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kristeylouise
	Age: 25 Country: US Province/region: City: Twin Cities Partner: Single Mama!! Children: Yes, 1 Pregnant: Not anymore Occupation: Childrens Hair Stylist / Make-up Artist
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Audrey Elizabeth
Sex: girl
Born: 01 December, 2007
Age: 0 years & 273 days
Birthday in: 92 days
Starsign: Sagittarius
Development: See the 9 months page.
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Birth details

Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: 5+ hours
Weight @ birth: 7 lb 4 oz
Length @ birth: 20 in

Audrey-Elizabeth`s birthstory

November 30th around 11am I was just ingeneral feeling naucious and ill. Sort of like a stomach flu. I noticed that I was having slight cramping every 15 minutes or so and it lasted about two hours. After that I made myself busy around the house and tried not to pay attention to how I felt. I really didn't think it was my time yet!

About 7pm I noticed that the pains were getting stronger and more frequent. They were about 11 minutes apart and steadily getting closer. By 9pm they were 7 minutes apart but weren't totally consistant. I called the hospital at 10pm to ask how far apart they wanted the contractions to be before I came in. They told me to come in when they were 5 minutes apart. I decided to try and sleep because I thought maybe it wasn't the real thing because some were 5 minutes others were 9 minutes. I woke up around midnight having to pee and as soon as I was done the contractions were 4 minutes apart. I woke my mom up to let her know it was time to go...within the ten minutes it took to get out the door my contractions were between 2 and 3 minutes apart!

We got to the hospital around 1:30 am and I was put on the moniters for an hour. I was dialated to 3 and 80% effaced. They said I was stayin! I got transfered to my room around 3 am and my contractions were coming 3 right on top of one another and then a 2 minute break. I was hurtin...at 4:30am they said I was dialated to a 4 and called for the epidural. Heres where things got interesting.....

5:10am the dr started my epidural...well...within seconds of him finishing my body went limp..I went numb/paralized from my chin down to my toes...I literally fell over in bed and couldn't move myself. My heart rate started jumping all over the place and all of a sudden there were nurses all around me, giving me oxygen, lifting my body where they needed it (cause I had no control over anything anymore), and ingeneral making me nervous! They couldn't find the baby's heartbeat and were concerned because mine was all over the place so they put the monitor on her head. I could hardley breathe and I couldn't speak. I could only lay there and watch. They checked me again and I went from 4 to 10 in a snap of your fingers! The baby was on her way out and they didn't even have a dr yet. The dr was to the room at 5:50 am and they told me to push...apparently I was pushing though I don't know how...I couldn't even lift my head. I was so dazed I think I was continuely blacking out during the process...the dr ended up using the vacuum just for a few seconds to help her out the rest of the way but she was there by 6:06am. I heard her crying and the next thing I knew she was on top of me, I couldn't even reach out to touch her I just had to lay there....they got her cleaned up and checked and from my forehead down I started to get feeling back...my body felt "drunk" for hours. Two nurses had to help me to the shower even almost 3 hours after I had her because my left leg still hadn't totally returned. Turns out my body reacts heavily to drugs of that nature and he just happened to place it in a teeny tiny area where instead of it just going down it goes up and down. Weird, but I did have a totally pain free labor! None of it effected Audrey any...she's perfectly healthy. Weighing in at 7lbs 4oz and 20inches long. Once I finally got my alone time with her I realized how special motherhood really is. I don't think I've ever been this happy in my life, and I can't wait to do it again even though I was scared out of my mind!!

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