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Zaniah Sex: girl Born: 07 November, 2001 Age: 6 years & 263 days Birthday in: 102 days Starsign: Scorpio Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

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Lily Marie Sex: girl Born: 25 April, 2008 Age: 0 years & 92 days Birthday in: 273 days Starsign: Taurus Development: See the 3 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Type of delivery: Vaginal (without pain relief)
Duration of labor: 1 hour
Weight @ birth: 5 lbs. 10 oz
Length @ birth: 18 inches

Lily-Marie`s birthstory

Okay everyone, so here is my exciting birth story!! I had been experiencing pre-term labor since week 23. I was on bed rest for months and no sex from week 23 until week 37 :(. Around my 35th week I went into pre-term labor and actually made it to 5 cm. I got admitted into the hospital and the whole 9 yards, but when they gave me the epidural, it took the contractions away and I got sent home. My cervix actually closed back up to 4 cm. After living off of nifedipine. to stop the contractions, for another week and a half, things got really uncomfortable for me. I felt like I couldn't do anything including the simple things I.E. sit up in bed, put my own socks on, and everything ached so at 36 weeks and 5 days, I decided to baby dance with my husband. =). This was around 4:00 am. Immediately after we finished having sex, I felt pain. I was determined not to go to the hospital unless it was real labor so I decided to wait it out and take a shower. While I was in the shower, I couldn't help but to notice that my vagina felt unusually heavy and swollen. I waddled out the shower back into my room (to a husband who was satisfied and now sleep Lol) and I said baby, something doesn't feel right. He just said when your ready to make the move to the hospital...let me know and if there's anything I can get for you just say the word. By this time it's 4:15 am. The pain in almost unbearable. I feel like I can't sit down so I get on all fours. I knew at this point that this labor was the real thing. When I had been in "false" labor before, the pain was bad but never anything like this and I have a high tolerance for pain. By 4:30 am I couldn't take it and I felt like such a wimp! I said let's go in just to get checked out, but don't call anyone because I'll probably get sent home. But all the while I'm starting to freak out. I knew in my heart this was labor, but I was still in denial. The ride to the hospital was the worst. To sit hurt SOOOOOOO bad. When we arrived at the hospital I actually let my husband push me in a wheel chair ( I don't do wheel chairs :) and when we went to check in the lady asked me my name and all I could say is I don't know. When I got into the triage room, they asked for a urine sample and when I went to sit on the toilet, the pain was so bad I couldn't sit down. I thought I had to poop, but it hurt too bad to try. With every contraction, I pee-ed on myself. I couldn't get undressed or anything. The nurse seen that I was in extreme pain so she called a resident doctor in right away. They checked me and my daughters head was right there! The doctors and the nurses started freaking out yelling at me not to push. I said, I want my epidural....they said yeah right! I checked into the hospital at 4:47 am and delivered at 5:03 am. It went pretty fast. I didn't have time for a IV or even to get my hospital bands! I tore a little, but she was more than worth it! I have a beautiful daughter that loves to eat :)

Now as a side note: My baby was 2 days pre-mature and they treated her like she was 3 months pre-mature. The nurses told me I could breast-feed, but I had to supplement with formula also. I wanted to exclusively breast feed. They told me all the horror stories that could possibly happen if I didn't supplement and...to make a very long story short, and after multiple sit down conversations with the nurses, pediatrician, lactation consultants...after telling them that against their advice I'm going to breast feed only...(and after all the nasty looks) I still stuck to my heart and breast fed her only. By the time we left the hospital, the nurses and the pediatrician were apologizing to me for giving me a hard time. My daughter only lost one ounce and by her 2 day check up she had gained 5 ounces. I wrote this just to say ladies follow your heart. Don't let anyone tell you different from what your heart says.

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