Baskin' in the Robbins' Life: May 2012

Riley McKay Robbins

April 12th at 2:00pm

7lbs, 9oz, 18 3/4in

The delivery went very well. I went in to the hospital at 3am and he was born at 2pm. Riley may be my second baby but nothing about this delivery was the same aside from a beautiful baby boy at the end :) When I had Corey there was no doubt in my mind that I would get an Epidural. The doctor had told me "not only will you be in pain but your husband and I will be as well because we can't do anything for you." So I went the "easy" painless route, pushed for two hours and finally had to have the doctor help get him out with suction. This delivery I went in thinking "I'm not getting an epidural, I don't care what the Doctor says." He tried to talk me into it but I held my ground and said no. Once I got to 7 centimeters though, that was a different story! They tried giving me IV pain meds but that didn't go well (they made me very emotional and they had to stop them). I asked for the epidural at this point (secretly hoping they would say its too late) and the anesthesiologist was called. She came in thinking I was having a C-section and I quickly corrected her and she said she would be back. She never came back. By the time I realized she wasn't coming I was ready to push. The nurse was called and she called the doctor. Once I was allowed to push Riley was here in 10 minutes! After experiencing both (with an epidural and without) I'm going to say I would rather go without. It hurt, no lie, but it was faster and it didn't last long.

We were all so tired once he was born, no one got to sleep but big brother Corey. We thought Corey would be really excited once he finally saw his brother but that wasn't the case. He had fallen asleep like I said and had to wake up to meet his little brother and he wasn't happy about that. The next day Corey and Daddy came to see Riley (and Mommy of course) and Corey was in much better spirits and even brought the little sock monkey for him.