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Zak Sex: boy Born: 21 February, 1989 Age: 19 years & 160 days Birthday in: 205 days Starsign: Pisces Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

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Arman Kenneth Ashouri Sex: boy Born: 24 September, 2007 Age: 0 years & 306 days Birthday in: 59 days Starsign: Libra Development: See the 10 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Type of delivery: Cesarean section
Duration of labor: 15 hours
Weight @ birth: 6 lbs 9 0z
Length @ birth: 20 inches

Arman-Kenneth-Ashouri`s birthstory

I entered the hospital at 6 am on Monday the 24th for induction. Was placed on pitocin around 7 am. Doctor came to check me at 8 and I was only 2.5 cm dilated, not effaced and she described baby`s position as in `outer Siberia` or really high. At office visit 1 week prior had been told he was fully engaged. At 9 am, nurses broke my water, hurt like the dickens and they also inserted an internal scalp monitor. Contractions began in earnest. Was quite uncomfortable. By noon was dilated to 4 cm. Stayed there with little progression until 4 p.m. Opted for stadol shot for pain relief. It worked well and I slept from 4:30 to 6 or so. At this point we began seeing fetal distress on the monitor, his heartrate would drop precipitously after and even between contractions. At this point, I opted to go for the epidural, I just had a feeling where this was headed. Epidural was put in around 7:30 and we continued to see distress on the monitor. I began to be worried about Arman and how long he could take this. Amniotic fluid had been clear, but my contractions never organized. They were all in the back and we learned that Arman was in a face up position, hard to push out. Doctor came in at 8:45 and said we need to talk about doing an emergency a c-section. I said, let`s have a c-section. After that everything went really fast and he was born at 9:14 p.m. When I heard him cry LOUD and STRONG I started to cry, then when they told me how much he weighed I cried more, we had been told he was a tiny baby, possibly premature, but he wasn`t! We were soooo relieved. When they first showed him to me all I kept saying was he had beautiful eyelashes. They were long and wet and full. I love him so much!

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