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Natural Labor Rocks! (Finally with baby #3!)
I never did put this here (was this board even around last May?), but I did share right after he was born on the 3rd tri. I have been induced for 2 full term pgs, and #3 finally decided to come on his own, arriving 44 minutes before our scheduled induction!
Saxton?s birth story
I was 1 day short of being 2 weeks past my EDD on Monday April 28th. I went in for an U/S and NST at 1pm, after my fundal height had jumped 3 cm since my previous appt. Everything looked great at my U/S, until the tech tried to find amniotic fluid to measure. I only had 2 fluid pockets big enough to measure, and neither of them were a healthy level. My OB was called, and it was decided to move my induction from Friday, May 2nd, to 7am Tuesday morning (the next day!) I came home, pouted about being induced, and tidied up the house. My MIL came to stay with us, and arrived at 8pm.
The U/S tech had showed me my cervix (that was just WEIRD to see!) and judged me to be 5 or 6 cm dilated. But, at my NST, I was still having contractions 7 minutes apart with irritability between them, same as the Monday before.
After putting the kids to bed, my MIL and I sat on the couch visiting and going over the kids? schedules. At around 10pm-ish, my back started aching, but I blew it off, since it usually started aching at the end of the day. DH went to bed early while we chatted.
My MIL went to bed and I took a shower a little after 11pm, hoping to ease the back ache. This is also where I gave my vagina the pep-talk, LOL! (I really wanted the induction to be successful, and avoid a c-section.) I haunted the nest for a bit, posted, and went to bed. And then decided I wanted sex one last time! I raped poor DH, and then snuggled in to sleep.
I couldn?t sleep. Now my thighs were in cahoots with my back ache. I stuffed another pillow between my thighs and tried again. Nope. I blamed my lack of sleep on DH?s snoring and stared at the clock. Then, I started timing the back ache/thigh cramping. Surprisingly, they were about 5 minutes apart! I got up to walk around and see if that would make them go away. For shits and giggles, I opened up contractionmaster.com, and started timing them again. They were 5 minutes apart and lasting about 55 seconds when I first came downstairs. After walking around, they jumped to 3.5 minutes apart and were lasting just over 1 minute! They were starting to hurt, so I would stop during a contraction, rest on my knees with my forearms resting on the seat of a chair. I found making small circles with my hips relieved the discomfort. I was still in denial that I was in ?real? labor.
I looked what I was experiencing up in the Lamaze labor guide, and then, I started crying because I had literally given up on ever having a birth experience without pitocin. It took more than 20 minutes to post on the nest that I was in labor, between contractions. At 2am, I went upstairs to wake DH. His response? ?Seriously? Oh, is that a contraction?! You?re in labor!?? Apparently, he too, had given up!
This is the funny part: DH started racing around the house like a mad man! He went in the guest room, woke his mother up (who was confused at first as to why she was being woken up around 2am), and ran out the back door the get the truck. I checked on each of my children, kissed them good-bye between contractions, and ate a snack. Poor DH was so excited and nervous. He chased me out the door, I went back in to get my sandals to wear home from the hospital, and I swear he would have thrown me over his shoulder if he could!
Contractions while sitting, buckled in, in a vehicle are not fun. I had 3 or 4 contractions between home and the hospital. We stopped at the ER?s nurses? station, where DH announced that we?d like to have a baby, and up to L&D we went. The nurse that did my NST was on duty, along with one other nurse. I was hooked up to the monitors for 15 minutes and then checked. I was 7cm! The monitors were unhooked and I was able to move around, as I had requested. (3am)
I moaned and ?sang the labor song? during contractions. DH was the best! I had back AND leg labor and he found the pressure point in my lower back that eased the back pain considerably. He held me, encouraged me, put wet wash cloths on my forehead, fed me ice chips, and was just all around awesome!
I was 8cm at around 4am. This is when my bloody show decided to show up. I rested for about 5 minutes or so between contractions during transition. The OB arrived at 5:15 and checked me. I was at 9cm (had been since about 4:30), but still had an anterior lip on my cervix. She tried stretching it, but it wouldn?t budge. I labored for another 30 minutes, and she checked again. I still had the lip, was still 9cm, so she had me start pushing while she tried to stretch the lip over the baby?s head. Not the most pleasant feeling in the world, and it took 20 minutes to get his head through the lip. Things went fast then!
My bed had stirrups, but it was adjusted so that I was basically squatting. Two contractions and he was crowning! (DH was so excited! He kept yelling push! like a goofball, LOL!) The OB broke my water, made sure the fluids were clear, and I pushed with the next 3 contractions. His head didn?t budge. Because of my very low fluids, the OB asked my permission to do a small episotomy so we could get him out. She made a quick clip, and with the next contraction, he was here! Once his shoulders were out, the OB told me to reach down and pull him the rest of the way out and onto my chest. His eyes were wide open, and he was so pink!
I was shocked when the nurses told me he weighed 9lbs 2.6oz! That?s almost 2lbs more than my other kids were! He was 21? long and had a 14.5? head. I got to give him his first bathe, he roomed in, and his older siblings adore him. He?s been such a good baby! He has the longest alert periods, nurses like a champ, and had only lost 3oz by our 24 hr discharge. As of his 3 day check up, he was only down 2oz from his birth weight.
They staff followed my birth guide to a ?t?, other than the episotomy, which, circumstances being what they were, I?m okay with it.
Recovery was REALLY easy, and I lost my pg weight quickly. He nursed like a champ from the get go, and is a healthy & happy EBF baby boy who just turned 8 months old.
Good Luck! And I hope everyone has as wonderful of a birth experience as me! Congrats to all you new mommies!
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Re: Natural Labor Rocks! (Finally with baby #3!)
Jenni-
What a triumphant birth story! I never realized until now how close our kids are in age, too.
Bluesmoothee-
Seriously? Did you really, actually post on someone's birth story to make fun of their baby's name? You couldn't just think it in your head? My mama always told me that if I didn't have anything nice to say...and I teach my children the same rule. This thread is for mama's to post their birth stories, not get opinions on their baby's names! Dang.
Oh, by the way, Jenni, I think Saxton is a cool name!
What is Caroline's sibling going to be named? ?Perhaps we would like to laugh at your choice in name.?
11 months
Wow. Uncalled for.
RUDE!
Jenni - I think Saxton is a cool and original name.
seriously? there is no need!
Why LOL? There is nothing wrong with Saxton. I am not sure what you were trying to accomplish, but FAIL.?
Well, I don't know why someone would post such a rude thing about your son's name... I guess they don't have any class or consideration for other people's feelings. RUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think the name Saxton is unique yet still sounds somewhat classic. Its traditional with a twist so that makes it special. Right up my alley! And you probably won't hear other kids with that name, which is a nice bonus.