Archive: Birth Stories

[ellabee]

I figured I'd create a new thread for people to post their birth stories. I didn't want to lose mine from TCF. Feel free to re-post too!

[ellabee]

What a whirlwind labor! DD and I spent most of the day hanging out at DHs parent's house because he's been managing their house renovations and the movers came yesterday to move them back in. I didn't do any lifting, but was chasing DD around keeping her out of the way.

At around 6:30 we went home and I put DD to bed at her usual 7:30ish. I had been feeling what I thought were BH, but around 8 I had a contraction that was definitely more real. I started timing them they picked up quickly until they were coming every 2-4 minutes. I gave the OB on call a ring at 9:30 and because of how quickly my labor with DD progressed and being gbs+ they wanted me to come in.

The L+D nurse was kinda a character. She took one look at me and saw how well I was managing my contractions and basically gave me a side eye. We made small chat and she essentially said, you're contractions are pretty irregular and being only 37w and change, I'd put money on you being dehydrated and going back home. She went to get the OB and said - "the cervix doesn't lie"...lol okay lady. This is what she prepped the OB with too when she came to check me. Welp...to her utter surprise, the OB said I was 5cm and almost fully thinned out.

I got a room and went quickly from 5 to 7 at the next check and then by 12:30 I was 10. They broke my water and I pushed for about 5 minutes before B was born.

I got the natural birth I was looking for and it was pretty on par with DDs - quiet and zen. By the end, the side-eyeing skeptical nurse basically said she'd never seen a calmer natural labor and I should come back and teach a course on it. 😂

Also - super thankful that everything went so smoothly. I ended up having a velamentous cord insertion which I gather can be associated with some pretty bad complications. Th OB was all up in my placenta's junk examining it (weird!).

Benjamin was 7lbs6oz, 20" and has a full head of hair!

[carrots]

Aww loved re-reading this! And now I wish I hadn't been to lazy to save my birth story before having my content deleted from TCF.

[thelittleredm]

Great idea! I'll come back with mine.

[thelittleredm]

W.illiam G.ordon - January 7, 2017 @ 7:06am - 7lbs 14oz, 20 ½”

I woke up at 5:30 this morning thinking Will had just kicked me hard in the front of my uterus/cervix. When there was no other movement, I figured I'd get up and pee since I'd need to soon anyway. After peeing, I had an immense amount of pressure in my low back, butt, and the underside of my belly but not pain all over like with Noah so I wasn't sure if I was just gassy or if it was a contraction. I stood up and waited for it to pass before going back to bed. I got into bed and laid down. Giant mistake. It was instantaneous pain in my pelvis and back. At this point, I figured I was having some back labor. I got out of bed again and when I had another contraction, I made Chris get out of bed and get in the shower with me so that he could do hip squeezes while I washed my hair. Contractions were getting stronger so I told him we needed to go to the hospital. We both got dressed and contractions are 2-3 minutes apart lasting about a minute. I went to the living room to sit on my yoga ball to help my back but had to get off every time contractions hit. Poor Chris had to run around feeding animals and making phone calls all while timing my contractions and doing hip squeezes.

While Chris called our doula to meet at the hospital, I called my parents to come get us. When they finally arrived at 6:30, contractions were about 1-1.5 minutes apart. I sat in the back with my mom...well, half stood, really. I had one leg standing and the other on the backseat all while using Noah's car seat to support myself while my mom let me hang on her arm. My dad blew every red light and was apparently going about 70 until he finally got to the freeway. He was only doing 80 until I told my mom I was feeling the urge to push so she told him to speed it up! I honestly thought I might have a car baby. At that point, I thought I might as well have just had him at home if I wasn't going to make the hospital. Chris admitted later that he was frantically trying to figure out how he'd deliver a baby in single digit weather in the back of an SUV.

Anyway, got to the hospital at the same time as another laboring mom (who could walk so I'm guessing wasn't quite as far along as me) which was amusing. I got to the other side of the car before I had to stop for a contraction again. Chris ran in and out with a wheelchair and then ran through the hospital to the elevators where I had to get off it again because of a contraction. The elevator was quick thank god and we managed to get off before I had another contraction and then another as soon as we got to triage. The nurse got us into a triage room and told me to pee in a cup. Yeah, right. I tried though, twice, but had to get off during contractions. I was on the floor when he came back in and my mom said contractions were getting less than a minute apart.

He checked me really quick and said we were at 8-9 and immediately ran to get a nurse who also came running in and wheeled me to the first empty birthing room she came across because, as the nurse said, “We don’t have babies in triage!” It was a crazy flurry of activity, not that I had much in me to pay attention. Chris said every single nurse in there was ripping open packages and trying to get gloves and everything on while one struggled to get an IV in (which failed, it popped out when I bent my wrist and she never got it in again) and one tried to pick up W's heart on the monitor. The doctor rushed in, asked why I wasn't laying on the bed (policy says patients must be laying down when the bed moves but I was on my hands and knees propped against the back of the bed) and the nurse said she wasn't about to ask me to move. Loved our nurse. Doctor checked and I heard her say I was already complete. Sweet, sweet words.

I had a total of 3 contractions from entering the room to when my water broke. I told them I was going to push, mostly because I knew there was no way to avoid it at this point, and everyone was rushing to try and catch Will who was out after 2 pushes. Based on contractions, I was probably in the room less than 5 minutes before Will arrived. The poor nurse who wheeled us in and helped deliver Will hadn't even had a chance to clock in until after he was born. It was so surreal to look down at the bed between my legs to see my baby there and have to carefully roll over without kicking him or a nurse in the face.

Doula didn't manage to get there until 15 minutes after Will was born but she did take lots of pictures for us.

[Lakes]

I think ds knew he was entering his final hours as an only child because he woke up Saturday night as I went to bed around 10pm. He hasn't woken up at night since the first week we transitioned him back in December. I got him back to sleep, then he was back up, then mh went in to calm him. While I was trying to get back to sleep I felt a pop and hustled myself to the bathroom where it became obvious that my water broke, right at midnight. Mild contractions started about 30 minutes later. We checked into the hospital around yuh 1:30am. I was only at 2cm and she was still very high, I think they said -3 station. I got checked twice because the doctor didn't believe the nurse. She also y she doesn't trust second babies because they can pop out at any moment. Dd was going to prove her right!

Labor was more intense this time. I'm not sure if that's a second baby thing or because I had to wait longer for my epidural (there were two unscheduled back to back c-sections). I felt nauseous, shaky, and was hitting higher on the pain scale than with ds. At 3am they put me on oxygen, rolled me to my left side, and started pushing fluids to stabilize dd's heart rate.

At 4:30am I received my sweet, sweet epidural. It was the same doctor that gave me epi last time, he does a great job. I was checked again but she was still high and only 3cm dilated.

The nurse popped in at 6:20 for a quick check and surprise, surprise, felt dd's head. The doctor rushed in and three pushes later dd was born at 6:34am.

About six hours later we settled on her name. 7lbs 12oz, 20.5 inches long, and a head of brown hair.

[Lakes]

thelittleredm's birthstory is still one of my favs. Did your dad ever get any tickets from red light cams?

[rinny]

I actually never got around to posting mine, but here is what I gave to a small group of friends (Edit to remove some names)


Sorry for the novel, but wanted to write while it's in my head, plus I'm up.

Friday was my due date and I was feeling pretty down in the dumps. I hadn't slept at all the night before, my anxiety was ever increasing lately, and I was just super emotional. Had an appt at 815 and I cried when the MW asked me how I was doing. We were discussing a possible induction for next Friday and I asked if there was anything I could do to get things moving, so she offered a membrane sweep. There was no progress over the prior week.

Well, within an hour or so, the sweep did the trick. I went into work, but started having contractions 5 min apart right out the gate between 930/10. I went to a big meeting at 10 and tried to make it through before I abruptly got up and decided I needed to go home. Told my boss goodbye and called MH to have him come back as well.

Got home and got in the tub, contractions were already 2-3 min apart and on top of each other if I was moving at all. Called the midwives who told me to come right back asap and the nurse on the line said "dang, good job Tanya" lol. Tanya is who gave me the sweep.

As we all know, men do ridiculous things during labor. MH gets home and the first thing he says to me is "I FORGOT MY SANDWICH. Can we stop back at my office to pick it up?" Lolwut? I glared at him, but once we were on the way I was feeling a bit better, so I let him. It wasn't even anything special, just homemade ham and cheese on wheat /facepalm.

Got to the hospital and contractions were way worse than they ever were with N. I was not pleased to find the MW who was a total bitch to me a few weeks ago was on call. It ended up being ok though. She did give me plenty of "we'll see" before I got checked. Well, they checked me and I was at 7cm/90% and then she's all "well, looks like the plan is you stay!"

They move me pretty quickly at this point to L&D. I ended up having the same awesome nurse who was there for N, so that was an epic bonus. Not long later I'm starting to feel like I'm not going to be able to handle the contractions any more soon, so I asked for the epi.

Anesthesia came suuuuper fast and they were AMAZING. I seriously had the world's best epidural. She also gave me a half spinal (?) before hand since I was moving so fast and she wanted to make sure I was feeling good before the epi took effect. It was awesome, I could still feel my legs, etc, but felt totally better.

About an hour and a half later, I said to the nurse "I feel like I'm going to crap my pants", so she went to get the midwife. Everyone came in, they checked me and I was good to go. They broke my water since it hadn't broken yet. For some reason I was shocked when she asked me if I wanted to try to give it a sample push the next time I felt the pressure. It went really well and from there it was about 7 minutes of pushing until he came out PISSED at 4:49 PM. It was awesome.

They let me hold him for prob 45 min before they took him to do anything at all. 8 lb 2 oz, 20.25" long. It was overall a really good experience. Everyone who was around was thanking us for such a lovely, positive experience.

He looks only a little like his brother, but is adorable. He's been nursing great and slept really well tonight as long as he was fed and tightly swaddled, which was a much needed break for me (even though I'm up writing this at 430 ). Considering it took 36 hours for N and 7.5ish for L, the whole thing was so different, but both really great in their own ways.

[pibblemom]

I'm feeling all the warm fuzzies re-reading these ❤❤


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[thelittleredm]

Lakes, Nope! Our city actually took them out a couple years ago.

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