IV in my arm...screw you sir I am taking the epidural. As I am trying to sign the paper which I cold not do the Dr. tells me he needs me to push. Once again sir you are not the one in pain here so say what you want but I am about to die! One of the nurses came over to my bed side and held my hand turned my head and told me to look her in the eyes and to concentrate on the color of her eyes and nothing else. She had green eyes, just thought I'd let you know. Then my water broke. I turned and Dr. McKenna was there(pediatrician)and he said just push him out. I started to push. All of these things were going threw my head that I had seen on tv Like the burning and pressure, that they talked about. His head was out, no time to suction I pushed again and then one more time and he was out. 10:02 a.m. everyone was over trying to get him to breathe..as horrible as this sounds I didn't care what they were doing I was still in so much pain I just wasn't prepared to be in just as much pain after as I was during. Then the dr. looks at me and says lets get the placenta out..if I would have had a knife he would have been dead! Sky came in just in time for Ryder to go to the NICU. He missed the whole thing! He thought that I had an epidural..he was so surprised that I did it w/o one. I do not recommend this, and it will not happen again. I have pre-ordered my epidural for next time. Ryder stayed three days at Logan Regional then was life flighted to Mckay Dee, where he spent about two weeks before he came home.


Ryder a few HOURS old


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