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Labor Journey....heere I go!
So like I said I'm planning to live-post the experience for my high school friends' sake, and I told anyone who was interested that I would do it here too....so I guess now's the best time to start!!! I guess I'll have to use comments to update...hadn't quite figured that one out yet and now I'm too confuzzled to think, lol.
Came to the hospital last night at about 4PM...already 5CM dilated and completely effaced...having sporadic contractions, a couple REALLY bad ones last night...mostly suffering from hormonal migraines.
7/14/2010 - Wednesday
4:45AM: Woke up with a bad case of anxiety and the shakes...had to pee somethin' awful, lol. Quite nauseous...definitely feeling the earliest stages of labor creep up on me right now. (TMI alert:) Lots of mucus in the toilet paper.... I'm not cold at all, in fact the room is quite toasty, but I can't quit shaking. Discovered that my anxiety about IVs is a little ridiculous...need to get over that whole "air in the tube" thing. (I freak out when there's even 1 little bubble, even though it would take lengths of tubing full of air to cause a problem). Gonna ask for one last thing for my headache before they start the pitocin drip within the next few hours...hoping to snatch a little more sleep before the big contractions start, but as anxious as I'm feeling I'm not counting on it! Will update when something changes...wish me luck, ladies.
Came to the hospital last night at about 4PM...already 5CM dilated and completely effaced...having sporadic contractions, a couple REALLY bad ones last night...mostly suffering from hormonal migraines.
7/14/2010 - Wednesday
4:45AM: Woke up with a bad case of anxiety and the shakes...had to pee somethin' awful, lol. Quite nauseous...definitely feeling the earliest stages of labor creep up on me right now. (TMI alert:) Lots of mucus in the toilet paper.... I'm not cold at all, in fact the room is quite toasty, but I can't quit shaking. Discovered that my anxiety about IVs is a little ridiculous...need to get over that whole "air in the tube" thing. (I freak out when there's even 1 little bubble, even though it would take lengths of tubing full of air to cause a problem). Gonna ask for one last thing for my headache before they start the pitocin drip within the next few hours...hoping to snatch a little more sleep before the big contractions start, but as anxious as I'm feeling I'm not counting on it! Will update when something changes...wish me luck, ladies.
YAY!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATS. That play by play was sooo neat! What a precious baby!!! Enjoy your little miracle :)
CONGRATULATIONS Ashleen and i hope you recover soon. This so make me want my 5 months to pass so fast now so I can feel what you are feeling , all over again! take care and god bless you too!
Aw! I am glad that you are happy with the way that things went! That is so important!!!!
I just wanted to say again how very happy I am and how grateful I am that you ladies were following my story and wishing us well....my husband is currently cuddling Grey and my heart is so full. the only thing missing is our little girl...I can't wait to be home so our little family of four can get started in our new life.
I feel so amazing...I didn't know you could recover from birth this quickly. Aside from feeling like I rode a horse for about 30 hours too long and noticing the stitches when I pee, the rest of me feels pretty good. The injection sites for the epidural is pretty darn sore but I don't notice that until I forget and lean back on something hard.
My little boy is such a prince...I was scared to have a boy and there are still some things that intimidate me but just like Kahlan he just makes sense that he's mine...it's so eerie how much he looks like his sister. I'll have to post a newborn pic of her next to a newborn pic of him it's uncanny! The only differences are that his head is a bit smaller and his hair is a bit lighter than hers was, lol.
I hope that somebody was able to take something away from my birth story and that it might help them when they deliver..I know my story was short and sweet, but sometimes it DOES go that way, so hopefully my story will be relevant to SOMEbody :).
we took some more pics tonight that we'll post tomorrow of him NOT covered in vernix, lol. and I had quite a laugh while going back through the after-birth pics...I had to nix quite a few because someone gave my aunt the camera and she doesn't pay attention to what's in the background...including her spread-eagle niece who's got an OB up her hoo-hah while getting an episiotomy repair and delivering the afterbirth LOL.
On another note...my blood pressure and heart-rate are now back to pre-pregnancy normal. My migraines have worsened, just like they predicted...but this also means that they have a good chance of doing as predicted and getting better as my hormones settle down. No IV or monitors tonight because this hospital believes in natural recovery and I couldn't be happier...nobody coming in to monitor the baby at night either unless we ask for it. The fact that they were also willing to help me achieve a more natural birth even though it was medicated by allowing me to choose the position as well as calling the shots on pushing, breathing, etc. (they also respected my request for delayed cord clamping, immediate breast-feeding bonding, and they let my husband cut the cord and help deliver the placenta...and the fact that they allowed the delayed clamping was awesome because I ALSO requested a perinatologist to examine my son at birth to make sure the pain meds I have been given recently haven't affected him....and they all just waited patiently for the cord pulsing to stop and me to say I was ready before they took him and eval'd him...perfect eval by the way no effect (so far, of course no way to know 100%)) was just so cool.
on the downside, because they do use such a hands-off approach the trade-off is that they keep you longer so things that they might not otherwise notice won't go uncaught...so I'll be here until friday, but I'm OK with that except for missing my daughter something terrible. She came to visit her new brother today and she was fascinated...jealous, yes, but only for a minute and then she was so interested in giving her baby doll to him.
gonna go breast-feed and try to get this uterus to shrink a little faster...I lost 21lbs of amniotic fluid/placenta, 8lbs of baby (give or take)....so I'm feeling like I just lost half a person, lol, and hoping to keep up a steady weight loss from here on out.
Will post newer pics tomorrow and I just wanted to say that you guys have all been so amazing...I was so alone when I was pregnant with Kahlan, and just logging on to update and see how many people care about me and my family has truly made me feel good and anything I can do for any of you don't ever hesitate to ask...your support got me through the end of a very difficult and frightening pregnancy, and I truly believe that my baby boy is the happy healthy little booger that he is today because you guys were there to get me through everything that's happened over the last 10 months, including all the family tragedy, all the drama with DH walking out on me and whatnot, all of our financial ups and downs, my depression, and of course my health problems.
God bless you all (or whatever religion you follow!) and thank you so much, every one of you, for your support and caring...I hope you're all enjoying your families tonight and feel just as blessed as I do.
-Ashe <3
I feel so amazing...I didn't know you could recover from birth this quickly. Aside from feeling like I rode a horse for about 30 hours too long and noticing the stitches when I pee, the rest of me feels pretty good. The injection sites for the epidural is pretty darn sore but I don't notice that until I forget and lean back on something hard.
My little boy is such a prince...I was scared to have a boy and there are still some things that intimidate me but just like Kahlan he just makes sense that he's mine...it's so eerie how much he looks like his sister. I'll have to post a newborn pic of her next to a newborn pic of him it's uncanny! The only differences are that his head is a bit smaller and his hair is a bit lighter than hers was, lol.
I hope that somebody was able to take something away from my birth story and that it might help them when they deliver..I know my story was short and sweet, but sometimes it DOES go that way, so hopefully my story will be relevant to SOMEbody :).
we took some more pics tonight that we'll post tomorrow of him NOT covered in vernix, lol. and I had quite a laugh while going back through the after-birth pics...I had to nix quite a few because someone gave my aunt the camera and she doesn't pay attention to what's in the background...including her spread-eagle niece who's got an OB up her hoo-hah while getting an episiotomy repair and delivering the afterbirth LOL.
On another note...my blood pressure and heart-rate are now back to pre-pregnancy normal. My migraines have worsened, just like they predicted...but this also means that they have a good chance of doing as predicted and getting better as my hormones settle down. No IV or monitors tonight because this hospital believes in natural recovery and I couldn't be happier...nobody coming in to monitor the baby at night either unless we ask for it. The fact that they were also willing to help me achieve a more natural birth even though it was medicated by allowing me to choose the position as well as calling the shots on pushing, breathing, etc. (they also respected my request for delayed cord clamping, immediate breast-feeding bonding, and they let my husband cut the cord and help deliver the placenta...and the fact that they allowed the delayed clamping was awesome because I ALSO requested a perinatologist to examine my son at birth to make sure the pain meds I have been given recently haven't affected him....and they all just waited patiently for the cord pulsing to stop and me to say I was ready before they took him and eval'd him...perfect eval by the way no effect (so far, of course no way to know 100%)) was just so cool.
on the downside, because they do use such a hands-off approach the trade-off is that they keep you longer so things that they might not otherwise notice won't go uncaught...so I'll be here until friday, but I'm OK with that except for missing my daughter something terrible. She came to visit her new brother today and she was fascinated...jealous, yes, but only for a minute and then she was so interested in giving her baby doll to him.
gonna go breast-feed and try to get this uterus to shrink a little faster...I lost 21lbs of amniotic fluid/placenta, 8lbs of baby (give or take)....so I'm feeling like I just lost half a person, lol, and hoping to keep up a steady weight loss from here on out.
Will post newer pics tomorrow and I just wanted to say that you guys have all been so amazing...I was so alone when I was pregnant with Kahlan, and just logging on to update and see how many people care about me and my family has truly made me feel good and anything I can do for any of you don't ever hesitate to ask...your support got me through the end of a very difficult and frightening pregnancy, and I truly believe that my baby boy is the happy healthy little booger that he is today because you guys were there to get me through everything that's happened over the last 10 months, including all the family tragedy, all the drama with DH walking out on me and whatnot, all of our financial ups and downs, my depression, and of course my health problems.
God bless you all (or whatever religion you follow!) and thank you so much, every one of you, for your support and caring...I hope you're all enjoying your families tonight and feel just as blessed as I do.
-Ashe <3
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