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Addisyn Lilia Danilee Sex: girl Born: 30 December, 2008 Age: 3 years & 47 days Birthday in: 318 days Starsign: Capricorn Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Original due date: December 28th
Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: 8 hours active
Weight @ birth: 10lbs 4oz
Length @ birth: 22.5 inches.

Well where to start. At 31 weeks I went into early labor. They stopped my labor, but I still had contractions every 5 minutes, however they were not painful. At 37 weeks my contractions started to get painful but still my cervix would not dilate more than 2cm. On December 29th, I was in a terrible mood! I had gone past my due date, I was extremely uncomfortable, and I was having bad contractions. I had already gone into the hospital 5 times in the last few weeks and didn't want to go in and be disappointed again. We had gone in 2 nights before and were sent home. I was 3cm dilated. Soo I refuse to pay for another cab because I've convinced myself that I'm just going to be sent home so I take all my anger out on poor Matthew while we walked to the hospital...yes I am insane. We got to the hospital around 11pm where they checked me and determined I was still a 3! I was SO upset. They asked us if we wanted to walk around for 2 hours and come back. I said absolutely not, I've done it 3 times before and it never works. So they asked if I wanted to get in the bath and well that sounded delightful. The bath helped soo much with the pain but then it got to be pretty bad, and so I got out and laid in the bed waiting for a nurse to come and check me. At around 3 a nurse came in, checked me and I was still a 3!!! They were sending me home. I was upset, He was upset. He started helping me get changed when all of the sudden POP! My water broke and I gushed all over the bed. I couldn't believe how much fluid was coming out of me! But it was very clear and I was so happy. Then I realized, Ohhh crap, this is actually it!! I have to go through true labor. So I screamed at him to go get the nurse and boy did he run. He came back and was followed shortly after by the nurse who checked me again and I was a 4!! Within a few minutes. She told me I could get back in the bath and left. Right after she left I got my first excrutiating contraction. It really came out of nowhere. I got in the bath and it did absolutely NOTHING to soothe me. I felt like I really needed to use the bathroom so I went to go pee and there was blood everywhere. I started freaking out but I was told it was normal. I asked him to leave and tried to use the bathroom, but I couldn't. I ran back and forth from the bed to the bath waiting for him to get back. I was in SOO much pain I asked him to go get the nurse, I needed something for the pain, which upset me because I had originally wanted to go drug free. She came in and checked me and I was 9cm!! Within 2 hours!! No wonder I was in so much pain!! She gave me fentanyl (I think that's what it was called) through an IV we waited and it did NOTHING. I was in so much pain I thought I was going to split in 2. She said that the baby was likely to big as she wasn't coming down the canal properly and I still had a big lip, I'd likely need a C-section. I had the epidural put in and he said it went in perfectly, we waited and still NO change. I was in agony by this point, my labor had progressed so quickly that I was just bleeding everywhere. He came back in and had to do another epidural and then finally RELIEF! I could still feel my legs completely though which was nice. My mom and his parents showed up then. His dad left as he's a little queasy and we all talked for a while, while we were waiting for my 1cm. Then I started to feel a whole lot of pressure, so I asked the nurse what was going on, and she checked me again and found that I was still only a 9.5 but her head had moved past my cervix and I was ready to start pushing!! Ahh. My epidural was taken away and I started pushing they saw her head almost right away and my doctor was called. I didn't stop pushing to wait for her, NO way. She came in and I started giving it my all, for well over an hour. My pushes were very effective and her head was as far out as it was coming. My doctor apologized and said she needed to do an episiotomy. I could feel everything at this point, and then she cut me, and I would push, and then she cut me twice more!! And finally her head came out!!! I was told to push again and there she was!! Everyone screamed how HUGE she was. My eyes finally cleared and I saw her and I know it sounds cliche but it was an instant sort of love. Matthew cut the cord and she was put on my chest. I never wanted her to leave, but they had to clean her up on the other side of the room, I told him to go with her and take pictures. We had to wait 15 minutes to deliver my placenta as there was too much blood. They put her on the scale and she was a whopping 10lbs 4oz!! He was crying, my mom was crying. It was just the most amazing time in my life. Then I delivered the placenta and my doctor had to push on my belly. Now that was MORE painful that ANYTHING I had ever felt in my life. Huge clots came out. My doctor called in specialists and I was examined and it was determined I had a 4th degree tear, I got to hold my little girl one more time and then was taken away to surgery. My mom came with me and he stayed with our girl. It took them 2 hours to do my stitches and I was put to sleep. Ever since then my life has been amazing and I have been enjoying every minute. I

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Evalee Stella Rose Sex: girl Born: 06 April, 2010 Age: 1 years & 315 days Birthday in: 50 days Starsign: Aries Development: See the 22 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Original due date: June 14th, 2010
Type of delivery: Cesarean section
Duration of labor: ha! Wish I knew.
Weight @ birth: Approx. 4lbs 7oz.
Length @ birth: 15 inches

Evalee-Stella-Rose`s birthstory

April 5th, 2010
Didn’t sleep a wink all night long. Contractions were so incredibly painful, it took all I could just to bite my lip and bare it. Finally called the doctor, I am still at 2cm, Evalee looks fine and Dr V said her Ductus Venosus is okay too.. I am sick of hearing different things!! Evalee weighs 4lbs 9oz now!! It`s nuts! I am so proud of her. She will lose some of it from surgery and removing the internal tumor so the bigger the better. They want to start me ...on indicid again but I am soooo tired of the drugs!!
Throughout the day the contractions continued to get worse and worse. Finally at 1130pm, after trying a shower and doing whatever I could to stop the pain, I called the nurse. Looking back I am not sure if I was in denial that it was truly happening or if I was honestly unsure. I had been having bad contractions for so long and nothing had changed. The nurse checked me, couldn’t tell what I was, so she called another nurse who said I was a 3-4cm. They took me to the bathroom, got me changed in Johnny shirts and rushed me down to labor and delivery…
April 6th, 2010
I was rushed down to labor and delivery around midnight. The contractions were so terrible and so close together it was very hard to deal with the pain and the fear and the million questions I had about who was going to deliver my sweet angel. I was checked and I was a 5 with bulging waters, almost 2cm in 20 minutes! She was coming fast and strong and there was no stopping her. The contractions got worse and doctors were scurrying everywhere trying to get together a team and a plan. My midwife was on vacation and so Rachel, another midwife was called. Matt called his mom to round everyone up. They took my blood and gave me a drink to stop the nausea and I was rushed into the OR. I was immediately given and IV, and a Spinal, flipped over and they started! I was terrified and just wished there wasn`t a huge curtain separating us. I hadn`t even realized they were cutting as I thought for sure I would feel something but nope! I feel as though I did miss out on part of the labor experience, but I did labor for so long before I started dilating and I feel as though I did my part and so did she. It was just as emotional as Addisyns birth. I started to feel the tugging and the pulling and the pressure and they just couldn`t seem to get her out. They were all quiet whispers and I was trying so hard to pay attention to them but my mind was racing with a million unanswered questions. FINALLY at 2:01am she sprang into this world, I told Matt to look as Rachel snapped pictures, Matt ran to be with the baby, and I waited and waited what felt like hours for her to cry. I prayed and prayed and finally the tiniest most beautiful cry! My sweet baby was here and she was ALIVE!!! 12 weeks of wondering every single day how this moment would play out, had all come to realization. I had the strongest little baby ever. She astounded every doctor. I got to see her for the briefest moment and kiss her sweet cheeks. She was rushed off to the NICU and Matt followed her. They finished closing me up and I headed to recovery for a very long wait! Within 20 minutes of being in recovery the spinal had completely worn off as it took them so long to take her out. I had full control over all of my limbs. The fundal checks were unlike any physical pain I had ever experienced in my life. They gave me dilaudid and Oxy contin and nothing could stop the pain. I didn’t even care, I just wanted to see the sweet miracle we had created. FINALLY the waiting period was up and I was taken in my bed to go see her. She looked just like her sister, but a miniature version. She was perfect. I truly don’t even remember seeing the tumor. I don’t remember it ravaging her body. Looking back at the pictures I can’t believe she is the same sweet baby she is today.

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