Tessa Lynn Biggs

Oh where do I even start? It has been so long since I wrote a blog. Bad Sunny, bad!

It felt so long but it came so quickly, before I knew it I was at the hospital. It all happened on the 21st. It was about 2am in the morning when I was woken up by a contraction, I never went back to sleep after that. Since I was already awake I thought I might as well go to the bathroom and that was when the confusion started. For the next 5 hours I was not sure if I actually lost my mucus plug and if I was leaking amniotic fluid or I just lost control of my bladder and I couldn't hold my pee. Well long story short my water broke and so we worked on getting to the hospital, of course we took our sweet time. I started to get dressed and pack stuff for Freedom because she was going to stay at Ryan's family's house for a night or two. Here we are:

By the time we got to the hospital it was 11am. So water broke at 2am and we didn't get to hospital till 9 hours later...don't ask me how I drugged it so long but I did.

Hospital- First we went to triage things were good there till I needed to get the IV in. It was a guy that did it and my first impression of  him was not the greatest. At first I thought he was kinda "slow" just from his speech, not long after I started to get nervous because his entire ora speaks NERVOUS. I am not afraid of needles, I am a regular blood donator, however he scared the crap out of me. I know this for a fact...I have large veins, no nurse EVER had a hard time finding my veins, he did. Then after he got the needle in blood might as well squirt out cuz it was EVERYWHERE! To make it worse, after he was finally all done he went and tripped over the tubs that was connected to my IV. Sigh...poor soul. Don't worry, it didn't pull my IV out when he tripped over it. During triage it was the only time that Ryan felt sick...he did great through the rest of it.

That was pretty much the worst experience I had there. I wanted to try to have her with out epidural but I'm telling you now that did not happen.  When I got in I was only dilated at 1cm. So they gave me pitocin. Pitocin gave me worst contraction pains then I had imagined....I guess I can't really compare to not having pitocin but it was painful and I only lasted 4 hours of heavy contractions that happened every 2 mins. After the 4 hours I started to tear and I couldn't handle it anymore so I asked for epidural. At the end of the 4 hours I was dilated to a 4. Epidural is amazing! not only it took the pain away it helped me dilate so much faster. An hour later I was dilated to 9. I pushed for about 1hour 45 min and baby Tessa was here.

Tessa Lynn Biggs

7lb 7oz

21 in

7-21-10 10:53pm

She has been a joy to have and it is def an adjustment to have a baby at home. But we just love her to death.