Jaxon Nate Stock, The Birth Story

He is here! Jaxon Nate Stock was born March 13th, 2013 at 10:27 a.m.. On our third anniversary! He weighed in at 7 pounds 10 ounces and was 20 inches long!

I had been having false labor for over a week and knew that Jaxon was coming anytime! Tuesday afternoon my labor pains started to get much more intense than they had been. Nate had class at 6:00 but I told him to go anyways thinking that this was just going to be false like the other times. When Nate got home at 10:00 I was having much stronger contractions. I went to the bathroom around 11:00 p.m. and when I stood up my water broke! We called labor and delivery and they said to come on in and get checked. We got to the Park City hospital around midnight and they admitted us. Sure enough I was in labor and dilated to a 3! They gave me my epidural 30 minutes later and Nate and I went to sleep. They checked me again at 5 in the morning and I was a 5. We figured we were in for a wait so we went back to sleep. When they checked again at 8 a.m. I was dilated to a 9 and they said it was time to get ready to push. Our photographer Annie showed up right in time, we wanted to have some pictures of Jaxon right after birth.

 I started pushing at 9 a.m. and we knew something was not right. Every time I would push, both mine and Jaxon's heart rate would drop very low. They put me on oxygen and rolled me on my side. We decided to try and use the vacuum tool to help Jaxon get out. Every time I pushed he would slide down and the minute I stopped pushing, he would slide back up. The doctor told us that if we could keep pushing for two hours we could probably get him out but that she didn't like the fact that his heart rate kept dropping. We decided to do a c-section. They pumped me full of epidural medicine and wheeled me away to surgery. Nate followed after me in his "scrubs". I was pretty out of it but Nate said the actual c-section took 45 minutes and then he went with Jaxon to get cleaned up. Nate brought Jaxon over and sat by me while they stitched me back up. They wheeled us into our room and we got to take pictures of brand new baby Jax!