(This is not an everything-goes-perfectly birth annoucment for ladies avoiding negative vibes with labor impending 
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Our son Gabe arrived sunday afternoon after a long difficult posterior labor and transfer to a hospital from homebirth. I went into labor at 3am saturday morning and he finally arrived at 2:30pm on sunday! By the middle of saturday night we transfered, and I think we were all thinking things were headed in the direction of a c-section, but he managed to birth vaginally at 10lb 1oz and 22.5in long sunnyside up, even with his head cocked to the side. We never did manage to get that baby turned, heh. (Let me mention that I'd been preoccupied with baby positioning through pregnancy like I hadn't last time around, and right up until labor began he'd been mostly keeping to good positions, but when labor started, he turned and wouldn't budge. I think I was having pregnancy premonitions, lol.) By evening on sunday though, his respirations turned fast, with retractions and he ended up in the NICU. Things have been very gradually improving, but he will likely be there until tuesday. He's been on nothing by mouth since he went into the NICU, so I've been pumping with a lot of worry over the rough start we'll have at begining breastfeeding, which we expect to be able to begin tomorrow. I think this has been the roughest week of my life, and emotions are all over the place. I've never felt so drained and exhausted. But we're elated he's here, he's beautiful, and things really aren't as terrible as the might be. And when I'm feeling especially dejected I think, well, at least I'm not trying to cope with all this on top of the surgery which has looked likely. Heck, with no tears or hemmaroids I can even pee without it burning, otherwise I'm not sure how much rougher all the traveling and sitting bedside with the baby would be. We have it easier than many people. I hope to put together a birth story soon - I think I still need to decompress from that. Let alone everything else this week!
)Our son Gabe arrived sunday afternoon after a long difficult posterior labor and transfer to a hospital from homebirth. I went into labor at 3am saturday morning and he finally arrived at 2:30pm on sunday! By the middle of saturday night we transfered, and I think we were all thinking things were headed in the direction of a c-section, but he managed to birth vaginally at 10lb 1oz and 22.5in long sunnyside up, even with his head cocked to the side. We never did manage to get that baby turned, heh. (Let me mention that I'd been preoccupied with baby positioning through pregnancy like I hadn't last time around, and right up until labor began he'd been mostly keeping to good positions, but when labor started, he turned and wouldn't budge. I think I was having pregnancy premonitions, lol.) By evening on sunday though, his respirations turned fast, with retractions and he ended up in the NICU. Things have been very gradually improving, but he will likely be there until tuesday. He's been on nothing by mouth since he went into the NICU, so I've been pumping with a lot of worry over the rough start we'll have at begining breastfeeding, which we expect to be able to begin tomorrow. I think this has been the roughest week of my life, and emotions are all over the place. I've never felt so drained and exhausted. But we're elated he's here, he's beautiful, and things really aren't as terrible as the might be. And when I'm feeling especially dejected I think, well, at least I'm not trying to cope with all this on top of the surgery which has looked likely. Heck, with no tears or hemmaroids I can even pee without it burning, otherwise I'm not sure how much rougher all the traveling and sitting bedside with the baby would be. We have it easier than many people. I hope to put together a birth story soon - I think I still need to decompress from that. Let alone everything else this week!
I am so sorry your baby is in the hospital! It would be SO hard to come home without your baby! I'll be keeping you and your family in my thoughts, hopefully it won't be much longer! Take your time getting the birth story together, you've got enough going on right now with pumping, travelling and trying to recover from birth. Congratulations, though, I'll be looking forward to hearing more when you get the time/energy!
to you and vibes that all goes well and you are all home together in the blink of an eye.
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