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DS1 - 9/21/11
DS2 - 7/4/14
DS3 - 2/21/16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our family of 5 is complete!! Love our boys!
Launa Renee 10:41 pm January 14, 2016 2 lbs 6 oz 15 1/2 in The absolute light of my life.
My contractions started January 9th, very scary moments from then on as my due date was March 31st. Wish she would've waited longer but so happy to have her in my life. She has been doing well aside from some bradys. Shes already gained 7 oz. Shes a strong little one.
Willa Kate Born at 34 weeks on January 26th at 12:52am. 4lbs 5oz 17.5"
She was born via cesarean section 4 hours after I was admitted to the hospital for severe pre-eclampsia. I never went into active labor, but was on the verge of eclampsia so she had to come out one way or another. She's been doing awesome and will hopefully get to go home this weekend.
Because of my experience I can't stress enough how important it is to be vigilant about sudden changes. My only indicators leading up may have been severe upper back pain in the evening. This isn't something that is usually associated with pre-eclampsia so I didn't know until I got a stabbing headache with nausea and vomiting. Everytime I see someone who was at my delivery they remind me of how lucky I was to come in when I did, so don't hesitate if you think something is wrong. *gets off soapbox*
Kinley Rene born 2/2/16 at 7:36pm. I had this precious baby via c section due to suddent onsent of severe eclampsia. I went to my regular prenatal appt. On monday and My blood pressure was high,so they sent me to labor and delivery for observation. It only got higher and higher and other symptoms began appearing and byTuesday they decided it was time to take her at 35 weeks 4 days. She is 4lbs 9oz. We are still in the hospital even though she is healthy she has some problems keeping any food down due to the seizure medication I was on for the preeclampsia that passed to her. So we are just waiting for that medicine to get out of her system so she can hold food down better!!
Everlie Gail born February 9th at 4:44 am at 37 weeks! Healthy as can be weighing 6 lbs. 11 oz. and 18 1/2 in. long! 4 1/2 hours of labor, she was ready to be here and it was intense!
Nayeli Anadilya born February 8 8:23 AM by csection at 36 weeks 6 days.She is 7 pounds 3 ounces and 18 inches long. Shes a little Jaundice but otherwise healthy.
Born on the 4th of February at 2.51 am weighing 4 lbs 12 oz at 35+5 weeks. I had to be induced due to pre-eclampsia after spending time in the hospital . Her birth was so stressful but I'm lucky to have given birth to her vaginally. She was IGUR but she's done so well! After 8 days she's 20g above her birth weight!
I do stress that women look out for signs of pre-eclampsia and feeling like there's something off. My early admittance at the hospital kept the situation moderate and prevented any serious damage.
Ainsley Reid born 2/12/16 at 37 weeks 1 day. 4 lbs 8 oz 18 in.
Went to my weekly high risk appointment that day and was told to go to the hospital they were inducing due to IUGR and minimal growth from the week before. Labor lasted 30 hrs once I started pushing her heart rate would crash every contraction. Dr opted for an emergency c-section because of her heart rate. They had to put me under instead of waiting for additional spinal to kick in.
She he stayed in my room the first night but has since been admitted to the NICU for low blood sugar levels. Hopefully she can come home in the next few days!
Riley Edan born 2/13/16 at 2:11 pm via c-section. She weighed 4 lbs 8oz 17 1/4 in, she was 33 weeks + 4 days at birth.
I was admitted to the hospital for severe pre-eclampsia and 4 days later it was decided for both of our health that she come out. Everyday in the NICU she is stronger and thriving.
Caroline Amalee was born on 2/14/16 at 12:26 pm at 36 weeks. She weighed 6lbs. 2 oz. and was 19".
I went to a routine appointment on Thursday (35+4) but mentioned I was feeling a little weird. My bp was 160/96. They sent me to the hospital for monitoring. The protein in my urine was at 300 but my labs were within the normal range. They decided to admit me to do a 24 hour urine catch. They ran labs again the next morning and came back to tell me we going to be having a baby because my platelets dropped to dangerously low over night. The immediately started me on magnesium sulfate and started the induction process. They checked my cervix. I was high and closed. Within a few hours I had the worst migraine imagineable. The next morning I was in so much pain I was begging for a csection which they informed me they couldn't do because my platelets were so low I would bleed out. Luckily they went up just enough so I could get an epidural which relived some of the headache. I progressed very slowly. Caroline was born that night with no tears or need for an episiotomy.
She spent some time in the well baby nursery but they ultimately decided it was best for her to be in the NICU. She is learning quickly. She is currently getting some light therapy and learning to eat. We love her so much and can't wait to introduce her to big brother!
Our little Valentine, Nathaniel Eli was born 2/14/16. On Thursday, I began having random contractions in the afternoon that increased in frequency and intensity as the night went on. I was sent to ld for monitoring and fluids to stop the contractions since I was a scheduled RCS. However, I returned to ld on Saturday night with contractions 6 minutes apart. Again they started to slow down after an hour or so and it looked like we would be sent home, but all of the sudden things picked up and I was back to contractions every 2-4 minutes. The doctor checked me for progress and decided since I was now at 2 cm they couldn't risk sending me home. Nathaniel was born via emergency c section at 3:18 am, weighing 6 lbs 4 oz. we are both doing well and hoping to go home tomorrow.
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Makenna Nicole born 2.17.16. 6# 5.6oz. 18.5 inches long at 38 weeks. EDD was March 2nd. I was induced due to chronic hypertension. They started with a Foley bulb catheter to ripen my cervix. My cervix was very unfavorable, 1cm 40% effaced and -3. Third baby. The Foley got me to 4cm. I then started pitocin bc baby was too high up for breaking my water. I reached 12 with pitocin (max is 15) & I still was not contracting. Baby finally dropped low enough to break water. That immediately started my contractions. I got an epidural at 5cm, it dropped my BP really low & was scary but they were able to stabilize it. The epidural failed though & I ended up feeling everything. I went from 6 to 10 in about 5 minutes, & I pushed her out in half a push. She's perfect and healthy, just working on a good latch. We are home now and I'm struggling emotionally due to her dad not being involved at all. I'm hoping with time things will feel normal again. My boys are in love with her Best wishes for safe deliveries and healthy babies!
Lillian Jade was born on February 18 @ 11:31pm via C-section @ 37 weeks 4 days.
At 32 weeks I was diagnosed with a mild case of Preeclampsia. We watched my blood pressures and protein in my urine very closely. At 35 weeks, I had a high blood pressure scare, but it resolved itself. We decided that I would be induced sometime after 37 weeks.
I went in Wednesday evening to get the induction process started by first ripening up my cervix. That, however, helped to kick in normal labor only 4 hours later.
I pretty quickly progressed to 7 cm, but then stayed there for most of the day Thursday. By 10:30pm we decided that baby just wasn't progressing well enough and decided to proceed with the cesarean which turned out to be the best decision for me and baby girl.
Welcome to the world Spencer Charles Mount! Born Saturday February 20th, 2016. 8lbs 4 oz and 21 inches long born at 38 weeks 2 days...11 days shy of his due date. He is the most handsome boy ever! Mama is no longer in pain, Daddy is proud as can be, and Sissy is head over heels forher baby brother! This family is in love
Penelope Jean 5lb 17.5 inches born at 37 weeks 5 days 2/18/2016
At my 37 week appointment little one was measuring small so we went to meet with a specialist and we found our little girl was IUGR and not getting enough nutrients due to a velamentious cord insertion we found back at week 25. Her fluid was also very low so we were sent straight to labor and deliver and we met our precious baby girl at 7:18 pm via c-section on February 18th!
My waters broke at 2am that morning and I laboured for 18 hours before being admitted to hospital as we were now at the point of prolonged ruptured membranes and had the intentions to induce labour further. A quick scan indicated Lydia was footling breech, which no chance of turning again and a cervix check also confirmed a prolapse cord. An emergency c-section was then put in place and Lydia arrived bang on 8pm.
After removal of the placenta, an additional lobe which had been picked up in my scan was there, however what scans didn't pick up was that the cord going into the placenta, wasn't attached, instead, it held these two parts together with a web of veins. The surgery team were amazed as this could of had a serverly different outcome had I delivered naturally.
Pyshcially, I'm recovering well. Mentally this was so far off what I had prepared myself for so that may take a while longer but I have plenty of support.
Lydia is perfect, healthy and we are both safe. We are all so in love !
Welcome Charlotte! Born at 3.15am feb 25th (NZ time) at 37w1d spontaneous water breaking at home after two days of hospitilzation due to reaction i had to the Tdap vaccine. Labour started at 10pm and she was born 5ish hours later. She needed a bit of breathing help at first but is doing great now!
Cara Marie was born on February 24th at 10:05 pm weighing in at 7 lbs 4 oz and 19.49 inches long. I was induced with pitocin and the contractions became so severe that I asked for an epidural. They checked me at this time and I was only 2cm dilated. This should take a while, right? I was complaining of pain so they checked me again an hour later and I was 10cm and ready to push. 15 minutes later this little ray of sunshine was here and we could not be happier!
Camilla Elise 2/23/16 I totally announced on Feb board! Haha, the app updated my birth month and I was so confused as to where the info I had seen before went!
Camilla came early at 38 weeks, via c section. I started having strong contractions and they gave me a couple rounds of medicine to stop them, but she wasn't having it. Born at 12:45 am, 6lbs 10oz. We are all so in love!
Isaac James - Born February 21 at 3:10am (37w4d), 6lbs4oz, 19.5"long
3pm on Saturday, Feb 20 we were out running errands and had just left Toys R Us. Heading to another store, my water broke in the car. It was kind of an “Ummmmmm honey, my water just broke.” So I yelled to DH to go to Chick Fil A so I can try to clean up and wait it out - yeah 10 minutes definitely wasn’t enough. So I get back into the car to chaos - how do you explain to your 4-year old what it means when your water breaks?
Fast forward to after MIL picked up the boys, contractions started coming pretty intense but irregular - and everything in my back. Decided to head in even though they weren’t regular. Of course DH forgot to go the short route. As soon as we hit the hospital, contractions pretty much stopped. Once they hooked me up to monitors, we found the baby wasn’t handling things very well, or was just super chill - his heart rate was very odd from the beginning. Walking around to bring on contractions, the ball, everything kept doing weird things to his heart rate, but still not enough for major concern. The midwife started me on citotec (sp??) to get things going - definitely didn’t want to do pitocin after my experience with DS2 on it. Had to get through the second pill before things really got started. And nothing was regular but was getting super intense. I got on the birthing stool and started feeling major pressure, somewhat to push, so midwife checked me at midnight and I was only at a 4 - I majorly lost it - I had stalled at 4 with all of my boys. Decided to get into the labor tub and holy crap the contractions were intense, but I made it through them calmly - the water felt amazing. Started feeling major pressure again. Checked me at 2:40 and I was only at a 5. I started losing it and begging for meds at that point because my past history said hours longer once I got to 5 as the contractions were still in my back. They ordered phentenol and while it was coming, had to do a trip to the bathroom and started feeling major pressure again. They got me to the bed and I couldn’t take the pain anymore. I quit breathing and baby’s heart rate dropped to a scary point. They had to yell at me to breathe and threw the oxygen mask on me. The midwife got in my face and yelled my baby needed me to breathe. They got me on all fours and all of a sudden he was coming - 3 minor pushes within two minutes and he came shooting out - thankfully he rotated at the last minute and came out the right way. So from 2:40 to 3:10 I went from 5cm to delivered - never was able to get the phentenol as he came too quickly. And we found out why he needed to come out. His cord was wrapped 3 times around his neck and it was a velamentous cord insertion and was starting to detach from the cord (yeah I just looked that one up today and lost it with how risky his delivery was). I’m just so thankful he’s here and completely healthy. After 4 days of heel pricks to check rising biliruben levels, they’re finally coming down. He’s such a chill baby - only getting up once or twice a night to eat and goes right back to sleep. My little 6lb4oz baby is such a peanut and a little snuggle bug. His brothers are in love with him.
Samantha Lauren Tilis arrived eight days early on Feb. 26 at 9:53 am, weighing 7lbs, 1 oz and measuring 20.5 inches long. On Thursday evening, I started having mild cramps around 6 p.m. They got progressively stronger and more consistent throughout the evenings and I still couldn't tell whether they were Braxton Hicks or real labor. I finally went to L&D and was admitted to triage around 11:30. I was only 3 cm dilated and 80% effaced. Walked the hallways for an hour with my husband and got to 4-5 cm and 90%. I was admitted to a room and received an epidural around 2 am. That slowed down my contractions considerably so I started pitocin at 4:00. At 5:45 my water broke and I was up to 8 cm by 6:30. By 8 am I was fully dilated and effaced. I did a few practice pushes around 8:30 and started pushing with the doctor just after 9. Pushed for less than 50 minutes and she was born just before 10 am. She was a champ. Recovering now and hope to head home tomorrow with a proud mom and dad. Thankful for a positive experience and wishing the best for all who are still waiting!
Noah Dudley made us a family of three on 2/25 weighing 6lb, 7 oz and 19.25 inches. He was induced at 37 weeks due to pre-e. Thankfully he's super healthy! We are overwhelmed with pretty much every cliche love emotion out there for this little person.
Anthony James born today, February 28th, at 11:23 am. Weighing in at 7lbs 4oz and measuring 20 inches long. Labored about 9 hours after my water broke and pushed him out in about 30-45 minutes (DH and I have some discrepancy but neither of us really paid attention to time, lol).
Caroline Rae February 28th, 2016 3:17pm 6lbs 7oz and 18 1/2 inches
I woke up at 2:30am on Sunday morning with contractions lasting 45 seconds at 3 minutes apart. I had been at 4cm for 2 weeks and didn't want to show up to L&D with more false labor pains. I took a bath at 3:30am to get a little relief and finally headed to the hospital at 4am. The triage nurse checked me and said I wasn't making any progress with the contractions but they'd keep me and check again in 15 minutes. When she strolled back in an hour later, I was at a 6 with bulging bags and a complete mess from the pain, begging for the epidural that I couldn't get until paperwork, labs, and fluids were complete. They finally gave me Stadol which made me feel like I was 6 margaritas in but took the edge off until I got my epidural at 8am, Pitocin to get things progressing again shortly after, and pushed her out in 30 minutes by 3:17pm.
Recovery so far has been a breeze, she's eating and sleeping like a champ, and I'm sure that will all catch up to me very shortly!!
Alexander Cole made his arrival Sunday 2/28 at 12:35 pm weighing 9 lbs 2 oz and measuring 22 inches long (week 39 right on the dot). We are beyond smitten! Ill post photos later.
Re: March 2016 Birth Announcements
Born January 11, 2016 at 32 weeks
4 pounds 4 ounces
18 inches long
Born Dec 11th at 26 weeks
1lb 4oz (picture is her at 6 weeks 2lb 12oz)
12" long
10:41 pm January 14, 2016
2 lbs 6 oz 15 1/2 in
The absolute light of my life.
My contractions started January 9th, very scary moments from then on as my due date was March 31st. Wish she would've waited longer but so happy to have her in my life. She has been doing well aside from some bradys. Shes already gained 7 oz. Shes a strong little one.
Born at 34 weeks on January 26th at 12:52am.
4lbs 5oz 17.5"
She was born via cesarean section 4 hours after I was admitted to the hospital for severe pre-eclampsia. I never went into active labor, but was on the verge of eclampsia so she had to come out one way or another. She's been doing awesome and will hopefully get to go home this weekend.
Because of my experience I can't stress enough how important it is to be vigilant about sudden changes. My only indicators leading up may have been severe upper back pain in the evening. This isn't something that is usually associated with pre-eclampsia so I didn't know until I got a stabbing headache with nausea and vomiting. Everytime I see someone who was at my delivery they remind me of how lucky I was to come in when I did, so don't hesitate if you think something is wrong. *gets off soapbox*
Day 0
Born on the 4th of February at 2.51 am weighing 4 lbs 12 oz at 35+5 weeks. I had to be induced due to pre-eclampsia after spending time in the hospital . Her birth was so stressful but I'm lucky to have given birth to her vaginally. She was IGUR but she's done so well! After 8 days she's 20g above her birth weight!
I do stress that women look out for signs of pre-eclampsia and feeling like there's something off. My early admittance at the hospital kept the situation moderate and prevented any serious damage.
Went to my weekly high risk appointment that day and was told to go to the hospital they were inducing due to IUGR and minimal growth from the week before. Labor lasted 30 hrs once I started pushing her heart rate would crash every contraction. Dr opted for an emergency c-section because of her heart rate. They had to put me under instead of waiting for additional spinal to kick in.
She he stayed in my room the first night but has since been admitted to the NICU for low blood sugar levels. Hopefully she can come home in the next few days!
I was admitted to the hospital for severe pre-eclampsia and 4 days later it was decided for both of our health that she come out. Everyday in the NICU she is stronger and thriving.
I went to a routine appointment on Thursday (35+4) but mentioned I was feeling a little weird. My bp was 160/96. They sent me to the hospital for monitoring. The protein in my urine was at 300 but my labs were within the normal range. They decided to admit me to do a 24 hour urine catch. They ran labs again the next morning and came back to tell me we going to be having a baby because my platelets dropped to dangerously low over night. The immediately started me on magnesium sulfate and started the induction process. They checked my cervix. I was high and closed. Within a few hours I had the worst migraine imagineable. The next morning I was in so much pain I was begging for a csection which they informed me they couldn't do because my platelets were so low I would bleed out. Luckily they went up just enough so I could get an epidural which relived some of the headache. I progressed very slowly. Caroline was born that night with no tears or need for an episiotomy.
She spent some time in the well baby nursery but they ultimately decided it was best for her to be in the NICU. She is learning quickly. She is currently getting some light therapy and learning to eat. We love her so much and can't wait to introduce her to big brother!
Yet another listen to your body post!
She is the D to complete my A, B, C and I know my angel Chloe is watching over all 3 of them for me
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Me: 29 DH: 31
Married 10/13/12
TTC Since 8/2016
I was induced due to chronic hypertension. They started with a Foley bulb catheter to ripen my cervix. My cervix was very unfavorable, 1cm 40% effaced and -3. Third baby. The Foley got me to 4cm. I then started pitocin bc baby was too high up for breaking my water. I reached 12 with pitocin (max is 15) & I still was not contracting. Baby finally dropped low enough to break water. That immediately started my contractions. I got an epidural at 5cm, it dropped my BP really low & was scary but they were able to stabilize it. The epidural failed though & I ended up feeling everything. I went from 6 to 10 in about 5 minutes, & I pushed her out in half a push.
She's perfect and healthy, just working on a good latch. We are home now and I'm struggling emotionally due to her dad not being involved at all. I'm hoping with time things will feel normal again. My boys are in love with her
Best wishes for safe deliveries and healthy babies!
At 32 weeks I was diagnosed with a mild case of Preeclampsia. We watched my blood pressures and protein in my urine very closely. At 35 weeks, I had a high blood pressure scare, but it resolved itself. We decided that I would be induced sometime after 37 weeks.
I went in Wednesday evening to get the induction process started by first ripening up my cervix. That, however, helped to kick in normal labor only 4 hours later.
I pretty quickly progressed to 7 cm, but then stayed there for most of the day Thursday. By 10:30pm we decided that baby just wasn't progressing well enough and decided to proceed with the cesarean which turned out to be the best decision for me and baby girl.
She's the best!
5lb
17.5 inches
born at 37 weeks 5 days
2/18/2016
At my 37 week appointment little one was measuring small so we went to meet with a specialist and we found our little girl was IUGR and not getting enough nutrients due to a velamentious cord insertion we found back at week 25. Her fluid was also very low so we were sent straight to labor and deliver and we met our precious baby girl at 7:18 pm via c-section on February 18th!
My waters broke at 2am that morning and I laboured for 18 hours before being admitted to hospital as we were now at the point of prolonged ruptured membranes and had the intentions to induce labour further.
A quick scan indicated Lydia was footling breech, which no chance of turning again and a cervix check also confirmed a prolapse cord.
An emergency c-section was then put in place and Lydia arrived bang on 8pm.
After removal of the placenta, an additional lobe which had been picked up in my scan was there, however what scans didn't pick up was that the cord going into the placenta, wasn't attached, instead, it held these two parts together with a web of veins. The surgery team were amazed as this could of had a serverly different outcome had I delivered naturally.
Pyshcially, I'm recovering well. Mentally this was so far off what I had prepared myself for so that may take a while longer but I have plenty of support.
Lydia is perfect, healthy and we are both safe.
We are all so in love !
2/23/16
I totally announced on Feb board! Haha, the app updated my birth month and I was so confused as to where the info I had seen before went!
Camilla came early at 38 weeks, via c section. I started having strong contractions and they gave me a couple rounds of medicine to stop them, but she wasn't having it. Born at 12:45 am, 6lbs 10oz. We are all so in love!
3pm on Saturday, Feb 20 we were out running errands and had just left Toys R Us. Heading to another store, my water broke in the car. It was kind of an “Ummmmmm honey, my water just broke.” So I yelled to DH to go to Chick Fil A so I can try to clean up and wait it out - yeah 10 minutes definitely wasn’t enough. So I get back into the car to chaos - how do you explain to your 4-year old what it means when your water breaks?
Fast forward to after MIL picked up the boys, contractions started coming pretty intense but irregular - and everything in my back. Decided to head in even though they weren’t regular. Of course DH forgot to go the short route. As soon as we hit the hospital, contractions pretty much stopped. Once they hooked me up to monitors, we found the baby wasn’t handling things very well, or was just super chill - his heart rate was very odd from the beginning. Walking around to bring on contractions, the ball, everything kept doing weird things to his heart rate, but still not enough for major concern. The midwife started me on citotec (sp??) to get things going - definitely didn’t want to do pitocin after my experience with DS2 on it. Had to get through the second pill before things really got started. And nothing was regular but was getting super intense. I got on the birthing stool and started feeling major pressure, somewhat to push, so midwife checked me at midnight and I was only at a 4 - I majorly lost it - I had stalled at 4 with all of my boys. Decided to get into the labor tub and holy crap the contractions were intense, but I made it through them calmly - the water felt amazing. Started feeling major pressure again. Checked me at 2:40 and I was only at a 5. I started losing it and begging for meds at that point because my past history said hours longer once I got to 5 as the contractions were still in my back. They ordered phentenol and while it was coming, had to do a trip to the bathroom and started feeling major pressure again. They got me to the bed and I couldn’t take the pain anymore. I quit breathing and baby’s heart rate dropped to a scary point. They had to yell at me to breathe and threw the oxygen mask on me. The midwife got in my face and yelled my baby needed me to breathe. They got me on all fours and all of a sudden he was coming - 3 minor pushes within two minutes and he came shooting out - thankfully he rotated at the last minute and came out the right way. So from 2:40 to 3:10 I went from 5cm to delivered - never was able to get the phentenol as he came too quickly. And we found out why he needed to come out. His cord was wrapped 3 times around his neck and it was a velamentous cord insertion and was starting to detach from the cord (yeah I just looked that one up today and lost it with how risky his delivery was). I’m just so thankful he’s here and completely healthy. After 4 days of heel pricks to check rising biliruben levels, they’re finally coming down. He’s such a chill baby - only getting up once or twice a night to eat and goes right back to sleep. My little 6lb4oz baby is such a peanut and a little snuggle bug. His brothers are in love with him.
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Our family of 5 is complete!! Love our boys!
DS2 due 12/12/18
February 28th, 2016
3:17pm 6lbs 7oz and 18 1/2 inches
I woke up at 2:30am on Sunday morning with contractions lasting 45 seconds at 3 minutes apart. I had been at 4cm for 2 weeks and didn't want to show up to L&D with more false labor pains. I took a bath at 3:30am to get a little relief and finally headed to the hospital at 4am. The triage nurse checked me and said I wasn't making any progress with the contractions but they'd keep me and check again in 15 minutes. When she strolled back in an hour later, I was at a 6 with bulging bags and a complete mess from the pain, begging for the epidural that I couldn't get until paperwork, labs, and fluids were complete. They finally gave me Stadol which made me feel like I was 6 margaritas in but took the edge off until I got my epidural at 8am, Pitocin to get things progressing again shortly after, and pushed her out in 30 minutes by 3:17pm.
Recovery so far has been a breeze, she's eating and sleeping like a champ, and I'm sure that will all catch up to me very shortly!!