Wednesday, March 14 seem to last forever. Or rather, it was segmented into too numerous to remember contractions, visits by doctors, nurses & midwives, and much talk of this mysterious being making moves inside Cecilia.
We were admitted to the maternity ward at 7am and given a remarkably comfy delivery room complete with lazy-boy chair for "the dad". Cecilia had been having contractions since early the previous evening and had slept very little. The admitting mid-wife correctly sensed our exhaustion and prescribed us rest - with some sleeping pill assistance. Jamie didn't get a pill but he slept like a log and he, the mom, and the soon-to-be child were back to life around 1pm. At that point, contractions were still consistent but the overall delivery process was going slow.
As the day turned to night, the staff at Uppsala's Akademiska hospital opted to initiate the delivery by breaking the water. The process did not necessarily speed up, though the pain and contractions did and thereby resulted in an epidural for Cecilia. As the evening wore on a concern arouse around the baby's heart rate. At the end of each contraction, the baby's heart rate would drop drastically from 130bpm to below 60 only to within seconds come back above 170 and then stabilise again around 130. This caused the attending medical staff concern and was the eventual reason we ended up on an operating table at just after 11pm. We would later learn that the embilical cord was wrapped around our baby's neck and was causing a kind of asphixia as the uterus contracted the baby downward.
Our baby boy came into the world on Wednesday, March 14 at 23:50.
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