Wow! What an amazing weekend. Thursday night we arrived at the hospital at 8pm like we had scheduled. They immediatley put us in the delivery room where we were to stay until the baby arrived. After all the paperwork was done, Kristin had her first of many exams. The nurse told us that she wasn't even 1cm dilated and that the doctor must have been pushing the numbers a little. They went ahead and administered the sopository. Kristin was hooked up to a machine that monitors the babys heartbeat, her contractions, and her blood pressure. On the machine, we could see that she was having contractions about every 6 mins and wasn't even aware that they were contractions. After an extremely long night with no sleep from all the excitement, morning finally came. By the time the dayshift nurse came on duty, Kristin was having contractions from every minute to every 5 minutes. At 7:45 she was put on an IV of pitocin. The Nurse told her that the pitocin would make her contractions more consistant but also make them more intense. She was to start at 15ml of the pitocin and increase the dose by 15ml every 30 minutes. The docotor also came in during this time and broke her water to let the baby fall towards the cervix and help in the opening of it. After the first 30 minutes on the pitocin, Kristin was having contractions steadily every 4 mins and with some pain. The nurse, Lana, increased her dosage 15 ml, and within 10 mins she was at every 2 minutes and with lots of pain that she rated 6 out of 10. At this time an exam told her she was 3-4 cm. The pain was getting unbareable every 2 minutes, and she opted for the epidural. After the epidural, everything was fine and we started playing cards. During the card game, I noticed that her cheeks were shaking. She lifted up her hands and looked at them and they were also shaking uncontrollably. Then she started coughing and couldn't swallow all that great. I ran to the hallway and grabbed a nurse because Lana was delivering another baby next door. They decided that the epidural was too much of a doseage at the normal 15ml. They shut off the machine controlling her dosage and we waited for anastisiologist to get there to reset the dosage. After dropping her down to 13 ml, the numbness was out of her chest, and back to the lower extremeities like it is suppose to be. The shaking never did stop until after birth, but we were able to control it a little by adding lots and lots of covers on top of her. We added about 6 inches of blankets and she was doing fine. The pitocin never did get increased after that except right before delivery. Her contractions were close enough and they wanted the uterus to get time to rest between them. It was now time for a nap and after that scare I could sure use one. I woke up an hour later to the nurse coming in to do another exam, and we found out that she was 6-7cm. Another 30 minutes later, she was 7-8cm. Lana called the doctor and he said to start pushing in 30 minutes to help finish opening the cervis up. After about 20 pushes, Kristin had managed to open the cervix up all the way and if a person looked during the pushing, you could see his hair. The doctor came in and in 20 minutes Daniel Lewis Frye was born 8 lbs and 4 oz. During our first night after the delivery, the nursery nurse came in at 2AM and woke Kristin, she told her that Daniel had turned blue on them and that his blood sugar was low. They put him under a heat lamp and hooked him up to monitors, and he was doing fine. At 10:30AM they turned him back over to us, and there hasn't been another scare yet. We brought him home tonight. Right now Mommy and Daniel are asleep, and I am to wake them up at 2:30 for a feeding. We are to keep track of how much he eats and how many times we have to throw a diaper away until Tuesday. Tuesday we have to go back to the Hospital for another bully strip test. This is to test for Jondice. He has it a little right now, but it wasn't high enough to keep him in the hospital. Myself and Kristin would like to thank everyone for there support during this pregnancy and especially the staff at Terre Haute Regional Hospital for being so great. THANKS EVERYONE