Autumn Rosalie Elisabbath is here!! **Update** - Page 2

[~pi]

Congratulations, Sabbath, and welcome, Autumn!!! :

[jinkel]

You know, I only just now realized the third part of her name: "Elisabbath". VERY cool that you were able to tie in your name to hers! Nicely done!

[ashtree]

I just looked at your blog and she is the cutest!!! I love her tie dye onesie.

[annarosa]

congratulations !

[MrsSurplus]

Congratulations and welcome Autumn!!!

[Max'sMama]

Congratulations!

For your tear - so sorry you had to go to hospital for repair, a couple things I did with my son's birth and the subsequent 4th deg tear --fill a diaper with crushed ice and sit on it. Tucks pads-actually sit on them! Plus lots and lots of sitz baths!

Good luck on your healing and enjoy your babymoon!

[cjcolorado]

Congratulations and welcome to the world, little girl!

[broodymama]

Congrats and welcome Autumn!

[SabbathD]

Indeed she is here!
Monday, July 10, 2006

Well, today our little one is 4 days old. It has been an interesting couple of days, let me tell you! I know that DH already did a sort of posting on our blog with some pictures - www.babydavies.blogspot.com.

Well let's see, where do I start? My water broke on July 5th (at the Starbucks of all places! I was there with my weekly knitting group.), and contractions started, very slowly at around 12:45 am. They weren't too painful, ten minutes apart, hardly a decent pattern, but it was a start. We called the doula to let them know that we were getting a pattern at around 4:45ish. At around 5 am, they went from being ten minutes apart to two minutes apart, in one contraction. At that point, we called the midwives to let them know that we were on our way. The doula arrived, and helped me through some contractions. I couldn't figure out why my back hurt so much more than my front. Chad and I got into the car, and headed down to Tacoma (about 20 minutes away). Contractions stayed about 2 minutes apart the entire way. Erin, our doula, got pulled over on the way down, by the state patrol, and we called 911 to tell them that she was with us, and that she was our birthing assistant. She told them too, and they let her go, even though she had actually even forgotten her purse with her license and insurance stuff as well!! We got to the Birthing Inn at around 5:45, and we got all situated and checked in. They checked me and I was only about 4 cm dilated. We determined that the baby was posterior because of all of the back labor. So, we were looking at a sunny side up delivery. After about 3 hours of laboring in a tub, we started pushing spontaneously (at 9:40). At 9:48, my water broke completely, and after 3 pushes, she was born at 10:03. Somehow or another, during the VERY end of everything, she got herself turned around and was delivered in optimal fetal position. All in all, it was beautiful and wonderful! She came out wailing and kicking and screaming. She weighed in at exactly 8 lbs, and was 20.75 inches long. Apgars were 7 and 9, excellent scores! She had dark steely blue eyes, which she had wide open right away. We couldn't do the first feeding until noon, because of my complications, but when we did, she was a great eater!

Now, I will say that the postpartum section of the delivery left a little to be desired. Without getting to graphic, I lost approximately twice the amount of blood that I was supposed to, I was already anemic and dehydrated, I had postpartum hemmorhage, and I had severe tearing. After trying to stablize me there, my heart rate, which got up to around 160, wouldn't go down, my blood pressure kept dropping, and I wasn't able to stand without passing out, so they emergency transported me to the hospital. Ya know, I have never been in an ambulance with the lights and sirens going!! It was sort of like a scene on ER, them in there massaging my uterus and everything. Weird. I remember most of it, but not all of it. But, once we got the hospital, I was quickly and easily stabilized. We stayed for 2 nights, and I received a blood transfusion. I never knew my blood type until them. Huh!

I would do it all over again, just to get another one of her. She is precious, and adorable, and a veracious eater. We are still trying to figure some things out, like breastfeeding, but after the way that last night and today have gone so far, I am seeing leaps and bounds improvements. She is starting to share her schedule with me, and I am starting to get better at her 'cues'. I am starting to feel better, the blood helped a lot, and get out of bed a lot more, so I think that we are gonna make it!! I am planning on buying stock in tucks w/ witch hazel, and ice packs and dermoplast spray, because good lord I wouldn't have made it without those!! Well, I have a little one waking up, looking sort of 'peckish' so it's off to tend to her. So this is what life is like with a newborn...

[Miss Juice]

Originally Posted by SabbathD

I would do it all over again, just to get another one of her.

: That's how I felt after my first was born - someone asked about an hour after birth if I would do it again, and I said, "well, maybe not next Friday, but absolutely."

Thanks for sharing your beautiful birth story! It sounds like things went well (up to the tearing and bleeding part anyway) and I'm so glad everyone is healing up. Enjoy that baby!!

[puddleduck]

reading your birth story gave me such a warm squishy kinda feeling

I found breastfeeding hard with ds1 for the first few weeks hang in there it gets easier each time.

[lotus.blossom]

What a wonderful quick birth! Sorry to hear about your post partum problems, but like you said she is totally worth it! Happy healing and enjoy your sweet beautiful little girl!

[Jade2561]

Congratulations- I love the name Autum! Hope you heal fast!

[bugnbean]

Congratulations

Hang in there with the breastfeeding. It WILL get easier, even when it feels like it never will.

[sunshinestarr]

Yay! Congrats!

[sewaneecook]

I am planning on buying stock in tucks w/ witch hazel, and ice packs and dermoplast spray, because good lord I wouldn't have made it without those!!

Aren't those products wonderful?!!! May I add a peri-bottle to that list? When DS was about 2 hours old DH said, "let's have another one!" I told him to mention it at some point when I wasn't still packing ice on my parts b/c they were a bit out of sorts from delivery! But, yeah, it's all completely worth it.

[mimi_n_tre]

Congratulations Sabbath...

Autumn

P.S. I love the outfit also... I have the same one and it looks so adorable...

Mary