After 1.5 long days of prodromal labour and another day of no progress... Meredith Ella was born this morning at 6:47. She's 21" long and 9lbs even and very chubby! (Annie was the same length but only 7 lbs 13 ozs. VERY different!) She is a total breastmilk piggie and latched easily and fast (we're NAKing now actually 
I am SO glad to be on this side of pregnancy and birth!
We had her at home. It was a pretty fast labour and birth in the end. I woke to contractions at 11pm and we got up at midnight and called our friend to come and sleep here with Annie. We called our midwife who came over at 1am and I was just 1 cm dilated (though 100% effaced.) Off they went back home to let me labour a bit more. By4am I was having trouble coping. I had tried out the TENS machine and did well with that then hopped in the pool but I was having major back labour. When the midwives got there at 4:45 I was exhausted and sadly only at 2 and I thought I was never going to make it! I was super hot from the pool so got out and put the TENS machine back on. I would NOT have made it without the TENS machine! I ended up pacing like a mad woman and went from a 2 to a 10 in an hour At some point in that hour Merry flipped from whatever weird position she was in to anterior. I was feeling pushy and thought there was NO WAY I could be ready. But what do you know! I was fully dilated and ready to push. Pushing felt good sorta. At least I could do something other than walk away from the buzzing of my back from the TENS but man that was hard work! My water broke shortly after I started pushing. There was some meconium so they set up the suction thinger. (which wasn't needed in the end )
I didn't want to get back in the pool and after awhile the midwife recommended using the birth stool. I shifted to that and Meredith was born 2 mins later. Her cord was pretty short so they clamped and cut pretty fast. I was bleeding a fair amount so got a shot of oxytocin (wow did THAT ever make me shakey!) And that's pretty much it! Annie is much more excited than she was prior to the baby (decided that her name should be cute baby instead of stupid or dumb as she was planning to earlier.) and we all tucked ourselves in for a well deserved nap!
I'll be watching for all the rest of my 'still pregnant' buddies to join me! I wouldn't have made it through the last week or 2 without you guys to wait with!
I am SO glad to be on this side of pregnancy and birth!
We had her at home. It was a pretty fast labour and birth in the end. I woke to contractions at 11pm and we got up at midnight and called our friend to come and sleep here with Annie. We called our midwife who came over at 1am and I was just 1 cm dilated (though 100% effaced.) Off they went back home to let me labour a bit more. By4am I was having trouble coping. I had tried out the TENS machine and did well with that then hopped in the pool but I was having major back labour. When the midwives got there at 4:45 I was exhausted and sadly only at 2 and I thought I was never going to make it! I was super hot from the pool so got out and put the TENS machine back on. I would NOT have made it without the TENS machine! I ended up pacing like a mad woman and went from a 2 to a 10 in an hour
At some point in that hour Merry flipped from whatever weird position she was in to anterior. I was feeling pushy and thought there was NO WAY I could be ready. But what do you know! I was fully dilated and ready to push. Pushing felt good sorta. At least I could do something other than walk away from the buzzing of my back from the TENS but man that was hard work! My water broke shortly after I started pushing. There was some meconium so they set up the suction thinger. (which wasn't needed in the end )I didn't want to get back in the pool and after awhile the midwife recommended using the birth stool. I shifted to that and Meredith was born 2 mins later. Her cord was pretty short so they clamped and cut pretty fast. I was bleeding a fair amount so got a shot of oxytocin (wow did THAT ever make me shakey!) And that's pretty much it! Annie is much more excited than she was prior to the baby (decided that her name should be cute baby instead of stupid or dumb as she was planning to earlier.) and we all tucked ourselves in for a well deserved nap!
I'll be watching for all the rest of my 'still pregnant' buddies to join me! I wouldn't have made it through the last week or 2 without you guys to wait with!
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to the healthy family. My EDD is tomorrow, so getting excited/anxious/nervous etc. I know that only 5% come on the EDD, but I like to be in the minority!
! So happy for you and your family
