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Isaac Adrian Sex: boy Born: 19 November, 2007 Age: 4 years & 89 days Birthday in: 276 days Starsign: Scorpio Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

I went into labour on November 18 at 8am, contracting every 10 minutes until later in the day. At 4pm the contractions started getting stronger but didn't start getting closer together until 10pm. At 1:15 am I called my midwife and mother and sister as the contractions were coming every 3-4 minutes. I was 3-4 cm dilated and during a contraction going up to 7cm. I went to the hospital, got into the tub and started on the portable gas. I stayed there for 4 hours, contracting well and managing the pain well with the gas. I moved to the bed at 6am for a check and I was 9.5 cm dilated. The gas they give you at the bed comes from the wall and is much stronger and mangaged my pain well. The whole time I was trying to break my water myself but it wasn't happening. I asked the midwife to do it at 7:45 when I was at 10 cm and still not feeling good urges to push. She did it and meconium came pouring out. They called the pediatrician. She did another vag check and thought that it wasn't his head after all, but his bottom. ( I was at -2 station and head down on tuesday, the 13th). The obstetrician was called and they used the ultrasound. It was confirmed- he was breech! and I was wisked to the OR within 5 minutes. I had 3 contractions on the way to the OR and before I got the spinal in. That was the worst part- no gas and trying to stay still during the contractions. The surgery was more scary and I couldn't hold the baby of course until I got back to my room, an hour and a half after his birth. Still, he latched right away and has been an expert feeder. He is 5 days old now and I am completely in love. I would do the labour again in a heartbeat- It made me feel so powerful as a woman. I would not do the surgery again if I can help it, I'm still recovering and in pain from that. So VBAC in 2 years or so for me with the next one I guess!

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Julia Kathleen Sex: girl Born: 29 September, 2010 Age: 1 years & 139 days Birthday in: 226 days Starsign: Libra Development: See the 16 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Original due date: October 12, 2010
Type of delivery: Vaginal (without pain relief)
Duration of labor: 13 hours
Weight @ birth: 6lb 14oz
Length @ birth: 19 3/4 inches

Julia-Kathleen`s birthstory

I delivered a baby girl this morning! Julia Kathleen was born at 621 am, 6 lb 14 oz and 2 weeks early! I walked around last night and since contractions weren`t as painful as with my son (when I had a lot of back pain) I didn`t think I was actually in real labour. My midwife got me to come into the hospital at 1am, checked me and I was 6-7 cm dilated. She broke my water at 310am and I spent a while pushing after that. I`ve never pushed before as my son was a c/s. This was a VBAC! I had a hard time understanding how hard I had to push and how to do it, but after a while it was more just letting my body tell me what to do- and the advice from my midwife. I didn`t end up having any gas this time- didn`t seem to need it and then I was at 10 cm and pushing and it was too late for any other pain control. I had some space between contractions where I could rest a bit and it took her a while to come down and out. But she came! finally! I can honestly say, now that i`ve had a c/s and the vag birth- I`m in a lot less pain afterwards and I`m home already. the c/s- while I`m glad I had my son that way as he was 8lb 10 oz and had a huge 38cm head, I`m glad I ended up having an emergency c/s with him. But as much pain Julia`s birth was- I`m feeling so much better now. I just have to recover from the internal tearing- 2nd degree.

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