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January 2012 Moms
neener3
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Henry is here :) Very long...
neener3
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A bit late, but we're checking in!
I was induced on January 10th at 2:00 pm. The first contractions were a breeze! The nurse kept asking "So you can't feel that? Really?".
Four hours later they were on top of one another. I tried rocking in the rocking chair for a half an hour, had a shower, and then begged for the epidural. I had originally been terrified of the epidural...let me tell you, I would have kissed the man after he gave it to me. I had breakthrough pain on my left side during every contraction, so they hooked me up with a button and I pushed that baby every ten minutes until I couldn't even feel my toes. My husband actually asked if it messed with my head because I got so relaxed I was almost loopy.
The baby wasn't cooperating very well during contractions, so they had me on my side, in a yoga position, and on my other side. Finally they called my doctor and she came in to monitor me for the rest of labour. I knew it was fairly serious, but nobody was stressing me out about it. Henry was sideways instead of facing down, so they had a team come into assess me. I knew they were a c-section team, but kept my mouth shut so I didn't stress my husband out. I then had every nurse and doctor's hand up my wazoo to try to turn my little man. Everyone kept saying "So you can't feel my hand? Really?". So thankful for that epidural. A nurse with very small hands finally got him turned. She came in and introduced herself and waved her hands at me bragging about them. I turned to my doctor and said "Be honest, did you go out on the street and ask people to see their hands until you found her?"
They turned off the pit to see if little man would calm down a bit. My doctor warned me that my contractions could slow down and labour could be longer because of it. My body decided that wasn't going to happen, and continued them on their own. They had checked me at 5cm, and 2 hours later I was at 10. I was a bit too numb to push, so we waited a half an hour so I could feel the pressure. I pushed for an hour, she had to make the dreaded cut (no, I didn't feel it! She tells me that my skin is "very tough"), and out came Henry Philip, at 8.04 pounds and 20 inches long at 11:57 pm on January 10th.
He wasn't crying...he was whimpering and wheezing. They put him on my belly but then took him to be suctioned while I got stitched up (4 stitches for an episiotimy and one small tear. The tear hurt waaaay worse than the cut).
Henry was very mucous-y for the next two days. We had a scary incident of him choking on it at night (want to see nurses fly to your room, that's how you do it...). We stayed for 5 days. They were...hell. We had a combination of terrible and terrific nurses, my milk didn't come in, he was jaundiced, and we were exhausted but visitors kept coming. Finally we had a snowstorm so everyone stayed home.
Almost 2 weeks later we've turned some major corners. After losing 14% of his birth weight and supplementing with formula (I cried for two days over this.), he gained back to his birth weight. Last night he slept from 1:30-6:30. He's calm and collected, and very serious. We're in love.
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Re: Henry is here :) Very long...
Congrats mama!
I hear ya on the BFing troubles. Glad you're getting it all worked out. Love the name, too.
he is just adorable. It seems like you had a rough time the first couple of weeks but glad to hear you are both doing well now