I wake up on Thursday
November 1st at 750 am with shooting pains in my lower back. I look at Shai and
tell him, it’s happening today, something isn’t right. Within minutes the pain
starts wrapping around from my back to my lower abdomen and it is actually
crippling. It comes and goes and I try breathing in between to help ease the
pain. I decided to walk over to Liats and see what she thinks and as I walk in
a contraction hits and I burst into tears. Poor Tyler sees and gets so sad
asking why is Tati crying…Seriously, kill me!!!! Liat said I’m defintely going
into labor and started timing the pains. They were coming every 5 minutes,
lasting about a minute and went on for over an hour. HOLY SHIT I though…I’m
gonna have a baby today!!! I call Dr Kim who suggests I go up to Mt Sinai right
away as they are backed up from all the NYU patients. I finish packing my bag
and Shai tells me he needs to go to Starbucks and get a coffee!! I saw fear and
excitement in his eyes and knew I needed to stay calm and let him get some air
before his life was about to change forever. Liat helped me get everything
together and just a few minutes later my dad was driving us uptown to have our
baby! We check into Mt Sinai and 20 minutes later were put in a birthing room
(it really pays to have a doctor with connections at the hospital). About 10
minutes later Dr Kim came in and I could not have been happier to see her. She
did an exam and I was only 3 cm dilated so we knew we had some time. I couldn’t
handle the pain anymore so we decide to get the epidural right away. The anesthesiologist
comes in and I swear this guy looks like he’s 16. Shai sees my face and turns
to him and says “I gotta ask, how old are you and have you ever done this
before”. He reassured us he’s done many and that he was only the assistant and
the real anesthesiologist would be there any minute. He set everything up and
the doctor came in and told me to slouch over, relax my back and take a deep
breath. Dr Kim told Shai to sit down and not watch as she held my face in her
hands and talked me through it (I told you guys she’s amazing). I did as I was
told and before I knew it, it was over. I hardly felt any pain at all, just
them threading the catheter into my spine but seriously no pain. In my eyes,
the worst was over and it was nothing! For the next 6 hours I felt nothing,
contractions came and went and I was happy as can be. They put in the catheter
while I was watching Housewives of Atlanta and I felt like I was watching TV in
my bed at home, nice and comfy. Liat and Shai were in the room the whole time
and we were all just hanging out and chatting. Come 4pm I wasn’t dilating
enough so Dr Kim had them put Pitocin into the IV to get things going. She told
me once it started working and we got up to 10 cm we would start pushing but I
had at least 3 hours. Well at 645pm a pain hit me like a brick. I was literally
holding onto the rails of the bed crying in pain- the epidural was wearing
off!!! I panicked and needed someone to fix this asap. Shai got the nurse and soon
my epidural was being “topped off” and I felt a calmness wash over me- ahhh
pain free again. I still don’t understand why ANYONE in their right mind would
go through this with no epidural. It hurt like a bitch and I’m not interested
in feeling that kind of pain. At 730 Dr Kim walks in with her scrubs and
announces its time to push. My heart stopped with fear and excitement, it was
really happening. With Liat holding one leg, Shai the other and Dr Kim and a
nurse down south we were going to begin. She gave me instructions on how to
push, one cleansing breath followed by 3 ten second pushes without breathing while
pushing (only in between to catch my breath) and I was sure I would be a
champion at it. Well I was dead wrong, I freakin sucked!! Who knew pushing
could be so hard?! I was told the baby would make his way down a little during
the first 2 pushes then go back up during the 3rd…Great! Liat and
Shai decided that bawling me out during pushes would make me angry and make me
a better pusher so during each push I had each of them yelling in my ear PUSH,
YOU SUCK, YOU’RE UGLY, YOURE NEVER GONNA LOSE THE BABY WEIGHT and all other
comments that would work me up. Well it didn’t work because I kept breaking my
push with bouts of laughter at how ridiculous this all was. It was like a
freakin circus in there! And for inquiring minds, no I didn’t not shit on the
table, not even once (probably because I was the worst pusher in history) After
about an hour of this Dr Kim realized it wasn’t going to happen but told me we
were getting this baby out without a C Section and we needed some backup. She
had another doctor come and when the 2 of them re-entered the room I knew it
was game time. Dr Kim had a gown over her scrubs and a table with a lot of
tools came in with her. The other doctor got up on a stool next to me and told
me she was going to push down on my stomach to help ease the baby out. Liat got
pushed to the side to make room so her crazy ass decides to stand on a chair in
the corner with the camera in one hand and the video camera in the other. Every
time I looked up at her she was making cringing faces at me, you can only imagine
how reassuring that was!
Before I knew it I heard Dr
Kim yell that the babies head was out and I needed 2 more pushes. Within
minutes I heard the most amazing noise of my life…my baby was crying!!! I don’t
remember Dr Kim saying it was boy but as he was being placed on my chest I saw
Shai come over and hug us with tears streaming down his face and I lost it. We
were crying and smiling and taking this huge moment in as the nurse played
Happy Birthday on the stereo in the room. It was a moment you just cant
describe until you live it. They took my son off my chest to be weighed and
measured and all that good stuff and I hear Liat say to Shai- OMG, look at
those balls!!! I’m telling you, it was a shit show in there. In the midst of
all this chaos Dr Kim is doing her thing cleaning me up and I see her stitching
and stitching, I asked what the hell was going on down there and she told I had
to have an episiotomy because baby would not fit out. I almost threw up at the
thought of a scissor cutting me open but seems like I had no other option. She
told me its like a C- Section of the vagina, lovely! Once I was all stitched up
our family slowly made their way in to meet our baby boy. Everyone agreed he
has Shais nose and lips with my eyes and small chin but overall is definitely a
Shustik.
After half hour of visitors
Shai and I were taken up to our room, which I was beyond disappointed about.
For $650 a night I could go to the Gansevoort in Turks but instead I’m in a
tiny room with a gross hard chair bed for my husband. But aside from the room,
we were in pure bliss. They brought our baby back in the room and he looked
like a little doll all swaddled up with his little hospital hat on. We couldn’t
stop smiling as it hit us, we just became parents.
Jagger Grey Shustik
November 1st, 2012
@ 9:11pm
7lbs 1oz
20”
And Perfect…
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