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25-6-2010 - Birth story!

My mood while writing this blog: exhausted

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Hey everyone...my birth story is finally up. Breastfeeding has been rough! We are sticking with it though and hope to be completely off the nipple shield in a day or two. Thank God my best friend/wifey being here from Indiana since she is a certified lactation specialist! He is just precious, I added his picture to the children section of my profile. Sorry I have been gone, been kinda busy lol. The csection incision is healing fine but I ended up with a seroma which had to be drained once already. Talk to everyone soon :)

Birth details

Original due date: 6/25/2010
Type of delivery: Cesarean section
Duration of labor: 18 hrs
Weight @ birth: 7lbs 4 oz
Length @ birth: 19.75 inches

Tanner-Jason-Powers`s birthstory

Started laboring at 7 pm 6/13/10 with contractions 7 minutes apart. I was told to go to the hospital at 5 minutes apart when I called the doctor. At 4:30 in the a.m. on the 14th, they were 5 minutes apart for an hour. We arrived at the hospital at about 6:30 in the morning and I was 2 cm dilated.

At 8 a.m. they broke my water and I was dilated only 2 cm apart at that time. They gave me a very low dose of pitocin at this point. At 10 a.m. I was dilated to 3 cm and I got my epidural. I was fully dilated by 1 p.m. and began pushing. I pushed for a total of 3 hrs. I was not told that the baby was in any distress, but if I had to guess, I`d say something wasn`t going quite right. They even tried to use the vacuum to assist in delivery but Tanner just wasn`t progressing into the birth canal. The doctor said my pelvis was too narrow for the baby so we decided a csection was the best and safest option at this point. My blood pressure was high during the whole labor and delivery and the baby`s heart rate started to drop with contractions.

Tanner Jason Powers was born via csection at 15:39 on June 14, 2010 weighing 7 lbs 4 oz and measuring 19.75 inches long. His apgar score was 6/8 which was scary because he was blue when they showed him to me and it took a couple minutes before he cried. We love him so much!

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14 Comments on Birth story!


tattooedmomma - Tuesday, 29 Jun
Congratulations!!! So happy for you and glad to hear you and baby are doing well! :)

B3thy - Monday, 28 Jun
congrats momma! glad to hear that baby boy is keeping you busy :)

kbfulloffaith - Monday, 28 Jun
He's adorable! Congrats!

blessedbeyondbelief - Saturday, 26 Jun
Congrats! - He is a nice size! After all your problems - he didn't even want to come out. lol. Glad you are sticking with the breast feeding. Much cheaper. Good luck and praying for you guys!

overjoyedmommy2 - Saturday, 26 Jun
Congrats! Im glad everything turned out good in the end.

helenwantsabub - Saturday, 26 Jun
awww, congrats hun, I'm glad that everything went well, and u had the c section.

beckybear - Saturday, 26 Jun
Awww, what a cutie he is! Congratulations mama!

Cherryb0m - Saturday, 26 Jun
Congrats girl, i'm so glad he made it in this world safe and sound :-)

MariamsMommy - Saturday, 26 Jun
congrats hun!

foreverme - Friday, 25 Jun
Again congrats! :) He's deffinatly a keeper!

southstar - Friday, 25 Jun
oh wow! congrats!!!!

baby[bump]mama - Friday, 25 Jun
omg.....i cant believe they made you push for so long!!!! well im happy he's here now safe and sound! congrats mama!!!!

Duffy - Friday, 25 Jun
COngratulations on the birth of Tanner!

jekajoy - Friday, 25 Jun
Yay! He's precious, so glad to be here with you! You are doing a great job with breastfeeding, so proud of you mama! xoxo

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