Hey mamas!
We had our little baby girl on Monday morning at 3 am! Crazy unusual labor... with days of early labor and then boom first time I was checked by my midwife I was almost 8cm! guess it was real labor afterall! But, then no change for about seven hours at home and contractions were between 8-15 minutes apart STILL. After a hard decision to go to the hospital in order to get an epidural to try to sleep (I had been up for almost 3 straight days with contractions every 10-20 minutes) , we headed out and thats when the "back labor" started (posterior babe). oh lord, that was craziness. I was all set on getting the epidural by the time I had endured that for an hour. But, then by a miracle, little one moved down with two crazy strong contractions! I felt her coming down, I wanted to push! The anasthethiologist (sp?) was already in the room and the papers were signed. I said, no forget it, the baby is coming out now! After about an hour and a half of pushing... out she came... ALL NATURAL. I can't express how happy I was that she decided to spin and start moving down. I really had NOT wanted the drugs... She's a perfect little one and we are so completely overjoyed by her! Even with how exhausted I was I stayed up until we left the hospital just staring at her. PURE LOVE!
This thread also contains a question.... as far as breastfeeding, she's two days old now. She has only nursed a few times today but for about 30-45 minutes each time. She just seems so tired. I figure the long exhausting labor affected us both, and Im trying not to worry. but, you know everyone says baby should be nursing every 3 hours or so. Has anyone else had this experience? Im wondering if she'll pick up when my milk comes in.... or hopefully by tomorrow she won't be so tired. She had four huge meconium poops, with the last one at 7 this morning... and no more poops all day. she has only peed twice so far. thoughts?
So happy to be part of the new mama crew!
Yay virgo babies
We had our little baby girl on Monday morning at 3 am! Crazy unusual labor... with days of early labor and then boom first time I was checked by my midwife I was almost 8cm! guess it was real labor afterall! But, then no change for about seven hours at home and contractions were between 8-15 minutes apart STILL. After a hard decision to go to the hospital in order to get an epidural to try to sleep (I had been up for almost 3 straight days with contractions every 10-20 minutes) , we headed out and thats when the "back labor" started (posterior babe). oh lord, that was craziness. I was all set on getting the epidural by the time I had endured that for an hour. But, then by a miracle, little one moved down with two crazy strong contractions! I felt her coming down, I wanted to push! The anasthethiologist (sp?) was already in the room and the papers were signed. I said, no forget it, the baby is coming out now! After about an hour and a half of pushing... out she came... ALL NATURAL. I can't express how happy I was that she decided to spin and start moving down. I really had NOT wanted the drugs... She's a perfect little one and we are so completely overjoyed by her! Even with how exhausted I was I stayed up until we left the hospital just staring at her. PURE LOVE!
This thread also contains a question.... as far as breastfeeding, she's two days old now. She has only nursed a few times today but for about 30-45 minutes each time. She just seems so tired. I figure the long exhausting labor affected us both, and Im trying not to worry. but, you know everyone says baby should be nursing every 3 hours or so. Has anyone else had this experience? Im wondering if she'll pick up when my milk comes in.... or hopefully by tomorrow she won't be so tired. She had four huge meconium poops, with the last one at 7 this morning... and no more poops all day. she has only peed twice so far. thoughts?
So happy to be part of the new mama crew!
Yay virgo babies