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Gregory Thomas Sex: boy Born: 14 June, 2009 Age: 0 years & 161 days Birthday in: 204 days Starsign: Gemini Development: See the 5 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Original due date: June 15, 2009
Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: 10 hours
Weight @ birth: 9 lb 2.5oz
Length @ birth: 21 inches

Gregory-Thomas`s birthstory

Saturday the 13th of June was wonderful, I went shopping, bought a new dining room table, went to Kohls, and spent some quality time with my husband and mother. I wasn`t having any contractions at all, my ob appointment from friday showed me at 4cm and 80% effaced but the lack of any BH or contractions had me worried... I felt like I was going to be pregnant forever. Around 10 pm I got up to go to my kitchen and felt a gush of liquid that just kept on coming. I continued walking around because I wasn`t sure if I had peed or my water had broken. After checking my undies and still being unsure if my water had broken because the gush of liquid had stopped, I sat around with my hubby waiting to see if anything would happen. Around 10:30 pm I started to feel intense contractions...they were a bit of a surprise to one who had never felt a contraction before. I went through Hypnobirthing and had practiced the breathing and the prompts, but nothing could prepare me for what I felt. For about an hour and a half I labored at home, I eventually gave up and told my husband that we were going to go to the hospital.

The contractions were still really strong and my husband dropped me off at the entrance to allow me to hurry ahead and check in while he parked. I could barely speak because the contractions were very strong and I was admitted very quickly. My nurse triaged me and told me I was a 6.5cm. I knew that I wanted some sort of pain relief, but really didn`t want to get the epidural at first because I hate needles... it was my lucky day because it took 4 nurses 45 minutes to get an IV in me. By that time I was seriously unhappy and was considering the epidural. It was interesting to watch the contraction monitor because I couldn`t feel any of the beginning or end of the contractions, just the intense peaks...I was lucky because it was less pain, but I could never prepare myself for the contractions to start. My first nurse told me she would give me a narcotic pain reliever (starts with an F), but she couldn`t give it to me once I progressed past 7-8cm as to not put stress on the baby. I told her I wanted an epidural, but she still gave me one dose of the drug to tide me over until the anesthesiologist could come. I felt so loopy and drugged and I knew that I couldn`t think straight, my husband said it was pretty amusing. The anesthesiologist came really quickly and put an epidural straight into me very quickly. It was wonderful. By about 3:50am on the 14th I had reached 10cm, but my nurses told me to wait an hour to start pushing to allow the baby to come down a little on his own. By 5:00 I wanted to start pushing so I could meet my little boy, but the lady in the room next to me was being life lighted to SLC with her baby, so all of the nurses were helping with that situation. By 5:45 I was allowed to start pushing and everything went well for half an hour until he got stuck under my pubic bone. I continued pushing until 7:30 and I was exhausted. My nurse went and got the ob on call (my ob was out for the weekend) and requested a vacuum to help the little guy out. The ob hooked up the vacuum to my little guys head and after 10 minutes had his head out from underneath my pubic bone. :) It only took me 15 minutes to push his head and the rest of his body out. He was such a conehead, his head just kept on coming and coming and we were shocked once he came out. I was told my baby wouldn`t be bigger than 7.5-8 lb at most, but he tipped the scales at 9 lb 2.5 oz and 21 inches long! He has a ton of butterscotch colored hair and slate blue eyes (which are subject to change). He had become my little angel and my joy. I didn`t know how much I would love him, but everyday my heart gets bigger and bigger.

I tore to the second degree, but other than that I have had a great recovery. Greg has had some problems with blood sugar, but with some SNS feeding and my oh so fun engorgement, we are trying to get through. He was also very jaundiced, so we have a light system for him in our house. I am so excited to be a mommy and I love him so much! I couldn`t be happier. :)

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