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Mythaldo's Birth Announcement: Our Gal E is Here!

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Here's the short version: Our DD E was born on Wednesday, Jan. 29th at 1:40 am after 17.5 hours of labor (2.5 spent pushing!). She was born a healthy 6 lbs. 8 oz. and 20 inches long. She's perfect!

The long version: I was induced at 8am on Tuesday morning at 37w5d gestation due to my unusually long contractions and preeclampsia, but I'm grateful my doctor was there to help me keep her in that long. The birth experience was awesome overall minus the pitiful breakdown I had about 10 hours into the induction; my contractions were killer and I thought I was laboring well until my OB checked my cervix at 5pm to discover I was still the same 3 cm dilated as I was that morning, so that crushed me into tears and extreme self doubt. I was basically begging for the c-section at that point so I could be done with it and not risk any further harm to my baby, but my OB calmed and talked me into getting the epi. 

Waiting for the epi was the most miserable experience of my life. Finally got it at 6pm and it helped with the pain of course, but it made me feel horribly weird and shaky for hours. Just as we hit 11pm and I figured this was all going to end in an emergency c-section, my doctor told me I was dilated to 10 cm and ready to push! 

They turned down the epi because My legs were so dead, but the feeling of pushing was actually fantastic for releasing the pressure in comparison, so there wasn't much pain. Pushing was still crazy; DH was amazing though, sweetly wiping my face and chest with a washcloth and then putting an oxygen mask on my face during the rest between pushes. I will say I was originally not planning on using the mirror or my hands to see and feel the baby's head, but I'm so glad I did. It was so motivating! As she was crowning, my DH even looked (he cannot stand the sight of blood and body fluids) and told me how proud he was of me. When she finally came out and was in my arms, we were both in tears! 

It truly was amazing and neither of us could believe she was able to stand the vaginal birth with my crazy contractions. We've been joking to ourselves for a while that E is going to be one tough bitch, and now we totally have proof. 

I spent a total of one week in the hospital in the end. It was hard to be there that long, but E was totally worth it.

I do have some huge complaints about the experience with my postpartum nurses: they were total bullies and made tons of horrible mistakes! The L&D nurses were totally great even if occasionally scatterbrained, but my PP nurses would ignore my questions, come in sighing any time I mentioned feeling sick and shaky, and criticize me and my husband every time we picked up our baby. They also didn't let me get any sleep! Seriously, none at all from birth until we left the hospital over 40 hours later. I had a parade of techs, lab people and LCs in my room that was a huge factor in that, but they wouldn't really help with the baby when I asked for it and even gave me hydrocodone when they knew I was sensitive to it, and wouldn't give me Zofran when I started getting horribly nauseated. Oh and they lost my baby's chart, delayed our discharge and feedings making us redo paper work (though that may have been spread missions fault, I'm not sure) and miscalculated our baby's weight loss! 

My pediatrician told us to supplement with formula and come back to her office the next day because the nurses reported in my discharge that she'd lost 11%, but we calculated it ourselves and it was only 7%! The ped apologized when we went to the appointment the next day for not double-checking the numbers herself and ordering the formula, but we're back on track with BFing and loving being home with our daughter, so I'm just trying to forget that whole experience.

Being home has been amazing despite the late-night feedings. E is pretty good actually, so I've only caught up sleep since I've been home with her.

I hope I didn't leave any typos, but I need to get back to mothering. E has been enjoying some skin-to-skin time on my chest as I posted this, but she's starting to root and snuffle :). Thank you all for your Ts, Ps and XFs in my hospital updates, and congrats to all the new moms I've missed well wishing ever since!


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