• Baby Boy

    Handsome Hank: A Birth Story* (Part 4)

    Olivia arrived around 11:15am, just as Anna and the nurses were helping me back into the bed. I asked again about the epidural, and Olivia told me that I needed to have some blood work done before it could be started. She assured me that if the anesthesiologist arrived before the results were back they could try and get things started anyway. To help me in the interim, she also brought me a tank of laughing gas to help me cope with the contractions until the epidural kicked in. Olivia went to work trying to start an IV when the Hubster made it back to our room. She tried to…