meagen
11-11-2005, 03:49 PM
Sorry I've dropped off the face of the earth. It's amazing where the time goes! Anyway, we are both doing great!!!
Liam's birth was such a suprise to me, because it turns out Molly's labor and delivery were quite hard, as was recovery! I went into real, timeable labor on Tues. Nov. 1st about 11 am. Contractions were bearable until about 11 pm that night, I could breath/relax through them. At that point, they were NOT bearable at all, two minutes apart and so painful. My nutty nurse told me I wasn't acutally in labor WTF??? And put me in a wheel chair to take me back home. I was so deleriously in pain, I couldn't argue. Thankfully my nurse's aide could tell it would be soon, insisted that I stay right there and take a bath and get some rest, which is exactly what I did. By 1:30, dh is at the nurse's station insisting on my epidural, and he gets "hon, she's not even checked in yet" So, he convinces her to at least check me (has only done that once so far) and I'm 5cm and 100% effaced. Then she actually checks me in to the hospital, calls the anesthesiologist, who thankfully arrives in 5 minutes. I got the epidural, and fell promptly to sleep. At 4:30, I woke up needing to push, try to convince the nurse to check me again, and resist pushing until the doc gets there. He arrives at 5:10, I pushed a whopping 3 times, and out came Liam! His head was a full inch and a half smaller than big sis, I had no tears or anything this time! He was 8 1/2 lbs, and was so perfect. I couldn't belive how great I felt that day! He is doing great, nursing well, and I really just couldn't be happier. Even my little princess is in love with him. So far, life with two has been a breeze. We're getting lots of sleep which helps so much!
Thanks for reading, and i'll try to keep in better touch with you all!
Liam's birth was such a suprise to me, because it turns out Molly's labor and delivery were quite hard, as was recovery! I went into real, timeable labor on Tues. Nov. 1st about 11 am. Contractions were bearable until about 11 pm that night, I could breath/relax through them. At that point, they were NOT bearable at all, two minutes apart and so painful. My nutty nurse told me I wasn't acutally in labor WTF??? And put me in a wheel chair to take me back home. I was so deleriously in pain, I couldn't argue. Thankfully my nurse's aide could tell it would be soon, insisted that I stay right there and take a bath and get some rest, which is exactly what I did. By 1:30, dh is at the nurse's station insisting on my epidural, and he gets "hon, she's not even checked in yet" So, he convinces her to at least check me (has only done that once so far) and I'm 5cm and 100% effaced. Then she actually checks me in to the hospital, calls the anesthesiologist, who thankfully arrives in 5 minutes. I got the epidural, and fell promptly to sleep. At 4:30, I woke up needing to push, try to convince the nurse to check me again, and resist pushing until the doc gets there. He arrives at 5:10, I pushed a whopping 3 times, and out came Liam! His head was a full inch and a half smaller than big sis, I had no tears or anything this time! He was 8 1/2 lbs, and was so perfect. I couldn't belive how great I felt that day! He is doing great, nursing well, and I really just couldn't be happier. Even my little princess is in love with him. So far, life with two has been a breeze. We're getting lots of sleep which helps so much!
Thanks for reading, and i'll try to keep in better touch with you all!