Baby G is here!!! (more intense birth story/details in post 25) - Page 2

[lil_miss_understood]

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[Smithie]

Congratulations! So sorry about the Pit, but YOU DID IT!!! IT"S OVER!!!

[scrappingmom]

Congrats and welcome

[j_p_i]

Asher! What a little cutie! I'm so happy to see your story today, congratulations! :

[Asher]

Originally Posted by Smithie

Congratulations! So sorry about the Pit, but YOU DID IT!!! IT"S OVER!!!

Thank you all! He's a good baby, but quite the piglet so I didn't quite catch up on that sleep last night! It's okay, I can nap when he does since the other kiddos are at home.

The pit was...odd. I don't regret it b/c I truly do not think my body was *ready* to be in labor. I kept asking myself "If I don't do it NOW, will we come back to this in 3-4 hours and be the same? If so, will I regret it?" and the answer was yes, finally. I knew then that I needed to get things moving or I wouldn't have the spirit or energy to do it. I think the water breaking was a total fluke accident. I wasn't doing anything to cause it, I was actually sleeping and GUSH. And gushed for hours and hours. So much for low fluid! By the time we got to the hospital from home (30m or less), my pants were soaked down to my knees with fluid.

I tried everything I could think of and that the midwife suggested to get labor going naturally and nothing worked. I'd have a few random contractions...I'd have a bunch 3 minutes apart, but not lasting long and they didn't do anything. I went fro 1cm to 3 1/2 cm (most of that being stretched, I might add, not actually dilating on my own, baby not engaged, barely effaced at all, so much for all those labor preps and homeopathics that I wasted weeks taking! ) in sooooo many hours. Finally...I guess around 12 hrs after my water broke, I made the decision to ask them to start the pit. The contractions were definitely hard and close (about 2-3m apart), but I could talk and doze through them which was nice. My midwife and nurse were fantastic and encouraged me to get up, move around, change positions, etc. I'd go from the bed to the birth ball, to the toilet, to the rocking chair, etc. Finally, side laying on my left side (which was total and complete hell on earth for pain, I might add), kicked things in hard and fast. Oh gosh that was rough, but it did it. Baby had started moving down lower on the birth ball and I felt pressure in my bum, then when I got on my side! WHOA!

Then they had me sit up straight and it just kept getting more intense. My midwife went to get something to eat and in the next contraction, I felt so much more bum pressure so my nurse checked and I was 6cm, baby at 0 station and effaced completely. The midwife came back and I told her she needed to fill the tub, I wanted in NOW. (I was allowed to turn the pit off and get in at 7cm, but we (I agreed) wanted to make sure I didn't back track so I agreed to let the lower the pit (for what seemed like forever, but was only 3 contrax) to make sure it was real and labor would continue.) hehe Yeah, babe was coming down and out with or without the pit on! I kept breathing through those contrax, but they didn't expect it to go quite that quick so had put HOT HOT water in the tub so were trying to cool it down. I said "I CANNOT DO THIS ANY MORE. I want in there NOW!!!" She said okay, if you want to, go ahead, is it too hot? but by then I'd stripped and got in and baby had started moving down the birth canal. He was born around 2 minutes (I think they said) after I got in the tub. Absolutely covered in vernix. Whimpered for a second and then just looked around at everyone, completely amazed with the world and what it looked like. I barely bled at all in the tub (which was a huge change from my last birth) and really haven't much since then, either. After we got out to deliver the placenta, baby decided to nurse and did so for 20 minutes quite happily and like a pro. We were all taking guesses on his weight b/c he looked SO small. Amazing that he weighs just a tad more than my smallest, but was the longest and hardest birth!

All in all, it was so not what I expected. I gave up on my body. I thought it had given up on me, too, to be honest, until I got in that tub and was like "Ohhhh! It does know what it's doing still after all!" . My mantra the entire time with the pit contractions was "As long as it's pain that is doing something, I can do this. As long as it is effective pain, I can work through this." And I did and I didn't do it for a medal or a badge, but for myself and I am glad I did...even though it was really, really bad.

All in all, though, I am sooo sooo glad it is over. And, can I just say, NEVER AGAIN?! I didn't want more, anyway, but if I had, I'm not sure that this would not have convinced me otherwise!

Good luck to those still waiting! I hope to catch up with everyone while I'm here in the hospital when I'm not nursing or trying to get some sleep!

[Kelly1101]

Originally Posted by Asher

My mantra the entire time with the pit contractions was "As long as it's pain that is doing something, I can do this. As long as it is effective pain, I can work through this." And I did and I didn't do it for a medal or a badge, but for myself and I am glad I did...even though it was really, really bad.

ROTFL I sooo feel you on this part. I was doing the same thing.

I love your birth story, so happy that you're holding your baby!

[Champ1437]

awww congratulations!

[lotus.blossom]

Oh, your little griffin is so cute!! congrats mama!

[Quate]

Congrats!!

[octanebeetle27]

Very cool story! So glad its over for you and you are holding your prize

[mamayarn]

Thanks for sharing.

[iluvbnamomma]

congrats! Happy baby moon. :

[cmoma]

OH yay finally!!

Congrats!

[CookAMH]

Congrats and welcome Griffin!!! Woohooo! :::

[essnce629]

Congrats! And awesome job for doing it all on pit!

[SunCB]

Congratulations! Happy Babymoon!! Adorable!

[burm_keep]

Congratulations!