Details of Luke's Birth

So, I have a few minutes to fill everyone in on our exciting week so far! I woke up about 4:15am Sunday morning and informed Jonathan that I thought my water had broke. So, away we went (again) to the hospital. We were in triage for a while, as they had to do some tests to make sure my water had broken, since it was just a leak. After a couple hours they determined my water had broke and they moved us into a labor and delivery room. My contractions had started shortly after 4:15am, but they weren't by any means hard yet. My parents came to the hospital around 10am and we just sort of hung out, playing euchre and what not. It took FOREVER for me to make any progress. I was dilating about one centimeter every four to five hours. Around 2pm they decided to start the pitocin. That didn't really speed things up too much, unfortunately. By 5pm, though, I was ready for the epideral! Once they got that all in place, I was good to go for a while. :)
Sometime after the epidural, they kept increasing my pitocin and broke my water the rest of the way to try and speed things up. My contractions just weren't close enough together to do much. Needless to say, it was a LONG day! Sometime early Monday morning my nurse (who was so amazing!) told me I was dilated to nine and that she was calling my doctor. I started pushing at 3:30am. After about a half hour, Dr. Delapp told me I'd have to have my epideral decreased since I wasn't feeling enough to push well. Once they decreased my epideral, I began to think my life was going to end. I was in so much pain and was absolutely exhausted! After nearly three hours of pushing, Luke did finally make his arrival at 6:10am. I was so tired, I could not even keep my eyes open to see what they were doing with him. All in all, I did survive, though at the moment I never want to go through that again!
I was discharged from the hospital late Wednesday night (right before midnight) but Luke had to stay until Thursday. Because my water broke, they were concerned about possible infection and did a routine blood test on Luke right after he was born. It showed his blood was contaminated, so they had to start him on anitbiotics and do another blood test, which wouldn't show results for 48 hours. I spent the night in the waiting room Wednesday night so I could still nurse him through the night. Fortunately, the test came back fine (Dr. Delapp thought all along the test was just a false positive) and Luke was discharged early Thursday afternoon. We were so happy to bring him home!
Wow, that is quite the post, so if you've made it this far, kudos to you! :) We are doing pretty well with Luke at home. My parents are here until tomorrow, which has been a blessing. He is sleeping somewhat at night, but I am going on little to no sleep. Maybe I'll go take a nap right now! :)