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Alamanda Sex: girl Born: 06 August, 1997 Age: 11 years & 124 days Birthday in: 241 days Starsign: Leo Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: Getting a 100 on her Science Test!

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Brittany Sex: girl Born: 29 January, 1999 Age: 9 years & 313 days Birthday in: 52 days Starsign: Aquarius Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: Getting Straight A`s!

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Larkyn Elizabeth Sex: girl Born: 15 September, 2008 Age: 0 years & 81 days Birthday in: 284 days Starsign: Virgo Development: See the 2 months page. Biggest achievement so far: - Being born

Birth details

Original due date: September 26, 2008
Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: almost 5 hours first contraction to birth
Weight @ birth: 9 lbs 11 oz
Length @ birth: 21 1.2 inches

Larkyn-Elizabeth`s birthstory

OK I am really late typing this up!

Sunday evening I was having really bad back pain when we went to bed. I never could fall asleep because it was so intense. I had been having back pain at night for a few nights in a row, so I figured it was just more of the same. Around 2:30am the contractions finally started in my stomach in a way that I could actually time them. I woke hubby up at 3:30 and told him to call my mom to come sit with our kids, and to call the doctor and TELL her we were going to the hospital. I made it clear he was not to ask permission (hehe)! By the time my mom arrived it was almost 4 and I was wishing I had just woken him up earlier, and risked being sent home from the hospital! We got to the hospital about 4:30 and my water broke while we were walking down the hall to the examining room.

I told them immediately that I love drugs and wanted my epidural and after they examined me they said I could have it. I was 4 cm and 100% effaced when we arrived. They wanted me to take some fluids first so they gave me a shot of stadol and whatever that drug is to make you not be puke (it starts with an `e` I think). I know some people who think stadol is great, but for me it doesn`t touch the stomach pains, but it IS good that it gets rid of the back labor! About 30mins later I got my epidural-YAY! The `dont get sick` medicine made my head feel funny and made me VERY sleepy. It never did get out of my system. They checked me again and I was 6, then 8, then time to push! My mom brought the kids to the hospital and she sat in the waiting room with them, my MIL, my dad, and my cousin.

I pushed for around 30mins and it hurt. I remember feeling pressure and pain even when pushing last time, even with the epidural. But this time it burned and hurt worse than I remember when she was coming out. I don`t know if I blocked it from my memory, or if the epidural didn`t work in that ONE area. I kind of think it might be the epidural, because they kept touching me and saying `you wont feel this` and I felt it. My stomach was VERY numb, and I`m glad I stopped feeling contractions for a short while, but I could have done without the burning and tearing feeling while delivering!

Anyway my cute little goo covered baby slipped out. They took her to the side immediately because she was in distress during labor. We were both running a fever when she was born, and she wasn`t breathing correctly, so they didn`t let us play with her for long. I did get them to wait long enough so my kids could come back and see her, they would have been upset if they woke up at 5:30 am and didn`t even get to see the baby! Larkyn had to go spend a few days in the NICU, but eventually they decided her breathing was fine. Her fever was due to a blood infection, they think my placenta might have been infected which is why we both had fevers. I wasn`t allowed to visit her for the first day, I had to wait until my fever went away before I could go to NICU :( That seriously sucked. The whole point of going through labor and having a baby is so that you can HAVE the baby! Tuesday afternoon I was finally able to go see her. She looked much cuter once they had cleaned the goo off of her, lol.

She had to stay in NICU for 3 days, then we were transferred to the pediatric floor of the hospital. She had to have iv antibiotics for a week, and since we can`t do that at home, we spent our first week being woken up every 4 hours, eww! It was very odd and felt like we were there forever!.

Now we are home and everyone is doing well. Hubby is taking a month off to stay with us, so we`re all chilled out. She is a very good baby and we`re hoping she stays that way! She sleeps good at night, only waking up to eat and go right back to sleep. I`m breastfeeding, which I hadn`t planned on doing. It hurts like hell because she insists on biting me and not sucking properly, but we`re managing.

back to the delivery though! While we were pushing, hubby`s cell phone rang. After she came out, I told him to go check and see who called while the doctor was doing her stuff to me. When my idiot husband stepped back to get his phone, he didn`t look where he was going. He went quickly and his feet got tangled up in my iv and he ripped it out of my arm! Blood started pouring out of my arm and everyone stopped and kind of went `uh oh` at the same time. He felt so bad but DUDE, look where you are stepping in a hospital! Strangely enough I was the calmest one, maybe it was the drugs ;) I lifted my arm until they could put a bandaid on it to help the bleeding. The bad thing is I wasn`t done with the fluids and meds they wanted me to take! Luckily they gave me a shot (eww) instead of putting in another iv. Although once I went upstairs they put in a new iv because of my fever, I had to keep taking antibiotics while we were there. Me and baby Larkyn both had the same medicines, it was kind of funny!

Also two of my nurses were obviously in training. The first one was just dumb. She kept asking me to sign things and move DURING contractions. Her trainer lady kept saying 'wait until after this contraction' and then the new nurse would shove something in my face and ask me to do it. Kind of frustrating. Then the shift changed and I got new nurses, and a new one in training. She was VERY nice. She messed up on me a couple of times, but she was nice about it so I didn't complain. It took her a couple of times to get the catheter in (this was one of the things they said 'you wont feel this, but I did!'), and I was about to just say 'never mind, gimme a cup to pee in!', but then she finally got it. Also I didn't know you are only allowed to pee a certain amount! They took 1 liter of urine out with the catheter then stopped, they are only allowed to remove that much at a time for some weird reason. When we got upstairs I immediately had to pee again, and it was another liter! How much can the bladder hold???? I passed out after that, so maybe there is a reason you aren't supposed to pee that much, lol.

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