Monday, Jan. 16th @ 10:05pm ~~ 7lbs 4 oz, 19.5 inches long ~~ fast and furious and sunny side up!!!! 
Monday evening around 5:30ish pm I was woken up from a nap with some tummy rumblings. Figured it was gas pains and thought nothing of it until I had to stop and breathe through this "gas pains" and noticed they were coming every 3-5 minutes!!!!
DH was with DD at his mom's house ~~ I called him around 6:30 and told him to get his butt home ~ I was having some whopper contractions (unlike the three weeks of prodromal ctx I had been having) so I was sure this was "it"!
Called my mom to take DD ~ both DH and my mom pulled into our driveway around 7:00ish ~~ I couldn't talk through the ctx but felt fine in between them.
Our hospital was 45 minutes away so we jumped in the car and headed out. I had the seats in my van down so I was sitting crossed-legged on the floor listening to my relaxation CD.
I was feeling so good that I told DH to go ahead and drive through BK to get something to eat since he had missed dinner and I wasn't about to let him head down to the cafeteria while I was in labor!
Of course they were out of fries so we had to pull over and wait for our order!
We arrived at the hospital at 8:30 and the nurse checked me ~~ I was SEVEN CENTIMETERS!!!!!
My response: AWESOME!!!!
I couldn't labor in the tub b/c they were worried I'd deliver before my midwife arrived so I hung out on the birth ball and let them do the 20 minute heartrate strip that the hosptial required. Ctx weren't really that bad ~~ I breathed through them and tried to stay relaxed and looked forward to the pause in between them!
My m/w arrived and the 20 minutes was up so I jumped into the jacuzzi~~ PURE BLISS!!!
Ctx were getting stronger and more frequent ~~ all of a sudden I could feel the baby descending and the pressure was INCREDIBLE! I BEGGED for some pain meds!!! My m/w checked me and said I was 9cm and 100% effaced and that I could start pushing if I felt the urge to help relieve the pressure but I still BEGGED for pain meds!!
She got stern with me and said that she could give me narcotics but then Zane would have to be in the nursery for four hours to be observed because of the drugs in his system. That's all I needed to hear, I decided to suck it up and deal with it.
As I was pushing the m/w noticed that Zane's heartrate would drop. (She was listening via doppler under the water)
She wanted me to get out and birth on the bed and I was so uncomfortable at that point that I didn't really care if I birthed in the water anymore. (My original plan was a waterbirth but with Zane being posterior he was pressing on my rectum and sitting in the tub actually hurt more!!!!)
I birthed on my side and with only a few minutes of pushing my little sunny-side up guy arrived!!! He wasn't interested in crying so they had to poke at him to make him mad but other than that, everything was great!!!!!
No tear but massive soreness since the little bugger came in the world facing the wrong way!
He is nursing like a champ and doing great ~~ his big sister LOVES him!!! We are home and adjusting well!
Labor started at around 5:30ish and ended a little over four hours later at 10:05!!! Fast and furious but overall ~~ great!!!!
Monday evening around 5:30ish pm I was woken up from a nap with some tummy rumblings. Figured it was gas pains and thought nothing of it until I had to stop and breathe through this "gas pains" and noticed they were coming every 3-5 minutes!!!!
DH was with DD at his mom's house ~~ I called him around 6:30 and told him to get his butt home ~ I was having some whopper contractions (unlike the three weeks of prodromal ctx I had been having) so I was sure this was "it"!
Called my mom to take DD ~ both DH and my mom pulled into our driveway around 7:00ish ~~ I couldn't talk through the ctx but felt fine in between them.
Our hospital was 45 minutes away so we jumped in the car and headed out. I had the seats in my van down so I was sitting crossed-legged on the floor listening to my relaxation CD.
I was feeling so good that I told DH to go ahead and drive through BK to get something to eat since he had missed dinner and I wasn't about to let him head down to the cafeteria while I was in labor!
Of course they were out of fries so we had to pull over and wait for our order!We arrived at the hospital at 8:30 and the nurse checked me ~~ I was SEVEN CENTIMETERS!!!!!
My response: AWESOME!!!!
I couldn't labor in the tub b/c they were worried I'd deliver before my midwife arrived so I hung out on the birth ball and let them do the 20 minute heartrate strip that the hosptial required. Ctx weren't really that bad ~~ I breathed through them and tried to stay relaxed and looked forward to the pause in between them!
My m/w arrived and the 20 minutes was up so I jumped into the jacuzzi~~ PURE BLISS!!!
Ctx were getting stronger and more frequent ~~ all of a sudden I could feel the baby descending and the pressure was INCREDIBLE! I BEGGED for some pain meds!!!
My m/w checked me and said I was 9cm and 100% effaced and that I could start pushing if I felt the urge to help relieve the pressure but I still BEGGED for pain meds!!She got stern with me and said that she could give me narcotics but then Zane would have to be in the nursery for four hours to be observed because of the drugs in his system. That's all I needed to hear, I decided to suck it up and deal with it.
As I was pushing the m/w noticed that Zane's heartrate would drop. (She was listening via doppler under the water)
She wanted me to get out and birth on the bed and I was so uncomfortable at that point that I didn't really care if I birthed in the water anymore. (My original plan was a waterbirth but with Zane being posterior he was pressing on my rectum and sitting in the tub actually hurt more!!!!)
I birthed on my side and with only a few minutes of pushing my little sunny-side up guy arrived!!! He wasn't interested in crying so they had to poke at him to make him mad but other than that, everything was great!!!!!
No tear but massive soreness since the little bugger came in the world facing the wrong way!
He is nursing like a champ and doing great ~~ his big sister LOVES him!!! We are home and adjusting well!
Labor started at around 5:30ish and ended a little over four hours later at 10:05!!! Fast and furious but overall ~~ great!!!!
