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post #41 of 60
6/1/06 at 1:52pm
How wonderful! Wow, a ten ounder with just a slight tear. Good for you stacy! Enjoy your new little boy.
post #42 of 60
6/1/06 at 6:01pm
WooHooo!!!!! Way to go, Stacy! (a 10 pounder! i'm so impressed, mama )

Welcome to the world, sweet little boy

Enjoy that babymoon, mama!
post #43 of 60
6/2/06 at 4:46pm
10 lbs! One small tear! 5 hrs of labour! That is amazing, Stacey!

Congratulations! So excited for you! Jilly
post #44 of 60
6/2/06 at 9:16pm
Thread Starter 
Hi Everybody! This is my first trip downstairs to the computer since the birth, so I'll give a quick update.

Everything is just great and Gabriel is doing wonderfully. I am so pleased with homebirth and the way things went. It was such a better experience than my first birth that it's amazing. I look forward to getting the chance to get some time to be able to write up my birth story. Gabriel is nursing like crazy and had his ped check up today, and everything was great. I am a little tired, and a little sore (more in my sacrum than in my bum - which is ironic I think after passing a 10 lb. baby!) but overall pretty darn good.

Ds (20 1/2 mos.)is so excited about his little brother. He strokes his head, and lays his cheek on his head, and tries to pick him up (!) and the first words out of his mouth in the morning and from naps is, "Baby! Baby!"

Thanks for all the prayers and well-wishing. I hope all the other mamas who are soon to go have good, easy births! I'll try to post some pics and story soon.
post #45 of 60
6/2/06 at 10:07pm
Stacy, so glad to hear that!!

You are my trial run, our boys will be exactly the same age apart. Has he been jealous at all? Sounds like he is still excited. Are you tandem nursing??

I know you are busy, but these are the things I worry about! Hoping it is all going smooth for you!

~C~
post #46 of 60
6/3/06 at 12:54am
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Originally Posted by Caroline248
Stacy, so glad to hear that!!

You are my trial run, our boys will be exactly the same age apart. Has he been jealous at all? Sounds like he is still excited. Are you tandem nursing??

I know you are busy, but these are the things I worry about! Hoping it is all going smooth for you!

~C~
: :

Me too, me too! I'm also so happy to hear that the sibling thing is going well so far. I so hope that Thor takes to Anna that way!
post #47 of 60
6/3/06 at 9:56am
sounds like things are going wonderfully, Stacy! I'm so glad!

And, I got a little choked up reading about the brotherly love ... so sweet! I hope that lasts for the two of them for always ...

Take care of yourself, take it easy! (I'm still in total awe of the 10 lb baby! ) and hug that baby boy from all of us

best wishes!


So, mamas ... does Stacy win the prize for the biggest baby so far?
post #48 of 60
6/3/06 at 9:58am
What a wonderful birth experience. Congratulations on your new baby!!!
post #49 of 60
6/4/06 at 1:50pm
Thread Starter 
Here's some photos from the birth. They were taken about two hours after he was born. I hope to get a chance to write up my Brith story soon.

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/w...4atmOs&notag=1
post #50 of 60
6/4/06 at 1:54pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Caroline248
You are my trial run, our boys will be exactly the same age apart. Has he been jealous at all? Sounds like he is still excited. Are you tandem nursing??
Alex hasn't been jealous at all yet, but he is very independent and wants to do things himself, so he gets mad if you won't let him hold the baby by himself. He loooves the baby though, and is always kissing him and touching him and trying to get at him. This is now my biggest problem - how to keep them separated!!

Alex weaned at 18 mos. (he's 20 1/2 now) so I am thankfully NOT tandem nursing!
post #51 of 60
6/4/06 at 2:00pm

How adorable!

Congrats Stacy! What a precious baby boy!
post #52 of 60
6/4/06 at 7:12pm
Beautiful pics - thanks for sharing!!
post #53 of 60
6/4/06 at 7:31pm
congratulations!!!!
post #54 of 60
6/4/06 at 8:13pm
so that's what they look like when they come out at 10 lbs! (my ds was less than 7) so solid. looks like he helped propel himself out! congrats mama. you look fantastic!
post #55 of 60
6/4/06 at 11:24pm
What a beautiful baby!! Congrats!
post #56 of 60
6/5/06 at 2:54am
awww...so precious!

Only 2 hours after - You look fabulous mama!!!
post #57 of 60
6/5/06 at 12:40pm
Beautiful pics!!! You look amazing Stacy!!! Congrats again!
post #58 of 60
6/8/06 at 9:51pm
Thread Starter 
I added a couple of photos that we took of Gabriel at five days. I am still trying to get an opportunity to wrote my birth story, but man it is hard with a toddler too!

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/w...4atmPb&notag=1
post #59 of 60
6/8/06 at 10:06pm
Congrats !!! He's so cute
post #60 of 60
6/11/06 at 10:24pm
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Gabriel's Birth Story

On May 31st, I awoke out of a sound sleep to my water breaking with a loud, audible POP! It broke up high at the top of my uterus just below my sternum and felt like a water balloon bursting inside me. I looked at the clock – 4:37 am - and went to wake up dh. There was no water coming out though, which seemed weird. I knew this was it, though, and started to get my contact lenses on and brushed my teeth. As I moved around water started coming out in small gushes. We went downstairs and I didn’t have a first contraction until a half hour later. They were about 8-10 minutes apart, and felt only like strong BH’s at first. I made sure I had everything ready and then we called my MW at 6:30 to give her a heads-up.

We started to fill the pool and covered it to keep warm till I was ready for it. Ds woke up at 7:00, and contractions started intensifying. I had to lean on the table and rock my hips through them while I made ds breakfast. After he ate, dh took him outside in the yard to play. I lay down on the sofabed we had pulled out (pool was in living room) and had to vocalize through the contractions. Ds was becoming a distraction, so we called my friend to come pick him up. He left at just the right time. At 8:30, my MW called back to check my progress, and said she would leave now. It would take her an hour to get there. After that, I felt I couldn’t take the contractions anymore and needed some relief, so I got in the pool. The warm water felt really good, and definitely took the edge off them a bit.

The downside was that they sped up and were coming about every two minutes, and I started having pushy contractions. This freaked me out a little bit, and I said to dh, “I’m pushing and I can’t stop.” I frantically started to pant and blow through each one, but it was getting harder to “resist.” I told him to call the MW back and tell her I couldn’t stop pushing. She told him to have me get out of the water and lay on my side. I did this but my body was still pushing. Just then the MW’s asst. arrived and wanted to check me. I couldn’t do it, and I NEEDED to get back in the water. They helped me in, and immediately my body just TOOK OVER. It was like I was split into two bodies, my upper half with the brain saying, “Don’t push!” and my lower half JUST DOING IT ANYWAY, whether I wanted to or not!

I started to feel a burning in my vagina and right then my MW came in. She saw me and put her forehead against mine and said, “It’s ok, just follow your body’s cues and go with it.” It was such a relief to be told it was ok to push because it seemed like it was way too soon, and I hadn’t been checked so I didn’t even know if I was dilated! I pushed with my body and after she checked me and said, “His head is right there, a half inch in, feel your baby’s head.” Holy cow! He was RIGHT there! It took three pushes to get his head out, in which my body did all the work. I didn’t add any pushing effort to those three pushes because it hurt. After his head was out she had me stand up in the water, and then her voice changed and became very authoritative and a little alarmed and she told me I had to get out of the pool right away. Getting over the side was hard! I had a one push standing upright, then one on my hands & knees, and then I laid on my side. I had to push a few times there, and dh and MW and her asst. were all yelling at me, “Push, Stacy! Harder – PUSH!” So, I finally just pushed with all of my strength and gave one of those weird primal kind of screams, because I just wanted him OUT, and he came out at last at 10:00am. He was a bit slow to start breathing and they waved oxygen under his nose, and he didn’t cry. I couldn’t see any of this since I was laying on my side.

It turned out he had been stuck at the shoulders (mild shoulder dystocia) and had the cord wrapped once around his neck which she had unlooped. He finally pinked up and was breathing and I delivered the placenta about 20 minutes later while dh held the baby. My placenta was HUGE, nearly 5 lbs.! When MW finally weighed ds I could not believe he was 10 lbs. 2 oz, with a 15 1/4" head! : I had one tiny superficial cut from the MW with the scissors, when she was trying to get him unstuck, which I didn’t need stitches for. My labor was five hours total.

All in all, it was a great experience. I was so happy with our birth, and it was such a different experience from my first birth. It was just so relaxed and there was no fear or tension surrounding it. It just seemed like a normal part of life. My dh was so happy too, and says we will never give birth in a hospital again! I was definitely sore afterward, and OUCH to the afterpains (didn’t have those with the first baby), but ironically this recovery has been much better and faster than my hospital birth of my 8 ½ lb. baby. Homebirth is awesome!
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