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Not so little Oliver is finally here! Natural birth story and PIP

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in February 2011 Moms

Oliver Robert was born today, Feb 13th at 4:26am. He weighed 9Ibs 6 oz and measured 22 inches long! Labor took 3.5 hours from the first contraction until delivery!

I was supposed to have my water broken tomorrow to get labor going since I had been nearly 6cm dialated and almost 80% for 2 weeks and I was getting close to 42 weeks.

But I went into labor on my own last night, about one hour after DH and I had sex, haha. We had been doing that pretty regularly in the last few weeks but not this past week because we sort of gave up on it working and let's face it, sex isn't that amazing at 40 weeks pregnant.

Anyway, I felt the first contraction at 1am, it hurt a little more than my usual "mediocre" contractions. I had a few more coming at 7 minutes apart and I didn't think much of it. We were in bed getting ready to sleep so I laid down because my OB told me to go to the hospital when I wouldn't be able to sleep through contractions. I had DH time them next to me on his laptop and it literally took maybe 4-5 contractions between 5-7 minutes until I had to breathe through them and they came 2 minutes apart. I also started shaking a little so I got up and then the pain just welled over me and I shook so violently I could hardly call our neighbor to come over to stay with DS.

I then knew that I had to be in transition already (this was 45 min after the 1st contraction) and we flew out the door with me moaning and trying to breathe and hold onto things. The car ride was under 10 minutes. The streets were deserted at 2am and DH went through 2 red lights, lol. I told him to slow down and that a big baby like Oliver wouldn't just crown that fast. We got to the ER and they asked me all these extremely pointless questions such as my degree of education and how many years it took to get my M.A.. Seriously? I was shaking and moaning through contractions that were 2min apart and could barely speak. They did check me fairly quickly after that and I was 7-8cm and 90% effaced.

I got to my labor and delivery room, which happened to be the same room I delivered DS in 2 years ago! :) I labored for about an hour, mostly standing while leaning on DH. I had invited a friend of mine who just got certified as a Bradley instructor and it was her first birth. She stood behind me and massaged my back and really helped to keep my DH calm too, lol. In between contractions, I felt a lot of relief and I was able to chitchat and joke around. I sat down on the birthing ball but Ollie's heartrate dipped and my nurse came flying in and threw me on the bed. His heartrate went right back up and stayed perfect the whole time. The pain started to get worse and worse and my contrax on the monitor were off the chart.

My plan was to go drug-free but there wouldn't have been any time for an epi anyway. I never felt regrets about that though. It helped me to resolve my mind even further although I dreaded each and every contraction and had some doubts about it all. My main worry was his size and that maybe he wouldn't fit.

So they called the doc on call, a nice older guy, very laid back! He checked me and I was 9cm with a little bit of a cervical lip. By then I already got the urge to bear down, which was the strangest thing ever. My head just flew up and my whole body just sort of curled up. A lot of women say that pushing almost felt like a relief but I can't say that. It HURT. And my body just kept doing it over and over. The doc had his fingers inside me the whole time--he said he was protecting my cervix while I was bearing down because he knew I had no control over it. The baby eventually rotated a little further into the ideal position and he broke my water at nearly 10cm. It was clear! :) Then he  had me switch from spontaneous pushing to controlled pushing, which I had a hard time with but ultimately it helped because I had to push harder and give it everything I had. He also made me reach around my own leg and lay flat on my back with my butt almost pointing up. He told me to push toward the ceiling.

It took a good hour of pushing and I was so so worried that this big baby would not fit under my pelvic bone. I kept asking and questioning everyone for reassurance. Eventually I started feeling pressure and tons of burning. The worst pain I have ever felt in my life and everyone yelled at me to get mad and push through it. I felt the doctor yanking, pulling, and stretching me with such force, I thought HE would cause a tear! The head eventually came out and I felt exhausted but his shoulders are big too so I had three nurses pushing on my stomach and the doctor pulling on Oliver to get him out. It seemed really tense for a moment but in the end he came out screaming and was plopped right on my chest. I was shocked by his weight on top of me without even knowing the numbers yet! Everyone was making bets as to what his stats would be.  His apgars were 9 and 9.

I got some pitocin and the placenta came out easily. I asked the doc to show it to me, which he was super excited about, saying that most women don't want to see it and it makes him sad, lol. 

He stitched me up and I somehow came out with only a 1-2nd degree tear. It was the old scar where I had a 1-2 degree tear with DS1. 

I've only slept for a couple of hours in the last 24 hours but I am running high on post-birth hormones. The pain isn't too bad, the tissue pain that is. But I have severe pelvic bone pain and they think my bones may have been separated a bit more than normal because of his size.

Nursing is tough, once again. Although he has latched on a few times now and is overall doing so much better than DS was at 36 w 3d. Oliver has already gotten tons of meconium out and peed quite a bit! His sugar levels are perfect and he sleeps a lot but then becomes very alert every 3-4 hours. He looks very different from DS except for his mouth and chin. DS1 is a clone of DH and this little guy looks JUST like I did when I was born. Super dark and hairy, haha. 

Kudos to you if you made it through this whole story. Here is your reward. :)

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