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Ben's birth story (get ready for a novel)

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Ask and you shall receive, Lauren =)

I woke up around 3:30am Saturday night/Sunday morning during one of my normal pee times and as I laid there trying to get back to sleep I had a contraction that made me take notice.  I didn't think much of it but I looked at the time.  About 10 minutes later I had another one, then 10 minutes later another...this went on until 5:30 when I decided that it felt real and I got up to take a shower.

I texted my doula around 6:30am with contractions that were 8-9 minutes apart to give her a heads up that I hoped to be calling her soon.  The contractions had gotten slightly closer together but they weren't getting longer or stronger.  I stopped timing them for a while.

Around this time, Shawn's aunt got to the house to pick up Maya.

I started timing again around 10:30 and they were still at 8-9 minutes apart.  Shawn and I decided to go to the mall and walk with the old people =)  We walked until 11:30 with me having to hit the bathroom every time we went bu feeling like I had to poop.  We decided to take advantage of what might be the last time in months that we could go out to lunch and I sat through several strong contractions in a booth at AppleBees.Fun in the Sun

We went back home and began timing contractions again.  And we played Yahtzee. At 3:30pm I thought my water broke because it felt like I started leaking and contractions cranked up in intensity.  We called the doula and I started really concentrating on laboring.  Doula got there at 4:30 and for some reason my contractions pretty much stopped.  I was embarrassed like I cried wolf or something and sent our doula home to have dinner with her family.  Shawn and I made a frozen pizza and I ate that and a bunch or pretzels for dinner--I'd pay for this later.

 Contractions started up again around 6pm and almost immediately, I was hiding in Ben's room to work through them (apparently I hide during labor because I did that with Maya too) and we called the doula back over. 

(insert Super Bowl kickoff here)

We headed to the hospital at 7pm.  When they checked me at 7:30pm I was 7.5cm.  I started feel nauseous with each major contraction and ended up barfing my guts up (kudos to the doula for having a basin ready but UGH I did not need that!)  Doc came back and checked  me again and I was up to 9.5.  As soon as he left the room, I got the urge to push and they called him right back in.  He said he'd help me by pushing the last bit of cervix aside if I was ready to push. By the time he was in position, I was unable to not push so I went for it.  That 1st push made me rethink med-free but obviously it was far too late by that point. 

My doc was awesome and used his fingers to stretch me really well so that I would hopefully not tear...Shawn told me afterwards that I slapped doc's hand away the first push because I didn't know that he was going to stretch and it hurt like hell.  Oops, try not to slap your doc during your delivery.

I pushed a few times and everyone told me that the baby was coming out on the next one.  I freaked out and tried to not push but by that point my body was in charge, not me. His head came out on the next one and his body came out on the one after that.  And there is no way for me to describe how the pain can go from 10--oh my god I am going to die to 0--there is a perfect newborn baby laying on my belly looking at me.

I held Ben skin to skin for 45 minutes and the baby nurse kept taking his temp because she was concerned that it was too low.  They ended up taking him away from me grrr to put him under the warmer but when they took his temp over there, they determined that the thermometer that they were using must have been faulty because his temp was fine.  Thank goodness.  Now give me that baby back!

While they had Ben at the warmer I told them that I was ready to get up to pee.  The nurse was horrified and tried to make me stay in bed.  Apparently you aren't supposed to walk around 45 minutes after you give birth but I felt great (I mean as great as one could feel at that point) and I was fine getting up.  And the rest of the recovery went/is going just as great...

And just when you think that I am bragging and you want to smack me, the breastfeeding saga started up right away...It just turns out that I don't have a lot of trouble getting the babies out, but I have a hell of a time feeding them,

But like I posted yesterday, I think, on day 5, that we finally have breastfeeding down!  Yay!  

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