Birth Stories!

Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:39 pm

Share your birth stories here! Tell us all about your little one(s) journey into the world and your experiences. Feel free to share pictures of that gorgeous baby (babies)!

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Two angel babies 04/2011, 08/2011

Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:22 pm

Your Name/Screenname: Krysten/Krysten25
Baby's Name: Kinnley Abigail
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 08/21/2012
Original Due Date: 09/05/2012
Weeks Pregnant: 38
Baby's Weight: 6lbs 15oz
Baby's Height: 18.75 inches

Birth Story or link to Birth Story:
I started havijng extremely painful contractions on 8/20/12 at 1pm. I rode them out to make sure it wasn't false labor. With every contraction came horrible cramps, nausea and diarrhea. I dealt with this for about an hour and a half before my body was completely void of any nutrients and I finally fell asleep. I slept for about 4 hours and woke up later that evening still contracting, but not as bad as before. I continued to contract throughout the night, about 5-7 minutes apart. At around 3am, I woke up and felt and heard a huge pop in my belly. I trickled a little fluid, but I also peed, so I wasn't too worried about it. I fell back to sleep and woke up at 7am to start the day. I noticed that I was still contracting and that they were very consistently timed to every 5 minutes. I called my OB, packed our hospital bag and we headed to L&D. Once we got there, my contractions were a hundred times stronger. They were off the charts in intensity and within 30 minutes of arrival, they were 2 minutes apart. OB called and said we were having a c-section right then. It all happened very fast. We got set up, MIL came to take care of our youngest and we went in. C-section did not take long at all. Kinnley was born at 12:41pm She is in NICU right now for monitoring, but she is doing fabulous and will hopefully come up to the room tomorrow. She is so beautiful and we are so smitten with her. Good luck to all of you mommies still awaiting your little bundles of joy. It's so worth the wait!! We are just so in love

Mommy to Baker (4) and Xander (3) <3

My sweet little girl is due Sept, 11th 2012!

Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:18 am

Yay our first birth!! So glad that you are all doing well. Congratulations!

Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:39 am

Yes we are great thank you She is still in the NICU getting antibiotics, but is otherwise totally healthy. I love her so much. I am trying to post a pic, but it's saying my files are too big ugh... Good luck to all of you ladies. <3

Mommy to Baker (4) and Xander (3) <3

My sweet little girl is due Sept, 11th 2012!

Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:43 pm

Awwww yeah! Congratulations hope she is doing good and gets to come home asap!

Fri Aug 24, 2012 8:15 pm

Congratulations!!!!

Mon Aug 27, 2012 7:26 pm

Your Name/Screenname: Amanda/wewadoodlebug
Baby's Name: Madilyn Kate
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 08/18/2012
Original Due Date: 09/08/2012
Weeks Pregnant: 37
Baby's Weight: 6lbs 9oz
Baby's Height: 19.5 inches

Miss Madilyn made quite the entrance! The day before she was born, I just felt off. But I couldn't really figure out why I felt that way, but it wasn't my "pg normal". I decided to take a nap around 11am. When I got up I still didn't feel any better, so I went and took a shower hoping it would help. At 1p, I began to get intense pain in my back...at the time I thought it was back labor. So I started timing them and they became very regular (6-8min) and lasted for about a minute. So I called the nurse line and she instructed me to monitor for an hour and if they continued go to L&D.

They continued, so I called my mom and decided it was time to go get checked. But before we could leave, the pain became constant. This clued me in that something wasn't normal at all!! And then began the 45 minute drive to L&D. That was the most miserable ride of my life!!

When I arrived at L&D, the pain had intensified to the point of be being nauseated and sick. I was in fact contracting, but I felt (the nurse instinct!) and the L&D nurse felt like more was going on than just labor. They did a quick check and I was about 2.5cm and 80%, the day before at my appt I was 2cm. So there was minimal progression. They started giving me something for nausea and pain. The on call Dr for my OB office decided to have them run a renal u/s because she thought that I may have a kidney stone. All the while, pain meds are not touching the pain!

An hour later, the u/s results are back. No kidney stone...Miss Madilyn was putting pressure on my right kidney and ureter, which was blocking the flow of urine. Thanks baby girl . So I was diagnosed with hydronephrosis...and basically there was nothing they could do other than pain management. And during all this I am continuing to have contractions every 2-4 minutes, but the back pain dulled them out completely!

They admitted me to the floor for the night and decided that we would formulate a plan the next day when I saw my midwife. Well...needless to say by 10a the next morning we had not been successful in pain management. My contractions had stopped, but I asked my midwife to do a quick check anyways because I had quite a bit of bloody show that morning. She agreed...and I was 4cm and 90% with a bulging bag. It was at that point we decided to break my water and have a baby. That was the only thing that would improve my kidney issue and the slight risk of immature lungs was better than continuing on Morphine and Dilaudid for pain. By now it is 2p. My plan for natural labor went out the window and I went with the epidural. That was the only way to relieve the kidney pain.

My labor progressed on its own with minimal intervention other than turning side to side. By 9p, I was complete and ready to push. At 10:13p Madilyn made her grand entrance. The most amazing part was that after my midwife delivered the shoulders, I was able to pull her out the rest of the way and bring her up to my chest . My labor experience was amazing...even though it was not quite as planned.

Madilyn did have to spend a couple days in the NICU to rule out a possible infection and jaundice. Other than that she was perfect in every way!!

Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:58 am

Your Name/Screenname: Kris Kris03
Baby's Name: Courtney Ann Elaine & Anthony Christopher
Gender: Female Male
Date of Birth: 07/26/2012
Original Due Date: 09/22/2012
Weeks Pregnant: 31 weeks 4 days
Baby's Weight: Courtney 3lbs 10ozs, Anthony 3lbs 12 oz
Baby's Height: both 16.5

Thursday July 26th, Started out as any ordinary summer day. Nathan, Mackenzie, Zachary and Dylan were all home with me. We all did our daily chores, watched tv, played outside. At around 130pm from coming in and sweating everyone started to take their showers. I took mine at around 215. DH came home at 230. I had went to the bathroom and noticed some blood when i wiped. I got concerned so i called the dr. The nurse there told me to head to the hospital to get evualated. Told DH the plan and went to the neighbor to ask her to sit with the kids. We got in the car and as soon as i sat down contractions started. They were back to back. Of course we hit all the red lights. We left the house at 3 and arrived at the hospital at 345. Went straight to L&D. got into my gown and up on the bed, Then on call Dr came in and examined me said i was 10cm and station 1. There was no time for meds. My OB was on his way from his office. In the meantime they were doing an ultrasound to check how the baby's were postioned. Anthony was transverse and Courtney was head down ready to make her entrance. My dr got there and we were off to the OR. I had Courtney vagnially at 4:20pm, after she was born the dr tried his hardest to turn Anthony around but couldn't. So i needed a c-section for him. I was put under and DH was kicked out of the OR. Anthony was born at 4:34pm. Both babies were in the NICU, they recieved steriod shots for their lungs. They were both on the c-pat machines. Anthony got off his first, Courtney took it upon herself to take her own out. They did amazing. Dr's were so impressed how well they are. They were/are talk of the hospital. All the tests they had came back with excellent results.

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Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:05 pm

Your Name/Screenname: AandJmami/Aleta
Baby's Name: J'Leigh Arianna
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 08/25/2012
Original Due Date: 09/10/2012
Weeks Pregnant: 37 weeks and 4 days
Baby's Weight: 6lbs 9oz
Baby's Height: 18 inches

OKay on wednesday I went into the dr and he stripped my membranes or tried to but since I was hollering so bad, I dont know how much he got. Started contractions so next day went into labor and delivery. NOTHING. So went into drs friday he told me I wasnt ready to be induced, I had only dialted a half of centimeter (i had to deliver by 38 weeks because of my high blood pressure and diabetes). I creid coz I was in all this pain, so dr said if I didnt go into labor by monday we was going to be inducing on monday. So I went to my sisters house so I can just try and calm down after I dropped my mom off on retreat about an hour away from the house. I went home and made plans with my best friend to go to teacher appreciation day and out to lunch and such. So about 430 I went to go to the bathroom and felt somthing gush down my legs. I thought it was pee but it did it again so I had to wake up the kids since my mom was gone...she was my back up. I get to the hospital (df was at work he met me there) and they admitted me. Blood pressure shot up but the contractions wasnt doing much at the time, so they started me on pitocyn.

At about 930 the contractions got so bad they said I can have an epidural. They checked me again and I had only dialted 2 centimeters. so it took about 45 minutes to do the epidural because my spine has some arthritis from an accident years ago, but as they were putting the medicine in, i told them I had to go to the bathroom and it felt like I had to do a poop, which I did on the third poop push (i know tmi) the nurse looks down and goes OM GOSH there is her head and went rushing out to find help. no doctors were on the floor so three nurses came in and helped delivered her. Man the pressure was so intense.

But as soon as the shoulders came out I felt so much better! She was surely worth the wait and I am so glad she is here! So of course everyone was talking about how fast and quick she came and no one beleived that Iw as only two centimeters dialated getting an epidural that I didnt even get to use. LOL

Good luck everyone!

Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:24 am

I love reading these! Thanks for sharing ladies.

Aleta, I didn't know you had your daughter. Congrats! And I'm impressed with how fast she came.

Our little one is due September 22, 2012!

Fri Aug 31, 2012 6:47 pm

Your Name/Screenname: Hillary/Hill
Baby's Name: Isaiah
Gender: male
Date of Birth: 8/29/12
Original Due Date: 9/3/12
Weeks Pregnant: 39
Baby's Weight: 6lbs 15oz
Baby's Height: 21 inches

Birth Story or link to Birth Story:
I ended up choosing to be induced due to my blood pressure being a little bit higher at my 39 week appointment on Tuesday. My midwife said she already had a lot of inductions scheduled for the week, but she could start it that night if we were game. We agreed and were to return at 3 pm that day to get started. My midwife checked me at the appointment, and I was 2 cm and 50% effaced. My 2 year old daughter had had a fever a few days before that, and was complaining of pain with urination, so we ended up taking her to the pediatrician at 2:15 (turns out she had roseola), and made it upstairs to start the induction at 3:15. They started an IV, and got all the admission paperwork done, and then my midwife came in at 4:45 and inserted cervadil. She informed me earlier in the office that she likes to insert the cervadil for 12 hours and let her patients get a good nights rest in the process. I had regular, but very mild contractions all night. The RN came in at 4:30 am to remove the cervadil, and checked me and said that I was still 2 cm. I was so disgusted that I told my husband that it was a mistake to be induced and I just wanted to go home. My midwife came in at about 7 am and checked me and found that I was 3 almost 4 cm. She said we would start Pitocin. I relayed my concerns to her about the Pitocin like I had heard that it can bring on very strong and painful contractions. She explained to me that it is not so much that the contractions are stronger or more painful, it just brings the stronger and more regular contractions faster. We started my fluid and Pitocin at about 8:30 am, and my contractions immediately got stronger and very regular, but not really painful at all. My RN came in when I had finished about half of my bag of fluid and said that the anesthesiologist would be in between OR cases if I wanted my epidural. I explained to her that my contractions really didn't hurt, and I didn't want to get it too soon, but she explained that I may have to wait until his next OR case was over if I elected to wait, so I decided that I would just take it whenever he came. I had pretty much just finished my fluids when he came in. They prepped me, but it took 3 attempts to get the epidural in. It was pretty painful, and I kept having nerve pains shoot down my left leg with the first two tries. But once it was in, all was good. My midwife came in and checked me right after getting the epidural, and I was dilated to almost 5 with bulging waters, so she ruptured my membranes at that time. After the epidural kicked in, I had no more pain from that point on. About an hour later they came and checked and I was at 7 cm. Not long after that, the little guy started having pretty significant decelerations with each contraction. His heart rate was going down to the 60s, and quickly recovering at first, but then each time they would last longer and longer. The RN checked and said I was still at 7 but stretchy to 8 cm, and they called my midwife to come up immediately. I then had to put the oxygen mask on and turn on my left side, and my RN lifted both my knees to my chest to open my pelvis to take the pressure off of the cord. By the time my midwife came up to the room not even 5 minutes later she checked and I was fully dilated and ready to push. It took probably about 5 minutes of pushing (and unfortunately a small episiotomy which couldn't be helped) and he shot out like a t-shirt out of one of those t-shirt cannons at a concert:) They put him on my chest, but he was pretty blue, so they took him almost right away. His heart rate came up very quickly and he pinked right up. I fell in love immediately, and my daughter absolutely loves him:)

I told my midwife before all the deceleration nonsense started that if all my labors would be that easy I would have 100 babies...lol! He's such a good baby so far that I still feel the same way! He's so content and laid back:) God is good!!!

Our little guy!

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Fri Aug 31, 2012 6:51 pm

Sorry everyone...I didn't realize how painfully long that was until I submitted it:)

Sat Sep 01, 2012 6:22 pm

It was not too long Hillary, I loved reading it. I love long detailed birth stories! Congrats everyone!!

Mon Sep 03, 2012 3:21 pm

Your Name/Screenname: Alicia/AliciaMarie
Baby's Name: Benjamin Lucas
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 08/27/2012
Original Due Date: 09/09/2012
Weeks Pregnant: 38w1d
Baby's Weight: 7lbs 1oz
Baby's Height: 19 3/4 inches

I woke up that morning to a lot of discharge but this time the discharge at blood clots inside the mucus (TMI)! I had my 38 week appointment that morning so I decided to tell her then. When I got to the doctors the medical assistant told me she was going to strip my membranes today, which got me very excited!! The doctor came in and checked me and said I was 4-5cm and 80%, she told me that I would be having the baby that night so we went ahead and had her strip my membranes. I came home from the doctors and didn't sit for one second. I started to get crampy before I left the office but my doctor told me to keep moving so I will keep dilating. Once we got home I did the laundry and cleaned the house, walked my house multiple times and packed my bag and my girls bag to stay at my mothers. By 1pm (my appointment was at 10am) I was starting to get some good pains but still kept doing the laundry and keeping myself moving. My 3 year old and I did 25 jumping jacks just to make sure he would be coming out that night!! By 2pm I called my husband to come home and my mom to come over as well. We called our babysitter to watch my girls since I wanted my mother in the delivery room. By 3pm we were on our way to the hospital. We got there and they had 2 nurses check me and they couldn't figure out how much I was dilated, which NEVER happened to me before. So the doctor finally came in and said I was a strong 5cm and 80%. She broke my water, which never gushed just trinkled. I wasn't having strong contractions at all so I got to walk around a little but because the babys heartrate was cooperating with the machines I had to stay in my room I bounced on the birthing ball and was laughing with everyone. My husband kept saying aren't you suppose to be in pain? By 6pm nothing was really going on so they gave me a little bit of pitocin to help things along. It took a little while but the contractions started to kick in but were still manageable. By 8pm they were extremely strong. Since I was a VBAC they wouldn't allow me to move too much because they needed to keep an eye on me very well and because the baby was moving so much they couldn't get his heartrate for longer than 3 minutes on the monitor so even though I wanted to be birthing in a tub I had to do it in bed. They had to put an internal monitor on him to keep track of his heartrate though. I had a great support team though, my nurse was amazing and my mother and husband were all great in keeping me focused on relaxing since I didn't get an epidural and never wanted one. The room was always so quiet and peaceful during labor, I didn't scream or yell just was breathing through the pain. Finally at 10:15pm I wanted to push but because I had no pain medicine my body was pushing involunteraly. They had to keep me focused out breathing because the doctor wasn't around. I had 3 contractions of trying to stop my pushing to wait for the doctor. When she finally got in the room it was super fast and 4 pushes later Benjamin was born at 10:28pm. It was absolutely amazing and I got to pull him out and put him on my stomach. My husband cut the cord and watched everything, he never could stomach it before with our girls. I feel so blessed to have a little boy now and he is just so sweet and content. He is very easy going and his big sisters love him so much. Adjusting to having a newborn in the house isn't that bad either! I am extremely proud of myself for keeping a calming atmosphere and no pain medicine while having him and almost completely got the labor that I had wanted.

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Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:49 pm

Your Name/Screenname: Stacey/number2ontheway!
Baby's Name: Arianna Darlene
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 09/06/2012
Original Due Date: 09/09/2012
Weeks Pregnant: 39w4d
Baby's Weight: 10lbs 13oz
Baby's Height: 22 inches


Well the day started normal, I was getting excited because I was going to get induced on friday, and I was done! I got up got my girls ready took my oldest to kindergarten, and then came home and started feeling blah really crampy and bad back pain, but nothing timeable at all. So i relaxed, I knew I would have her that day. I got my daughters lunch ready and then put her to bed for a nap, I got in the tub thinking ok, if this is false it will go away, well it didnt, I went to get out and my water broke, so I called my husbsnd told him it was time and to hurry home. The next 30 minutes was choas. I went from just feeling blah to full on labor contractions every minute lasting for a minute, I was so scared, I didnt want to have her at home! lol I kept calling my husband and of course there was trafic in houston on his way home so he road the shoulder the whole way home. I called EMS because I knew that he might not make it home in time and my second daughters labor and delivery was only 4 hours total time. So my mother in law rushed over, picked up my daughter, EMS and my husband arrived about 2 minutes apart i got in the ambulance and was off to the hospital. When i got there i was put in a room with other moms, i kept telling them, look I am going to have this baby SOON. You need to call my dr. andf I need to get into a room. They took there time, but as soon as a nurse came in she checked me and i was at 7cm. They took me into a room and got me prepped, before i knew it I told them I was ready and she was out in about 10 minutes. She did turn face down which was one of our concerns! We had to stay in the hospital for an extra day because of her size, they tested her blood sugars ans everything was normal, she was just big! We are at home and she is doing amazing!

Arianna 1 day old

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Arianna 3 days old

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Wed Sep 12, 2012 7:25 am

Stacey she is so cute and love that blue outfit. I am getting induced this Friday and I am hoping I end up going before then. I would like her to pick her birthday but we will see if she decides it's time or not. Glad everything went well and that you got to the hospital on time!

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Wed Sep 12, 2012 4:36 pm

Your Name/Screenname: Nikki NMK88
Baby's Name: Henry
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 9/9/2012
Original Due Date: 09/08/2012
Weeks Pregnant: 40
Baby's Weight: 8lbs 11oz
Baby's Height: 20 inches

9/8/12 @ 11:30 pm felt leaking, thought water may have broken. But only a trickle so not sure. By about 4am (on 9/9) I was sure because the trickle continued. Went in to hospital with hubby to get checked out. Doc thought water had not broken because no pooling, but did fern test and confirmed that yes water had broken. They admitted me and my doc came to see me, he started me on pit because I had NO signs of labor starting that point except I was 3cm & 70% effaced, but I was not contracting. I was scared because I had originally planned on no IV. So they officially started pit at around 7am and I started having contractions at about 9:15am. My doc thought I'd deliver by 5pm. By that evening I was not progressing NEARLY as I should've been considering I had pit running at 10, and since my membranes had already ruptured they were worried about infection. At this point the nurse on day shift had just left and said I was about 8cm, the night shift nurse thought 7cm, and my doc said I was only 6cm. He said I needed to have a C-section. I was horrified. I didn't even want an IV, let alone medication, or a spinal, or a major surgery! So after having a few minutes of panic I got over it enough for them to get me prepped, my husband couldn't come back for the spinal, but came back for the actual C-section. It seemed like no time at all had passed and my baby was out! Our baby was born at 10:39pm on 9/9. I heard him cry and watched him go over to get weighed. My husband held his hand while they repaired me. He breast fed right away once we were all back in the recovery room! We stayed the night in the hospital on 9/9 (after he was born), and 9/10. We were home around 2pm on 9/11 and everyone is doing great

Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:18 pm

Your Name/Screenname: Lacy/ltruitt0705
Baby's Name: Konan Allen
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 09/10/2012
Original Due Date: 09/12/2012
Weeks Pregnant: 39w 5d
Baby's Weight: 7lbs 9oz
Baby's Height: 19.5 inches

Sunday (9th) my husband and I decided to do LOTS of walking to try and help induce labor. We ended up walking well over an hour (split into 3 walks). On Monday morning I woke up around 6am, and realized I was having contractions. I woke my hubby up and I told him I thought that they were the real deal, and started timing them. They were still around 12minutes apart, so my husband went ahead and went into work. He called me around 9 and asked how I was doing and I said I was still having them, but they werent getting any closer. He decided it was time to go in and get checked anyways... When we got to the hospital I was dilated to a 4, and my contractions were coming every 2-4min, but I wasnt feeling them all. They wanted me to progress to a 5 before they would admit me. After 2 hours I finally progressed enough for them to keep me, but every time they checked me they kept saying that my bag of fluid felt like it would bust at any time. Once I had progressed they quickly got me prepped for an epidural. But I had about 5 hours of 1.5-2min contractions before I got the epidural. Once it was in and going I was good, and progressed quickly. I did however request to lay on my side and when I did his heartrate dropped to 1/2 of what they wanted it to be. Anytime they re-positioned me it dropped. Pretty scary! So they had to leave me in this kind of weird 1/2 back-1/2 side position. Since I felt NO pain/pressure (except for one spot on my upper ribs) and dilated to a 10! The doctor allowed me to "labor down" (still no broken water). When one of the nurses came in to check me she messed with my water enough to break it, and they called the doctor in. He was crowning by the time she was in there, and I only had to push for maybe 35min. I had an amazing epidural because I felt nothing. No pain, no pressure, nada. I couldnt even feel my contractions to know when to push, so they allowed me to push with every other contraction. Awesome doctors, awesome nurses, awesome experience. And now we have the most precious baby boy!

Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:50 pm

Name: Sherri/ RnSherrib
Edd- sept 28
Born- sept 19
Name: Alexander Reed Bookamer
Time: 1104pm
Weight: 8lb6oz
Length: 21"



Ummmm.... Kinda a surprise... (tmi) DTD, then 956pm started contracting, 1015 told DH to make sure DD was packed and  be dropped off at a friends house. I was having contractions so bad I stayed
In bathroom ( wasn't sure if
My water had broken). Got to hospital by
1050,
Went to change, couldn't get off potty so much pressure. They rushed me off the potty to a triage bed, I was 100%, +1 station, my DH tells me they ran down the hallway with me to a delivery room, and within two pushes Alexander Reed was out. ( no epidural, and some tearing) baby boy is feisty. Grabbing at everything. Even pulled the paper
Measuring tape
They use in half!!!!!  He is quite the wriggler!!!!!!  

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Sun Sep 23, 2012 3:12 pm

Your Name/Screenname: Sumaya's mama
Baby's Name: Sabriya Maram
Gender: Female
Date of Birth:09-21-12
Original Due Date: 10-04-12
Weeks Pregnant: 38
Baby's Weight: 7lbs
Baby's Height: 19 inches

I was having "contractions" on and off for about 2 weeks on the 14th they seemed to get pretty regular throughout the night and when i went to my dr appt the next weds, i was dialated to 3 and 90 percent effaced. Well needless to say the office had forgotten to do my GBS, so i had to come back on Thurdsay. I told the nurse i had another day and night worth of contraction. She checked me and I was at a 4 and she could feel her head. Throughout the day they started to get more regular and closer together, so at 6ish, I had my husband take me to L and D triage. They checked me and I was at about 4 1/2. SInce i was only 38 weeks at that time they would not really do anything to speed up my labor, so after 2 hours (1 hour of walking) and no change they sent me home.

When i got home the contractions started to get a bit harder. I tried to lay down but couldn't sleep. I took a bath and a shower and just tried to ride them out. I kept second guessing on whether or not i should go back. FInally at 3 am i couldnt stand them any longer and we started out for the hospital. In my driveway i screamed bloody murder during one!! LOL....So we get to the hospital and up to emergency. Security comes up with a wheelchair and my husband goes to park the car. He asks if i want to wait for someone and i am like no...get me up there!!! As soon as i get up there the midwife remembers me and says she is getting the bed ready. i go in there and start ripping my clothes off...freaking out!!! "I can't have another natural child birth!!! Well needless to say, when i got the gown on and she checked me i was at 9...then my water breaks and i have that intense urge to push... and she is like "She is delivering"!! THen i totally freak out. there is like 10 nurses and they push me out of triage to delivery and my daughter is born at 3:36 am. My husband comes up to Triage and they come out and say.."she already had the baby"!!!

Though the natural childbirth is a lot more painful, my recovery is going great. I only had 1 stitch. I was able to nurse my daughter, take a shower and move to another room within an hour. Sabriya is doing great..we were discharged on saturday morning. Now all i have to do is get her to realize that just because she was born at 3 am doesn't mean she needs to be up allllll nite and sleep all day!!!

Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:46 pm

o will post a quick birth story!
Kellan Peter
born 9/16
due 9/16
9lbs .6oz
20 1/2 inches long.

Sept 15th I went to bed exhausted after two days of amazing nesting energy, I told my husband Labor is right around the corner. Everytime I woke up to pee I had tons of mucus. The last time I got up at 5:45ish am, there was darker blood in mucus. So I knew something was new, no more pink, this was serious! 10 minutes later I had pain with a braxton hicks contraction, which never happend before. I thought maybe I had to fart lol. They between 10 to 20 minutes apart most the day and were hardly painful, but he blood kept coming in the mucus all day, so I was hopeful that if I was continuing to make progress and it wasnt just a fluke. my contractions werent getting more powerful with walking or anything. I was worried it wasnt real labor. My sister made me go to the hospital because at 3 pm, my contractions were 8min apart and by 4pm they were continually 4min apart. I didnt want to go because I was still walking and talking through them all. But I went in and I was almost a 5cm. So I was glad she made me go. I walked and talked through almost my whole labor until all of a sudden they were getting super strong, I still talked through them, but I couldnt walk through them. I told my hubby this is when I would have thought to come in. So I asked for my IV fluids and the shower, incase I needed the epi. Well While in the shower I could feel my body pushing, I tried not to let it. It was he weirdest most painful feeling ever. I called the nurse, I was in so much pain, they rushed the epi in, all the while I was trying not to push the baby out. they dont do routine checks during labor there unless you have an epi and stuff like that. I got the epi and she checked me at 9cm with a bulging bag, called my dr in ASAP. He got there 15min later broke the bag, decided to let the contractions help bring him down, 20 minutes later he came in and said lets push!! 2 1/2 contractions later Kellan was born. My hubby go tot deliver him. I am so glad I didnt go in with the "cant talk or walk through them rule" other wise I would have been an hour away from pushing!! It was amazing even with the epi, I could move my legs, feel the crowing, the pressure, and the babies body coming out, it was so awesome. and it was painful still, but an exciting tolerable pain! If I have more kids I will never ever labor that far without an epi again. that was the craziest thing ever. but it was exciting and quick and I wouldnt change it for the world!

Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:46 pm

Aubree Grace
Due: 9/24/12
Birthday: 9/26/12
Weight: 9LB 6oz
Height: 20.5in

Woke up Tuesday with contractions every 4 minutes. Went to the grocery store with my mom, still contractions every 4 minutes. Had my Dr appt at 1:45, we got there early and i let the front desk know how close they were and i was uncomfortable and unable to wait a long time, they got me back and the doctor was in to see me within minutes. There was a student with him, who checked my cervix letting me know i was still only 3cm and 80% efaced. I broke down crying and at this point my contractions were much worse. They doctor tried to schedule me to be induced that night but there were too many moms who havnt delivered and so they scheduled me for the next night, Wednesday. Once we got home i was in to much pain. I walked a little up and down my driveway, took a warm bath, squatted with contractions (gave me a little relief). My neighbor is a labor and delivery nurse so i let her know if they didn't lighten up or go away i would be in, i wanted to wait as long as i could. 7:30 rolled around feeling worse thenever i decided it was time. My husband got a shower my mom came over and off to the hospital. Got there around 8:30, still only 3cm and now 80-90% effaced. I had to walk for 30mins to see if there would any changes before they could admit me,once done walking i was about 4cm and 90%effaced with a bulging bag. They admitted me at 9:30 and i was given iv dulaudid to help with contractions which were coming now every 2-3minutes. Waiting to hear if i could get the epidural, my wbc count was 20, highest it can be to get it is 19 so it was up to the anestesiologist. My neighbor was my nurse, i couldn't have been luckier. She came in around 2or3 lettin me know i couldn't get the epidural and i had to deliver natural because the dulaudid slowed my contractions down too much. I was so upset and in so much pain. At 5am i went to bathroom and was vomiting, i was about 8 cm, mins later water broke 10cm and i had to push. My nurse was hands deep massaging me with every push to prevent ripping as much as possible. After an hr and half of pushing my baby girl was born. Only 1or2 little stitches but horrible hemmroids (tmi sry) i can't believe i did it all natural. My little girl is so perfect.

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Sun Sep 30, 2012 10:00 pm

Your Name/Screenname: April/ Acartercpc
Baby's Name: Jacob (Jake) Landon
Gender: male
Date of Birth: 09/17/2012
Original Due Date: 9/21/2012
Weeks Pregnant: 39.3
Baby's Weight: 7 lb 1 oz
Baby's Height: 18 inches

This baby was a surprise baby and boy did he come in with a bang. My body tried miscarrying early in the pregnancy (i had just found out my grandfather only had months to live-that same day i started bleeding) but this little one stuck! DH and I were on the natural family planning method of birth control since the arrival of our dd in 2004. the method worked great, we had a planned son in 2006 and continued on with this method. my cycles were not regular but i had a fairly good idea of when i ovulated each month. I got really sick fall of 2011 and in december 2011 i had surgery. little did i know between being sick and the surgery i miscalculated my ovulation and DH and i had a little fun on christmas day and ended up conceiving this baby. We freaked out at first because we have no maternity insurance (we never were able to get any either! so i owe thousands, but it's worth it) my grandfather ended up passing when i was 16 weeks pregnant and that was hard to deal with knowing this baby wouldn't ever get to meet his great grandpaw . the pregnancy was uneventful other than me having gallbladder problems and then at 28 weeks i started measuring small. By 39 weeks i was measuring 5 weeks small but baby showed to be healthy on every ultrasound (and the measurements were accurate for me, at 37 weeks ultrasound had baby weighing 6.8 and he was born 7.1 two weeks later) come to find out my uterus wasn't growing properly because it had adhered to my bladder (i had two previous c-sections and massive scar tissue) okay so skip to the day of the birth. DH and I arrive at hospital at 7 and get back to l and d by 7:45. dr comes in and says he can move me up from my 9:00 because he's ready to roll. considering this was my third section i knew what to expect and to be honest i was dreading it because my second section was a really bad experience from the surgery to the recovery where i ended up with an infection and was in severe pain. so needless to say i was expecting the same bad experience again. But i was wrong! I was more calm during the surgery and didn't get nauseated or anything. it took a while for the dr to get to the baby because of the scar tissue and the adhesions on my bladder but once he pulled little one out and i heard that first cry i cried like a baby! (i spent the whole pregnancy convinced something was wrong with him) when the dr showed me my little love bug i couldn't believe it. DH immediately started snapping pictures. i was surprised to know he was only 18 inches, my shortest yet, but he's made up for that since then! the recovery wasn't as bad either. of course that first day and night were uncomfortable but i'm 13 days out now and am feeling much like my old self. the tubal gives me more pain the the section. There for the first week i regretted my tubal but now that the hormones have settled i'm much more at peace with it. i can't believe this baby is here .he's the perfect addition to our family and dd and ds love on him constantly. he lost down to 6.4 before we let the hospital but now at 13 days old he's up to 7.10 and is a champion nurser!! and thankfully my nipples have healed and toughened up. now we just have to adjust to having three kids, which is a bit more hectic than i anticipated but we will get in the groove before too long. wow i can't believe i just posted my birth story! how time flies!!!!!

Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:38 pm

My birth story! I went to bed around 10:30, and at some point between 11 pm and 1:30 am I was awakened three separate times by what I was sure was stomach cramps. I had gone to bed with no contractions at all and nothing changed, so I knew it wasn’t labor. I awoke at 1:40 or so with no clue why until the contraction hit. I knew it wasn’t cramps then! They went to 5 minutes apart and I couldn’t sleep between them or through them so I got up. When I was moving around they came 1-2 minutes part. We called the midwife at 3:15 or so and told her, and she headed over.

An hour after she arrived, the midwife checked me and I was dilated to 7 cm, baby was low and we were getting there! The birth team arrived around 7 and my labor stalled a bit due to the influx of people. I labored peacefully, chatting and joking with everyone. I snacked, it was a relaxed labor. I as 100% present. I was 8 cm after a couple of hours but stalled again for a bit. I did a lot of walking and squatting through contractions to bring things on. I went into the dreamy labor state for about an hour or so and really enjoyed laboring in my bathroom leaning on the counter. They had filled the birth pool earlier but my stalling made that unnecessary for the moment.
The pressure became intense and I began to feel for the first time that I couldn’t handle it unless something changed. I kept telling them I thought my body wanted to push, but they figured that wasn’t likely considering my labor pattern, my shorter contractions and such. I was on hands and needs on my living room floor and they asked if I wanted to get into the tub. I said sure, but I needed to have a bm. They grinned at each other and said to get into the tub – they checked me and I was fully dilated! 8 cm to 10 cm in about 2 hours peacefully! I was ready to push before they even knew it. LOL

In the tub I really felt the need to get down to business. My water was still intact and they said I needed to push to break it. Well, that was horrid! The pressure was so intense I didn’t know if I could. Still, two good pushes and I felt a pop and there it went. I chose to turn over and sat partially propped on my hubby. I had a good contraction and pushed and baby’s head peeked out. She had me push carefully through two more contractions, not try to make headway to allow the skin to stretch. On the third, I let loose and while they expected baby to crown but not come out yet, I had her easily crowned on one push and her whole head out on the second. I took a small break then pushed twice for her body – the first push she made no headway past the shoulders, the second with a little assistance she slid right out. My toddler was crying in the background because of the noise I made and was very scared, my MIL would NOT shut up, but Elena was lying on my tummy finally! Her cord was very short so that was as far as she could reach. I held her as they checked her, watching her pink up beautifully and scream out her indignation.

It turns out that while delivering the placenta, my placenta was cracking from age and my cord broke when applying gentle traction. If that had happened in utero baby might not have survived! Also, although I am a crazy strong pusher, I needed help. My midwife said she hates to use the term dystocia but it was likely.

So that was my homebirth! Gentle, peaceful, perfect. 12 hours max of labor, 9 of active labor or less, and 10 minutes of pushing. Four pushes to get baby out! She nursed right away no problem, and I had no issues. We are so thrilled to have had the birth we wanted, and to have it all turn out!

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Two angel babies 04/2011, 08/2011

Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:14 pm

Even though she wasn't my biggest baby (at 9 lbs 12 oz she was the 2nd largest), the combination of posterior presentation and large size made transition and pushing especially difficult for me--my most challenging and longest labor (14 hours). This was our third home birth. I was going to try a water birth this time, but ended up getting out of the birthing pool to help her descend.

The first half of the labor was enjoyable--started out easy with bloody show and light contractions that woke me up. I had been having occasional "practice" contractions (crampy rather than just the tightness of my usual Braxton Hicks) already for a couple weeks--so it was kind of hard to tell when the real ones started for sure. When I was woken up by a contraction at 4:15 that morning, I thought it was maybe just because I had to empty my bladder. But when I saw bloody mucous on the toilet paper, I figured something was going on. I also had another contraction about 7 or 8 minutes later and could feel it pulling across my back. They weren't exactly regular--between 5 and 10 min apart if I recall--but they were obviously doing something. After a few of those, I woke my husband up and we decided to text the midwife just to let her know what was going on.

I went about my normal morning routine and got things ready for labor to really start. The contractions alternated between being short and close together or farther apart, but strong when they did come. Things continued like this for a few hours, giving me time to get my morning chores done and get the kids going on their schoolwork. Eventually, the contractions were only a min or two apart, but not super intense or long. At that point we decided that things had picked up enough that we wanted the midwife to come and assess things. When she got there, she checked me and said I was about 5 cm and 90%. We decided that even though I was tired and not really in the mood to go outside, I would go for a walk around the block with my husband to help the contractions along. It definitely worked; it took us about 45 min to shuffle along what would normally be a 10 minute or so walk. It was a beautiful day outside--perfect weather for a labor walk. I had to stop frequently to lean on my husband for contractions. By the time we got home I could not get far without having a strong contraction and felt like lying down.

The midwife and her assistant noticed the change right away, and helped me to get situated upstairs. My husband got the birth pool ready to help me cope with the contractions, which I could feel in my back as well. I spent about three hours in the tub; much of that time seemed to run together. I started feeling "pushy," so I let myself push a little with the contractions. That felt good for a while, but as I started to feel her descend a little further, the midwife checked me and told me my cervix still had a lip. Since that meant I shouldn't push, my focus for about the next hour was trying not to push with contractions while we tried to get rid of the lip. That was extremely painful and frustrating. To try to cope, I turned onto my hands and knees. I've used that position successfully with three other labors, but this time it felt uncomfortable. It felt like an eternity passed while I tried not to push. The midwife had suggested I get out of the tub, but I didn't think I could do it because the contractions and pain were so overwhelming already. But she felt the change in position would help the baby descend so I could get out of the rut I seemed to be stuck in. I finally agreed to try, and somehow my husband helped me get out of the pool and into my bed in the next room before the next contraction hit.
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Kim
mama of four boys ('97, '99, '01, '04) and one baby girl
3 losses (12 weeks in '98, 6 weeks in Nov '10, and 11 weeks in Nov '11)

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