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Hazel
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Hi everyone! I just wanted to let you all know that I had a beautiful, healthy baby girl on Tuesday, July 18, 2000, at 3:15 a.m. Lauren Elizabeth Porter weighed 8 lbs 1 oz and measured 21 inches long. She has a full head of dark brown hair (my hairdressing secret is out, I guess
) and has a wonderfully laid back temperment.
This beautiful little girl was more than enough compensation for what turned out to be a very long and difficult labor. I was supposed to be induced on Tuesday morning, but started having contractions (although I didn't know it at the time) around 7:00 a.m. on Sunday morning. By 6:30 that night, they were pretty regular, and we finally went to the hospital at midnight, only to be sent home at 2:00 a.m. with a prescription to help stop this "false" labor. After an entire night of contractions, including some back labor (the baby kept rolling over and then back), I was back to the doctor's office Monday morning, where they gave me a prostoglandin to help increase the contractions and then sent me to the mall to walk around for a few hours. (The looks my husband got from people in the mall!) They finally decided that I could go to the hospital at 2:30 on Monday, after which I got an epidural and blissed out to have some pain-free time for a while. It took another 13 hours for Lauren to finally come out (including almost 2 hours of pushing), and right toward the end they thought they might have to do a C-section. Luckily, Lauren crowned in two more pushes, and then it only took two more to get her out.
My compensation for 35 hours of labor (other than a beautiful baby) was that my recovery has been remarkable (knock wood!). I luckily did not have to have an episiotomy, and the small tear that did occur has not bothered me at all since the first day. Lauren is a breastfeeding champ, rarely fussy, and sleeps really well, so I'm not as tired as I anticipated.
If you'd like to see the world's most beautiful baby (my wholly unbiased opinion, of course
!), go to www.bhcs.com/babies and click on the icon for Baylor University Medical Center then page down until you see Lauren's name (please ignore the picture of dad and mom -- they were a little shell shocked by that point!).
Thanks everyone for all your advice and support during my pregnancy. Now where's the child rearing forum?
Hazel
This beautiful little girl was more than enough compensation for what turned out to be a very long and difficult labor. I was supposed to be induced on Tuesday morning, but started having contractions (although I didn't know it at the time) around 7:00 a.m. on Sunday morning. By 6:30 that night, they were pretty regular, and we finally went to the hospital at midnight, only to be sent home at 2:00 a.m. with a prescription to help stop this "false" labor. After an entire night of contractions, including some back labor (the baby kept rolling over and then back), I was back to the doctor's office Monday morning, where they gave me a prostoglandin to help increase the contractions and then sent me to the mall to walk around for a few hours. (The looks my husband got from people in the mall!) They finally decided that I could go to the hospital at 2:30 on Monday, after which I got an epidural and blissed out to have some pain-free time for a while. It took another 13 hours for Lauren to finally come out (including almost 2 hours of pushing), and right toward the end they thought they might have to do a C-section. Luckily, Lauren crowned in two more pushes, and then it only took two more to get her out.
My compensation for 35 hours of labor (other than a beautiful baby) was that my recovery has been remarkable (knock wood!). I luckily did not have to have an episiotomy, and the small tear that did occur has not bothered me at all since the first day. Lauren is a breastfeeding champ, rarely fussy, and sleeps really well, so I'm not as tired as I anticipated.
If you'd like to see the world's most beautiful baby (my wholly unbiased opinion, of course
Thanks everyone for all your advice and support during my pregnancy. Now where's the child rearing forum?
Hazel
And it sounds like she has my son's temperment, perfect child slept through the night (meaning 4 hours straight LOL) and stuff..super infant. 
