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Had baby Alexander
So we ended up being a June baby. Last friday night at around10:30 I had just started putting the swing together when I stood up and my water broke. I went to the bathroom thinking maybe I just had to pee really bad and leaked a little, but it didn't look like pee or smell like pee. Then when I peed I felt something like a clot come out which I think was my mucous plug. Then I just kept on leaking, or gushing however you want to put it. It was so weird just a few hours earlier I had sat down to write a list of all the things that I wanted to take to the hospital because I didnt even have my bag packed at all. So luckily I did that otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue what to take. So after my water broke I hopped in the shower while my husband Adam ran around like a chicken with his head cut off throwing the things on my list into a bag. (He was so funny, he was seriously freaked out) Then after we got everything together we headed to the hospital. I wasn't really even having any contractions at this point, some mild cramping but nothing major. We got the hospital at about 12 am, I was sent upstairs to OB where they found out I was 2 cm already. I had reserved a VIP suite at the hospital because it had a jacuzzi bathtub for during labor, well with my water breaking at home I wasn't allowed to use it because of risk of infection. I told my birthing class instructor that I knew my water would break at home and she said no that doesn't happen to very many people, but I knew it would to me because I was looking forward to that bathtub so much. lol Anyway, they decided to let me just labor on my own for awhile and see how things progressed, after a few hous of the contractions getting worse and worse she checked me again and we were still at 2cm. So I got pitocin and stadol, that moved things along, didn't really help the pain any, but at least things were progressing. Then everybody vanished it seemed, throughout the middle of the night I barely saw any nurses at all. The contractions were awful, my best friend who had stayed with us until 4am left once things were getting realy intense and there were still no nurses around. Then around 6 or 7 am they checked me again and I was 8 cm. I had been asking for an epiural for quite awhile now but no one was able to give me one because they had an emergency c-section. So after another hour, (at this point the contractionswere pretty much continuous because I found out later they never stopped the pitocin), so around 8 am I was finally given my epidural.....at 9 cm....it didn't work. They tried messing with it for about 30 minutes giving me more and more medicine...it never worked, nothing. They said I could have more stadol but that made me so drowsy I didn't even want it. We called my mom and his mom and they rushed to the hospital. I started feeling like I had to push at like 8:30 am, they wouldn't let me push, but I finally convinced them (and I was right of course lol). I started pushing at around 8:40, the doctor who was supposed to be there at 8:30 so I could push didn't get there until 8:45. So we started and it hurt like hell, but I was really focused and I stayed with it and pushed crazy hard and then my little boy Alexander was born at 9:14am Saturday, June 26th, 2010. People kept saying how amazing I was, for my first baby to be born in only 30 minutes of pushing and only 9 hours of labor. Everybody thinks the next one is going to just shoot out like a rocket. He was 7lbs 7 oz and 20 inches long, his apgar scores were 9,9. We are sooo lucky, he is seriously friggin adorable. I did rip during delivery but up inside my vagina not by my perinium. It's so funny how fast you forget the pain, I was still getting stiched up and I was thinking ehh that wasnt so bad..lol. I ended up bursting blood vessels in my eyes and all over my face and my neck and my shoulders. I looked like I had been out in the sun waaaay to long and had freckles everywhere, except under my lower lip it was so purple from pushing it looked like someone had beat the crap out of me, I guess in essence someone had, my little Alexander. Everything went good otherwise, except now he has really bad jaundice, his bilirubin levels are 17.4, a normal jaundiced baby is like 10 or under. So hopefully they"ll starting going down soon, our doctor thinks they will now that he's peeing and pooping regularly. Unfortunately they made me stop breastfeeding and put him on formula because the formula flushes things out of his system better than breastmilk. Which I am really really realy not happy about, but it seems to be working, cuz before we started on the formula he hadn't pooped since we left the hospital, but once we got the formula into him he pooped, we nearly had a party we were so happy. I cannot wait to get back to breastfeeding though, right now I am pumping and storing the milk, so hopefully we'll have a good supply in the freezer. I'm just worried he won't be ableto figure out how to nurse at the breast once he can again, he wasn't that great of a nurser to start with. I think were going to have to get help from a lactation consutant once we can breastfeed again. I hope everyone else who delivered already had a good experience and congratulations to everyone whether they had the baby yet or not, cuz you will soon!!!
oh yeah, we were 2 weeks early. His due date was July 9th. I guess the due date is like a plus or minues 2 weeks type of thing. When I got into the hospital the nurses were like didn't they tell you it was plus or minus 2 weeks. I was like no! lol oh well I was sort of prepared to go early on the full moon anyway. The nurses at our hospital said that the only time that they really fill up (like a busy time of year or something) is on the full moon and I was proof of that lol. Also they were jam packed when I was there. His bilirubin levels have finally dropped down to 6.6 as of thursday the 8th thankfully. I guess Alexander's bilirubin levels were fine in the hospital, one of our doctors made a comment about how they were 0 one day then 2 days later it was 17. so that certainly scared me, I can still see the yellow in his eyes, but everybody else says it's getting better. The breastfeeding ***** lol, we aren't getting the hang of it at all. I have inverted nipples and large breasts and were just struggling. I'm planing on getting a lactation consultant this next week and really getting back to solid on the breast breastfeeding, cuz right now were still doing bottles of breastmilk. We got some medela bottles from the hospital and were just using those for now, they're nice and small (5 oz) so they're just big enough for me to pump into and small enough for him to eat out of. We were using medium flow nipples in the beginning but I made my husband buy some slow flow ones. I've been trying to get some different bottles like the breastflow ones but my husband is being ridiculous, he says the ones we have are fine. But of course he isn't the one the baby has to learn to nurse off of. I just found out a few days ago that my best friend is 7 weeks pregnant so my little Alexander will have a buddy in 7 months. And my other friend who had her baby a few days after us, her son had to be airlifted to Children's Memorial downtown Chicago, he's now home and crying up a storm and doing great. I am just amazed at how blessed all of us are. We all have been given such a gift in our children (even if you haven't had them yet). I keep looking at Xander and thinking how incredible it is that he is from me and my husband that we made him (and how good we did lol). But seriously having kids is the most amazing thing in the world, I thank God that he made it possible for us women to have babies because we really are the lucky ones. Even though we have to go through the pain of childbirth it is so worth it at the end and for those of you that haven't had your babies yet when you're in labor and you start to doubt yourself and think that you can't do it just remember God wouldn't have given that baby if you couldn't do it. And as soon as it's over the pain will be nothing but a memory and you'll have this little baby looking up at you and it will all be so worth it. Just remember you can do it and you are amazing and all babies are perfect no matter what.
Congrats on your little boy! How is the formula/breastfeeding going? Addison was slightly jaundice (13) so I added one bottle of formula to my breastfeeding each day and it was all it took to start bringing it down (after it went up the first week from 9). She didn't have much trouble switching back to breast after the bottle. I was using BreastFlow bottles by first years which mimics the motion baby has to do on the breast and it seemed to work.
Congrats, Is he arrived on due date or earlier?
As my due date is 31st July, just wondering wat are the chances of an early delivery?
As my due date is 31st July, just wondering wat are the chances of an early delivery?
Congrats! glad to hear it moved along fairly quickly!! Enjoy your new precious bundle of joy!! :)
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