You just can't make this stuff up!!

Whew!!! What a weekend, where do I start. Around 5:30am on Saturday morning I received a text from Chely saying that she was in labor. Brad had gone to work, Patrick was still asleep, and Emily had spent the night with a friend. She said she was going to take a bath and then start getting the kids around to come to our house for Doyle to watch. So I get around and start getting myself together and before I knew it she was calling and Brad had gotten home, the kids were in the car and they were heading out. Doyle met them at Hillbilly Junction and got the kids and they went on to West Plains to get checked into the hospital. By the time Doyle got back to the house with the kids, I was ready to leave. I wanted to stay home a little longer and feed the kids but decided I better head on over to the hospital. I didn't want to miss this birth, I was finally going to get to be in the delivery room. So Chely was checked in and hooked up to the monitor by 8:05am and I arrived about 8:30am. She was dilated to a 3 but her pains were pretty intense already. By 9:30am she was wanting an epidural, but Anesthesia requires that the mother have a bolus of fluid (1 liter) before they will give the epidural. So she has the bolus of fluid and is really starting to want that epidural and calls the nurse in and asks again, and also asks if her doctor has been called (and he has), so the nurse goes and calls for the Anesthesiologist to come up. Finally at about 10:45am the guy gets there to do the epidural, only one person can stay in the room while they do it, so I go to the waiting room and Brad stays with Chely. I'm sitting there and I hear the nurses call to the front reception area and asks for the Surgery Tech (who has left the unit for a bit) and tell the unit secretary that they need help--I think to myself, I hope that's not Chely they need the help for. About that time Brad is in the hallway motioning for me to come with him (I just think that the epidural is in and I can come back into the labor room), he's practically running back to the room, and I ask what's wrong. He tells me Chely is having the baby, NOW. We get in the room and there is the delivery nurse, the nursery nurse, and the charge nurse, (the surgery tech came in at some point), but no Doctor. The delivery nurse is trying to get Chely to hold back but she feels like she needs to push. Finally the charge nurse comes back in from talking to Chely's doctor on the phone and says "If you feel like you need to push, do it, we're just going to do this. They are hustling around trying to get the bed ready and get the tray and everything they need to do the delivery. So Chely has another pain and they say go and with one big push Cameron is popping out like a champagne cork. All I could see was a little purple butt as he flipped into the nurse's hands. The cord was around his neck but it fell away and he started to cry and peed all over the nurse. I got to cut the cord, Brad didn't want to, he thinks it feels too weird (you have to kind of saw away at it). They rush him over to the other side of the room and weigh and measure him. 5lbs 8 1/2 oz and 19 inches long. As the nurses were waiting for the placenta to delivery in walks the doctor. He checks on Chely and Cameron and then gets gowned up and delivers the placenta. Then he says "I got behind an elderly person who caused me to catch a red light, or I would have been here". Which was just too funny, haven't we all been there? Turns out that when they were trying to get the epidural in place Chely kept feeling like she needed to push so the nurse stopped and checked her and she was fully dilated and could see Cameron's little head peeking out. They think that when she leaned forward that caused her to fully dilate that fast. So she never got her epidural and delivered him all natural, no drugs at all. Luckily everything turned out great and I have a new respect for the OB nurses at our hospital. They always rank very high (99%) on the patient surveys and now I know why firsthand. The rest of the day and Sunday were spent back and forth from home and the hospital, just enjoying our new addition. He's a really good, sweet baby. And he's just so darn cute. Chely is doing great, she was up moving around less than an hour after she gave birth. Her and the baby were released from the hospital this morning so they are all home together. Once again our family has been blessed with a beautiful, healthy baby, we couldn't be happier!!!