I am so happy you finally get to meet baby girl but I'm sorry you are having to deal with induction. All that matters is a healthy baby at the end of all this!!! You can do this! I am praying hard for you. Breaking my water helped a ton to move things along for me. That could be a consideration if you are open to it. No matter what, you've been such an inspiration to all of us and I know I've been so grateful for your support!!
Sending lots of love and best wishes your way @kjd291!! So sorry this isn't what you envisioned for your second birth, but hopefully L&D is faster than anticipated and you get meet your sweet baby girl soon!
Oh my goodness it's finally happening! Sorry your labor isn't starting out the way you hoped but I am so excited for you to finally get to meet your little one!!!! Keeping everything crossed for a quick and smooth delivery!!
You might still beat April the giraffe to the finish line!
I'm so happy for you! You've been on my mind today. The whole day when I was at the hospital waiting for my boy to get discharged I was thinking "Gotta check when I get home on @kjd291!" You can do it! Looking forward to your birth announcement!
Plus! Dialed another centimeter overnight, baby dropped, and lost my mucous plug! All with nothing but letting me sleep! . MW today has been soooo much better with options - PLUS took me off all machines - only intermittent monitoring instead of constant, and let me off the IV-- AND has agreed to break water whenever we progress another cm. And get contractions moving. (Where as last nights MW was saying no water break and only PIT)
Were trying another round of pumping and walking for the next hour or two to see if that will take us into the breakwater step! If not then we hook up to the pit till water break and then get off.
So greatful for the night of sleep, the new staff, the positivity of a new day--and taking things slow and trying to let my body do this on its own. Even if we still go down intervention alley later today I'm not at all as discouraged and upset by the situation because I feel in control!!
best of luck today @kjd291!! I'm so glad you slept and so excited for you to meet your little girl!! Great to hear you feel in control - that is most important! Flip through all your positive affirmations, you are READY mama! So impressed by your ability to stay positive and change your frame of mind!
I got all warm and tingly after reading your post!! Don't know if it's cause I'm so happy for you or just the nursing baby attached to me haha but either way I'm so glad things are moving along for you!! It's so nice to feel in control and I'm sure being overdue is helping your body progress more naturally! You can do this!!! Your body was meant for this!! God has a plan and is in control!! **creepy internet stranger hugs**
Pumping for nipple stimulation has not brought on labor... boo. but I have proven I'm capable of feeding a baby soon : check out this crazy pre-baby colostrum collection!!! ((FTMs, you'll understand soon why this is impressive)) haha
The floor has gotten busy, so now we just wait around for my PIT to get set up.
Hooked up! Feeling things getting uncomfy! Never been so excited about feeling MORE uncomfortable! I just want to get this active labor thing going so we can start and finish and have our baby!
Baby Natalie Rose is here!! stubborn little lady born 11days post dates! Just wanted to be a March baby!
Born at 5:07 today after a only an hour/hr 1/2 of active labor, and a few pushes -- a WHOPPING 10lbs 5oz!! Holy crap guys!!! Not a single tear!??? Don't let anyone tell you that you can't birth a big baby!! I had lots of bleeding right after but it's under control now and we are both doing well! Praise God-He is so good!!
No "good" pictures yet cuz I'm too busy cuddling but here is a teaser - - - excuse my below ramble... but I know I personally LOVE reading birth stories on here and taking bits of it before my turn came---so here's a bit of what went down in that quick flash of time!
After my last post when things started getting more "uncomfortable". I got up to a low dose of 8 of PIT going then they bumped me back to a 4 as things got more uncomfy and closer together because I asked them to let my body take over! And after a bit my midwife finally agreed to break my water! Once the "real" contractions were hitting labor was hard - but no back labor this time around which was SO much easier! (This labor was a piece of cake compared to DD with back labor!) I was able to stay positive, remind myself that I was so close to being done! Had s great team! And my mantra quickly became: I'm a BADASS. Hah. my husband applied counter pressure to my back which felt the best (and to feel him physically supporting me reminded me I wasn't alone) AND I loved squatting and pushing down against my legs to almost stretch my spine long.
15-20 min before pushing i said I couldn't tell if I had to push of had to pee. Everyone has always described pushing pressure as poop-so I didn't trust myself. I tried to go pee with no luck-and finally asked MW to just check me and see. I thought I had hours to go and was crazy to ask-but she checked and said "holy cow-you're fully dilated" I was in lots of pain laying in bed after she checked me-feeling like incouldnt get back out of bed. I initially wanted to push squatting or moving because movement helped with everything else so far-but I just rolled to side lying and started pushing that way with one leg up because I couldn't motivate myself to move any more than that.
First push and they said--wow this baby is coming NOW. Also I know I totally pooped but pushed that out of my mind and knew I needed to just get this DONE fast because I was not comfy and getting myself freaked out. Push two (& maybe three) I was squeezing my eyes shut so tight -super tense-facing away and clinging to the bedrail. I was luckily able to get back to real life-opened my eyes-and midwife encouraged me to relax breath and reach down and help her guide babies head out. I reached down and felt my vagina spreading so tight and had that thought of -I can't do this she's gonna be stuck in there forever & a bit of : I'm going to rip to a thousand pieces. Quickly decided I didn't care if i was a mess down-under-I was getting this kid out--I think I said half begging " come on baby girl" and pushed as hard as I could and her head came out!!! then... I thought: I'm done! The head is the worst! I remember once that was done last time it was easy! But: Nope! I've never birthed a 10lb baby that was wrapped threee times in her cord... midwife reached down and grabbed this giant baby and rolled her around inside TWICE to get her untangled - that was the worst part. I always make fun of moms that scream dramatically during labor---but that was totally me in that moment! YOW!
Finally got my girl for some skin to skin, but she was having trouble getting air-so they grabbed her to suck some gunk out/pushing so fast didn't allow her to get a proper squeeze! Handed her back to me, but I had lots of blood loss and major clotting so IN reached the midwife up to her elbow! And started pulling out clots! Ugh! Hahah! I had to hand baby back to dad so I didn't squeeze her to death with the pain!
After that whole whirlwind i finally had my baby back and she was SO alert and super ready to eat! I realized it was before DDs bedtime and immediately called my mom and asked if they wanted to come over and meet her little sister! Thinking of them meeting was one of the biggest pushes to get me through labor!
Anyway!!! That's my ramble. Overall I'm just in shock how fast it went, proud of myself for being strong and so glad I was able to make decisions that made me feel like it was MY birth, and just blessed that everything could go so smoothly.
Im so excited to meet everyone's babies! And hear YOUR stories!
Congratulations!! Natalie is beautiful and you did an amazing job! Definitely going to channel you during my (hopeful) med free birth. Enjoy all of the snuggle time!
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Re: @KJD291 AW ---BABY IS HERE!
You might still beat April the giraffe to the finish line!
Me: 26 Hubs: 28
Married: 6/6/15
Baby Girl: 3/22/2017
Me: 39 DH: 40
Married: 12/6/2014
BFP#2: 10/28/15 MC: 11/24/15
BFP#3: 3/20/16 MC: 4/26/16
BFP#4: 7/15/16 DD: 3/18/17
BFP#5: 5/1/18 EDD: 1/12/19
Were trying another round of pumping and walking for the next hour or two to see if that will take us into the breakwater step! If not then we hook up to the pit till water break and then get off.
So greatful for the night of sleep, the new staff, the positivity of a new day--and taking things slow and trying to let my body do this on its own. Even if we still go down intervention alley later today I'm not at all as discouraged and upset by the situation because I feel in control!!
The floor has gotten busy, so now we just wait around for my PIT to get set up.
yorkie mama to Oscar
FTM EDD 3.12.17
Thinking of you today! Good luck, it is a great day to have a baby!
stubborn little lady born 11days post dates! Just wanted to be a March baby!
No "good" pictures yet cuz I'm too busy cuddling
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excuse my below ramble... but I know I personally LOVE reading birth stories on here and taking bits of it before my turn came---so here's a bit of what went down in that quick flash of time!
After my last post when things started getting more "uncomfortable". I got up to a low dose of 8 of PIT going then they bumped me back to a 4 as things got more uncomfy and closer together because I asked them to let my body take over! And after a bit my midwife finally agreed to break my water!
Once the "real" contractions were hitting labor was hard - but no back labor this time around which was SO much easier! (This labor was a piece of cake compared to DD with back labor!)
I was able to stay positive, remind myself that I was so close to being done! Had s great team! And my mantra quickly became: I'm a BADASS. Hah. my husband applied counter pressure to my back which felt the best (and to feel him physically supporting me reminded me I wasn't alone) AND I loved squatting and pushing down against my legs to almost stretch my spine long.
15-20 min before pushing i said I couldn't tell if I had to push of had to pee. Everyone has always described pushing pressure as poop-so I didn't trust myself. I tried to go pee with no luck-and finally asked MW to just check me and see. I thought I had hours to go and was crazy to ask-but she checked and said "holy cow-you're fully dilated"
I was in lots of pain laying in bed after she checked me-feeling like incouldnt get back out of bed. I initially wanted to push squatting or moving because movement helped with everything else so far-but I just rolled to side lying and started pushing that way with one leg up because I couldn't motivate myself to move any more than that.
First push and they said--wow this baby is coming NOW. Also I know I totally pooped but pushed that out of my mind and knew I needed to just get this DONE fast because I was not comfy and getting myself freaked out. Push two (& maybe three) I was squeezing my eyes shut so tight -super tense-facing away and clinging to the bedrail.
I was luckily able to get back to real life-opened my eyes-and midwife encouraged me to relax breath and reach down and help her guide babies head out.
I reached down and felt my vagina spreading so tight and had that thought of -I can't do this she's gonna be stuck in there forever & a bit of : I'm going to rip to a thousand pieces. Quickly decided I didn't care if i was a mess down-under-I was getting this kid out--I think I said half begging " come on baby girl" and pushed as hard as I could and her head came out!!!
then... I thought: I'm done! The head is the worst! I remember once that was done last time it was easy! But: Nope! I've never birthed a 10lb baby that was wrapped threee times in her cord... midwife reached down and grabbed this giant baby and rolled her around inside TWICE to get her untangled - that was the worst part. I always make fun of moms that scream dramatically during labor---but that was totally me in that moment! YOW!
Finally got my girl for some skin to skin, but she was having trouble getting air-so they grabbed her to suck some gunk out/pushing so fast didn't allow her to get a proper squeeze! Handed her back to me, but I had lots of blood loss and major clotting so IN reached the midwife up to her elbow! And started pulling out clots! Ugh! Hahah! I had to hand baby back to dad so I didn't squeeze her to death with the pain!
After that whole whirlwind i finally had my baby back and she was SO alert and super ready to eat!
I realized it was before DDs bedtime and immediately called my mom and asked if they wanted to come over and meet her little sister! Thinking of them meeting was one of the biggest pushes to get me through labor!
Anyway!!! That's my ramble. Overall I'm just in shock how fast it went, proud of myself for being strong and so glad I was able to make decisions that made me feel like it was MY birth, and just blessed that everything could go so smoothly.
Im so excited to meet everyone's babies! And hear YOUR stories!
1 Samuel 1:27
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Me: 26 Hubs: 28
Married: 6/6/15
Baby Girl: 3/22/2017