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Augustin James Meudt Sex: boy Born: 19 August, 2008 Age: 1 years & 95 days Birthday in: 270 days Starsign: Leo Development: See the 15 months page. Biggest achievement so far: Augustin really digs on searching for Cubbie when we get home (object permanence?) and is holding on to the couch when we stand him next to it. He`s gotten pretty clingy lately, but I think it`s those teeth making their way through... poor little dude!

Birth details

Original due date: August 7
Type of delivery: Vaginal (without pain relief)
Duration of labor: 11pm until 4:30pm
Weight @ birth: 10lbs 7 oz
Length @ birth: 20.5 inches

Augustin-James-Meudt`s birthstory

11pm water broke. Contractions began soon after and normalized into a pattern at 12:30am. We arrived at the hospital at 4:30 am and gave birth at 4:35pm.
100% natural pregnancy and delivery. Pushed for 4 hours, 2 of which (we found out later) were so difficult due to a persistent cervical lip. Having that lip pushed back four times was the most intense part of delivery- the nurse pushed back internally while i had a contraction and pushed from within. Took a nice slow time crowning and the doctor administered ice-chip perineal massage. Barely felt it as the stretching of the perineal tissues numbs so much down there... just felt lots and lots of pressure and stretching from within as his head started to follow his body. There was NO tissue tearing at all! Front shoulder born spontaneously back shoulder was helped out. Another push and we got his torso out. His legs were folded in a cross-legged position inside of me and had to be pulled out while 4 people (!!) held my legs back and opened my hips.

The STRANGEST part of delivery is that i was gifted with two transitions... the first was when finishing dilation and the second was when the lip was finally all the way removed. Contractions piggy-backed through both, and i performed the typical transition `circling of the drain` with feelings of despair, crying and begging for medical interventions. This is where my nurse and doula came in. They were perfect.

SO magical and the nurses, staff, and doctors were always asking me about my birth plan, even for tiny little changes. For example, we didn`t want him bathed right away and put on our plan 24 hours. When we mentioned taking him to the nursery around lunchtime to give him a bath, the nurse said, `Okay, but on your birth plan it says 24 hours...` Very awesome. Anyone who says birthplans are useless should talk to me!!

Shawn was awesome; i can`t imagine having to watch him go through such a physical and emotional journey and only be able to offer words of encouragement and not alleviate any of the tension! He was amazing and at the hardest times, just staring into his eyes made it bearable. He cried from the point he first saw the baby`s face coming from me to minutes later... then again when we decided on a name. He`s already stood by the bassinette in the hospital and informed me, `That is MiNE. HE is mine.`

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