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Jayden Joseph Kosinski Sex: boy Born: 25 March, 2008 Age: 0 years & 123 days Birthday in: 242 days Starsign: Aries Development: See the 4 months page. Biggest achievement so far: My umbilical cord finally fell off 4/8/08!!

Birth details

Type of delivery: Forceps or suction
Duration of labor: 8 1/2 hours
Weight @ birth: 7lbs 11 oz
Length @ birth: 19 and 1/2 in


Ok, so i was 41 weeks pregnant,50% effaced and 2cm dialated at my appointment on Thurs 3/20, so the Dr. scheduled me to be induced on Mon 3/24 at 6 pm. I went to the hospital at 5:30 p.m to register and get things going. I was in the L&D room by 6:30 and they gave me some stuff the ripen my cervix. I'm not sure what it was called, but it wasn't cervadil. It was a 4hr ripener, not 12. So they inserted the cervix ripener on in my cervix at 7pm and the Dr said he would be back to check in 4 hrs to see how i have progressed. He came back in the room at 11pm, and i was 4 cm dialated and 70% effaced!!! The nurse asked if i felt anything, and i said no, only mild achyness and cramping, but nothing too bad. She said she was shocked because i was contracting every 4 mins and they were pretty strong. So she started the pitocin, and heres where it got interesting... she came into the room about 1 hr later, and shut the pitocin off. She said my contractions were coming on too fast and were 1 min apart. At this point i was VERY uncomfortable, and I was feeling every contraction. I couldn't even talk and wanted to cry. Of course I asked for the epidural immediately when the nurse came into the room and she called for the anesthesiologist who came to the room 20 mins later. Once i got the epi I was in heaven. It is AMAZING. The needle was a little scary of course, but i didn't care since i was in sooooo much pain. It was quick and the results were worth it. After I got the epi, my boyfriend, my mom, my g-ma, and my cousin came back into the room and were amazed at how calm I now was LOL. So at this point, it is about 2am and the Dr came in to check my progress. I was 6cm and about 90% effaced! 1 hr later, the Dr came in again to check me and I was 10 cm and she said i could start pushing! I was SHOCKED!!! Totally stunned because I was sure I was only about 8cm or so. So the nurse said that she would check how I push with the epi first, and would have to let it wear off if I wouldn't push right. So I pushed and she asked if I felt pressure, and I said yes ( I totally LIED because I didn't want them letting the epi wear off LOL and I had just pushed the epi button to give myself more right before they came in saying I was 10. )
So anyway, I did my best and asked the nurse to tell me when I was contracting. I pushed for about 20 mins, and his head was coming down good. Once he started crowing a little, he wouldn't come out any further. His heartbeat started to drop, and they had to use the vacuum along with a final push from me, and he came sliding out and started to cry. Needless to say they didn't do an episiotomy, (I am not sure why) but I tore REALLY BAD. It took them 45 mins to stitch me up. Jayden got a 9 on the 1 and 5 min apgar and is healthy as can be =). Daddy was the first to hold him, and I was able to hold him after my stiched 45 mins later. I am blessed to have such a wonderful son. The total labor was about 8 1/2 hours long (from start of cervix ripener) and i only felt pain for about 30 mins to an hour, so it went really well!!! <3

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