Asher's Birth Story

As previously mentioned we began our induction process on 11/15/14 at 5:00 p.m. We checked into the hospital around 4:45 and began our paperwork.

Cytotec (oral medicine) was administered at 6pm-10pm-2am, and pitocin was

started at 6am 11/16. When I arrived I had not dilated any further than a 1 and my cervix was very posterior. This baby wasn't dropping which made me think the cord was possibly around the neck or they weren't in the correct position to put pressure on my cervix!

I was checked before the pitocin began and I had dilated 3-4, thank The Lord! The next 5 hours my contractions got stronger (remember NO PAIN MEDS OR EPIDURAL!), and more frequent and became harder to manage. Each time they checked me I had not progressed. This was discouraging. I told Jarrod at my next check if I had not changed I was going to need something to manage my pain.

Around 11:30 I was checked and the nurse was excited... I was dilated to 6cm and my cervix had began to move forward! Praise God this was just the encouragement I needed to keep going!!

The next several hours were a blur as I began to transition. Jarrod kept me as comfy as possible, he's an amazing partner! Around 2:45 it finally became time to push.... We were prepared to push a few times and have a baby since it went so well with G.

ONE HOUR LATER, still no baby. We discovered he was face up instead of face down which meant he was working against me trying to push him out! I was defeated. Exhausted. Frustrated. I had lost hope that I could deliver this baby.

My doctor decided we needed to take a break... She came back in around 4:15 and was very serious with me. She said "Lindsey you have 15 minutes to push this baby out or I'm doing a csection"... That's what it took. At 4:42 pm on 11/16/14 I pushed out Asher Boone Evans!

Of course the drama doesn't stop there.....baby boy had the cord around his neck and my doctor immediately cut it off and freed him. She held him up so we could see the gender and he had his legs crossed! An eternity (or 5 seconds) later I saw it was a him and proclaimed "ITS A BOY!!!".

My doctor began to hand him to me and he acted like he was choking and his eyes rolled back. Scary few minutes there but the nursery nurses stimulated and suctioned him and he let out a whimper, music to our ears! 

Once we laid eyes on him we knew he was a big boy. He tipped the scales at 10 pounds and 3 ounces, he was 22 inches long. I'm still in shock I birthed a 10 pound baby!!

Asher Boone had a very dramatic delivery and we are so thankful God kept his hand on us all! We love our sweet boy and he's definitely a mommas boy!!

Blessed.