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Madeline is finally here!!

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I am so stoked that I finally get to write Madeline's birth story!

It all started on Wednesday, April 7 with my 40 week check-up at my mid-wife's.  The nurse checked my BP, then checked it again, then had another nurse check it, all three times I was around 140-150/100.  So they rushed the urine results and my protein count was over 300 (supposed to be 0).  My mid-wife called her overseeing physician who said my care was to be transferred to him.  I'll admit, I started crying, 1) because I had never met this guy, and 2) because the hospital he practiced at was not the one my husband had been born at, which was the original plan.  Luckily, the only thing it took for me to be happy about going to St. John's instead of St. Joseph's was my mid-wife informing me that if I just showed up to St. Joseph's I would be labeled as un-doctored, and the physicians that handled those patients were from the practice I left in my third trimester.

So we went home and grabbed the hospital bag, and headed to the St. John's.  When I got there I was put on a monster of an IV which included saline, magnesium (for the pre-eclampsia), and pitocin (since I was making no progress on my own). My BP remained high, with the highest at 198/108, which I think I actually hit while trying to do an update on the bump.  They gave me one BP medication that did not work very well, and they took me off the pitocin for quite a while as they continued working on lowering it.  I think Thursday night they gave me a different BP medication that actually required me to have an EKG while it was being administered.  This time it worked better, keeping my diastolic in the 80's, and so they started the pitocin again.

On Friday they started talking about breaking my water, which I fought so hard.  I just hadn't heard of this working for first time mom's.  The nurses were saying that if I didn't do it I was going to have a c-section, but I didn't believe them.  The on-call doctor finally came to see me at about 7:30pm, and pretty much chewed me a new a-hole about not letting the nurse break my water.  He was awesome!  He pointed out that obviously nothing was going to go like my birth plan, and that it was medically necessary for me to have my water broke.  So, I let him break it, but I stilled cried.  I told DH I felt like I was disturbing her little home, and DH responded that out here is her home now, we just have to get her here.

Right before he left the room he gave me a speech about how going without an epidural was not a right of passage, and didn't make me more of a woman.  This guy was so blunt, it probably would have made some people cry, but I loved it.  When my first real contraction hit, since I couldn't do anything but lay on my back, I told DH I want the epidural!  I figured I had already been there two days, who knows how long this is going to be.  About 8:30pm they came in to do lab work for the epidural, and at about 9-9:30 I got the epidural. 

DH, the doula, and I went to sleep expecting to be there until the morning.  Sometime during Jimmy Falon, I woke up in pain.  I kept calling to DH, but he was o-u-t, OUT! I called the nurse in saying my epi wasn't working and they called the anesthesiologist back in, but nothing worked, I was on my own from that point on.  The nurse let me get on my hands and knees on the bed, and she checked me at that point.  She asked if I felt the need to push, but I didn't.  She was rather surprised since she said I was fully efaced and fully dilated.  She decided to have me turn back over and try pushing...I kid you not, when I started pushing all the pain disappeared...how does that work??  According to my doula I pushed for about an hour, and Madeline Elizabeth was born April 10th at 2:44 am.  20 3/4 in, 7 lbs 10 oz.

One week later she is already at her birth weight!! (And momma's only 8 pounds heavier than her pp weight after gaining 47 lbs.)

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