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JenJen
	Age: 22 Country: Private Province/region: Private City: Private Partner: Chad Children: Yes, 2 Pregnant: Not anymore Due date: 09 0 ,0000 Occupation: Mommy
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Hi everyone, my name is Jennifer and this is my second pregnancy. I have a beautiful 4 year old daughter and my husband and I are expecting our second child A BOY!!! in August. (ENDED UP HAVING A GIRL!) We are very excited as I was never "supposed" to get pregnant in the first place due to hormone and thyroid problems and amenorrhea...but I got my two little miracles after all and I couldn't be happier!!!!!

I have been with my hubby for 6 years but have only been married for a year as of June 28th and he is the love of my life and I couldn't have asked for a better husband. I got pregnant with my first child while on birth control to start up my periods and didn't know I was pregnant until I was about 4-5 months along. We tried having a baby a year after having my daughter but had no luck so I tried Clomid. After two and a half years of trying to get pregnant, we finally did it! I want at least one more child but my husband is happy with the one, soon to be two kids we will have and if I never get pregnant again, I will ALWAYS be thankful that I was blessed with my two little babies!

MY BIRTH STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

August 15th I was scheduled for induction at 7:30pm. My husband was able to fly back home for a week to be with me while I gave birth. That night we drove to the hospital all ready and excited to get the induction process started. When we got there the staff was in the middle of a shift change but showed me to my room and had me change into a gown. After changing and getting settled in, my husband and I started talking and checking out the room. After about two hours of no nurse or doctor coming into the room, we decided to go ask the staff if they forgot about us. They informed us that they hadn't forgot about us but there had been about six women who had come to Labor and Delivery that were about to give birth and they didn't have enough staff to start my induction. They told me they were thinking about rescheduling my induction date. My husband and I walked back to the room and I was very miserable and disappointed by this point. I knew it wasn't going to happen so I changed back into my clothes and started packing up my bags. About ten minutes after I got dressed, two midwives walked in to tell me that they were just too busy and short staffed and that I would have to reschedule for Friday or call at midnight to see if things calmed down. So my hubby and I left empty handed and I cried all the way home.

We got home and it was about 9:45pm at this point so I decided to watch TV. My husband fell asleep on the couch and I set the alarm for midnight to call the doctors back to see if they could get me in by then. I managed to fall asleep on the couch after about 45 minutes because I realized watching the clock would not make it tick any faster. A little while later I heard my husbands phone going off and I figured it was just the alarm so I opened it up and was trying to figure out how to turn the alarm off when I heard a lady say Hello. I was like OMG and said hello back. It was the midwife at the hospital calling to let me know, I could come in and they could do the induction that night. I was sooooooo excited because if we had to have waited until Friday, my hubby would have to fly back to Ohio for the remainder of his military leave and would have missed the birth.

I woke up my hubby and let him know to get ready and that they called and said we can go in. He too was excited. We get to the hospital and they again set me up in a room with a gown and I was still a little reluctant as it took about another half hour before a nurse or anyone came in. Once they came in they set up the IV so I knew it was really happening. At 2:30am they put that Mizopropel* (can't spell it) up into my cervix and we waited for it to do its thing. My hubby and I then watched a movie on the lap top to pass time since neither of us could sleep. About 6:00am I started to feel small contractions. I was so excited that the little pill thing had worked. Throughout the day the contractions got stronger and closer so they didn't have to put another pill in.

At about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, I started to feel a lot of pain from the contractions. I was able to sit on an excercise ball which helped for a while but then I asked for some Demorol* so I could relax and get some energy built up for when it came time to push. The Demorol didn't help with the pain but it made me sleepy and I was able to relax a bit between contractions. When I snapped out of the sleepy stage about an hour later I was feeling the contractions even more. They were one minute apart and lasting a whole minute long. A few contractions later I started to feel the urge to push.

The nurse called in the midwife who checked my cervix and said I was only 6 cm dilated and I couldn't push until I was 10 but I had the urge so I kept on pushing after contractions. After she checked me I had a real strong contraction that broke my water. She checked me again and I was then at 8 cm. After the next contraction I was a full 10 and allowed to push. By then I was screaming in pain because the pitocin level was so high that the contractions were coming every 30 seconds to a minute and not letting up. I started pushing and felt the baby sliding on down the birth canal. After a few more pushes the babies head had crowned. The midwife wasn't even gloved up yet. Within the next few pushes there was a loud pop and all of a sudden I couldn't push anymore. The midwife called for backup and all these NICU nurses rushed in and started yelling at me to push. I tried so hard but nothing happened so the midwife started to panic. She was trying to pull the baby out but the baby was stuck. There was yelling all around me and then finally they pulled out the baby. They laid the baby on my stomach and the baby was blue and not moving or making any noise so they whisked the baby away and started pumping oxygen into her, my hubby didn't even get to cut the cord. People were rushing all around trying to get the baby to breathe and I was panicking that she wasn't going to make it. After about 20 minutes, the baby started breathing on her own and I was able to hold her. Between pushing for less then ten minutes and having the babies head sit at the crowning stage for so long due to me being unable to push, I had cut her oxygen supply off so they had to really work to get her breathing again. That was the scariest moment of my life! The next two days my baby was comatose and didn't wake up for anything. The nurses said she would snap out of it, and she did, but it was still a scary experience. We stayed in the hospital for three days because the nurses wanted to make sure the baby would come out of the coma stage and than we were able to go home...finally!

So to re-cap, the loud pop ended up being my tail bone. I had broke it while pushing which is why I couldn't push after it broke. It didn't hurt any worse then going nine months with the baby sitting on it wrong, but sitting too long really hurts. Oh and you heard right, the baby was a GIRL. I was told by a highly experienced ultrasound tech that I was having a boy and she pointed out a penis about ten times during my ultrasound.....surprise surprise lol. So after 15 hours of induced labor, I had a 6 pound 15 ounce little girl. She was 20.5 inches long and is the cutest thing ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will post pics soon!

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jessiferrabbit - Saturday, 12 April
B is great! Her bottom teeth are about to come in, I can see them but they havent completely poked through. I'm doing good, starting a new schedule at work but not before a week and a half of vacation time! I'm not going anywhere but the rest is much needed! How are you and the kiddos and Chad? We still need to get together for lunch or drinks. It's a shame we live in the same place and havent met yet!

jessiferrabbit - Wednesday, 9 April

Aw! look at all the pretty girls! y'all are gorgeous! :)

ambrielles mommy - Tuesday, 8 April
thanks, everything is good...we're crawling and cruising like crazy!! yea the website is ok...I'm getting used to it.

ambrielles mommy - Monday, 7 April