June '15 BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

[ladymouse]

Gwendolyn June, born 7:00 AM on the 23rd
8 lbs 5 oz, 21.8 inches
Attempted VBAC, C-section after 26 hours of labor
Doing well enough we are home after only 2 days.

[gigi3126]

Jude Ryan
6/26 at 2:29pm
41+2
8lbs 9oz, 20 3/4"

Birth story to follow

[amber311]

L1ll1an Je.an born 6\25 at 11:57 pm at 39w3d after 19 hours of labor and 1 hour 7 min of pushing. Made it med free! We are doing great. Birth story to follow with pic.

[theBeeMama]

Miss Lillian B made her entrance today at noon on the dot!

Birthday: 6/27
7lbs 2oz, 20"

Latched immediately like a pro.

Birth story to come at some point!

[mathistm]

Loren Elise
6/27 at 10:27am
40+6
7lbs 13oz, 19.5 inches
Birth story to follow

Our first bath

[bendherova]

Luke Michael
6/28 @ 3:10pm,
41w
7lb 12oz, 21.25in

pics and birth story to come!

[paintdadanta]

Connor Holden born 06.28.15 at 7lbs13oz, 21.5 inches via emergency c-section under general due to sudden infection.

Birth story to follow.

[mrsholley1344]

Name:
Quinn
Date/Time:
6/29/15 3:50pm
Gestation:
40 weeks (due date baby)
Weight:
8.6 19inches
Pictures and birth story:
Details to come when we get home. In short 11 hours total labor and pushing (maybe 30 minutes pushing). Med free water birth. Mom and baby doing great, nursing like a champ.

[mmo2112]

Name: Lore.lei Ka.the.rine
Date/Time: July 1 at ~11am
Gestation: 41+1
Weight: 8 lbs 14.7 oz.
Pictures: below
Birth story: I'd like to say "birth story to follow," but that might be too optimistic. So, the tl;dr is that I was induced June 30, had a couple bumps in the road during labor (epidural had to be redone, got the shakes pretty bad, baby had a 2.5 min heart decel (scary) and her head was huge -- 90+ percentile). I pushed for ~2 hrs. then delivered this magical little human! I had some BP issues post partum and LO had to go to the nicu bc her resting heart rate was/is abnormally low, but we should be able to go home tomorrow.

*poof goes the pic!*

[PurpleIris]

Mir.anda Coll.een
7/3/15 12:01am
42 weeks
8lb 10oz

We are home and doing well!

[taisree]

Also been MIA but here's my announcement:

Had baby boy Hayden June 27th (my estimated due date) after being induced that morning and swept I delivered at 4:53 pm. Hayden weighed in at 8 lbs 13 ounces - doc said he was actually more like 41 weeks which made complete sense with my original dating.

Delivery was FAST. Arrived back at hospital about 4:20 and by 4:53 he was here. I had no drugs or antibiotics (GBS positive) and delivered in the assessment room on a stretcher because he cane so fast. But I'm thankful it was over fast!!

We got discharged the next day both happy and healthy

[clairencub]

Levin Maddox

7/4/2015 3:46 pm

39 weeks and 5 days

7lbs 8 oz

20 inches

*possible birth story to follow-
Still trying to wrap my head around having given birth.

[belle0720]

This is a very late post, but these past 2 weeks have flown by!

Our sweet G.ianna All.egra was born June 22nd at 3:58pm at 40w2d. She was 7lbs 13oz and 20.5" long. She's perfect and we love her like crazy! Will post her birth story asap!

[Bluedaisy]

Tuck$er Francis
July 4th
8lbs 6oz

[blasto!]

Hi all, sorry to have disappeared, but I'm so glad you're all doing well! A quick update, with hopes that I keep up better from here out ?

Gwendolyn Grace (Wendy)
Born 4/20/15 at 33w4d
4lb2oz, 17.5oz
The long and short of it is: my water broke at 4:30am, contractions started about 25 minutes later. We arrived at the hospital at about 5:45, were admitted at 6:30 or so. By about 11am, I was overwhelmed with info about the NICU and contractions and the complete disappearance of my plan and got my epidural. Labor slowed down after that, so around noon they started pitocin. It took a little while to kick in, but I was ready to push by 1, and little miss was born at 1:50. I got to hold her for a minute or two, then she was whisked off to the NICU. She was there for 3 weeks learning to eat and growing before we got to bring her home.

Cookies and baby pics for those who made it through the post.

Birthday:

10 weeks:

[eshap90]

Doing this 3 weeks late ?

Team green turned team blue!

Can.yon Ja.mes was born June 19 at 2220 after 16 hours of labor.

10 lbs 6 ounces...vaginally...with no medication. Yeah. That happened.

He's a happy healthy always hungry big huge boy with lots of hair! We're so in love

[nchauhan]

Excited to actually be able to post this even though it's super late!

Theodore Raja, born on 6/17/15 at 2:51 am.  He was 7 pounds, 9 ounces and 22 inches long (that's the tallest for his age, he'll ever be with his two short parents!!)

I was having contractions sporadically, all day monday and then all of a sudden, they jumped to occurring every 3 minutes.  They got super intense, and then my water broke.  Although, to be honest, I wasn't sure if it broke... I thought I could've pissed myself. My sister called MH and he came home from work and took me to the hospital.  By the time I got there, I was yelling for an epidural.  I have no idea how some of you women went med-free...you're wonder women! I was 6.5cm dilated and 90% effaced when I got the drugs.  

Things went pretty smoothly for awhile. I was comfortable and dilated all the way to 9.5cm.  All the doctors and nurses were convinced I'd give birth within the next few hours. I dilated to 9.75 (yes, the doctors actually said,  you're 9 and 3/4) and got stuck...for 5 fucking hours.  My body wouldn't go the last little bit.  I tried pushing through it, they pushed a TON of pitocin on me, reduced my epidural (to see if my body would dilate after feeling the pain feedback loop), and even tried a squat bar (which was really hard with little feeling in my legs).  I even tried pushing with the doctor's hand shoved up me, and she was physically trying to help me dilate the last bit to get baby's head through.  Apparently he was wedged in a weird position where 9.75 wasn't enough.  

Then, his heart rate plummeted and they gave me lots of oxygen to bring it up.  After a few hours on oxygen, they decided to do an emergency C section.  He got stuck briefly during surgery but then came out with little complication.  

Recovery was pretty terrible.  My incision opened up a few times and I was put on bed rest for about 4.5 weeks.  I went back to work at 7 weeks, and my incision opened again, so I wore a binder to work for another couple weeks.  Everything is pretty much healed now, but working out is non existent and I'm afraid to do too much, so I've become a lazy pile. 

Still, he's totally worth it.  

ETA: here he is, my little halvsie babe...

Ok I just got a new phone and apparently can't figure out how to add a pic

[ashbash]

Hi all Ive been a dirty lurker for a little bit now and finally got it together to intro but I get a message telling me Im not allowed to start a new post, do I need to be added by an admin? I promise Im normal and just looking to join in. I was active on a board for my first baby but its died out and I miss the community and support, hopefully I can join here Thanks!

[billyhorrible]

Sept 4, 2015 14:52:19 GMT -5 ashbash said:

Hi all Ive been a dirty lurker for a little bit now and finally got it together to intro but I get a message telling me Im not allowed to start a new post, do I need to be added by an admin? I promise Im normal and just looking to join in. I was active on a board for my first baby but its died out and I miss the community and support, hopefully I can join here Thanks!

Is there a waiting period for starting threads? NariaDreaming,wordsy,bibliothecary,

[NariaDreaming]

Sept 4, 2015 15:39:19 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

Sept 4, 2015 14:52:19 GMT -5 ashbash said:

Hi all Ive been a dirty lurker for a little bit now and finally got it together to intro but I get a message telling me Im not allowed to start a new post, do I need to be added by an admin? I promise Im normal and just looking to join in. I was active on a board for my first baby but its died out and I miss the community and support, hopefully I can join here Thanks!

Is there a waiting period for starting threads? NariaDreaming,wordsy,bibliothecary,

Nope. Definitely no waiting period

[Flick]

ashbash welcome! In the future posts like this should go in SQS or Randoms thread. Also adding an avatar will help us to distinguish who you are. (:

[khaze]

Now that I'm back at work and have lots of uninterrupted internet time, figured I'd finally sit down and type this out.

I started having contractions around 6pm on my due date (6/22). They were pretty mild for a few hours as I got my toddler in bed and hung out with DH before we went to bed. We both passed out around 9:45 and I was still contracting; not expecting much since I'd been having regular contractions since 37 weeks. I woke up around 10:30 with painful contractions about 10 minutes apart and I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep through them so I went downstairs, laid on the couch, and watched netflix. Around 3 am I was on my birth ball working through the contractions that were around 5-6 mins apart. DH got up, packed the car, and my mom came and got my toddler. After he was gone, the contractions spaced back out to 10 mins, 15, 20. DH got McDonalds pancakes for breakfast around 6 and after that, I started sleeping between contractions.

By 10 I was up again, still contracting every 20-30 mins, not able to talk or walk through them. DH wanted me to call our doctor. She told me if the contractions picked up again to go into L&D for monitoring since I had been contracting for so long. By lunchtime, the contractions were 10 mins apart again, DH and I decided to go to Target and get pizza for lunch. Here I am walking through Target having to stop every contraction and probably looking like I was going to give birth right there. We ate lunch, went back home, and more netflix while I rested, still 10 minutes apart.

At 3:30 the contractions started getting more intense, but not closer together. I told DH let's go see whats up at least. We got to the hospital which was packed at the time, so we found a parking spot way at the other end and started walking. Stopping for a contraction in the hospital, some old guy commented that I was walking like I was in agony. We stopped at the cafeteria for dinner since DH was hungry. I was super nauseous so I just sipped sprite.

We got to triage around 5 and they checked me and I was at a 5 which meant I was staying! They called my doctor who was in surgery, so I didn't get checked into my room until 6, but I was already at 7 cm by then. We figured baby was going to be here in 1-2 hours. They did a little monitoring, then let me walk. Got to a 8.5 cm pretty quick, then sat there and sat there for a while. Around 10:30 I asked for my water to be broken - I was so done at this point. Up to this point, labor had been easy, but after getting my water broken things got hairy. Got to a 9.5 cm and was stuck with a lip. I was in agony, breathing through contractions wasn't cutting it so there was a lot of screaming at this point.

Long story short, baby Aiden was finally born on 6/24 at 12:51 AM after 30 hours of drug free labor. 8lbs 8 ozs and 20 inches.