I woke up to labor pains around 3am on Monday the 2nd. I tried to sleep through them but wasn't very successful. We got our daughter up as usual and off to daycare, then I tried to rest knowing what a long day it was going to be. Contractions around every 10 minutes and I napped between each for just over an hour.
Contractions stayed around every 10 mins until DH and I took a walk around the block, then a walk into town for lunch. That helped bring them closer together. Our doula came over around 2pm. We called the midwives, knowing that we could reserve a birthing tub ASAP. I thought it was a bit early knowing my daughter's long labor. But with only one room left (busy day in L&D), we nabbed it and left for the hospital around 3:30. Got there at 4, room was finishing being cleaned and we got in around 4:30. Got on the monitors to check on baby, then off the monitors.
We filled the tub and I got in around 6:30pm. It seemed to me to slow the contractions, which I said. Once I said it, it changed. They sped up and grew in intensity. I asked for a check and I was at 8cm. Still just so intense and I started to get the urge to push. MW said go for it, and I did. Breckin was born around 7:15pm.
My husband caught him and brought him to me. I discovered the gender, it was pretty cool. He had the cord around his neck but it came off easily and he came to my chest, but I could tell something was wrong. The nurses took him, I got out of the tub and onto the bed. He was then taken to the nursery and later they decided to transport him to another hospital which has a NICU.
He needed transfusions and some air aspirated from just outside his lungs (DH is much clearer on this than I am) but he's doing really well. He's the "big boy" in NICU.
It was altogether a really great labor and birth. I wish he could've stayed with me and been home with us now but he's getting better and will hopefully be home by the weekend.
Because of the unexpected chaos since delivery, I haven't been able to update my due date buddy so THANK YOU Megan for being on standby!!!
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Contractions stayed around every 10 mins until DH and I took a walk around the block, then a walk into town for lunch. That helped bring them closer together. Our doula came over around 2pm. We called the midwives, knowing that we could reserve a birthing tub ASAP. I thought it was a bit early knowing my daughter's long labor. But with only one room left (busy day in L&D), we nabbed it and left for the hospital around 3:30. Got there at 4, room was finishing being cleaned and we got in around 4:30. Got on the monitors to check on baby, then off the monitors.
We filled the tub and I got in around 6:30pm. It seemed to me to slow the contractions, which I said. Once I said it, it changed. They sped up and grew in intensity. I asked for a check and I was at 8cm. Still just so intense and I started to get the urge to push. MW said go for it, and I did. Breckin was born around 7:15pm.
My husband caught him and brought him to me. I discovered the gender, it was pretty cool. He had the cord around his neck but it came off easily and he came to my chest, but I could tell something was wrong. The nurses took him, I got out of the tub and onto the bed. He was then taken to the nursery and later they decided to transport him to another hospital which has a NICU.
He needed transfusions and some air aspirated from just outside his lungs (DH is much clearer on this than I am) but he's doing really well. He's the "big boy" in NICU.
It was altogether a really great labor and birth. I wish he could've stayed with me and been home with us now but he's getting better and will hopefully be home by the weekend.
Because of the unexpected chaos since delivery, I haven't been able to update my due date buddy so THANK YOU Megan for being on standby!!!
http://www.colecreativegroup.com/babycole/DSC02991.jpg
http://www.colecreativegroup.com/babycole/DSC02994.jpg
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