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Parenting after a Loss
We're home! (brief birth story inside)
Hi everyone, this is my first chance to get online since we got home Tuesday (everyone else is napping).
We went in for our induction as planned on Saturday. Everything was going well, they got me up and running on the pitocin by 9:30 and it took effect fairly quickly. They broke my water around 3pm and by 3:45 I had gone from 3cm to 6cm so they expected things to move pretty damn quickly. But, they didn't. By shift change (7pm) it was clear he wasn't coming without a fight. I had made progress, but not enough to start pushing, so our day nurses went home disappointed (they swore he'd be delivered by 6:30). By 9 or so, we were pushing but making slow progress. He was face-up and a little crooked so he got hug up on my pubic bone. We spent the next two hours trying to get him unstuck. Around 11, my ob said "Heather, I could offer you help but I believe we'd fail even using the forceps and you'd end up with an emergency c-section. Right now, we're only making his head more of a cone." so she suggested the c-section b/c she believed we'd only end up with a distressed baby if we pressed on with the pushing. So we went for the c-section. Within 20 minutes of being brought into the OR (oddly enough the same OR where both my d&c's were performed) James made his arrival.
He was 8 pounds 2 ounces and 20.5 inches long. He had some hematomas on his head and face from the attempts to get him out vaginally and those caused some feeding woes but those resolved as soon as the swelling went down. I'm still in some pain, but it's way better than a day or so ago but I know it'll be some time before I can do everything I'd like to do. DH has been awesome and totally stepped in to fill whatever shoes I can't at the moment, he's even changing diapers regularly!
Welp, that's it from here, I have to run off to pump as James will be waking up wanting to be fed soon.
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Re: We're home! (brief birth story inside)
DD#1 born June '09
DD#2 born April '11
TTC #3 as of July '14
Congrats! Sorry about the c/s, but I'm glad everyone is safe and healthy.
Congrats, Heather! I'm so happy for you. I hope you have a quick recovery.
((hugs))
Congrats on the birth of baby James!! I love that name - it is both DH's name and DS's middle name. A C-section isn't the end of the world....it will be painful for a few weeks, but you get better every day. Enjoy every minute with your little son - so so happy for you!!!
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Awww, congrats. I am so sorry your labor was so tough. I hope it is all wonderful from here on out!
Also, for the record - didn't Psychic Sueball say Wednesday or Sunday? And James was born on Saturday at 11:59, right? So I was off by ONE FREAKING MINUTE?!!!
LOL, yeah Sueball, you were one minute off. We kept glancing at the clock and DH wouldn't stop whispering "He better be born before midnight", we were so tired and frustrated with it all that it became sort of a mission for all of us to have him out on the 5th lol.
We're all doing pretty well, my incision is doing very well and James is just about back to his birth weight (he's an ounce off).