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Lorelai Josslyn Sex: girl Born: 27 February, 2009 Age: 2 years & 354 days Birthday in: 11 days Starsign: Pisces Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -Besides being the most amazing baby ever, she can already hold up her head pretty well.

Birth details

Original due date: 2-26-09
Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: 26 hours
Weight @ birth: 9lbs 8oz
Length @ birth: 21 inches

The contractions started around 11:00am on 2/26. I knew it was real, but then I doubted it because it was her actual due date. I waited until the contractions were about 5 min apart for a good hour before calling DH and telling him to head home. The pain got really bad. When DH got here he ran around like a maniac packing up the camera and batteries and phones and everything. I finally managed to get a shower and clean myself up and DH helped me get dressed. We headed to the hospital and called the doctor's office who in turn notified the hospital we were coming. The same wonderful doc that took care of me when I went in for obs a few weeks back saw me immediately and said she heard I was coming in and she was getting a room ready for me. I waited only a few minutes and the room was ready and they took me in. I had my BP taken, an u/s done and the doc checked me. She said I was at 1 cm. DH & I both were like wtf my doc has told me I'm at 3 for like 3 wks now. I was super depressed at this point and knew I would be heading home with no baby. I told the doc I was scheduled to be induced on 3/1 if I hadn't gone into labor and asked if maybe we could go ahead and do it. She said she would check with my doctor. Well, she talked to the doctor and my doc called me and told me since the u/s showed baby's fluid as being low and the heartbeat wasn't as steady as they would like that she would like to admit me, break my water and start me on pitocin. Not the labor I had envisioned, but I wanted my baby to be safe.

Well, the doc showed up a little later to break my water. Luckily DH had ran home to take our dogs out and get some things and wasn't there for it. It was absolutely disgusting. Baby had pooped in the womb so the water was green and filled with meconium. The entire bed was soaked, I got up so they could clean it and I leaked everywhere. The doc and nurse both said the u/s had to be wrong because there's no way I was low with all that fluid. It didn't stop coming out. Every time I moved it would gush out more. It was disgusting. Well, they then put a catheter in and an internal monitor to make sure the baby was okay and also a line to flush out all the nasty fluid and meconium and put in sterile fluids to thin things out so baby wouldn't be breathing in the nastiness. I also had an IV started and a BP cuff on so I was hooked up to 20 different things it seemed like and couldn't move. I had decided I wanted to go for a natural birth as far along as I could manage. I originally thought I would use IV meds in case I couldn't handle the pain, but with baby's heartrate like it was they wouldn't allow me anything thru the iv. So, I discussed with my doc about needing an epi due to the pictocin. She said everyone reacted differently and it might not be that bad on me. Well, she broke my water at 4:30 and they started me on the picotcin then. In the next few hours I was in complete misery. I was so tired and hurting so badly from the contractions, but at first they were just waves and I could manage because I had a break in between them. They kept upping the pictocin because they were trying to get the contractions to even out and regulate but it wasn't working, so as they kept upping the pictocin it kept hurting worse and worse. Finally I said EPIDURAL!!!! All I wanted to do was sleep and I was hurting nonstop.

Well, easier said than done. I had the first epi placed around 10. Waited an hour because they said it didn't take immediate effect. Nothing. Second try about an hour and a half later. Waited about 45 min later and that one didn't work either and the contractions were at an all time high as far as pain was concerned. So the anesthesiologist came back in and I asked if it was worth trying again. He said he knew where he had tried the first one, he saw where the other doc had tried the second, so he would go in between the two and if that didn't work then it would be nothing for me. He tried and thank goodness it took. I told him how much I loved him. Lol. About an hour later I was finally able to relax some and sleep. He gave me a good shot of something and it made me numb and pins and needles feeling from right above the belly button down. The next morning I requested they give me more since it had worn off. They did. The new nurse came on and checked me and said I was dilated to 9 and it shouldn't be much longer. She said there was this rim around my cervix that wasn't thinning out and softening. She manually tried to stretch me but couldn't. Another nurse and the doctor tried the same thing. They had been switching me back and forth from side to side all night to make sure the baby heartrate was good and to try to thin the cervix on each side. Well, the doc came in and said it's time. My cervix evidently wasn't going to completely thin so she could try to stretch it out and push it past the baby during delivery, which was tricky because the cervix could be ruptured (I think that's the term she used) and that was really bad, or that we would end up having a c section. I said let's due the vaginal. She let my epi run out because she wanted me to be able to feel what was going on and to be able to push with the contractions. I actually wasn't aware about the epi until afterwards. I kept feeling everything and couldn't understand why everyone was saying how great the epi is if it still hurt so bad. The baby was turned face up so the doctor kept trying to turn her around with her hands inside of me but baby kept turning herself back. It felt like I was being torn apart from the inside out every time the doctor did this. She was also having to reach in and pop that cervix out of the way and that was extremely painful as well. I think I ended up pushing for about an hour. They finally told me that I was really close and that a few more pushes would do it since we were at the nose. I thought we would have been at the feet by that time! Well, I pushed and ended up screaming as this horrible horrible pain shot thru me. Turns out she was trying to bring her shoulder out with her head, so I tore very badly, in the vaginal area near where you pee, not the perineum. She wasn't crying but the doctor had told me since there was the meconium issue that they would prevent her from crying so they could make sure she didn't inhale any of it and get it into her lungs. It seemed like NICU worked on her forever before she started crying. I didn't even get to look at her, they took her to the bed to work on her immediately while the doctor started to sew me up. I didn't want to know at the time, but I wish I had asked what degree tear it was and how many stitches but I was too concerned about my baby to even think about it. Finally she was crying and they continued to work and they reassured me she was ok and said I would get to keep her and they didn't need to take her. I was so thankful when they handed my precious little 9lb 8oz 21 inch bundle of pure joy. I thought everyone was full of it when they tell you how you immediately forget the pain because when I saw her and held her for the first time I didn't hurt, I wasn't thinking about anything but how beautiful she was and how overjoyed I was. I can't believe I ever spent a minute without in her in my life. I am still hurting, I am exhausted from lack of sleep and so many other things, but none of it matter. Every time I see her, I hold her, I smell her and those rare occassions when she coos or smiles, I know the feeling of the most pure happiness anyone can ever experience. She was worth every single ache and pain.

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Leilani Jaelynn Sex: girl Born: 02 April, 2011 Age: 0 years & 320 days Birthday in: 45 days Starsign: Aries Development: See the 10 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Original due date: 3-23-11
Type of delivery: Vaginal (without pain relief)
Duration of labor:
Weight @ birth: 8lbs 12 oz
Length @ birth: 20 1/2 inches

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