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My Birth Story (Long and short version- Fast and mostly natural delivery)

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short version:

Madelyn Kristine was born on 9/19/09 and 2:09pm at 7lbs-7.5oz and 19.5 inches. She came out with a head full of dark brown hair and blue eyes. She is very healthy. She has her daddy's fingers and toes, and she appears to have her mommy's nose! My OB, his assisting resident, and the nurses  were beyond AMAZING and so good at what they do. Ross was incredible and supportive through the whole pregnancy, labor, and delivery...and now is an incredibly loving and involved father. I feel so incredibly blessed by the whole experience.


Long Version:

 I had worked a full day on Friday (9/18/09). All of my co-workers told me, ?You are having that baby this weekend! I just know it!?. I shrugged off these comments, as I didn't want to be too excited. I had not had a single contraction yet, and I knew that first babies are usually late. I was only 38 weeks and 2 days, and wanted to stay realistic about the fact that I could be pregnant for another two weeks or even longer!


Saturday morning (9/19/09), Ross got up at about 8-9am. I had felt like I should get up and start taking care of chores and ?things to do before baby arrives?. But then a voice told me, ?You know, your opportunities to have mornings like this are numbered. Once that baby comes, you won't get to sleep in! Enjoy it!?. So I did. I just went right back to sleep...until about 10:15am. I woke up feeling a deep sudden shift downward in my pelvis; almost like a pop. Intense discomfort followed that I have never experienced before, but I figured it must have been cramping. I got up to use the bathroom and felt like I peed for a lot longer than I anticipated. I wondered if it was my water breaking...but again didn't want to get too excited. I had been told that if you lay down, the fluid should run out, so I went back to bed. No fluid. But the discomfort returned about 10 minutes later, so I wrote it down to keep track. At 10:45, I was still unsure and in disbelief, but I told Ross. ?This may be it?. I decided to take a shower. In our child birthing class, we were told that pre-labor and early labor can last up to 12 hours or more, so I figured I would get all cleaned up and do some chores.


While in the shower, I noticed that the pains were quickly becoming ?longer, stronger, and closer together?, which was our cue to call the hospital, and when I knew this was really it. It was about 11:15am. I had Ross call Labor and Delivery, and then Dr. Tan. I bumbled through the closet and put clothes on but the pain was getting so intense that I could hardly do anything! Ross wanted to take a shower and pack more things, and I confidently told him, ?No, we need to go NOW?.


We arrived at the hospital around 11:45am, I think. I had already completed pre-registration very early in my pregnancy, but as Murphy's Law would have it, the admissions person was having trouble admitting me and pulling up my file. I was contracting and we were beginning to panic in the waiting room. I heard her on the phone say, ?Okay, you know what, someone just needs to come get her and take her up, she is contracting and needs to go NOW?.


We got to my room shortly after (around noon). I got my down on and the nurse checked my cervix. I was 7cm and 100% effaced!. Dr. Tan was on his way, and a resident was there to assist. They asked if it was okay to have the Resident, and I told her that I didn't care if he delivered the baby as long as I could get her out soon! They told me it was probably too late for an epidural. I said that was fine, as I wanted to go without anyway.


When Dr. Tan arrived I was just about 10cm (I'm guessing this was about 12:45 to 1pm). The nurse had given me a small shot of IV Fentanyl, and this helped me relax more between contractions. I really had no concept of time, but they had to have been a bout a minute apart. I went ahead and started pushing as Dr. Tan got there, but then there was a little twist in events. Dr. Tan notified me that she has turned and was face up, and he was going to try and turn her. I had to get on all fours while he did some maneuvering while I was pushing. I remember getting angry at him, because he was manipulating during my rest time between contractions! At this point he said that it may end up taking a bit longer, so I asked for the epidural. The anesthesiologist was 30 minutes away, but they went ahead and called for him. Thankfully, he was able to get her to turn.


I remember hearing someone say, ?Okay, the anesthesiologist is here...? and then Dr. Tan saying, ?Wait, no, its too late. She's crowning?. I had already been pushing, but now it was time for the real pushes. The pushes I had been doing before felt like I had not made any progress, but now I could feel her coming. They held the mirror up for me to see, and I promptly demanded that they remove it, because it freaked me out. I was one of those women who screamed and grunted and made ALL kinds of noises. Like in the movies, only I'm sure I was a lot scarier and I probably made the funniest looking faces. Thank the Lord for the doctors and nurses, because they encouraged me all the way through the difficult pushing. The excitement in their voices as they told me, ?Good, that's perfect! Okay now push...GOOD!!? was exactly what I needed. Ross was at my side encouraging me. He kept telling me I could do it when I wanted to give up and was just amazingly loving and supportive the entire time.


Once I felt her coming, it really felt like she came out quickly. I remember seeing her and just repeating, ?Oh my gosh, I can't believe this...? over and over. It was 2:09pm. They set her on my chest, and the pain was all gone. I didn't feel any pain, even as they removed the placenta and repaired my tears (I had 2nd degree tears from the quick labor, and apparently she had her hand up by her face when she came out, which was the major culprit for the tearing).


Madelyn Kristine was born on 9/19/09 and 2:09pm at 7lbs-7.5oz and 19.5 inches. She came out with a head full of dark brown hair and blue eyes. She is very healthy. She has her daddy's fingers and toes, and she appears to have her mommy's nose! My OB his assisting resident, and the nurses at  were beyond AMAZING and so good at what they do. Ross was incredible and supportive through the whole pregnancy, labor, and delivery...and now is an incredibly loving and involved father. I feel so incredibly blessed by the whole experience.


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