Post by brenna on Aug 29, 2018 13:07:30 GMT -6
Team pink!
Baby Lily was born this morning at 1:21am. It was three hours of pushing 😞 she weighs 6 pounds 7 oz. I have barely gotten any sleep and feel like I got run over by a car from pushing so long so I will do a more detailed birth story later this week. Turns out she really didn't have the complication we induced for, but we are just glad she got here safely and healthy.
Copied from birth announcement thread:
Liliana Joy was born 8/29 (37 weeks 1 day)at 1:21 am. She was 6 pounds 7oz. And 18.5 inches long.
Very long birth story ahead:
I had a doctor's appointment on Monday the 27th where my doctor said the baby might have a complication with the cord, it was already only a 2 vessel cord and they saw a part of it on the ultrasound was swollen which can form blood clots and be life threatening for the baby so we decided to start induction that night. We arrived a little after nine, I got the cytotec and had slight contractions from 1-3:30, then they stopped.
We started pitocin at 6 am and I started having good contractions from about 8-10 and then they stopped again so DH and I decided to walk the halls which got me having contractions 2 minutes apart lasting about a minute each. I made it until about 1pm when my contractions were pretty intense but still manageable to get the epi and the lady that did it was amazing!
At this point I stalled out at a 5 for quite awhile. My ob thought I'd be delivering by like 5:30 but that was not the case at all. From about 7pm-9pm I went from a 5 to almost complete.
We started pushing at 10:30 pm and the on call ob and the baby nurse were in the room because everyone thought it'd be about 20 minutes to get the baby out. Every half hour the nurses and doctor kept saying "you're so close! Almost there!" And after 2 hours I was very tired of hearing it. My epi wore off at this point too so I was in pain and so exhausted. I started to lose it at this point, I was puking, crying, telling everyone I was done, etc. But I still had awhile to go.
Finally after almost three hours my sunny side up baby girl came out. The ob was in the ER on and off during the pushing phase and they wanted me to breathe through some of my last contractions to wait for her and I was having none of that but she made it just in time to catch the baby and my DH got to check to see if we had a boy or girl.
At this point I was so exhausted I was pretty much falling asleep on and off so after trying to feed (I ended up pumping and sending it with baby) we sent Lily to the nursery for a few hours so I could try to recover a little.
This was definitely not the birth I had expected. I am a lot more sore than I thought I'd be and the whole process took a lot longer than pretty much every medical person expected. We are very happy though to have Lily on the outside where we can make sure everything is ok.
She has jaundice and they are doing extra testing on her because of the cord complications but other than that she seems super healthy.
Baby Lily was born this morning at 1:21am. It was three hours of pushing 😞 she weighs 6 pounds 7 oz. I have barely gotten any sleep and feel like I got run over by a car from pushing so long so I will do a more detailed birth story later this week. Turns out she really didn't have the complication we induced for, but we are just glad she got here safely and healthy.
Copied from birth announcement thread:
Liliana Joy was born 8/29 (37 weeks 1 day)at 1:21 am. She was 6 pounds 7oz. And 18.5 inches long.
Very long birth story ahead:
I had a doctor's appointment on Monday the 27th where my doctor said the baby might have a complication with the cord, it was already only a 2 vessel cord and they saw a part of it on the ultrasound was swollen which can form blood clots and be life threatening for the baby so we decided to start induction that night. We arrived a little after nine, I got the cytotec and had slight contractions from 1-3:30, then they stopped.
We started pitocin at 6 am and I started having good contractions from about 8-10 and then they stopped again so DH and I decided to walk the halls which got me having contractions 2 minutes apart lasting about a minute each. I made it until about 1pm when my contractions were pretty intense but still manageable to get the epi and the lady that did it was amazing!
At this point I stalled out at a 5 for quite awhile. My ob thought I'd be delivering by like 5:30 but that was not the case at all. From about 7pm-9pm I went from a 5 to almost complete.
We started pushing at 10:30 pm and the on call ob and the baby nurse were in the room because everyone thought it'd be about 20 minutes to get the baby out. Every half hour the nurses and doctor kept saying "you're so close! Almost there!" And after 2 hours I was very tired of hearing it. My epi wore off at this point too so I was in pain and so exhausted. I started to lose it at this point, I was puking, crying, telling everyone I was done, etc. But I still had awhile to go.
Finally after almost three hours my sunny side up baby girl came out. The ob was in the ER on and off during the pushing phase and they wanted me to breathe through some of my last contractions to wait for her and I was having none of that but she made it just in time to catch the baby and my DH got to check to see if we had a boy or girl.
At this point I was so exhausted I was pretty much falling asleep on and off so after trying to feed (I ended up pumping and sending it with baby) we sent Lily to the nursery for a few hours so I could try to recover a little.
This was definitely not the birth I had expected. I am a lot more sore than I thought I'd be and the whole process took a lot longer than pretty much every medical person expected. We are very happy though to have Lily on the outside where we can make sure everything is ok.
She has jaundice and they are doing extra testing on her because of the cord complications but other than that she seems super healthy.
