- Pregnancy
- Baby & Toddler
- Parents
- Getting Pregnant
- Baby Names
- Product Reviews
-
Registry
- Community
-
More
Want a personalized experience?
Download the free app
3rd Trimester
MattysGirl81
member
"You're gonna miss this You're gonna want this back You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast..."
Ethan is here! Birth story, baby and pp belly PIPs
MattysGirl81
member
Ethan James was born on July 13th at 12:13pm, weighed in at 7lbs 3oz and 20.5 inches. I was 41 weeks exactly.
Birth Story: I woke up at 2am on Monday morning (the 13th) with what I felt were finally real contractions. I timed them for a little bit and they were consistently coming about 4 minutes apart. We arrived at the hospital at 3:30am (I was GBS positive, otherwise I would have labored at home longer). I was admitted into L&D around 5am and was 3cm, 90% effaced (these were the same stats from my doctor appt 3 days earlier).
At 6:15am I was at 4cm and having fairly painful contractions. I was told the anesthesiologist (sp?) would be around for a half hour, then would be in a c/s for an hour. Not knowing how quickly labor would progress, I opted to get the epi instead of waiting. The epi kicked in within about 10 minutes, but only worked on the right side. I was feeling everything on the left and it hurt! They checked me at 8am and I was at 7cm. The epi guy came back to adjust it, but that didn't help. He finally did it all over again which did the trick. I was much more comfortable after that!
They checked me at 11am and I was at 10cm! I pushed for an hour and 15 minutes, Ethan was born at 12:13pm. Pushing was much more exhausting than I had anticipated and I'm very glad I had the epi so I could conserve my energy. The labor experience really wasn't bad at all.
Ethan spent about 4 hours in the NICU because of meconium aspiration, but he is perfectly healthy. I stayed in the hospital for 48 hours after delivery because they wanted to monitor him - because of both the meconium and GBS.
Ethan:
5 days pp belly:
Sorry...don't know why these aren't working.
"You're gonna miss this You're gonna want this back You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast..."
This discussion has been closed.
Re: Ethan is here! Birth story, baby and pp belly PIPs
Our kids share a birthday!
Congratulaions! He's adorable.
Ditto!
Hes perfect! Reading that your epi didnt fully work is my biggest fear, that they will screw it up somehow or it just wont do the trick. I have little to no trust for people, so im a bit nervous, as long as they are willing to fix it.
congratulations!