March 2016 Moms
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March 2016 Birth Announcements
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***Please do not comment on this thread unless it is your birth announcement***
Please use this thread to share baby's name, birth date, pictures, and any other details you would like to share as well as a link to your individual announcement thread.
"Love Its" are welcome and appreciated on this thread, but please refrain from commenting with anything other than your baby's details.
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Wishing everyone short, healthy, and happy births!!
(Credit for text used above goes to A14, N14, D14, J15, F15, M15, S15, O15, N15, J16)
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DS1 - 9/21/11
DS2 - 7/4/14
DS3 - 2/21/16
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Our family of 5 is complete!! Love our boys!
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Our family of 5 is complete!! Love our boys!
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!!