Post by theBeeMama on Jun 28, 2015 0:24:18 GMT -5
Sorry if it gets long!
I started having some pre-labor at 5:30pm yesterday, and they were actually fairly intense, but inconsistent. I went on to sleep around 11.
At 2am I woke up with some intense pain. Took a long bath. Contractions got worse and closer together, and by the time I got out of the bath they were under or right at 4 minutes apart.
At 3:30am I called the midwife, texted my mother and woke my husband.
We left for the hospital around 5, waited for just a bit in triage.
At 6 :30 they checked me and I was at 2cm's and 50% effaced, which I shared on another thread really discouraged me. I knew for sure they were going to send me home, but instead they told me to walk the halls for an hour and check back.
It was about 7:45 when they checked me again and I was 5cm's and either 70 or 80% (dh says he heard 80, but who knows) and so they started trying to find a room for us, but it was a busy morning and we didn't get into a delivery room until almost 9, I got straight into the shower and labored there for an hour until...
10am I started to hit transition. SO MUCH PRESSURE. Contractions were one on top of the other and I started feeling the need to push but my water hadn't broken yet. They checked me again and my midwife told me to push while she had her fingers in me, which was HORRIBLY painful but my water immediately broke (probably at about 10:30) and then I had the most glorious little 15 minute break from basically any pain. I was talking and laughing and could have taken a nap. It was like when I had my epidural with DS, except no drugs were involved. Lol
After I'd rested up for a few minutes, we started with practice pushes. Then the urge to push began to come back and so practice pushes became the real deal. We probably did 10 sets of legit pushes and somewhere between me screaming like a banshee and sobbing, "I can't do this" over and over, miss Lillian made her entrance into the world at 12:00 on the dot and was placed immediately on my chest, latched right away and nursed (both sides) for a solid 45 minutes of blissful skin-to-skin mama/baby bonding. 7lbs 2oz, 20 inches. Cute as a friggin button!
What wasn't so blissful was re-tearing my second degree from DS, feeling them stitch me up and then the midwives telling me that they were most likely going to have to reach inside me and pull out clots because of some situation with my bleeding and my lower uterine blah blah blah not being firm enough or something. I was TERRIFIED of having a hand stuck up there after the stitches, but after peeing out a softball sized clot they said all was well. *phew*
We had way too many visitors (dh and I both come from big families) and I am completely mind-wiped, but Lill will only sleep if she's on my chest which means I can't sleep at all, so here I am with you ladies instead.
I miss DS and I'm a little worried about him. I really can't wait to be home and start trying to figure out life with two amazing kiddos.
Also, every woman is a beast for delivering a child no matter how it happens but I just have to say that I am SO incredibly proud of myself for making it all the way through childbirth totally intervention-free, and I'm so thankful for my sweet husband who supported me even though he totally didn't get it. Lol it was a crazy and amazing experience for which I am very grateful!
-BeeMama
TL ; DR - beautiful baby girl after an intense but fairly fast paced, med free birth. Also, sleep deprivation. The end.
Ps. I have already pooped. Booyah.
I started having some pre-labor at 5:30pm yesterday, and they were actually fairly intense, but inconsistent. I went on to sleep around 11.
At 2am I woke up with some intense pain. Took a long bath. Contractions got worse and closer together, and by the time I got out of the bath they were under or right at 4 minutes apart.
At 3:30am I called the midwife, texted my mother and woke my husband.
We left for the hospital around 5, waited for just a bit in triage.
At 6 :30 they checked me and I was at 2cm's and 50% effaced, which I shared on another thread really discouraged me. I knew for sure they were going to send me home, but instead they told me to walk the halls for an hour and check back.
It was about 7:45 when they checked me again and I was 5cm's and either 70 or 80% (dh says he heard 80, but who knows) and so they started trying to find a room for us, but it was a busy morning and we didn't get into a delivery room until almost 9, I got straight into the shower and labored there for an hour until...
10am I started to hit transition. SO MUCH PRESSURE. Contractions were one on top of the other and I started feeling the need to push but my water hadn't broken yet. They checked me again and my midwife told me to push while she had her fingers in me, which was HORRIBLY painful but my water immediately broke (probably at about 10:30) and then I had the most glorious little 15 minute break from basically any pain. I was talking and laughing and could have taken a nap. It was like when I had my epidural with DS, except no drugs were involved. Lol
After I'd rested up for a few minutes, we started with practice pushes. Then the urge to push began to come back and so practice pushes became the real deal. We probably did 10 sets of legit pushes and somewhere between me screaming like a banshee and sobbing, "I can't do this" over and over, miss Lillian made her entrance into the world at 12:00 on the dot and was placed immediately on my chest, latched right away and nursed (both sides) for a solid 45 minutes of blissful skin-to-skin mama/baby bonding. 7lbs 2oz, 20 inches. Cute as a friggin button!
What wasn't so blissful was re-tearing my second degree from DS, feeling them stitch me up and then the midwives telling me that they were most likely going to have to reach inside me and pull out clots because of some situation with my bleeding and my lower uterine blah blah blah not being firm enough or something. I was TERRIFIED of having a hand stuck up there after the stitches, but after peeing out a softball sized clot they said all was well. *phew*
We had way too many visitors (dh and I both come from big families) and I am completely mind-wiped, but Lill will only sleep if she's on my chest which means I can't sleep at all, so here I am with you ladies instead.
I miss DS and I'm a little worried about him. I really can't wait to be home and start trying to figure out life with two amazing kiddos.
Also, every woman is a beast for delivering a child no matter how it happens but I just have to say that I am SO incredibly proud of myself for making it all the way through childbirth totally intervention-free, and I'm so thankful for my sweet husband who supported me even though he totally didn't get it. Lol it was a crazy and amazing experience for which I am very grateful!
-BeeMama
TL ; DR - beautiful baby girl after an intense but fairly fast paced, med free birth. Also, sleep deprivation. The end.
Ps. I have already pooped. Booyah.
Also way to raise the bar on getting your birth story posted in no time at all, I still have to do mine!
