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Edwin Atticus Sex: boy Born: 10 April, 2008 Age: 3 years & 311 days Birthday in: 54 days Starsign: Aries Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: Rolling over, eating with spoon, putting himself to sleep, sitting unassisted, crawling, saying mama and dada, eating solid foods and using a sippy cup.

Birth details

Type of delivery: Forceps or suction

Duration of labor: 25.5 hours
Weight @ birth: 9lbs4oz

Length @ Birth: 56cm

Edwin`s birthstory

Edwin Atticus was brought into the world on April 10 2008 at 6:54am. Here is the story of his arrival…
April 9 at 11:30pm I noticed that I had increased fluid coming from down below. I called my midwife as I thought perhaps my water had broken, we determined together over the phone that this was most likely not the case. She then told me that I would most likely go into labour soon but little did we know it would be so soon. At 5:30am I woke up with menstrual like cramps and diarrhea. I thought to myself perhaps this was it but as you all understand I did not want to get my hopes up. I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn’t as the pain was increasing dramatically it seemed every minute. I then had to go back to the bathroom for another “movement” and this was very painful, my cat sat at the door and woke my husband up with his crying as he was worried about the moaning coming from behind that door. I told my husband I thought I was in labour and that he should go to work but I would most likely be calling him to come back before lunch. I started timing my contractions and at this time they were 20 min apart. By 7:30am they were already 10 min apart and very strong. I had wanted a natural childbirth the whole time and have read that walking in early labour can dramatically decrease the amount of time that you are labouring, so my husband and I went for a walk around the block. (He decided to stay home at this time). The walking really helped as it made my contractions become 5 min apart within one hour. It was time to call the midwife. I was told to come to the nearest hospital to be checked (my midwife happened to be there attending a meeting). By the time I got to the hospital I was already having contractions about 3-4 min apart. I was only 1 cm dilated when she checked me but fully effaced. I opted to drive to the hospital where I was pre-registered to have my baby there. I got to the other hospital at around 3:15pm and immediately went into the whirlpool. My contractions were almost unbearable at this point and I have to say the water was a God send. I laboured in that pool for another 5 hours. This is when it all went downhill…
Upon checking me at 7:30pm in the tub my midwife told me that my cervix was posterior and that it was the equivalent to putting on a turtleneck sweater and having the hole at the back. The more you try to pull it over your head the more it doesn’t want to go. She then informed me that she would need to put her fingers up there and “pull” my cervix back to the front under the babies head or else I would not dilate on my own ( I was still only 2 cm after 14 hours of labour). I am extremely sensitive up there because I have nerve endings all the way up (thank you to my mother) so the internal procedure that she did was the worst thing I had ever had to deal with. I would have rather had 10 contractions back to back then to have to do that again. I was then brought into a delivery suite where she checked me again. She told me that I was still 3 cm dilated after 15 hours of labour (still no pain relief). She told me that I would have to have the procedure again and this time I would have to have my cervix stretched to get it to “give”. She told me that my only chance of having this baby vaginally was to get an epidural. I was extremely upset and crying at this point because I really did not want drugs and I had already laboured for 16 hours at this point it seemed for nothing. I deliberated this decision I had to make over for another half hour before my midwife had an OB come in and tell me that I needed to get this epidural now or I would be having a C section. So needless to say I got the epidural. I hated it… So I had the procedure done again and she stretched me to 4 cm. an hour or two later she stretched me to 8 cm. I dilated to 9.5 cm by myself and they started the pitocin as my contractions were spacing apart. By 2am it was time to push. The epidural had worn off by this point so I was actually doing it with no pain relief which made me very happy. This is when it all fell apart… I pushed and I pushed with all of my might and he started to come down the birth canal. After 2 hours I could see his head as they showed me in the mirror so that I could have something to work towards. But by this point I had been labouring for 23 hours and pushing for 2.5 and I didn’t have it in me to push him out. So many times I would see his head come down and then the contraction would end and I would see him go back up. I was screaming bloody murder as he was ripping me apart and the two midwives were too. One on each side they had both of their hands inside of me (4 hands total) and they were trying to stretch my pelvic bones apart so that he would fit. I was delirious at this point from pain and lack of sleep, and labour and I was having an out of body experience. I was losing consciousness in between each contraction and screaming for them to get this baby out of me no matter what it took. The OB was in an emergency C section and I had to wait another hour for him to come and assess me to see what my options were. He finally came and told Jeff that the baby was too far down the birth canal to do a section and that he would have to use a vacuum. I was swearing and screaming and crying and don’t remember anything that happened next. Apparently he put the vacuum inside of me and I pushed the baby out. I ripped from hole to hole but only required 3 stitches so it was not that bad. I do remember what it felt like to push him out and it was the best feeling to finally feel that he was moving. Unfortunately, due to all of this stress on me and the baby he had released his meconium inside of me. The second that he came out he was whisked away to have his lungs suctioned of meconium so that he would start to breath. He was then cleaned and placed on my chest where Jeff took video of me holding him for the first time. I still can’t watch this video without bawling as I hardly remember. I think it is all coming back to me slowly though, but my mind just can’t handle of the details as it was too traumatic. If you would have asked me at that moment if I would be having the second baby I would have told you never. But it is true what women say that you forget very quickly. I look at him and think that he is the most perfect thing I have ever seen and I would die for him, so yes I will be having another baby but it will be a while

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Erika Danielle Sex: girl Born: 17 February, 2010 Age: 1 years & 363 days Birthday in: 2 days Starsign: Aquarius Development: See the 24 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Original due date: February 17 2010
Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: 38 hours
Weight @ birth: 9lbs 3oz
Length @ birth: 52cm

Erika-Danielle`s birthstory

On Feb 16th at 2:30am I woke up because my bed was wet and so was I. It wasn`t that much fluid so I wasn`t sure if my water had broke or not. I layed there for 20 min or so to see if any other fluid would come out. I wasn`t sure what to do because I was GBS + so I knew if it was my water I would have to get to the hospital in decent time. No more fluid came out but I did start to get a couple of contractions so I paged my midwife at 3:30am to see what she would have to say. She told me it was probably the small bag of water not the amniotic sac that had ruptured and to take a gravol and try to get more sleep. She also said that I would most likely go into labour within 3-4 hours. Well I didn`t have any Gravol and sleep was impossible because who could sleep thinking that they might be in labour? So I got DH up to sit with me (if I couldn`t sleep why should he? :)) We sat for a while and the contractions were all over the place. We sat and sat and waited and waited for hours. Finally I decided to leave MIL with Edwin and take a walk with DH. So off we went and this intensified the contactions and did bring them closer together. We figured that we could go home and chill out a bit before going to the hospital. Unfortunately as soon as I sat down the contractions spaced out again, They were getting more intense and painful but the waiting sucked. At around 3:30pm the contractions kicked into overdrive again. I had slept an hour and a half and got awoken by them. Suffered through these sporadic ones for another 6 hours or so then fell asleep when they died down again. After around 2-3 hours i woke in the night with INTENSE contractions and I wasn`t trying to get my hopes up that this might be it but at 6am after hours of really bad pain they got close together and consistent. I woke up DH and told him it would be time to go soon. We showered, packed the car and said bye to Edwin (that was hard). when we got to the hospital i changed and was checked. I was only a 1 which didn`t surprise me at all. The contractions were pretty terrible at this point but manageable. I knew that I wanted an epidural because I was exhausted and had been in pain for 32 hours at this point. Once I got the epidural i immediately felt dizzy and sick. My blood pressure was dropping and it got dangerously low at 79 over 29 on avg. They had to call for adrenaline and gave me 4 doses. When I started to feel better the OB started me on pitocin because Erika didn`t seem too pleased. Her heart rate dropped many times very low. We were thinking C-section right up until I was checked and one side was 9 and the other 7cm. So I rolled over on my side to help dilate and soon it was time to push. I was so ready at this point, I had had enough pain and scares. I just wanted her out, I swore she was so much smaller than Edwin my whole pregnancy so I knew I could push her out no problem. When I gave a few pushes her HR dropped again so they called for a vaccum. The OB came in and her HR had went back up so she told me I could push her out. After 45 min of pushing she came out and I let out a primal scream. She was huge! AGAIN with the nine pounder! What the heck! She is a beauty and even though this labour lasted longer it really was easier. I wonder if I will have any more...

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