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Cameron Spencer Sex: boy Born: 22 March, 2008 Age: 0 years & 169 days Birthday in: 196 days Starsign: Aries Development: See the 5 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Type of delivery: Vaginal (without pain relief)
Duration of labor: 12 hours
Weight @ birth: 8lbs 14 ounces
Length @ birth: 20 inches

Cameron-Spencer`s birthstory

My little sweetheart was born on Saturday March 22nd at 12:15PM. It wasn't easy getting him here but I stuck to my guns as hard as it was and delivered him vaginally and drug free. I was having contractions 7min apart on the 21st around 8PM and so I called my sister to let her know but it was too late for her to drop her kids off at her friends house so she said if I didn't have the baby by 9Am the next day she would come up.

The contractions were giving me a killer migrane, like the mother of all migranes... so I called the health link here and that was around 2am and I was having contractions 5minutes apart at that time and they told me to go to the hospital. I wasn't going to go till about 2min apart. By the time we got to the hospital they were 2-3min apart.

I went to triage and she checked me, and believe it or not I was still only 2cm and 90% effaced. She was going to send us home but I told her I lived 35min away. So she told me to walk the walls and she would recheck me in 2 hours. that was at like 3AM.

At 4:30AM she re-checked me and I was 3-4cm so they admitted me and the contractions picked up. I tried the shower but the hospital was having problems with their hot water and so it was going hot and cold so it frustrated me. At 8AM they checked me and I was 8cm. We all thought WOW SHES REALLY PROGRESSING!

I was so out of it with the pain, they kept asking me if I wanted something, that was frustrating... I did it naturally though. So 3 hours later they checked again and I was still 8cm and the baby's head was pushed against a weird spot on my cervix so they said they would put me on syntocinon... man I was bawling and they sat down with me and asked me why I was so upset. I told them "I wanted to do this birth drug free and I know if you put me on syntocinon (pitocin in the states) i'll need an epideral" and the doctor was like "well birth plans are just stuff to go off of they aren't locked in stone" She said "its either this or you fight through this pain for the next 4 hours and end up having a c-section with an epideral anyway" so I ordered the epideral to start me on synto so I could at least deliver vaginally.

I got to a point where I couldn't stop pushing and they kept telling me not too.. my body was making me push I did all I could to stop it! So she re-checked me incase and lucky me the baby turned and I was a full 10CM dilated so I didn't need the epideral or synto anymore. They told me to start pushing with my next contraction. Its so weird how you just DON'T want to push when your allowed to haha.

I had him pushed out in 45min the doctor said I was a really good pusher. Cameron came out like superman so his hand was on his forehead and he ripped me all the way down to my bum, I had 3rd degree tears. So I ended up having a spinal done to freeze me so they could stitch me up. There was a lot of fat around my spine so I ended up getting the needle 3 times, omg talk about pain. I didn't even get to see Cameron's face for like an hour.

Not much else I can say. He is perfect, doesn't cry lots, he is such a smart baby and a good nurser, its hard with my boobs but we are getting it. He doesn't puke like at all, and he doesn't cry when I change him (my gf bought me a wipes warmer so his baby wipes are warm, they are AWESOME I suggest every mom to get them), he is such a good burper and he is so attentive, he loves looking deep in my eyes. I love that it just melts my heart.

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