Our beautiful baby boy Aleksander James was born on 1/10/09 at 140 pm. He weighted 8 lbs 5 oz and was 21 in long. We are smitten. He is so alert and responsive
We went into the hospital on 1/8/09 for Prevadil. It dilated me to 1 cm after the first dose, but 2 more doses did nothing even though I was walking the entire hospital for more than 3 hours and it was from 1 am till 4 am. SO the next morning my Doc decided to try Pitocin. My doula was great and so was my husband, and I had 8 hours of Pitocin with ctx 2-5 min apart. I lost my mucous plug and thought that thing were moving a lot, but they checked me and I was still 1 cm and posterior. I don't know about you guys but my checks HURT so badly I wanted to kill the nurses. Plus I was so disappointed that I was STILL 1 cm, that I started crying histerically and couldn't stop. I then had cervidil, and that still kept me at 1 cm.
The next morning, high risk perinatologist/ob came in to talk to us about options (b/c of my GD and being 41w3d I was considered high risk). We had a BPP and the baby looked great. She offered to insert a baloon cath, and we agreed. We had another 24 hours with that, and still nothing. I knew at that point that I was headed for a C-Section. All through this I am having contractions and had no pain meds the whole time. My dr's partner came in ( my doc was not on call) and we agreed to do the C-Section. My dr told her partner that she wanted to be there so she actually came in and did my c-section even though she was not on call. I thought that was so sweet of her. She held me while I was getting a spinal, and held my emesis basin while I puked from the spinal ( and I actually puked on her - she was so sweet about it tho). The spinal was a terrible experience, and I hated it. But not even 10 min after it was administered my beautiful baby was on my chest
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I had a long recovery (punctuated by my MIL's complete disrespect and selfishness), and we finally got to go home on the 13th.
He has been BFing like a champ, but my nipples hurt so bad!!! waiting for the soreness to go away. . .
We are completely in love with him, though I am still grieving the loss of my drug free vaginal delivery.
I would like to post pics when I figure out how
Thank you for everyone's support and good thoughts
Olga
We went into the hospital on 1/8/09 for Prevadil. It dilated me to 1 cm after the first dose, but 2 more doses did nothing even though I was walking the entire hospital for more than 3 hours and it was from 1 am till 4 am. SO the next morning my Doc decided to try Pitocin. My doula was great and so was my husband, and I had 8 hours of Pitocin with ctx 2-5 min apart. I lost my mucous plug and thought that thing were moving a lot, but they checked me and I was still 1 cm and posterior. I don't know about you guys but my checks HURT so badly I wanted to kill the nurses. Plus I was so disappointed that I was STILL 1 cm, that I started crying histerically and couldn't stop. I then had cervidil, and that still kept me at 1 cm.
The next morning, high risk perinatologist/ob came in to talk to us about options (b/c of my GD and being 41w3d I was considered high risk). We had a BPP and the baby looked great. She offered to insert a baloon cath, and we agreed. We had another 24 hours with that, and still nothing. I knew at that point that I was headed for a C-Section. All through this I am having contractions and had no pain meds the whole time. My dr's partner came in ( my doc was not on call) and we agreed to do the C-Section. My dr told her partner that she wanted to be there so she actually came in and did my c-section even though she was not on call. I thought that was so sweet of her. She held me while I was getting a spinal, and held my emesis basin while I puked from the spinal ( and I actually puked on her - she was so sweet about it tho). The spinal was a terrible experience, and I hated it. But not even 10 min after it was administered my beautiful baby was on my chest
:::I had a long recovery (punctuated by my MIL's complete disrespect and selfishness), and we finally got to go home on the 13th.
He has been BFing like a champ, but my nipples hurt so bad!!! waiting for the soreness to go away. . .
We are completely in love with him, though I am still grieving the loss of my drug free vaginal delivery.
I would like to post pics when I figure out how
Thank you for everyone's support and good thoughts
Olga
Aleksander! 
