junebug
	Age: 27 Country: Canada Province/region: Ontario City: Sarnia Partner: Yes Children: Yes, 3 Pregnant: Please select Due date: 09 0 ,0000 Occupation: Domestic Godess
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Thursday, 7 Feb

I am so glad I found this site! I just moved across Canada and left all my friend with babies behind : ( I am so excited I can talk to some other Mommies now!

Monday, 11 Feb

So a little about me. I am married to a great guy, together now for 9 years, we have 3 great kids. Our oldest girl is 7 and growing up way too fast, my son is 5, and our baby is 5 months. I always wanted 3 kids, but my husband was done after two. It took him 5 years to book the vasectomy and the day he went for the consultation I found out I was pregnant! My pregnancy with Jaelynn was hard, we sold our house when I was 6 months pregnant and had to live in our fifth wheel for the remainder of my pregnancy, since I really wanted to have her where we were living, but we were planning on moving across the country and buying a house in Ontario. Well, she didn `t want to come out and I ended up having her 14 days after I was due, and after being induced 3 times. We packed everything up when Jaelynn was 3 weeks old and drove cross country to settle in closer to my husbands family.

Wednesday, 19 Mar

So I have decided to add my birth story. I was due on August 24 2007, and I had convinced myself she was going to be born no later then the 15th. My husband and I had sold our house with plans to move across the country, and we were living in a fifth wheel with our 7 year old, our 4 year old and a 60 lb dog waiting for the baby, because I loved the hospital and midwifes I would be delivering with. I don `t have to tell you that the last part of my pregnancy was awful, you all went through it, but I fell down the stairs in the fifth wheel at 37 weeks and sprained my ankle, the baby was fine, but I went from hoping to have the baby ASAP, to hoping she waited until I could at least hop around again. It is not easy to be on crutches when you are 9 monthes pregnant! When I finally healed I tried everything to go into labor, Evening primrose, raspberrys in huge quantities, castor oil, sex, long walks, homeopathic birth tincture, weekly stripping of my membranes...I had a few contractions, but all false alarms. Nothing worked. Finally when I was 7 days overdue I talked my midwife into inducing me. It was a hard decision because I had already had 2 kids, and was induced at 10 days over with both of them, and I really wanted to go into labor naturally with my last child. Well, She gave me the `sticky tape ` and that put me into labor, I had regular painful contractions for 16 hours, finally at 2 in the morning the midwifes suggested that I try and get some sleep, I was tired. I did, and I woke up the next morning still pregnant and no longer in labor. I was 2 cm dilated and had made NO progress. I was not happy. They gave me the option of another `sticky tape ` induction, gel, or to just go home and see what happened, and I had another tape put in. I went home and waited. Nothing happened. I was reluctant after that to be induce again, because the 16 hour of labor had reminded me what it was like, and I had made the decision that I was going to go through labor and birth with NO pain relief. I was still set with that decision, but had no intention of hurrying it along. Well, here in Canada, the longest they will let you go overdue is 14 days, and that is only under daily medical supervision, and I believe if I had been seeing a regular OBGYN and not a midwife, they would have made me have a c-section, since my first induction had NO result. After a few days of ultrasounds my midwife would not let me go any longer and I came in and they put me on the drip. It was Sept 7, 14 days after I was due. I was set up at 8 in the morning and had the drip until 4 pm, nothing happened, they had the drip at the highest dose, and I wasn `t going into labor!! My midwife came in and tried to break the water, but the babies head had not dropped, and I was only 3 cm, so she thought she got some of it, but my water didn `t break. Well, at 4:20, they told me if nothing happened by 5 they would send me home to try again the next day. My husband and I sat down to play a game of cards, and my daughters teacher, who was visiting her sick mom, just happened to walk by the room, she stopped in to say hello, and my water broke! I just felt a little gush, not much came out, but from having 2 kids already I knew if I stood up it would be everywhere! I told my husband to get the dr, and told my daughters teacher that I was going to go into labor and would bring the baby in on monday (it was a Friday) and waited for the nurse. The nurse came in and I stood up, trying to make it to the bathroom, but I gush right there...I was heartbroken when I saw the water was cloudy green. Ok, a little background, since I forgot at the beginning, I was in the only government funded `Shared Care ` Facility in Alberta, where Midwifes and Drs, join together to offer women with low risk pregnancies a drug free birth attended by just a midwife in a hospital with drs, there as a back up if needed. The only catch was it was a small hospital, and they were not able to handle high risk situations. Miconium in the fluid was one of the high risk situations. I was heartbroken, and prepared myself to be transfered out, but the midwifes, and the drs decided the miconium was minor and I would be allowed to continue to labor at the hospital! I handled the pain really well, by humming to myself. There was a birthing tub in the room, so I spent some time in there, I remember the exact moment my labor went into transition, I was in the tub and I had 3 contractions piggybacking each other, I was still only 6 cm, so my midwife suggested i get out of the tub, and change positions. I moved on to the bed and labored like that for a while, and was 9 1/2 cm dialated and I was having such bad labor in my hips I couldn `t handle it. I tried pushing, and was in so much pain I decided to go to the shower. By this time my midwife and nurse were gettin gmy room ready, getting the baby bed out, and the gloves and gown ready. Well, I got to the shower, and knelt down on the floor on my hand and knees, and pushed, and my husband yelled `STOP! ` The midwife came running in and the babies head was crowning, well, she jumped in the shower with me, and I delivered Jaelynn right there, in the shower at 9:15 pm. The cord was around her neck and shoulders, so they took her right away, but by the time I made it from the shower to the bed, to deliver the placenta she was in my arms. I was so proud of myself for doing it all natural, and so thankful for my husband and the midwifes. I know a dr would have made me get a c-section, and I am so glad I didn `t get one. I had an amazing experience and was home the next morning with all my family to celebrate! 3 weeks later we packed up and moved out to Ontario!