I FINALLY had the baby. AND being hormonally charged, I just checked the board and read your notes under the briee thinking of you thread (and melanies thread) and am in tears. You guys are all so sweet and I appreciate your notes so VERY much.
During the night on the 22nd I woke up to contractions 2-3 minutes apart for 2 hours and I told Brian to fill the birthing tub etc....I really thought that was it, BUT they slowed down to about 15 minutes apart and I went to bed to sleep, but had huge contractions every 15 minutes so I didn't sleep almost all night. Then on Tuesday, I was so sick of the contractions and tired of waiting, so dh and I went to Lacrosse (which was probably insane) and went shopping except I could hardly walk so I sat in the car most of the time. I had to put the seat back and turn backwards and lean into it through the contractions through most of the trip. We came home after a few hours and I'm still repeating..."this babies never going to come", I just want to go the hospital and have them break the waters and while I'm there I want an epidural cause my whole abodomen is so sore and I can't go through labor now......on and on I complained. Around 9:00pm at night we called the family together and prayed and dh was leafing through the "polly's birth book for home obstetrics" and he said "you know, you have a tipped uterus and it says to put your right leg up on a chair and lean into it so the uterus will be put into position". I had already told him that the baby must not be in position because the contractions weren't going anywhere. He also was quick to note that if I went to the hospital they would put me on pitocin and if the uterus was tipping the baby a bit, it could really hurt the uterus, so he wanted to try the "leg up" thing first. Almost within a minute of putting up my leg and leaning on it, contractions hit every 3-5 minutes and dh filled the tub and I got in but kept my right leg bent and up and leaned on it. I was in transition pretty quick and baby was born just before 11:00pm on the 23rd. It was really a good birth if it hadn't had been for the preceeding day and night which wore me out.
Poor dh, I told him that I wanted the light off in the bathroom, I wanted quiet, and he said that he wanted to grab at least a flashlight and have the hemostats ready as we were concerned about the cord around the neck of the baby, but I just had this peace all through transition that everything was fine (had a lot of praying friends - I'm sure that's where the peace came from). I told him before the baby came out that the cord "WAS NOT around the head" and not to worry, everything was fine baby was doing great" and I swear this came right from the Lord-I could almost hear him telling me this. I told him to leave the lights off and that I could handle this. And the minute baby came out we brought him up from the water and he was screaming in about a minute, I kept his little body under the water and he stopped screaming and became really calm again. Oh, when the head was about to come out, I told dh to call our oldest daugher who was sleeping on the couch and she came to watch baby being born...it really was neat for her to be there and see her first birth. AND yes it's a HE. The name will probably be Noah and we're still debating the middle name.
Right now I'm TIRED, and hope I can get through this nursing post partum thing QUICKLY. He is beautiful, 8 lbs 1 ounce, 21 inches long, the typical peach-fuzz blonde hair on his head which wipes off within the first few weeks usually (all our babies had this). And I'm trying to figure out this bottle feeding thing (hoping to avoid infections this time). I can't seem to get him to eat more than 1/2 ounce or so...is this normal?? Thanks for listening and checking on me everyone....NOBODIES EVER BEEN PREGNANT FOREVER, but it felt like I'd be the first :7 :7 :7 .
Briee
During the night on the 22nd I woke up to contractions 2-3 minutes apart for 2 hours and I told Brian to fill the birthing tub etc....I really thought that was it, BUT they slowed down to about 15 minutes apart and I went to bed to sleep, but had huge contractions every 15 minutes so I didn't sleep almost all night. Then on Tuesday, I was so sick of the contractions and tired of waiting, so dh and I went to Lacrosse (which was probably insane) and went shopping except I could hardly walk so I sat in the car most of the time. I had to put the seat back and turn backwards and lean into it through the contractions through most of the trip. We came home after a few hours and I'm still repeating..."this babies never going to come", I just want to go the hospital and have them break the waters and while I'm there I want an epidural cause my whole abodomen is so sore and I can't go through labor now......on and on I complained. Around 9:00pm at night we called the family together and prayed and dh was leafing through the "polly's birth book for home obstetrics" and he said "you know, you have a tipped uterus and it says to put your right leg up on a chair and lean into it so the uterus will be put into position". I had already told him that the baby must not be in position because the contractions weren't going anywhere. He also was quick to note that if I went to the hospital they would put me on pitocin and if the uterus was tipping the baby a bit, it could really hurt the uterus, so he wanted to try the "leg up" thing first. Almost within a minute of putting up my leg and leaning on it, contractions hit every 3-5 minutes and dh filled the tub and I got in but kept my right leg bent and up and leaned on it. I was in transition pretty quick and baby was born just before 11:00pm on the 23rd. It was really a good birth if it hadn't had been for the preceeding day and night which wore me out.
Poor dh, I told him that I wanted the light off in the bathroom, I wanted quiet, and he said that he wanted to grab at least a flashlight and have the hemostats ready as we were concerned about the cord around the neck of the baby, but I just had this peace all through transition that everything was fine (had a lot of praying friends - I'm sure that's where the peace came from). I told him before the baby came out that the cord "WAS NOT around the head" and not to worry, everything was fine baby was doing great" and I swear this came right from the Lord-I could almost hear him telling me this. I told him to leave the lights off and that I could handle this. And the minute baby came out we brought him up from the water and he was screaming in about a minute, I kept his little body under the water and he stopped screaming and became really calm again. Oh, when the head was about to come out, I told dh to call our oldest daugher who was sleeping on the couch and she came to watch baby being born...it really was neat for her to be there and see her first birth. AND yes it's a HE. The name will probably be Noah and we're still debating the middle name.
Right now I'm TIRED, and hope I can get through this nursing post partum thing QUICKLY. He is beautiful, 8 lbs 1 ounce, 21 inches long, the typical peach-fuzz blonde hair on his head which wipes off within the first few weeks usually (all our babies had this). And I'm trying to figure out this bottle feeding thing (hoping to avoid infections this time). I can't seem to get him to eat more than 1/2 ounce or so...is this normal?? Thanks for listening and checking on me everyone....NOBODIES EVER BEEN PREGNANT FOREVER, but it felt like I'd be the first :7 :7 :7 .
Briee
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