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zubenescamali labor thread **update, baby here**
zubenescamali
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hesitantly starting this because I am having some contractions but i'm still not 100% convinced this is real yet. both of my previous labors started fast and furious and there was no doubt, this one has me totally unsure. but since everything is still pretty mild right now I might as well start a thread. started losing MP last night around 9pm, got some restless sleep, around 4:30am felt a small gush down there and went to the bathroom and panties were wet, definitely was not me peeing myself, fluid was clear and no odor, enough to soak through panty liner and wet my panties and some of my pants but not the flood I would expect for full rupture (my water never broke with DD1 and the OB broke it at 8cm with DD2). changed and went back to bed, back up almost immediately and more bloody MP coming out. had about 2-3 contractions until I finally got out of bed around 8:30am. started drinking lots of water, ate a bowl of oatmeal with dates and almonds, went on a walk with DH to see if anything would pick up and nothing. came back inside and drank a cup of RRL tea. finally started to feel some sporadic (and I mean sporadic!) contractions around 10:30, decided to eat some leftover chipotle, took a shower and got dressed and contractions started picking up around 15-20 minutes, DH comes back from the gym and we go on another walk, had a few more contractions, currently they are about 10 minutes apart and i have to stop and breath through them. and how much MP is in there??? every time i have a contraction i feel more coming out and have had to go clean up quite a bit.
planning on still going to my chiropractor appointment at 4pm today, as long as things are still spacing like this, maybe he can get baby to line up and speed things along. would LOVE to have baby before midnight and not Christmas eve (or day!), but at this interval i'm thinking unlikely.
planning on still going to my chiropractor appointment at 4pm today, as long as things are still spacing like this, maybe he can get baby to line up and speed things along. would LOVE to have baby before midnight and not Christmas eve (or day!), but at this interval i'm thinking unlikely.
Re: zubenescamali labor thread **update, baby here**
Due December 27th with baby #7
it was a crazy few hours...
Went to the chiropractor at 4pm and he worked some magic on me, spent a good 45 min there and had several more contractions, got back home at 5:30pm and things immediately picked up, contractions coming around 5 minutes and intensifying so we called our doula to come over since it would take her about 30 minutes, meanwhile I decided to get in the tub. When our doula showed up I was still able to talk between contractions but they were getting stronger and I had to moan through them, spent about an hour in the tub when I had a very strong one and I felt more of my waters break, then shit got real and we realized that we had to leave immediately or I was going to have the baby in the bathtub. I could barely move things were so intense, so DH and our doula dressed me and shoved a towel in my pants. As soon a I got in the car I entered transition. Holy balls. I got a single, 30 second break between contractions on the entire 30 minute car ride to the hospital, they were stacked right on top of the other and my water kept gushing out with each one, and I could feel baby sliding down, and putting pressure to push, pushing felt good but did nothing to relieve the pain. It took them several minutes to get me in a wheelchair, DH threw his keys at the valet, and doula and I were off, me, moaning through the entire wheelchair ride, they asked me questions but I couldn't answer, took me straight up into the delivery suite and baby's head was already peaking out, no time for monitors or IVs, didn't even get a name band on, I pushed for a few minutes and out she came!!! Waters were tinged with meconium, but she came out screaming so I got immediate skin to skin and they delayed cord clamping. Only a first degree tear despite the horrific ring of fire.
Em.ily No.elle born med free 12/23/16 at 8:23pm. 8 lbs 4 oz, 20.5 inches.
i had a lot of bleeding afterward, got the shakes and dropped my hemoglobin a total of 5 points, spiked a temp, BP plummeted and passed out when they tried to move me to a wheelchair, the clots and uterine massage was no joke. So I spent a good 4 hours getting a ton of drugs to stop the bleeding and then some IV fluids. Feeling much better today, although I know there are pieces of time after her birth I am just missing.
Feeling much better today and pushing to get released tonight so we can still enjoy Christmas Day with our other two girls!
we are so in love with our baby Emmy!
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Due December 27th with baby #7
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