He's here - I just barely squeezed in a June baby 
I guess I was right in refusing to believe that he could be a July baby!!
He was born June 30 at 9:29pm. 8lbs 11oz (I KNEW he was big enough!) and 20.5 inches.
I figure it was about 5.5 hours of labor, from the start of when cx started to hurt, to when he was born.
Birth story:
I had prelabor staring at noon, but cx didn't start to hurt until 4- at that point, they were maybe 10 minutes apart or so. I started to get really anxious, and told Teague that if they were going to get worse then I wanted to go to the hospital and get an epidural asap. And I wasn't kidding, at all.
At 5pm they were 5-6 minutes apart (I still wasn't convinced it was *really* labor), at 6 they were 3-5minutes apart. At that point, we decided it was time to call the midwife. While we were talking to her, the cx went to 2-3 minutes apart, and I told her that I wanted drugs immediately. My plan from the very beginning of my pregnancy was to use LOTS of nitrous oxide. I didn't figure there was ANY way that I wouldn't.
My mom had flown in from Ohio, and my grandparents picked her up from the airport at 5:30. They got here close to 6, and she barely got her bags in the house when it was time to go to the hospital, about 7pm.
We ended up deciding to meet the midwife at the hospital, which was a 40minute drive. About 3 minutes from home, I started to feel pushy. It was not good. lol. Poor ds, I was in the back row of the van, and he was in the 2nd row so he heard all my pain!! He was so sweet though, he kept saying "It's not bad pain, it's good pain" and after every contraction, he'd ask Teague how soon we'd be at the hospital.
Once we got there, I had a contraction at admissions and they told me to go on up to maternity and get admitted later. lol. I think I scared the admissions lady!
My m/w was waiting for us, and checked me and I was 9.5 cm and was told to push whenever my body told me to. This was about 8 or so. An hour of pushing later, and he was here! If anyone had offered me any drugs whatsoever, I would have taken them gladly. If I'd had the presence of mind to ask for them, I would have demanded them. Anything. lol. Even the epidural I was terrified of a week ago. I'm positive that the m/w would have offered the nitrous if she'd thought that I wasn't coping very well, but I think I really was in a groove, and every push was helping, and it was best that I just keep doing what I was doing.
The midwife was phenomenal- she spoke in a really reassuring, confident, and calm soft voice. My doula got there soon after the pushing started, and she was great. The hospital nurse was fantastic! (she had trained in Australia as a midwife). And of course, Teague was...well, I would have panicked without him.
I did have an IV and they gave me oxytocin after ds was born, because of my hemorrhaging with ds1, but those were the only interventions. Oh, and I did have a very small tear, and got 2 stitches (she gave me the option of getting stitches or not). She said my bleeding was normal, but I think it was on the high side of normal because now my iron's pretty low.
Except for the pain that I was having a really hard time coping with, it was everything I wanted. Even though I could barely communicate even "yes" and "no", I felt totally in control of everything. They were coaching me to push when my body wanted to, and giving me advice that I felt was totally up to me to take or not. They offered me water, cold cloths, change of positions (which I totally refused!! lol)...everyone was totally there just for me, and had total faith in my body to do it.
We were discharged about 15 hours after he was born, and it's great to be home!!
I guess I was right in refusing to believe that he could be a July baby!!He was born June 30 at 9:29pm. 8lbs 11oz (I KNEW he was big enough!) and 20.5 inches.
I figure it was about 5.5 hours of labor, from the start of when cx started to hurt, to when he was born.
Birth story:
I had prelabor staring at noon, but cx didn't start to hurt until 4- at that point, they were maybe 10 minutes apart or so. I started to get really anxious, and told Teague that if they were going to get worse then I wanted to go to the hospital and get an epidural asap. And I wasn't kidding, at all.
At 5pm they were 5-6 minutes apart (I still wasn't convinced it was *really* labor), at 6 they were 3-5minutes apart. At that point, we decided it was time to call the midwife. While we were talking to her, the cx went to 2-3 minutes apart, and I told her that I wanted drugs immediately. My plan from the very beginning of my pregnancy was to use LOTS of nitrous oxide. I didn't figure there was ANY way that I wouldn't.
My mom had flown in from Ohio, and my grandparents picked her up from the airport at 5:30. They got here close to 6, and she barely got her bags in the house when it was time to go to the hospital, about 7pm.
We ended up deciding to meet the midwife at the hospital, which was a 40minute drive. About 3 minutes from home, I started to feel pushy. It was not good. lol. Poor ds, I was in the back row of the van, and he was in the 2nd row so he heard all my pain!! He was so sweet though, he kept saying "It's not bad pain, it's good pain" and after every contraction, he'd ask Teague how soon we'd be at the hospital.
Once we got there, I had a contraction at admissions and they told me to go on up to maternity and get admitted later. lol. I think I scared the admissions lady!
My m/w was waiting for us, and checked me and I was 9.5 cm and was told to push whenever my body told me to. This was about 8 or so. An hour of pushing later, and he was here! If anyone had offered me any drugs whatsoever, I would have taken them gladly. If I'd had the presence of mind to ask for them, I would have demanded them. Anything. lol. Even the epidural I was terrified of a week ago. I'm positive that the m/w would have offered the nitrous if she'd thought that I wasn't coping very well, but I think I really was in a groove, and every push was helping, and it was best that I just keep doing what I was doing.
The midwife was phenomenal- she spoke in a really reassuring, confident, and calm soft voice. My doula got there soon after the pushing started, and she was great. The hospital nurse was fantastic! (she had trained in Australia as a midwife). And of course, Teague was...well, I would have panicked without him.
I did have an IV and they gave me oxytocin after ds was born, because of my hemorrhaging with ds1, but those were the only interventions. Oh, and I did have a very small tear, and got 2 stitches (she gave me the option of getting stitches or not). She said my bleeding was normal, but I think it was on the high side of normal because now my iron's pretty low.
Except for the pain that I was having a really hard time coping with, it was everything I wanted. Even though I could barely communicate even "yes" and "no", I felt totally in control of everything. They were coaching me to push when my body wanted to, and giving me advice that I felt was totally up to me to take or not. They offered me water, cold cloths, change of positions (which I totally refused!! lol)...everyone was totally there just for me, and had total faith in my body to do it.
We were discharged about 15 hours after he was born, and it's great to be home!!
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