Alrighty...this will prob be long...sorry 
December 24th
Went to my doc appt and I was dialated 2cm, 75% effaced, babe LOW and I was told my bag of water was bulging. I didn't think much of it because I know LOTS of women go a long time with things LOOKING like they'll be soon.
My doc said that if he was a betting man, he'd say 24-36 hrs.
I was hoping that wouldn't happen because I didn't want to have a christmas baby HOWEVER my husband was off work and I really wanted him to be at home when I went into labor because of the weather, his 80 mile drive, and my past births going so fast I was worried he wouldn't make it back in time (dd 1hr, ds#2 3hrs). Everyone wanted me to go into labor soon so everyone was telling me sex sex sex! BUT I was scared because I was gsb+ and since my bag was bulging I didn't want my water to break and the babe be exposed longer.
Skip to December 27th
All day I had been feeling fine. I went shopping with my sister and was hanging out. We were meeting my mom for dinner at 7pm. We were all sitting around, we had just ordered, and I excused myself to use the bathroom. As SOON as I got back and sat down I had a total hot flash and just didn't feel right/good. I told everyone that I wasn't feeling great and that I needed to leave. So my kids stayed with my mom and I took off at about 7:30pm. As soon as I left I started to have contractions. When I got home I was still skeptical of my contractions but also remember thinking 'hmm these are kinda painful'. I started timing my contractions and they were not at all regular. They were 5 mins, then 9, then 14, etc. HOWEVER as time passed they were getting more and more intense. I talked to my friend on the phone for a while and told her I was having contrax and that I didn't know if it was time or not...She suggested that I have a shower and drink some water to see if those things would calm stuff down or not. SO I went and had a shower and things were not getting any better. Finally at like 1am December 28 I told my husband that I thought we should go to the hospital.
We get to the hospital and I'm on the machine and my contrax go from not really consistant to 4-5 minutes apart. The nurse checks me and I'm 3 cm dilated and babe was -2!!! I was so mad because she had been LOOOOW for two weeks straight! One hour later, I'm 3-4 cm and she calls the doc and asks if they can admit me. He says yes and I'm hooked up to abx
I thought everything was going well and figured the baby would for surely be born within the next few hours. WELL I was SOOO WRONG!!!
I had been walking & getting in and out of the jacuzzi and all the sudden my contrax just die(about 6am). I mean my labor just stopped out of nowhere! It was so upsetting. It was obvious at that point they weren't sending me home (leaky water, bloody show etc)but things just weren't moving along. I decided to take a little nap since I had been up all night and thought maybe that would help.
So the doc comes in around 9am and things still weren't going anywhere. They offer me pit & to fully break my bag to start things up again. I was against both but after talking with my hubby a little we decide to let them break my bag since I had already gotten 2 doses of abx.
So doc tries to break my bag and it won't break!! AND it HURT LIKE A SOB! They commented on how I had a sensitive bag and the doc says he'll just poke a hole in it and that maybe that will help some.
SO now I'm leaking more but still no contrax. We start walking more...still only a few contrax. SO finally at 1pm I tell them they can give me pit but only a little. I was worried about going full speed and wanting to die lol. Been there, DONE THAT!
2hrs of pit and the nurse comes to check me. She says I'm 3cm (which was less that what the previous nurse said so I was like
, but this nurse said she's more conservative with her numbers
Since I wasn't dilating still I let them give me a little more pit at around 3:30pm. That dose def made contrax pick back up! I remember just hanging out dealing with contractions for a while and then all the sudden they got intense! My nurse was concerned that I would just take off super fast since I have had other children and so she called the doc and told him to come down. After that I told her I was feeling pressure and she checks me and tells me that it's not time. She was obviously 'hiding' the fact that I wasn't very much further than I had been.
What seemed like just minutes later (prob about 15 minutes) my doc arrived and I said that I was having much more pressure. My doc checked me and I was 8-9. I kept saying I had to push and the nurse kept saying NOOOOO. My doctor said it was okay. He realized I wasn't wanting to bare down I just wanted to push a little to make my contrax easier to handle.
After a couple contrax of me pushing a tiny bit I KNEW it was time. My doc asked my hubby if he wanted to help me and catch the baby and we said YES OF COURSE!! So my hubby was putting a little pressure down there for me to focus on (this really helps me) and the nurse kept saying 'listen to your body' (which kinda pissed me off cause she had just been telling me not to push when my body was telling me to)So I had a couple contrax that I pushed and with maybe the 3rd contraction I pushed twice and the contraction was going away but I got the biggest urge to push again (the nurse said you can relax and I said NO and I pushed again and it felt like the biggest POP!!!
I thought my whole baby had been born but then I looked up and my husband had the biggest eyes and he was smiling and the nurse was saying reach down and I reached down and I pushed and delivered my baby into my hands and pulled her up onto my chest. I looked up and my husband had tears in his eyes and I was feeling the same way. It was one of the most amazing feelings ever. I've had 4 completely different births and this birth for some reason hit me so hard. I don't know if it's because it's been so long since I've had a baby, if it's because I'm older, or if it's because we got to make decisions and do things with this babe that we didn't know about/didn't get to make with our previous babies.
We delayed cord cutting and my beautiful babe got to spend her first moments with my husband and I and not some nurse! She nursed and she did it like a pro! I felt so lucky that everything had gone so well! We denied the abx for babe's eyes and it was amazing, she was so alert and just looking around. We didn't bathe baby either and it was the best!! I thought it was wonderful that the nurses wouldn't touch her without gloves LOL.
I did wash her hair a few days later just to get the crusties out and it made me sad after I did it. I wish I would have waited a few more days.
I still cannot take my eyes off of her. She's beautiful and such a miracle. It's so amazing what our bodies do!
Out of my 4 kids, she was the longest labor!! I couldn't believe that part!
We didn't have a name for her and the few names we had been thinking of just didn't fit her.
We literally filled out the birth certificate form like 2 minutes before we left the hospital.
Brinn Ingrid
December 28, 2008
6:02pm
5 lbs 15.8 oz 18.5 inches
moments after birth
first cry
looking around
6 days old
and now she's two weeks old. I need to upload some new pictures.
If you've gotten this far, thanks for reading AND sorry so long but I couldn't just tell parts.
December 24th
Went to my doc appt and I was dialated 2cm, 75% effaced, babe LOW and I was told my bag of water was bulging. I didn't think much of it because I know LOTS of women go a long time with things LOOKING like they'll be soon.
My doc said that if he was a betting man, he'd say 24-36 hrs.
I was hoping that wouldn't happen because I didn't want to have a christmas baby HOWEVER my husband was off work and I really wanted him to be at home when I went into labor because of the weather, his 80 mile drive, and my past births going so fast I was worried he wouldn't make it back in time (dd 1hr, ds#2 3hrs). Everyone wanted me to go into labor soon so everyone was telling me sex sex sex! BUT I was scared because I was gsb+ and since my bag was bulging I didn't want my water to break and the babe be exposed longer.
Skip to December 27th
All day I had been feeling fine. I went shopping with my sister and was hanging out. We were meeting my mom for dinner at 7pm. We were all sitting around, we had just ordered, and I excused myself to use the bathroom. As SOON as I got back and sat down I had a total hot flash and just didn't feel right/good. I told everyone that I wasn't feeling great and that I needed to leave. So my kids stayed with my mom and I took off at about 7:30pm. As soon as I left I started to have contractions. When I got home I was still skeptical of my contractions but also remember thinking 'hmm these are kinda painful'. I started timing my contractions and they were not at all regular. They were 5 mins, then 9, then 14, etc. HOWEVER as time passed they were getting more and more intense. I talked to my friend on the phone for a while and told her I was having contrax and that I didn't know if it was time or not...She suggested that I have a shower and drink some water to see if those things would calm stuff down or not. SO I went and had a shower and things were not getting any better. Finally at like 1am December 28 I told my husband that I thought we should go to the hospital.
We get to the hospital and I'm on the machine and my contrax go from not really consistant to 4-5 minutes apart. The nurse checks me and I'm 3 cm dilated and babe was -2!!! I was so mad because she had been LOOOOW for two weeks straight! One hour later, I'm 3-4 cm and she calls the doc and asks if they can admit me. He says yes and I'm hooked up to abx
I thought everything was going well and figured the baby would for surely be born within the next few hours. WELL I was SOOO WRONG!!!
I had been walking & getting in and out of the jacuzzi and all the sudden my contrax just die(about 6am). I mean my labor just stopped out of nowhere! It was so upsetting. It was obvious at that point they weren't sending me home (leaky water, bloody show etc)but things just weren't moving along. I decided to take a little nap since I had been up all night and thought maybe that would help.
So the doc comes in around 9am and things still weren't going anywhere. They offer me pit & to fully break my bag to start things up again. I was against both but after talking with my hubby a little we decide to let them break my bag since I had already gotten 2 doses of abx.
So doc tries to break my bag and it won't break!! AND it HURT LIKE A SOB! They commented on how I had a sensitive bag and the doc says he'll just poke a hole in it and that maybe that will help some.
SO now I'm leaking more but still no contrax. We start walking more...still only a few contrax. SO finally at 1pm I tell them they can give me pit but only a little. I was worried about going full speed and wanting to die lol. Been there, DONE THAT!
2hrs of pit and the nurse comes to check me. She says I'm 3cm (which was less that what the previous nurse said so I was like
, but this nurse said she's more conservative with her numbersSince I wasn't dilating still I let them give me a little more pit at around 3:30pm. That dose def made contrax pick back up! I remember just hanging out dealing with contractions for a while and then all the sudden they got intense! My nurse was concerned that I would just take off super fast since I have had other children and so she called the doc and told him to come down. After that I told her I was feeling pressure and she checks me and tells me that it's not time. She was obviously 'hiding' the fact that I wasn't very much further than I had been.
What seemed like just minutes later (prob about 15 minutes) my doc arrived and I said that I was having much more pressure. My doc checked me and I was 8-9. I kept saying I had to push and the nurse kept saying NOOOOO. My doctor said it was okay. He realized I wasn't wanting to bare down I just wanted to push a little to make my contrax easier to handle.
After a couple contrax of me pushing a tiny bit I KNEW it was time. My doc asked my hubby if he wanted to help me and catch the baby and we said YES OF COURSE!! So my hubby was putting a little pressure down there for me to focus on (this really helps me) and the nurse kept saying 'listen to your body' (which kinda pissed me off cause she had just been telling me not to push when my body was telling me to)So I had a couple contrax that I pushed and with maybe the 3rd contraction I pushed twice and the contraction was going away but I got the biggest urge to push again (the nurse said you can relax and I said NO and I pushed again and it felt like the biggest POP!!!
I thought my whole baby had been born but then I looked up and my husband had the biggest eyes and he was smiling and the nurse was saying reach down and I reached down and I pushed and delivered my baby into my hands and pulled her up onto my chest. I looked up and my husband had tears in his eyes and I was feeling the same way. It was one of the most amazing feelings ever. I've had 4 completely different births and this birth for some reason hit me so hard. I don't know if it's because it's been so long since I've had a baby, if it's because I'm older, or if it's because we got to make decisions and do things with this babe that we didn't know about/didn't get to make with our previous babies.
We delayed cord cutting and my beautiful babe got to spend her first moments with my husband and I and not some nurse! She nursed and she did it like a pro! I felt so lucky that everything had gone so well! We denied the abx for babe's eyes and it was amazing, she was so alert and just looking around. We didn't bathe baby either and it was the best!! I thought it was wonderful that the nurses wouldn't touch her without gloves LOL.
I did wash her hair a few days later just to get the crusties out and it made me sad after I did it. I wish I would have waited a few more days.
I still cannot take my eyes off of her. She's beautiful and such a miracle. It's so amazing what our bodies do!
Out of my 4 kids, she was the longest labor!! I couldn't believe that part!
We didn't have a name for her and the few names we had been thinking of just didn't fit her.
We literally filled out the birth certificate form like 2 minutes before we left the hospital.
Brinn Ingrid
December 28, 2008
6:02pm
5 lbs 15.8 oz 18.5 inches
moments after birth
first cry
looking around
6 days old
and now she's two weeks old. I need to upload some new pictures.
If you've gotten this far, thanks for reading AND sorry so long but I couldn't just tell parts.
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