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Dakota Sex: boy Born: 11 September, 1995 Age: 14 years & 77 days Birthday in: 288 days Starsign: Virgo Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

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Breanna Sex: girl Born: 12 May, 1997 Age: 12 years & 198 days Birthday in: 167 days Starsign: Taurus Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

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Ted Victor II Sex: boy Born: 10 December, 2008 Age: 0 years & 348 days Birthday in: 17 days Starsign: Sagittarius Development: See the 11 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Original due date: January 20, 2009
Type of delivery: Vaginal (without pain relief)
Duration of labor: 27 Hours
Weight @ birth: 4 lbs, 13 ozs
Length @ birth: 18 in.

Ted-Victor-II`s birthstory

On Tuesday, December 10, my water broke at 11am. At first it was just a few squirts but then it kept gushing and gushing. The first few squirts was pinkish so I knew it was my water. We get to the hospital about 12 and got checked. Right away I was put in labor and delivery as they knew my history. To every ones surprise, I had no contractions. Doc decided to push some pitocin to see if that would jump start contractions AND change the cervix. Well, as my luck would have it, we eventually got up to 20 ml/hr of the pitocin and my cervix had not changed and I was very posterior. The contraction hurt like heck as well as the cervix checks. The on call Dr. decided to stop the pitocin for the night and give my body a break and restart it tomorrow. This would also allow me to eat...I had 30 minutes but had DH run out and grab a bunch of food. Eventually I fell asleep, although it was not a very good sleep as I was still having a few painful contractions left over from the pitocin. Well, it wasn`t until 8am that I saw the doc........THis was a new Dr. and he doesn`t like to push pitocin too much or too quick so at first it was a slow process..I was begging for the dose to be upped cuz my cervix was doing no further change and was very posterior still......well, the midwife in my docs office too over my care (My Dr. was on vacation this week). The midwife knew we needed to get some progress going on as we were approaching 24 hour since Premature rupture of the membranes, I asked constantly for an up in the speed the pitocin was pumped into me and eventually we were up to 30 ml/hr. Wow, did this hurt......I won`t lie...this was one of the most painful experiences I have ever been through. I did have a doula who helped me focus/breathe through the pain. In the beginning she had me to squats and the birthing ball but that was ruled out way in the beginning due to little Teddys H/R critically low dropping during a contraction . So on the bed it was. Toward the end I did the hands/knees thing to where I was pretty much on my knees on the bed with my arm over the top of the bed which was kind of elevated a bit When a contraction came I would lean back and sit on my heels in a kneeling position kind of. Around 4:45 the nurse checked my cervix and Little Teddy`s head was right there. It was time to push and I really didn`t he was right there. I felt the pressure but I was more worried about the pain ripping through my pubic bone. Neonatal guys come running down, the on-call do and a bunch more other. Within seconds my legs were high up resting in stirrups and my doula was telling me time to push and asked me if I knew the proper way.........well, of course I did. I was told to push during that contraction and by golly I did not stop pushing!!!!! My little man was delivered in one big push!!!! He let out a small cry as he came out and right after DH cut the umbilical cord the baby nurses snatched him up and checked him over. At this point he was screaming like crazy which was a good thing. They put him in an isolette and wheeled him over so I could see him. All I could do was kind of hold his fingers and he was then wheeled off to the NICU. about 6:30 pm the antenatal doc came by and said baby Teddy`s lungs looked ok, had a bit of fluid in them but that was normal for a baby his age. There was no bleeding in head or abdominal area and his heart looked really well. He told us we could come to the NICU and hold him and breastfeed him around 7:30. Well, we did not make it to see him until 9:30 as I had to wait to get settled in a room and get checked in myself. When we got up there, we were told he had to be put on CPAP and that we were unable to hold/feed him. Hopefully all goes well tonight he will be great and be off the CPAP in breathing on his own and if he does really well, he may be able to come home this weekend.!!!!!!

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