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Aydan Sex: boy Born: 13 May, 2008 Age: 3 years & 279 days Birthday in: 86 days Starsign: Taurus Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -He started crawling at 6 months got 2 teeth the day that he turned 6 months and now at 8 months he has started pulling himself up to a standing position.

Birth details

Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: 17 hrs
Weight @ birth: 6lbs 12oz
Length @ birth: 21 in

Aydan`s birthstory

Monday May 12, 2008 at 7pm I started to have contractions at about 9:30pm we went in to the hospital because they were 2 to 5 mins apart. We ended up having to walk for an hour where I had a change in my dilation. Once we addmitted to the hospital I decided I wanted to try to walk again. We didn`t get very far and it felt like I was getting wet. They checked me and my water hadn`t broke yet but with in 15 mins I had a hard contraction and it broke. Once my water broke the contractions were through the roof, they were actually going off of their monitor. I told them I wanted an epidural and it took 2 hrs before they were able to get to me. Once I got it, it was great. I will always have an epidural when in labor for now on. I went from 4cm to 7cm in 1 hr after the epidural. I ended up stopping at around 7cm to 8cm for a few hours and when my doctor came in at 7 he had ordered pitosen (sp?) but then checked me and I was at 9cm they started the pitosen to get my contractions close because they started to get futher apart. I was at 10 cm in no time but Aydan was still up high. They did what is called laboring down where I sat up in the bed and let gravity help with bringing him down. After an hour of that I was ready to push. It took about 20 mins of pushing and he was out and another good thing is I didn`t tear at all either so the recovery will be easier.

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Austyn Sex: boy Born: 25 February, 2010 Age: 1 years & 356 days Birthday in: 9 days Starsign: Pisces Development: See the 23 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Our induction date was set for Feb. 25, 2010 at 7am. I called that morning just before we woke Aydan up and they said to call back in an hour and half because they didn't have any beds at that time. So I called back at 7:30 and they told me that they would have a bed open between 8 and 830 am. We had gotten Aydan ready and over to our friends house and was at the hospital by 8am. They had us wait in the waiting room until about 8:30am. Once they got us in the room and the IV set and everything it was about 930 am and that is when my doctor came in and broke my water. At that time before he broke my water I had actually progressed to 2cm and 70% effaced from my 1cm and 50% efface on Monday. Once he broke my water we waited for about 30 min and no contractions started so then we started the pitocin at 10 am. From there I had an epidural place but not without some major complications. When I had talked to the person placing I had told them that I was allergic to Fentenyl which is in the epidurals. When they asked what had happened when I had it I told them about the itiching and that the ER had gave me stuff to counteract the medication before it got any worse. They told me that the itching was a normal side effect and why don't we try so I said ok. Well within about 15 mins of having it in place I couldn't breath and we had to get my epi pens out quick and everything. Then they put a different bag in for the epidural one that didn't have the Fentenyl. This one worked good I could still feel the pain but could handle it. Toward the end they came in and gave me some boosters of the epidural since I didn't have Fentenyl in it and I ended up going numb from my arms down. I also progessed to 10cm by 3:45pm and started to push which was hard but with in about 6 contractions Austyn was here at 4:03pm so about a total of 6hrs and he is perfect. I also didn't tear or have to be cut. He weighs 7lb 15oz and was 20 inches long. He looks just like is older brother Aydan did when he was born. Its a good thing we have dates on pictures or we wouldn't know who was who.

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