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July 2014 Moms
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Little Miss Madeleine (missquela's belated super long birth story)
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Well, I was going to wait until I was on a computer but between nursing, poopy diapers and nursing, I decided to stay true to my bump roots and keep it mobile...so here we go! WARNING: this is ridiculously long. :-P
TL;DR: Madeleine Olivia was born on Friday July 11 after 37 hours of labor at 4:42pm, 7lbs 13oz 19.5in long.
Starting on Monday, I decided to try to get the baby out. We went to ikea and walked a lot, and ate some eggplant parm. Tuesday, went to the OB and was sad to hear I was still only 1cm. Had my membranes swept, and that night lost my MP. Wednesday, my due date, we took the dog on an extra long walk and I had pineapple for dessert.
The pineapple freaking did it! Woke up at 3:30am on 7/10 from my very first contraction ever. Felt like a strong period cramp in my lower stomach. I felt a second one a few minutes later, and then felt something start to leak out. Got up and rushed to the bathroom, and yep, that was my water breaking!
After sitting on the toilet and contemplating life for a moment, I got up and poked my husband saying, "It's go time! My water broke!" He sprang out of bed so fast I cracked up.
Called L&D and told them what happened. They told me to shower and come in!
They checked me at triage and even though I was only 1.5cm they found that my water had indeed broken so they sent me to a room. Labored through mild contractions for about 13 hours, but wasn't progressing fast enough so they gave me cytotec at about 5pm. Things picked up a bit, and I took another dose a few hours later. Midwife checked me again at 3am and I was disheartened to hear I was only at a four...reluctantly agreed to start pitocin.
Fuck that shit! All thoughts of going pain med free went out the window. By 5am I was in so much pain I was literally screaming with each contraction. Still trying to avoid the epi, I had a dose of fentanyl which calmed me down enough to breathe through the pain even though I could still feel it. At 6, it had worn off and I was back to a 10 pain level. I called the nurse back and she told me I could have one more dose of fentanyl but that was it! I gave in and asked for the epidural, and for the second dose in the meantime.
That epidural, man. I don't know why it's got so much bad press, it's the best thing ever. So that was in by about 7:30 and I was able to get some sleep while the pitocin kept doing its thing. We had some scary moments starting around 10am when she had some heart decels so they put an internal monitor on her and stopped the pitocin, and made me roll around a lot to make her comfortable. She stabilized and they restarted the pit slowly.
At around 3:45, I was feeling my contractions every minute or so and was surprised to feel the urge to push- my epidural was working perfectly! I wasn't expecting that! So the OB came to check me and I was complete! She wanted me to wait an hour, but offered to have me try a practice push. My practice push was "too good! Don't do that again!" so they rushed to get everything ready. Fifteen minutes later, they had me start pushing again, and four pushes later I had my baby girl! She was on my chest immediately and DH was able to cut the cord once it stopped pulsing. I had a second degree tear, but I hardly noticed the MW suturing it or delivering the placenta (which "jumped out at her" haha.)
And I didn't poop!!
Sorry this was so long. 37 hours- that was rough. Overall, I was pretty happy with all my decisions (though I could have gotten the epidural earlier instead of suffering through 27 hours...) and I am so ready to do it again in a few years. It's so worth it. This child is just my world.
On her birthday, and today at one week old!
TL;DR: Madeleine Olivia was born on Friday July 11 after 37 hours of labor at 4:42pm, 7lbs 13oz 19.5in long.
Starting on Monday, I decided to try to get the baby out. We went to ikea and walked a lot, and ate some eggplant parm. Tuesday, went to the OB and was sad to hear I was still only 1cm. Had my membranes swept, and that night lost my MP. Wednesday, my due date, we took the dog on an extra long walk and I had pineapple for dessert.
The pineapple freaking did it! Woke up at 3:30am on 7/10 from my very first contraction ever. Felt like a strong period cramp in my lower stomach. I felt a second one a few minutes later, and then felt something start to leak out. Got up and rushed to the bathroom, and yep, that was my water breaking!
After sitting on the toilet and contemplating life for a moment, I got up and poked my husband saying, "It's go time! My water broke!" He sprang out of bed so fast I cracked up.
Called L&D and told them what happened. They told me to shower and come in!
They checked me at triage and even though I was only 1.5cm they found that my water had indeed broken so they sent me to a room. Labored through mild contractions for about 13 hours, but wasn't progressing fast enough so they gave me cytotec at about 5pm. Things picked up a bit, and I took another dose a few hours later. Midwife checked me again at 3am and I was disheartened to hear I was only at a four...reluctantly agreed to start pitocin.
Fuck that shit! All thoughts of going pain med free went out the window. By 5am I was in so much pain I was literally screaming with each contraction. Still trying to avoid the epi, I had a dose of fentanyl which calmed me down enough to breathe through the pain even though I could still feel it. At 6, it had worn off and I was back to a 10 pain level. I called the nurse back and she told me I could have one more dose of fentanyl but that was it! I gave in and asked for the epidural, and for the second dose in the meantime.
That epidural, man. I don't know why it's got so much bad press, it's the best thing ever. So that was in by about 7:30 and I was able to get some sleep while the pitocin kept doing its thing. We had some scary moments starting around 10am when she had some heart decels so they put an internal monitor on her and stopped the pitocin, and made me roll around a lot to make her comfortable. She stabilized and they restarted the pit slowly.
At around 3:45, I was feeling my contractions every minute or so and was surprised to feel the urge to push- my epidural was working perfectly! I wasn't expecting that! So the OB came to check me and I was complete! She wanted me to wait an hour, but offered to have me try a practice push. My practice push was "too good! Don't do that again!" so they rushed to get everything ready. Fifteen minutes later, they had me start pushing again, and four pushes later I had my baby girl! She was on my chest immediately and DH was able to cut the cord once it stopped pulsing. I had a second degree tear, but I hardly noticed the MW suturing it or delivering the placenta (which "jumped out at her" haha.)
And I didn't poop!!
Sorry this was so long. 37 hours- that was rough. Overall, I was pretty happy with all my decisions (though I could have gotten the epidural earlier instead of suffering through 27 hours...) and I am so ready to do it again in a few years. It's so worth it. This child is just my world.
On her birthday, and today at one week old!
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Re: Little Miss Madeleine (missquela's belated super long birth story)
Married 07/2012
DD born 07/2014
DD2 born 10/2018
DS born 10/2022
IF history:
TTC #2 since January 2016
June-Aug 2017: 3 IUIs w/Clomid = BFN
Sept 2017: Dx w/Endometriosis
Oct 2017: IUI w/Letrozole = BFN
Nov 2017: IUI w/Letrozole = BFN
Dec 2017: pre-IVF testing
Jan-Feb 2018: IVF--17 eggs retrieved, 13 fertilized, 9 frozen and 1 transferred on 2/10 = BFP on 2/19!!! EDD 10/29/2018
FET Oct 2021: BFP on 10/31! MC at 5 weeks
FET Feb 2022: BFP on 2/15! EDD 10/29/22
DD born 7.27.2014
BFP 09.2015 - m/c 10.21.2015
We have our "Irish Twins"
DD born 8/7/2013
DS born 7/28/14
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