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[AshleeS]

Yes! Today (Tuesday) would be a great day for us to have a baby!!!  It's my brothers Bday as well :)  I have actually had regular contractions for a solid 2 hrs so far this morning (still totally manageable though)...but sent husband to work knowing he can be home within 20-30 minutes.   Time to wrap up a couple things around the house and play with my two little ones to keep my mind off early labor.  I am 40 wks 2 days...so it's hard to ignore everything knowing this is probably "it", but I'm going to try  :)  My sister (my midwife) and parents are literally a mile down the street.  I can't wait to meet our new baby!!!  

[SierraBella]

Originally Posted by AshleeS 

Yes! Today (Tuesday) would be a great day for us to have a baby!!!  It's my brothers Bday as well :)  I have actually had regular contractions for a solid 2 hrs so far this morning (still totally manageable though)...but sent husband to work knowing he can be home within 20-30 minutes.   Time to wrap up a couple things around the house and play with my two little ones to keep my mind off early labor.  I am 40 wks 2 days...so it's hard to ignore everything knowing this is probably "it", but I'm going to try  :)  My sister (my midwife) and parents are literally a mile down the street.  I can't wait to meet our new baby!!!  

Wow!!! I hope this is it for you!!! 

[cwill]

Sounds promising Ashlee!  Keep us updated!

I was so dumb yesterday.  It was actually a fantastic day.  I felt great!  Perfectly clear and cold.  The dog and I went for a 3 mile, fairly strenuous, hike in the sun.  I ran some "fun" errands - picking out yarn, some Christmas stuff, etc.  Doctor's appointment.  Then I ran back home, picked up the dog again and headed to training class where I proceeded to run the length of the gym with her a bunch of times.  I didn't realize until our last run what a toll it was taking on my body.

The running did me in.  I finally understand what all of you with pubic symphysis pain have been experiencing and, wow, it is not fun.  I was pretty much an invalid all last night, waddling hunched over around the house.  This morning is better.  I would be so annoyed if I injured myself for the rest of the pregnancy.  I'm already limited enough, darn it!!  But I'm still taking it easy (knitting with the yarn I bought yesterday!), might take a bath, and then head out for the day.

What color contrasts do you guys like with dark brown?  For a girl?  I'm thinking a pinky-cream color...

[Kimcarrots]

Originally Posted by MamaTangerine 

 

.....and the jiggly dough belly.....

Oh my gosh, I just started boo hooing about this a few days ago!  

Knowing my day is tomorrow is very weird - I'm holding my big belly and grieving the loss.  Usually I can't wait for increased mobility - but this time it's weird knowing exactly when it will happen.

[SierraBella]

jiggly dough belly... yes, I hear you! I started a thread about belly binding for this reason! 

[Kimcarrots]

I got mine in my hospital bag for tomorrow!

[Azadehhast]

Oh my gosh, it sounds like this will be a week full of babies! How exciting.

On the calling people thing, me too. I really really hate to use the phone generally, and now even more so that everyone is expecting big news every time they answer. At least they always do answer though, and I don't have to wait days for a call-back.

Cwill, I cannot believe you are running at all! I had to hustle to catch a bus a few days ago and I though it might keel over and die...ok, not that bad, but moving quickly with the waddle and the belly is pretty much impossible. You're a superhero!

So, it looks like my little sister has mono, which is actually not so bad. For her, at least she finally has a diagnosis, and it's not something awful, and for me and baby, I'm not worried, because communicability to small children is negligible, and I've already been exposed and should have immunities. So, at least I'll not worry about my mother and sister bringing it up to baby and me.

I had this fantastic, spiritual moment last night when I remembered feeling the presence of this baby before I knew I was carrying it, and the things I knew about this little person then, and how they really fit with who I know it to be while still inside me (very mellow, for example). It really relieved my anxieties about the birth and timing, and now I feel much more content to wait for baby to come on his own time. I'm telling it, "when you're ready, then you come".

[aeterna]

Well... It turned out to be the day for me. =)

Woke up this morning with irregular contractions at 7:30. Slept pretty fitfully until 8:30, at which point a gush of fluid sent me running to the bathroom. Cx stayed irregular, but I had an appt with my mw at 10:50 so I woke up the hubby, told him it was probably gonna be today, and packed my hospital bag (in like 5 mins flat, lol). We showered and got to our appt on time (after running a couple errands on the way). I was starting to get uncomfortable by the time we got there, and figured the mw could do her check and let me know how much further I had to go.

It felt like I waited FOREVER to see her, & I was getting decidedly less comfy as the minutes ticked by... In fact when she walked in, I was kneeling on the table breathing through a rough contraction. She waited for me to finish, checked me out and said I was fully effaced and about 7cm dilated. I decided to go across the parking lot to the hospital rather than all the way home. She decided that was a good idea, especially since I was struggling not to push while climbing into a wheelchair. She opted to accompany me since it looked like I was progressing REALLY quickly, so we went over to the hospital, bypassed registration and went straight to a delivery room. It was about 11:30am, at this point.

They asked for a urine sample which I could not give (I was empty!) & the nurses took blood samples and tried to get a read on him with the monitor and prepped me with a heplock while I worked through incredibly intense, fast paced cx. They were a little worried about him bc his heart rate was irregular & slow, and there was meconium in my amniotic fluid. They finally told me it was ok to push (lol, like I could help it by that point... I was only along for the ride!) & with a few more totally involuntary pushes, Elias Hamilton made his way into the world. It was 12:23pm.

My first words, after greeting my son, were: "well that wasn't SO bad!"

We're resting comfortably and everybody is doing well. I had a 1st degree tear requiring a couple stitches, and it feels like somebody kicked me in the tailbone, but otherwise I feel great! Pics to follow later. =)

Ok, who's next???

[cwill]

Holy crap!  Send me some of your labor vibes aeterna - like in a couple weeks.  I can't believe you have a baby just like that!!  You know you're supposed to work for it, right?

Welcome Elias!

[Mummoth]

Congrats Aeterna!! That really WASN'T so bad, LOL! It sounds like you did an awesome job. 

I got some sort of disappointing news today... my cervix was so high, closed and hiding behind Blobby's head that the MW couldn't really do the membranes sweep. I've softened  and thinned to 1 1/2 or 2CM, that's it. I know it doesn't mean a lot, especially with a third baby, but after a ton of false labour, I was hoping there'd be some sign that it was DOING something, you know? Both my other kids were born by now, this one is a little slow poke! making home-made perogies now... *sigh*...

[MamaTangerine]

Way to go, aeterna!  And on your due date, too!  It's fantastic that you had such a positive experience with your first.  The next one will just slide right out of you ;)  

Happy birthday, Elias!    

[MamaTangerine]

Mummoth:  Sorry to hear you're not as far along as you'd hoped, but at least there'll be perogies!    

[cwill]

Mummoth, I will be pm'ing you my address so that you can make more pierogies (for me, obviously) and take your mind off things.  I'm very generous that way.

Yeah, all the posts about people not being very far along... especially people having signs of labor... I think I'll just keep holding off until my actual due date to do any checking.  

[LilMomma83]

Yay another baby- congrats mama!

Looks like my sister will NOT be sharing her birthday...I actually texted her at midnight to say happy birthday and she was all mad because she thought I was going to say I was in labor...and now every time I call or text someone I have to start with "I'm not in labor," haha.

My DH is actually getting worried, poor guy...I had no where near the prodromal labor I am having with this one with my first two...just completly irregular and easy BH contractions and then at the first sign of something regular they were born with in a couple days. This time it is at least a few hours of regular painful contractions that I can hardly speak through every day...argh...I just REALLY hope it makes for a short labor.

So now I have decided baby needs to wait until at least tomorrow night haha...I have a performance award for one of my employees that I am to hand to him tomorrow and I really am being selfish and I want to personally award him, and be in the picture and so forth...really not that big of a deal, but, I've never had the oppotunity to award someone like this before and also I really really appreciate him and I just don't feel like it will be the same if someone else awards him...then we have a major meeting after that which determines my work schedule when I get back from maternity leave (its part of a much bigger picture than that, but, ultimately it may affect my schedule) so I kind of want to make that meeting happen also.

Yeah I have been thinking a lot about my postpartum body...I think it is going to be really hard to hold myself back from working out to hard; I am just SOOOOOO ready to look sexy again!

On another note, DS1 (4 1/2) told me on Friday that his daycare provider is not buckling him into his carseat or his 2 1/2 year old brother. DH had a major talk with DCP and she agreed to buckle them in properly, Monday they did not ride in the car, today DS1 said she again did not buckle them and that he was able to buckle the chest strap but not the crotch strap and DS2 was not buckled at all. I am REALLY PO'd. this is the only major issue we have had with this DCP - we love her (not to mention we can't afford anyone else) and I get that not everyone puts the same value on carseat safety as we do (I'm crazy over it) but we appraoch you on this (and we never complain about anything or confront her etc. this was a huge issue to us) and she clearly blew it off just kills my trust. I have no idea what to do now either because it's not like we can find someone else at a moment's notice (that said, my brother is baby-sitting tomorrow and my hubby and I are taking turns watching them Thursday)...Friday we will have no choice but to send them back to daycare. On top of all that one of my close friends is related to our DCP so that kind of complicates the whole thing and I feel that it will put a wedge between us - but that will just have to happen if it must because my kids' safety is first. Then if that incident isn't enough, our preschool subsidy ends this month and we are going to have to withdraw DS1 from preschool and I feel so sad because its really been a great program and also they were so kind to subsidize him for a couple months and also to bring in an extra teacher so that he could be part of the class (it filled at 10 and he is the 11th)...I don't even know how to withdraw him when finance is the only issue...it was easy to withdraw him from where he was last year because they had some major problems and it was a safety issue. I'm just not sure how to show that I am greatful, explain why we are leavign without it seeming like we are begging for mroe subsidy - especially because I am sure there is others that might be in need.

Well...I have had a stressful event come up before each of my kids was born and I guess that means I am going to go into labor soon...if I have to find something "positive" I hate being stressed though...and I already have a lot of anxiety as it is so this whole situation is not helping!

[rustydaisies]

Originally Posted by LilMomma83 

Yeah I have been thinking a lot about my postpartum body...I think it is going to be really hard to hold myself back from working out to hard; I am just SOOOOOO ready to look sexy again!

 

amen! 

im saying back into my skinny jeans by february!  heres hoping

today was my last day of work.  bittersweet.  but im feeling pretty useless and there is no more work to be done!  now just gotta get the teeth finished then baby is more then welcome.  i should get some diapers to.  ha!  i am so ready to move  the sooner baby comes the sooner i can leave this hell hole.  ugh.  im very frusterated today about it.  i did 2 loads of dishes yesterday eve, and sometime in between someone broke a glass in the sink and failed to clean it up properly, so there was a jagged invisible piece wedged in the drain which i promptly cut open the whole top of my finger on as i was cleaning the food out.  ive also burned my hand on a hot cast iron out of the oven because someone left it hanging half off the stove  and didnt even put a mitt on it, pr mention it was hot, while they were in the room!   sick of  hurting myself based on others LAZINESS!, also one of my roomates smokes right outside our window  so the smoke seeps in , actually everyone smokes so even walking through the rest of the house its like walking into a scent cloud left behind from when the come inside.  so gross.  cant wait to get out!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SierraBella]

WELCOME ELIAS!!!! -- Sounds like a wonderful birth! 

[AshleeS]

Well after about 8 hrs of regular, manageable contractions (7:30am-3:30pm, every 7 min about 45 seconds long, easy intensity) things finally picked up! It was when my husband came home of course (like I was subconsciously holding back? even though I knew he could be home within 20 min), but we went my scheduled prenatal appt at 4pm just to get the kids and I out of the house.

As we're all getting in the car contractions intensify and move to every 5 min.  I hang out with some expecting moms, let the kids play with other kiddos, listen to my baby's heartbeat etc, and then go back home (only a mile and half away).  Once home my husband gets the kids food, I call my midwife (sister) that I just saw a few minutes ago and tell her that things are definitely continuing to progress...and to come over as soon as she wraps up with the group prenatal.  I change my DDs nasty poopy diaper while in transition (trying to make it sound like I'm laughing while I work through back to back contractions - funny/not so funny scene LOL).  Go to the toilet, have a few contractions, know that my water needs to break to get relief (total flashback to my fast and furious 1 1/2 hr labor with second baby).  Once my water breaks I totally need to push.  Call my husband in to grab on to/have support me as I proceed to bear down...pooping of course first!  Tell husband to contact my sister again ASAP.  Then my husband insists on drawing the bath in our large tub in the master (even though I tell it wont matter)...while he is adding all the sweet "finishing" touches, I get on my hands and knees placing the near by towel down first and start to feel baby move down.  Husband returns, sees that I am NOT going to make it across the house to the beautiful bath and gets down to catch the baby as he is already crowning.  Two pushes later baby is here!  My mom walks in the door about a minute after delivery (she was coming to watch my other two LO).  Sister arrives a few minutes after that.  We get cleaned up, relax, nurse, weigh/measure, eat yummy Thai take out, and snuggle... 

I didn't know what to expect since my first was a very difficult day and a half long labor and second was literally only an hour and a half.  Kinda got a combo :) 

Oliver David

12/6/11

5:30pm

8.0 lbs 20 in

[aeterna]

Congrats, Ashlee! Sounds like this is the week for easy deliveries!

....damn now I want periogies, lol... I've been starving all day! It's been a good first day, though we're still trying to work out the bf'ing thing. Tough to browse the forums on my phone, though - I can't wait to go home!

[SierraBella]

WELCOME OLIVER!!!!! - Congrats Ashlee! Sounds like a wonderful birth! 

[SierraBella]

I have my 39w MW appt this afternoon... last week she said I was dilated to a 4, I wonder what is going on this week!

DF and I completed ALL our Xmas shopping yesterday! Walking around the store was REALLY hard. It felt like I had back labor the whole time, but nothing happened, so.... 

I've been crazy busy trying to get our group research paper done (again), for final submission on Friday. One of our group members thought this week was a good idea to go out of town (???!!!) even though it's the week before finals and our paper is due! I feel like I've already taken on way more than anyone else for this project and now it seams like it even more! 

My house needs some seriously cleaning. Maybe I will work on that today.