January 2014 Moms
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Introducing Emerson Mae! ("Mini" birth story and PIP!)
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Hi girls! I'm finally sneaking on now that things have settled down a bit (ha! kind of.)
First, I want to thank my lovely LB, @peanutmuse, for keeping everyone updated on Monday.
Things progressed beautifully at first. I was at the hospital by 6am, started the antibiotics by 7am and was checked for the first time at 8:45am. I had already progressed to 7cm on my own, so my OB decided to wait until 10am to start the pitocin and 11am to break my water so that I could get a full 4 hours of antibiotics to treat the GBS.
Around 11:30am my BP started going crazy. It kept dropping significantly (I had gestational hypertension going in too, so it started really high) and it stayed in the double digits on the top and bottom the entire time. Made me feel TERRIBLE. And every time I tried sitting up it would drop again. Ugh.
Anyway, by 1:15pm, I had progressed to 10cm and was 100% effaced and was ready to start pushing. I remember thinking "whoa, this is going so fast!"
Famous last words, right?
After I started pushing for a bit, baby girl would not come down. She was transverse and her shoulder was stuck. My OB decided to wait and let her labor down a bit on her own so that I didn't spend hours pushing. I completely agreed. At 2pm we tried pushing again. No dice. Homegirl was not having it. By 2:30, we decided to wait a little longer while I laid on my side trying to get her to turn. At that point my epi stopped working and I was feeling EVERYTHING. They were able to give me a bolus at 4pm, but from 2:30-4 I basically thought I might die from the pain. I just wanted to push and I couldn't because she was stuck so all I could do was lay on my side and breath/scream/cry through the contractions that came every 30 seconds. It was awful.
Once I got the bolus, it took about 10 minutes for it to take affect. When I finally got a chance to look at the clock, I knew that my OB would not be delivering my baby (she was off the clock at 5pm and I knew she had somewhere to go. We just didn't think there was even a chance that I'd still be laboring at that point.) She came in to see me and I started to cry. I was just so frustrated and we both thought that it would have gone much smoother/faster than this. But there was just no rushing my baby girl. My OB and I talked about her size and she was confident that I could deliver vaginally, but I asked her at what point we'd decide that was no longer an option. Honestly, I was absolutely exhausted at that point and I was doubting if (1) she would ever turn and drop and (2) if I had the energy to push any longer.
They let me rest from 4-5pm, which I appreciated so much. I had a real moment here because I finally accepted the fact that I was no longer running the show. Baby girl was the boss from here on out and I was okay with whatever we had to do to get her here safely. From 5-6pm we did some practice side pushes to try to get her to turn/drop and get her shoulder unstuck then I rested again and labored down until 6:45pm.
Around that time, I finally started feeling differently. Like MAYBE there was a chance to deliver this baby girl. The OB on call came in (she delivered my niece so we knew she was awesome) and she was simply amazing. She made me feel like I could deliver this baby girl without having a c/s. I started pushing again at 7pm and I FINALLY felt like we were making progress. All day I felt like I was pushing for no reason, but this time was the real deal. Baby girl was finally ready.
After just 17 minutes of pushing, Emerson Mae came into the world kicking and screaming. She was born on January 27, 2014 at 7:17pm weighing 9lbs 15.22oz and 21in. (No wonder she was stuck!) She has a full head of DARK (what??) hair and is absolutely beautiful! She looks like a mix between her 2 brothers right now and it is so sweet.
Here are a few pics of our sweet Emmie girl...
Meeting mommy and daddy for the first time:
Meeting her brothers and sister (they were SO EXCITED). My mama heart burst into a million pieces:
Emmie's hospital pic from yesterday at just 1 day old (see also: the hair!)
We are so in love with our sweet girl. She is doing amazingly and nursing almost constantly. Hoping my milk comes in soon so that I can really feed my hungry little monster, ha!
We're breaking out of this joint today and I can't wait to go home to be with my FOUR babies. I am finally complete. 
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Re: Introducing Emerson Mae! ("Mini" birth story and PIP!)
partial molar pregnancy : bfp 6.28.10, d/c 8.17.10, 7 rounds methotrexate, cleared 7.1.11
alexander patrick : bfp 1.16.12, born 9.20.12 @ 39w1d, 7 lbs./11 oz./22 in.
scarlett irene elizabeth : bfp 5.24.13, born 2.3.14 @ 41w2d, 7 lbs./13 oz./19 in.
Carter Robert 7.18.08 | Brynn Sophia 5.24.10 | Reid Joseph 9.10.12 | Emerson Mae 1.27.14
BFP #5 11/15/14, Team Green EDD 7/22/15
BFP #4 4/30/13, baby girl born med-free Jan. 2014
BFP #3 9/24/12, Missed m/c at 9w1d (baby measured 8w5d)
BFP #2 9/23/10, healthy baby girl born med-free June 2011
BFP #1 5/21/10, Missed m/c at 10w4d (baby measured 8wks), D&C 6/29/10
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