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September 2013 Moms
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Little Joey is here! PIP and Birth Story
CNS1212
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So....I've been a little busy since the birth, but I want to introduce
my little one, Joseph Torino! He was born on 9/14 (39 weeks) at 2:08pm,
weighing 7 lbs 14 oz and measuring 21 inches.
Birth story:
On Friday, 9/13, I was having contractions all day. I could feel they were different contractions than what I had felt before. I started timing them....sometimes they were within 6-10 minutes, sometimes they weren't. I laid down and they kept going, so I was getting excited it might be the real thing, but then they'd go away. DH and I decided to go run errands, go for a walk, and just go about our day. We had a nice dinner, and decided to hit up the Redbox to rent a movie (rented "Now you See me" in case you wanted to know....it was good!). When I stood up after the movie (11pm), my water broke. I yelled for DH to get a towel....he's like "Why???" so I said, "either I just peed myself and can't stop, or my water broke." BOY that got him moving! Called the doctor, called my parents, we were heading to the hospital (but not after DH asked, "do we have time to stop at Redbox to return the movie? If we're going to be in the hospital for a few days, I don't want to get charged for the movie.
)
Upon arriving at the hospital at midnight, I was 4 cm dilated and 90% effaced. But boy, those contractions are sure different once your water breaks! I was in a LOT of pain!! REALLY second guessing the med free idea! By 2:30am and 6-7 cm dilated, I asked for the epidural and felt wonderful relief. I was able to get some rest and it felt great. By 10:30am, I was 10 cm and the doctor said it was time to push. Unfortunately, because of the epidural, I couldn't feel what I was doing....so they had to cut back on the meds, and I was back to lots and lots of pain! I couldn't even breathe in between the contractions, it hurt so bad. So I pretty much just kept pushing because the contractions were coming every minute or so.
Thank goodness I had no idea how long I was pushing (I knew it was a long time)...the doctor mentioned a few times that she could see the head, but it was getting more and more swollen the longer I was pushing. The last time she came in, she said "Okay...you've given it a good effort...but we're on 3.5 hours of pushing... I think it's time to meet your baby." I was BEYOND ready for the csection and was so exhausted from the long night and pushing. It felt like it went quickly once we we were back there, and the doctor said, "It's a Boy!"
After birth, he had a tough time latching, and by the time we left the hospital, he was down 8.5% of his birth weight. Upon working with the lactation consultants at the hospital, we found out he was "tongue tied," the frenulum (the thing that connects your tongue to the bottom of your mouth) was connected all the way to the tip of his tongue....so he was unable to move his tongue up and down or back and forth. We had a specialist come to snip the tip, and after a few days of him being sore (although there are no nerve endings), he's been doing SO much better and breastfeeding like a champ!
I hope to get better about keeping up on here, but boy, as a FTM, I guess I was a little more naive than I thought about how the lack of sleep will get to you! Even though he is going 3 hours in between feedings, it still takes a lot out of you.
AND NOW, squishy baby pics!
Birth story:
On Friday, 9/13, I was having contractions all day. I could feel they were different contractions than what I had felt before. I started timing them....sometimes they were within 6-10 minutes, sometimes they weren't. I laid down and they kept going, so I was getting excited it might be the real thing, but then they'd go away. DH and I decided to go run errands, go for a walk, and just go about our day. We had a nice dinner, and decided to hit up the Redbox to rent a movie (rented "Now you See me" in case you wanted to know....it was good!). When I stood up after the movie (11pm), my water broke. I yelled for DH to get a towel....he's like "Why???" so I said, "either I just peed myself and can't stop, or my water broke." BOY that got him moving! Called the doctor, called my parents, we were heading to the hospital (but not after DH asked, "do we have time to stop at Redbox to return the movie? If we're going to be in the hospital for a few days, I don't want to get charged for the movie.
)Upon arriving at the hospital at midnight, I was 4 cm dilated and 90% effaced. But boy, those contractions are sure different once your water breaks! I was in a LOT of pain!! REALLY second guessing the med free idea! By 2:30am and 6-7 cm dilated, I asked for the epidural and felt wonderful relief. I was able to get some rest and it felt great. By 10:30am, I was 10 cm and the doctor said it was time to push. Unfortunately, because of the epidural, I couldn't feel what I was doing....so they had to cut back on the meds, and I was back to lots and lots of pain! I couldn't even breathe in between the contractions, it hurt so bad. So I pretty much just kept pushing because the contractions were coming every minute or so.
Thank goodness I had no idea how long I was pushing (I knew it was a long time)...the doctor mentioned a few times that she could see the head, but it was getting more and more swollen the longer I was pushing. The last time she came in, she said "Okay...you've given it a good effort...but we're on 3.5 hours of pushing... I think it's time to meet your baby." I was BEYOND ready for the csection and was so exhausted from the long night and pushing. It felt like it went quickly once we we were back there, and the doctor said, "It's a Boy!"
After birth, he had a tough time latching, and by the time we left the hospital, he was down 8.5% of his birth weight. Upon working with the lactation consultants at the hospital, we found out he was "tongue tied," the frenulum (the thing that connects your tongue to the bottom of your mouth) was connected all the way to the tip of his tongue....so he was unable to move his tongue up and down or back and forth. We had a specialist come to snip the tip, and after a few days of him being sore (although there are no nerve endings), he's been doing SO much better and breastfeeding like a champ!
I hope to get better about keeping up on here, but boy, as a FTM, I guess I was a little more naive than I thought about how the lack of sleep will get to you! Even though he is going 3 hours in between feedings, it still takes a lot out of you.
AND NOW, squishy baby pics!
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Re: Little Joey is here! PIP and Birth Story
Sounds like quite an ordeal, but you are really lucky to have found out about the tongue tied business now! And I'm sorry to say, but you are also lucky to get 3 hours between feeds! My first ate every 2 hours for the first 6 months! And it took him an hour and a half at a time in the first few weeks...
By the way, I really laughed about the returning the movie thing - my husband would so say something like that and it sounds like you handled it better than I would, as Id have actually killed him! Ha
Enjoy your little beauty!!