Dillon Scott Moore

What an adventure we had with this little boy! I was scheduled to be induced on the 24th of July at 8am. So of course the night before I went into labor on my own. Happens every time. On Thursday July 23rd I started having contractions around 9pm. Scott asked me if we needed to head to the hospital, I said no not yet lets try and get some sleep (0f course I did not sleep but he did). Luckily we were already in Tucson due to having to be there for Dr. Apt that day. Come 2:30am the contractions were about 8-10min apart so we headed to the hospital. They checked me in and found that I was already 6cm and 80% effaced and he was sitting right there. They broke my water in hopes that the baby would come quickly due to my previous history of this happening. This was not the case. When they broke my water the opposite happened. The baby decided to move back up inside of me and flip into a weird posterior position. Along with my cervix moving towards my back. Along with this the contractions came harder and faster and I ended up with Back Labor along with Front labor. And every time I had a contraction the babies heart beat would drop low, just when he would recover I would have another contraction and it would drop low again. Come 7am there was no progress I was still at 6cm and the babies heart beat was going crazy due to the contractions so close together.

The nurses and Dr. were confused at why this was happening and due to the size and frequency of my contractions the baby should have been born. So due to the intense pain I asked for an epidural. I didn't want the epidural just some pain meds. in my I.V. but they could not do that due to the babies irregular heart beat. Once the epidural was in place I was in heaven and completely exhausted since I had been up since 4:30am on the 23rd due going to town for Dr. appointments and it was now 7am on Friday the 24th. The Dr. was hoping that the epidural would help me to relax resulting in the baby descending back into delivery position. This did not happen and his heart beat was getting weaker. So they asked me if I would allow an emergency c-section. At this point I didn't care what they did I just wanted him to be okay and to have the pain over with. So with in minutes of this decision I was rolled from one bed to another and hooked up to all these machines with 10 people around me racing me down to the operating room. My anesthesiologist gave me some other type of medicine that completely numbed me from the shoulders down. Once I was in the operating room Dillon was out a min later it was so quick and crazy but such a relief to have him out. They found that he was in tangled in the umbilical cord and it was wrapped tightly around his neck. He had bruises on the front of his neck from the cord squeezing him. The Dr. said had he been born naturally he would most likely have been strangled. They also believed that the reason he was not descending down again was due to the cord restricting him every time I had a contraction.

Scott decided to stay out of the delivery room due to everything happening so quickly and tons of people in there working on me. Needless to say we are both fine, and never ever want to experience anything like that again!! C-sections hurt so badly!! I feel like I was hit by a train and someone tried to put me back together again. I slept for 2 days in the hospital after he was born and I have been sleeping off and on since and it is 5days later and I can hardly move or walk. I am not allowed to lift, bend, clean, cook, carry or do anything but sit on my butt for 2weeks!! I am happy to say that we are both doing good and healing quickly. Dillon is such a sweet and peaceful baby and so far an excellent sleeper! Love at first Sight

My anesthesiologist took these pictures for me with his camera phone.

Quade and Dillon

He was so happy to hold him, and was laughing

whenever baby Dill would try and suck on his hands.

Dillon Scott Moore

8lbs 1oz 20inches
9:01am July 24th 2009


Here we are right after he was pulled out of me.
I was numb from my shoulders down and super drowsy
but so glad he was okay and finally out!