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post #1 of 27
11/14/08 at 12:51am
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Midwife is here, I'm just chilling on the internet for a minute...killing a bit of time while DH takes a shower and then we'll break my water...I should be at about a 7 or 8 by now.


She's here! She turned anterior for me, but turned back posterior and I had 2 hours of back labor, but she turned back around and was born in 2-3 pushes. She's 6 lb 10.5 oz, 19 inches, nursed for 1.5 hours upon birth and is just perfect!
post #2 of 27
11/14/08 at 12:57am
: Happy birth! :
post #3 of 27
11/14/08 at 12:57am
: congratulations!
post #4 of 27
11/14/08 at 12:58am
OMG how exciting!! can't wait to hear all the details!! ::
post #5 of 27
11/14/08 at 2:08am
:

WOO HOOO!!!
post #6 of 27
11/14/08 at 5:55am
yay!!!! can't wait to read the Official Announcement!!!! :
post #7 of 27
11/14/08 at 9:24am
Very cool! But why break your water? Good luck mama! Can't wait to see the announcement!
post #8 of 27
11/14/08 at 10:48am
Update? I hope it's going well!
post #9 of 27
11/14/08 at 11:38am

Congrats!!!!
post #10 of 27
11/14/08 at 11:53am
Congratulations!!!! :
post #11 of 27
11/14/08 at 1:20pm
::!!!:::
post #12 of 27
11/14/08 at 2:50pm
gratz mama!!
post #13 of 27
11/14/08 at 2:57pm
Wow! Congratulations!!!:::
post #14 of 27
11/14/08 at 3:06pm
Congrats mama! Maile Joy!!
post #15 of 27
11/14/08 at 5:18pm
:: congrats!!
post #16 of 27
11/14/08 at 10:13pm
Many congrats! Sounds like an interesting labor!
post #17 of 27
11/14/08 at 10:28pm
Congratulations!!!
post #18 of 27
11/14/08 at 10:57pm
Congratulations!
post #19 of 27
11/14/08 at 11:01pm
FANTASTIC ::

So happy for you!

I have to ask how one goes about being at 7-8 cm and sits at a computer!! Wow! I'm totally amazed by that!
post #20 of 27
11/15/08 at 3:54am
Thread Starter 
LOL. Not much was still really happening at that point...not compared to how it got. I stay right at that 7ish mark until right before she was born. I was freaking out because I was starting to think I was having a really long labor, and I had no breaks between contrax at all. Turns out it was just baby turning (yay!) and a quick transition. With one breath I apparently yelled that the midwife could cut me open with a knife or whatever, just get the baby out, and the next I dropped to my knees and delivered a baby.

Anyway,I am so glad I did this at home. Until the back labor started, I just hung out around the house, and then it was so nice to not have the option of the epi, even though I wanted it soooo badly there for a bit. She's sooo perfect, and so worth every moment of pain, and every moment of misery over the last 8 months (and I'm so glad it's over, too!).

Here's some pics:

Picking her up

No trouble latching on! Oh, and she happened to be born right at the beginning of hotel california, seen in the background! I was attempting to relax with the eagles

Maile Joy
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