Sweet Josephine Mae was born on June 17th. After two full days of labor, we went in to the hospital at 4 am. I then got my Epi around 5:30 after some seriously painful back contractions. They broke my water when I was 9 cm, pushed twice at 10 cm and she was here! 7 lbs 6oz 19 in and absolutely perfect.
Clayton was born on June 14 at 9:09 am. He was 8lbs, 5oz and 21 1/4 in.
Birth Story: Monday, June 12- I was 40 weeks, 1 day and 3cm at my doctor's appointment. She did a membrane sweep and we scheduled induction for Wednesday.
Tuesday, June 13- I started having contractions after dinner. We got everything ready for the hospital and I tried to sleep and slept on and off for a couple of hours. My contractions were 3-5 min apart. I finally just got up at 3am and got ready.
Wednesday, June 14- Induction scheduled for 6am.
We went ahead and went to the hospital at 5am due to contractions (they were getting stronger).
When I got there, I was still at 3cm. Thankfully they let me get my epidural, and I felt much better. They started some pitocin to get contractions in a good pattern and the doctor broke my water around 7:30am. I was still 3cm and pretty bummed.
I was checked by nurse at 9am and was complete (and we were in complete shock). She called in the doctor and they got everything set up quickly. I only pushed for two contractions, a total of 3 minutes and Clayton was born at 9:09 am.
Married my best friend May 24, 2008
BFP #1 9/1/11, EDD 5/15/12, Missed M/C at 9w4d, discovered at 11w3d, D&C 11/2/11
BFP #2 6/20/12, Baby Boy born 3/2/13
BFP #3 October 2016, EDD 6/11/17
Baby started giving me some pretty strong contractions right at 37 weeks (Sunday). By Monday afternoon they had a good rhythm, so I decided to time them. At 5 o'clock they were coming every 5-6 minutes lasting just shy of 1 minute. By 8 o'clock they were coming every 4 minutes lasting just over 1 minute. Since I had an 11:40 appointment in the morning I decided to wait these out. I fell asleep sometime after midnight and woke up to severe pain at 3:40. I was up for the day. Started timing them and they were coming every 4-5 minutes lasting less than a minute (but not by much).
Got to my appointment and my OB did a check (1cm, 60%) and said because I was clearly in so much pain, he wanted me to go to L&D to see what they thought. Because I had 1/2 a muffin at 10, he wanted me to wait till 2:30 to head over (if I was gonna have the CS today, they would make me wait anyways). Got to L&D and the doctor came out to let everyone know they were 100% full. If anyone wanted to, they could go to the other hospital and have no wait, but it was a 35 minute drive, and this wait would be at least an hour. Thanks, but no thanks. (1 mom actually did go, so that was 1 more available bed!)
ALL of the women were called back by the time they finally got to me (at 5:20, hello unhappy, hungry, thirsty me). As soon as they hooked me up to the monitor they saw that baby was handling this well, and I was having HUGE contractions every 2-3 minutes, lasting a minute+. We sat around for a bit and the OB came in and did another internal (same dilation from my OB, so I might go home.). Went through 2 IV bags, 3 doctors and 2 nurses, no progress is made but I'm continuing to have some gnarly, painful contractions. Doc says she wants the baby out for my safety (old scar can easily rip). We get everything ready and are about to head into the OR when our surgeon stops us and basically says this is not a good idea for the 37+2 fresh baby, I should wait and let it come on it's own. Yeah? Not gonna happen.
Go to the OR, get my spinal in, barf (boo) and hubby strolls in in his lovely outfit! After LOTS of pressure, moving and juggling, we hear our daughters first cries. Hello beautiful!
Brielle was born at 10:16 pm on 6/13, 6 pounds, 13oz. 18" long. Much smaller than my other kiddos, but also much earlier! No NICU time needed, and she's already nursing like a champ! We are so in love with her as are her big brother and sister!!!
Introducing Jonah Rhys, born 6/9 @ 6:03pm, 6lbs 15oz and 20.5in long (at 40+1 weeks)
At my 40 week appointment on 6/8, I had no change in my exam (1-2cm dilated, minimal effacement) for 3 weeks, so I prepared to go back to work the next day after 5 days "off" just waiting and prepping for baby. The next morning, when I woke up to my alarm at 6:15am, I noticed that my water had broken...so my first phone call was actually to my boss to find back up coverage in the ED for me! My parents arrived at 8:30am to watch our older son, so off we were to L&D (GBS+, so had to head in for antibiotics). Blame it on the super moon, but L&D was PACKED that morning already! I was checked in by 10:30am though, started on an antibiotic drip and found to be 2-3cm and 60% effaced. I was having some steady contractions, but I didn't really start feeling good regular ones until ~1pm. Finally left triage and into a delivery room by 3:45pm, check at 4pm by my OB. I was only 4cm at the time, which was surprising to me because at that point, the contractions had REALLY picked up the pace and intensity! Because my 1st labor stalled after the epidural, I committed to continuing on until I was further along, so got on my birthing ball and started "rocking it out"! At 5:15pm, had a feeling that I couldn't continue any longer. I completely misinterpreted that as worsening contractions that were simply unbearable, so I requested/begged for my epidural at that point. Well, turns out I was transitioning...I couldn't sit still for the Epi placement, and started bearing down to push as they were completing the procedure. My OB rushed in, I pushed 2-3 times and baby was here! He needed to be deep suctioned for meconium and nuchal cord x1, but was perfectly pink immediately after. We did skin to skin and nursed in the DR while they delivered the placenta. I can't believe how quick the end of my labor went this time around compared to the first time. If I had known that I was transitioning, I wouldn't have begged for the Epi and just pushed the baby out! Either way, we all did great... and he's been a champion nurser at home. Big brother is still deciding whether or not to send him back.
Ava Brielle born June 12th I arrived at the hospital already 6cm dialated. Oops! However, it took a long time to reach 10 cm.
They told me I was a good candidate to not take an epidural, but the approaching pain to come, had me nervous and I went with the epidqural. I pushed straight for several hours at the end, but made very little progress. She was having a hard time getting past my pelvis. Forceps and c-section began getting discussed. The doctor recomended for us to go with forceps first and then c-section if foreceps did not work.
I decided to labor some more, but it still did not work. We decided on trying the forceps and
luckily they worked.
Ava Brielle made her way into our world at 6:22 am. Weighing in at 7lbs 15oz, and 21 inches.
Juniper Harriet Lowe born at 17:04 via cesarean on 6/20/17, weighed in at 9lbs 7.9oz, 21in long.
Waters broke spontaneously at home at 3:30am, confirmed meconium once admitted at 6:30am after laboring at home for an hour with contractions sub 5 min apart, roughly one minute in duration. (From 3:30am-5am, I had only 3 contractions, 40, 30, and 20 mins apart.)
I went from 1+ cm dialated and 100% effaced upon check-in to 3cm 45 min later, and then to 8.5 in 3hrs, at which point I was given terbutaline to slow labor and get a bit of a break between contractions which were a minute long and only 90 seconds apart. Juniper's HR dipped below 100 due to the near constant contracting, and we nearly ended up in an emergency cesarean and under general anesthesia. They terbutaline gave us enough of a break to continue laboring without pain medication. However, progress had stalled, and as the terbutaline wore off, HR was beginning to be a problem again, so I elected to have an epideral, just in case we needed to have a cesarean, so I wouldn't have to go under. I could have had them run saline, but y'all, that stuff was amazing. I don't regret it a bit.
After rocketing from 1-8.5 in under 4 hrs and stalling at 8.5 for 5 hrs, the OB strongly encouraged us to switch to the OR for a cesarean. I hadn't pictured us having a cesarean, but I hadn't really pictured any specific outcome, so into the OR we went. The surgery went well, and she turned out to be even bigger than the 8lbs 13oz estimate, and ended up weighing 9lbs 8oz at delivery.
Juliana Therese was born at 4:50 am on 6/23 at 40+5 days gestation via unplanned C-section. 9 lbs 5.8 oz and 21 1/4 in long.
Went in at 10pm On 6/21 to start Cervadil. Started at 1 cm and ended at 3 cm and 60% effaced. Got 2 rounds of Stadol during the Cervadil treatment. Started pitocin around 1pm on 6/22 and pretty much right away my water broke. I got an epidural pretty quickly. I progressed up to 7 cm, but stalled out at a 7 for almost 5 hours and her head still wasn't in position. At that point (almost 4am) my doctor recommended a C Section and I agreed.
During the C section I had a window that the pain medicine wasn't reaching so I felt so much pain and was in agony. I lost quite a bit of blood, and they thought about transfusing but decided against it.
Noah Mason was born at 3:15 PM on Friday 6/23/17, 9 pounds, 5 ounces, 21.5 inches long, via induction at 39 weeks. My blood pressure had been almost perfect all pregnancy, but the last two weeks it had crept up. Went late Thursday night for monitoring because I felt "off" and was surprised with admission and induction at 3 AM. First time mom, but only 45 minutes of pushing and minimal tearing. We are in love!
Alexandria Dallyce Born 6/17/17 at 11:32pm 7lb 3oz and 20 inches long
Scheduled Induction on 6/17 at exactly 40 weeks (on my due date). Arrived at hospital at 5:30am. Doc skipped cytotec because I was already 3cm dilated. Pitocin IV started around 9am. Went all day with very little change and fairly tolerable contractions. Cervix softened but only dilated to 4-5cm. Shift change happened at 7pm and my new nurse was more aggressive with Pitocin. They broke my water bag at 9pm. Contractions intensified to unbeatable within an hour. Called for anesthesiologist to give me an epidural (originally I wanted to deliver without one) around 10pm and I was 7cm. By the time the epidural started working, I felt like I had to push. My doctor was paged and he arrived shortly. Four or five contractions later my beautiful daughter was born!!!
Cameron Lee born on 6/28 at 10:02am. He weighted 8 lbs 4oz and 20 inches. He was delivered via RCS and everything went smooth. He likes to sleep and not very interested nursing so we're doing some supplementing. He's precious and were in love, DD and DS are the best big brother and sister!
Ada Coraline made her grand entrance 6/27 @ 9:33pm after a somewhat intense labor. She's a hefty 8lb 10 oz and just under 22 inches. We couldn't be more in love and happily exhausted ❤ Momma had chorio so were finishing up antibiotics and heading home
Willow Kadence was born on 6/20 at 6:54pm at 40weeks. She weighed 9lbs 2oz and was 21in long. My labor was super fast this time around at 10 hours. I pushed for 10 min and she was here! I couldn't have asked for an riser delivery. We are so in love with this little girl!
I finally go here! First of all, every single one of your babies in these birth announcements have been giving me LIFE, mommas! I just want to say congrats to all!
Now, I'd like to introduce my little cherub, C.armen Cor.etta, born on her due date 6/27. 6lb8oz, 20in. 30 hours of labor (still shorter then DS who took 40 hours), pushed 8 times over 4 contractions and she was out! I was a bad, bad, girl and drank some castor oil the day before my due date because mommy was getting impatient! It promptly cleaned me out end to end and pushed my early irregular contractions into the real thing. DH, DS, and I are smitten with our sweet new girl!
Laura Frances was born via repeat c-section on 6/26, one week overdue. She was 9lb 5oz and 21 inches. We love her little chubby cheeks. She is such a good baby and so adorable.
MC Sept 2010 BFP Oct 2011 - DD born July 2012 TTC again since July 2014 First IUI 9/26/16: BFP! EDD 6/19/2017 It's a girl!
Born 6/26/17, 9lb 5oz
My peanut was finally born yesterday at 41+2. Ember weighed 8lbs, 9 oz and was 21.5 inches long.
Contractions woke me up at 2:30 am, but I've had contractions for so long I didn't think anything of it until they wouldn't let me fall back asleep. I started timing them and within 30 min they went from 5 min apart to 3 min apart and were leading for over a min. I called my midwife and woke my husband to help me get ready. I'm not sure if the exact timeline, but while laboring, I regretted my decision to have a home birth. All I could think of was the glorious pain meds that were in my IV at the hospital with DD1. About that time my midwife suggested I get into the tub. The water soothed my pain and stalled contractions a bit, which enabled me to regroup mentally. Once my contractions picked up again, she came pretty quickly and she was born by 6:45ish. My labor was a little over 4 hours long, which was a huge improvement from my last, which was 42 hours.
Jaxson Wesley was born July 6th at 4:25pm. 7lb 13oz and 21 in long. After a forced medical induction that didn't go well, our little guy entered the world via an unplanned csection at 41+4 (I was due June 25th).
Madeleine Nora Marie arrived by planned c section on June 22 at 9:16 am. I got to see her after she was extracted and got the immediate skin to skin I missed out on with my first. Madeleine rode to the recovery with us and latched immediately. Having the planned route was such a different experience than my emergency c section I had with the first.
Re: June 2017 Birth Announcements
Birth Story:
Monday, June 12- I was 40 weeks, 1 day and 3cm at my doctor's appointment. She did a membrane sweep and we scheduled induction for Wednesday.
BFP #1 9/1/11, EDD 5/15/12, Missed M/C at 9w4d, discovered at 11w3d, D&C 11/2/11
BFP #2 6/20/12, Baby Boy born 3/2/13
BFP #3 October 2016, EDD 6/11/17
Baby started giving me some pretty strong contractions right at 37 weeks (Sunday). By Monday afternoon they had a good rhythm, so I decided to time them. At 5 o'clock they were coming every 5-6 minutes lasting just shy of 1 minute. By 8 o'clock they were coming every 4 minutes lasting just over 1 minute. Since I had an 11:40 appointment in the morning I decided to wait these out. I fell asleep sometime after midnight and woke up to severe pain at 3:40. I was up for the day. Started timing them and they were coming every 4-5 minutes lasting less than a minute (but not by much).
my happy boy
At my 40 week appointment on 6/8, I had no change in my exam (1-2cm dilated, minimal effacement) for 3 weeks, so I prepared to go back to work the next day after 5 days "off" just waiting and prepping for baby. The next morning, when I woke up to my alarm at 6:15am, I noticed that my water had broken...so my first phone call was actually to my boss to find back up coverage in the ED for me! My parents arrived at 8:30am to watch our older son, so off we were to L&D (GBS+, so had to head in for antibiotics). Blame it on the super moon, but L&D was PACKED that morning already! I was checked in by 10:30am though, started on an antibiotic drip and found to be 2-3cm and 60% effaced. I was having some steady contractions, but I didn't really start feeling good regular ones until ~1pm. Finally left triage and into a delivery room by 3:45pm, check at 4pm by my OB. I was only 4cm at the time, which was surprising to me because at that point, the contractions had REALLY picked up the pace and intensity! Because my 1st labor stalled after the epidural, I committed to continuing on until I was further along, so got on my birthing ball and started "rocking it out"! At 5:15pm, had a feeling that I couldn't continue any longer. I completely misinterpreted that as worsening contractions that were simply unbearable, so I requested/begged for my epidural at that point. Well, turns out I was transitioning...I couldn't sit still for the Epi placement, and started bearing down to push as they were completing the procedure. My OB rushed in, I pushed 2-3 times and baby was here! He needed to be deep suctioned for meconium and nuchal cord x1, but was perfectly pink immediately after. We did skin to skin and nursed in the DR while they delivered the placenta. I can't believe how quick the end of my labor went this time around compared to the first time. If I had known that I was transitioning, I wouldn't have begged for the Epi and just pushed the baby out! Either way, we all did great... and he's been a champion nurser at home. Big brother is still deciding whether or not to send him back.
I arrived at the hospital already 6cm dialated. Oops! However, it took a long time to reach 10 cm.
Went in at 10pm On 6/21 to start Cervadil. Started at 1 cm and ended at 3 cm and 60% effaced. Got 2 rounds of Stadol during the Cervadil treatment. Started pitocin around 1pm on 6/22 and pretty much right away my water broke. I got an epidural pretty quickly. I progressed up to 7 cm, but stalled out at a 7 for almost 5 hours and her head still wasn't in position. At that point (almost 4am) my doctor recommended a C Section and I agreed.
During the C section I had a window that the pain medicine wasn't reaching so I felt so much pain and was in agony. I lost quite a bit of blood, and they thought about transfusing but decided against it.
Noah Mason was born at 3:15 PM on Friday 6/23/17, 9 pounds, 5 ounces, 21.5 inches long, via induction at 39 weeks. My blood pressure had been almost perfect all pregnancy, but the last two weeks it had crept up. Went late Thursday night for monitoring because I felt "off" and was surprised with admission and induction at 3 AM. First time mom, but only 45 minutes of pushing and minimal tearing. We are in love!
Born 6/17/17 at 11:32pm
7lb 3oz and 20 inches long
Scheduled Induction on 6/17 at exactly 40 weeks (on my due date). Arrived at hospital at 5:30am.
Doc skipped cytotec because I was already 3cm dilated. Pitocin IV started around 9am. Went all day with very little change and fairly tolerable contractions. Cervix softened but only dilated to 4-5cm. Shift change happened at 7pm and my new nurse was more aggressive with Pitocin. They broke my water bag at 9pm. Contractions intensified to unbeatable within an hour. Called for anesthesiologist to give me an epidural (originally I wanted to deliver without one) around 10pm and I was 7cm. By the time the epidural started working, I felt like I had to push. My doctor was paged and he arrived shortly. Four or five contractions later my beautiful daughter was born!!!
Now, I'd like to introduce my little cherub, C.armen Cor.etta, born on her due date 6/27. 6lb8oz, 20in. 30 hours of labor (still shorter then DS who took 40 hours), pushed 8 times over 4 contractions and she was out! I was a bad, bad, girl and drank some castor oil the day before my due date because mommy was getting impatient! It promptly cleaned me out end to end and pushed my early irregular contractions into the real thing. DH, DS, and I are smitten with our sweet new girl!
Me: 31 DH: 34
Married 11/09/2013
LO#1: LMP 09/14/2014 BFP 10/15/2014 EDD 06/24/2015 DS Born 06/14/2015
LO#2: LMP 09/18/2016 BFP 10/19/2016 EDD 06/27/2017 DD Born 06/27/2017
LO#3: LMP 05/16/2018 BFP 06/18/2018 EDD 02/20/2019
BFP Oct 2011 - DD born July 2012
TTC again since July 2014
First IUI 9/26/16: BFP!
EDD 6/19/2017
It's a girl!
Born 6/26/17, 9lb 5oz
Contractions woke me up at 2:30 am, but I've had contractions for so long I didn't think anything of it until they wouldn't let me fall back asleep. I started timing them and within 30 min they went from 5 min apart to 3 min apart and were leading for over a min. I called my midwife and woke my husband to help me get ready. I'm not sure if the exact timeline, but while laboring, I regretted my decision to have a home birth. All I could think of was the glorious pain meds that were in my IV at the hospital with DD1. About that time my midwife suggested I get into the tub. The water soothed my pain and stalled contractions a bit, which enabled me to regroup mentally. Once my contractions picked up again, she came pretty quickly and she was born by 6:45ish. My labor was a little over 4 hours long, which was a huge improvement from my last, which was 42 hours.