Erik's Birth Story

Well, those of you who have been following Baby E's story, you know that we were worried about him being big, and his head circumference... well we were right ;)

Erik Reid Alfred Smith was born by cesarean section at 7:46pm on Friday, October 29th, 2010 after his mommy laboured for twelve hours after being induced.... he weighed 9 lbs 14 oz, with

It started a few weeks ago, when at my 35 week appointment, the O/B who I was seeing was concerned about the size of the baby - he was still measuring significantly early and she was concerned about his size, so the following week, I had an U/S which determined that he was 7lbs 5 ounces at 36 weeks!!   In comparison, Liam was born at 37 weeks at 7lbs 13 ounces, so we knew that this baby would be bigger than his brother, but the question would be how much bigger?

Another U/S this past Monday indicated that Erik was now over 9 lbs and there was serious concern about his head size... so it was determined that baby E would arrive Friday, and we'd try induction first... so Mommy & Daddy arrived at the hospital bright and early yesterday morning and got checked in... and settled in for what was expected to be a fairly long day...

Erik progressed rapidly through the morning- effacing and starting to descend, and contracting well with the help of the Pitocin.  Mommy's water was broken at 9:30 am and again things progressed well... by 11am, she was 5 cm dilated and 90% effaced, by 2pm she was 6 cm dilated and 100% effaced and that's where labour stopped progressing - I was still 6 cm at 4pm and again at 7pm, so the decision was made - time for a C-Section...

After a few tears from Mommy, things progressed quickly from there - everyone mobilized and I was in the ER by 7:30pm, Wayne joined us at 7:35pm and at 7:46pm, Erik was born...

Just under an hour later, Mommy was in recovery and an hour after that we were settled in our room... Erik fed well twice and he and Mommy and Daddy bonded for a while, until Daddy headed home ...