pitocin+epidural=baby?!?

Baby, it's been quite a ride for mamma and I. It's almost 24 hours since we've been participating in our "lock in" at fancy hospital. One can only imagine what the parking costs are going to be (stereotypical dad thought).

Anyways mamma had an eventful evening. It was determined that the pitocin was increasing contractions, and well that got me all exciting thinking that you would be arriving by the morning. Again it's almost noon, and it seems we'll be lucky if peek your head and body out before midnight.

Mamma at 3am decided to get the epidural. Anesthesiologist Resident man was a nice guy. I thought I played some disc with him, but really he just reminded me of Marshall, dude I swam with back in college. Hard to say if his bed side manners were fake or real, but when the 2nd anesthesiologist man came in, I had to ask the nurse if all anesthesiologist residents were cheery and positive, and she said "yes," who knew?

Mamma did really well with all the sharp intsturments involved in the epidura- basically a spinal tap. Since recv'ing the epidural, she has been at peace, sleeping, and getting her rest on.

FYI, if you ever want mamma to ever say "yes," to like. . .borrowing her new car, plagiarizing one of her unpublished poems, etc., all you have to do is slip a little pain med, or general sedative in her drink. Just the smallest of dose gets her initially very happy, giggly, and loopy. The effect is almost immediately after administering such wonder drugs, and then that window of opportunity is closed, but you didn't hear it from me, and I ain't endorsing such practices.

Currently we're on our 3rd midwife, and probably 4th of 5th nurse, talk about lack of continuity of care? If we have to stay here, shouldn't our providers stay here too? All in all, we've been happy with all of our care here, and baby you should be happy too, cuz everyone is rooting for you to come out.

As one nurse predicted, the boys like to stay in mamma's womb, while girls can't wait to get out. so perhaps baby, you're a boy baby, in that case you would be a pretty bad dude!

So baby, dad's thought of pitocin+epidural speeds up our introduction time, in theory is correct, but in real time, well it's out of anyone's control. The good news is that mamma's still oozing and leaking, still experiencing contractions, which all indicates progress. BTW, good baby, for not continuing to want to poop in the womb and swim up all in that junk :)