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OMG I had a baby!!

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Emily Anne was born at 4:12pm 9/10/13.
8 lb 11 oz, 20 1/4 inches with a 13 1/2 in head.

I went in for Cervidil on 9/9. I've been 0%/0cm at every cervical check since 35 weeks. Cervidil inserted at 7:30pm started some contractions, but nothing too bad. I sent DH home around 10pm. I took an Ambien to help me sleep along with a Zantac.

Stronger contractions were waking me up on the hour by 12:45am. I called DH to come back around 4:30am since I was crying at some of these. The Cervidil was removed at 5:30am. I was 100% effaced, but still 0cm dilated. We started the Pitocin drip at 6:30am which resulted in some stronger contractions. My OB came in around 8am and was able to open me up to 3cm manually and broke my water. Baby at -3 station. This got the game moving in a big, fat, excruciatingly painful way. I was screaming through most of these. Poor DH. I didn't look at him, but I could hear the worry and the catch in his voice when he would check on me. He wasn't sure about epidural use before, but after watching and hearing me in so much pain, he was all for it.

The anesthesiologist came in with the epi at 8:47am and it was great. Then (to begin with) all I felt when I had a contraction was some rectal pressure. Mostly I was able to nod off between contractions. Timeframes here are blurry for me, but DH wrote some things down. I was at 10cm at 12:30pm with baby at 0 station. Started pushing. DH just let me know that the epidural had run out before the end, so I was w/o it for maybe 30 mins? I don't remember what he said now.

I'm not sure what time my OB got there. Maybe 3:45? I had a 2nd degree tear. It doesn't hurt too much.

We didn't get to do delayed cord clamping. There was some meconium in my amniotic fluid, which is one of the things I was afraid of with being overdue. She had swallowed a little bit so we had several docs in the room checking her out immediately. She got suctioned out and they let her cry and cough everything out. She's good now.

As soon as we got the go-ahead, I tried nursing and she has a very good latch. Things are going well so far even with my having had a breast reduction. So glad about that! The only thing is we aren't sure if she's getting enough yet. She finally peed today with some help from one of the nurses. She still has not pooped since birth - she had a good amount right after. If she doesn't poo by the time the night nurse shift gets in tonight, then we are going to do a bit of supplemental with formula.

Here's a squishy! DH has more on his phone, but this is the one I took.

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Jamie


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