Dalton Bryan Stewart
He looks a lot like his big brother Camden
He has long feet and toes
Cuddling with Mommy minutes after being born
He is lounging in the bed warmer, thinks that feels pretty good.
We want to welcome our new son, Dalton to the family. Just want to document the events involved in his birth. I was feeling a lot of back pain and abdomen pressure on the 13th. I called and talked to Josh because Dr Sanders had told me if I was having back pain or pressure to come in and be checked out. I arrived at the hospital at about 4 o clock and because of my history of "going fast" I ended up staying for about 4 hours. I had a slight change from my 2 1/2 centimeters but only by being 50 % effaced from my Dr's appointment on Oct 8th. I was very discouraged when they sent me home. My wonderful parents offered to take the kids for the night, and I gratefully accepted. It is a good thing that I did. Josh and I went to bed about ten, Josh woke up about midnight, I woke up at one because I was too hot. I couldn't settle down enough to go back to sleep. Around 3 or 3:30 I had a really hard contraction, and about half an hour later had another one. I decided to get up and shower, and my contractions stopped. About 4:00 I started to have contractions again, this time more intensely. I started to walk around to get my contractions to be more consistent, but wasn't having much luck. Finally around 5 they started to come about 7 minutes apart, and because we didn't want a parking lot baby, we headed into the hospital. We arrived at the hospital at 6 a.m and they checked me right away, I had advanced to a 3 and was still 50% effaced. They called Dr Sanders and he wanted me to walk laps around the inside of the hospital and see if there was any change after an hour. I started walking around and got nauseated because I was really hungry but didn't dare eat because I didn't want to throw up. After walking some laps I was at a 4 and 70 % effaced. They kept me at that point, even though my contractions had virtually stopped. Dr Sanders came into talk to us and wanted to start me on some pitosin to get my contractions going again and to get them more regular. They started the pitosin at 9 a.m very slowly and told me to let them know when I was ready for my epidural. The contractions started to come more regularly and a lot harder. I told them I was ready for my epidural at 9:30 but they had sent away the anestheologist because I wasn't ready for the epidural so I had to wait for him to come back. When he got to the hospital, they had new trays for them to use and the set up apparently isn't really good because they were having equipment issues. They got everything inserted but when he put a sample dose in I started feeling a lot of pressure and they checked me. I was at a 6 1/2 and 90 %!! Dr. Sanders was watching my monitors from his office across the street and when I got to that point he started running over to the hospital. Three minutes later I felt like I needed to push and they checked me, and I was complete! Dr Sanders came just in time, I had to relax enough that he could get gowned up even though I wanted to push really bad. They got everything set up quickly and with 3 pushes Dalton was out. He had the cord wrapped around his neck twice (Scary!!!!) and there were 2 knots in the cord. Dr Sanders said that he had never seen 2 knots in the cord before and the nurses thought that it was really weird that his vitals signs didn't show that he was having problems. I had him pretty much naturally and felt really good except for shaking a little and tearing. The anestheologist said that he had never seen someone go from a 6 1/2 to complete in three minutes before. We shared a lot of firsts with the staff!!! They allowed Dalton to stay in with us the all day long and the longest he has been away from us was today for testing. He slept mostly through the night, because he was cuddled with me. So far he is a great baby and we are happy that he is part of the family and didn't join us on the 13th! He was 7 lbs 9 oz, 19 1/2 inches long and was born at 10:44 a.m. and doesn't cry hardly at all. Four hours isn't bad!
Dalton in blessing outfit, doesn't he look cute? 
The Bennett Grandkids
