She's a beautiful little 6lb 10 oz, 18 3/4 inch tiny doll. Shannon is a name we loved, Eloise is my middle name and has been in the family for over 200 years (I even have the jewelery!).
I posted on Wednesday morning that my water had broken at 3:30 in the morning. She was born at 4:30 that afternoon, after 13 hours of labor. I had a great experience, everything went pretty much the way I had dreamed.
I labored at home until around noon, hanging/laying over my ball for every contraction. They started as soon as my water broke, and stayed about 3-4 minutes apart the entire time. At noon I threw up and realized I was probably further along than I had realized, so I called my midwife and headed in. When I got there she checked me and I was at 6! I was so excited to have done all that work at home. Around 1:30 I got in the water tub (what I had been hoping my whole life to do) and knew I wasn't getting out. At 3 I was at 8 cm, transition never really got hard- everything just stayed at 3 minutes apart, just contrax getting harder. At 3:50 I started getting pushy and started pushing, she was born just 1/2 hour later!
Thankfully the pushing stage was so short, it was SO hard and not fun for me at all. She was born peacefully into the water.
I did tear, so I'm a bit sore from that. Otherwise feeling good and loving this long-awaited baby.
We're working on figuring out the whole nursing thing and I know that I'll have to work even harder when my milk comes in here in the next day or so. But I'm so proud of myself!
I haven't been on the computer much but I'll try to get around to read everyone's stories.
Erika
I posted on Wednesday morning that my water had broken at 3:30 in the morning. She was born at 4:30 that afternoon, after 13 hours of labor. I had a great experience, everything went pretty much the way I had dreamed.
I labored at home until around noon, hanging/laying over my ball for every contraction. They started as soon as my water broke, and stayed about 3-4 minutes apart the entire time. At noon I threw up and realized I was probably further along than I had realized, so I called my midwife and headed in. When I got there she checked me and I was at 6! I was so excited to have done all that work at home. Around 1:30 I got in the water tub (what I had been hoping my whole life to do) and knew I wasn't getting out. At 3 I was at 8 cm, transition never really got hard- everything just stayed at 3 minutes apart, just contrax getting harder. At 3:50 I started getting pushy and started pushing, she was born just 1/2 hour later!
Thankfully the pushing stage was so short, it was SO hard and not fun for me at all. She was born peacefully into the water.
I did tear, so I'm a bit sore from that. Otherwise feeling good and loving this long-awaited baby.
We're working on figuring out the whole nursing thing and I know that I'll have to work even harder when my milk comes in here in the next day or so. But I'm so proud of myself!
I haven't been on the computer much but I'll try to get around to read everyone's stories.
Erika
congrats on the birth of your daughter! she must seem so tiny!! 8bs seems tiny to me!
Congrats! 
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