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Hello, lovely ladies!!!! Oh how I've missed you all!<br><br>
Thanks so much for all your hugs and wonderings about me!!! I have a lot to catch up on, but I'm tickled to be back <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/smile.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="smile">.<br><br>
I went into labor in the wee hours of Monday, November 28, and my water broke at about 2:30 on Tuesday, November 29. There was meconium in the amniotic fluid, so we transfered to the hospital just as I was entering the "pushing phase." (Did any other mothers try this in the car? I highly recommend it if you are the daredevil sort...) Well we got the OB who was on call, a horrid woman whose touch was like scissors jabbing me in the crotch and whose first words to me were, "I'm not at all comfortable taking you on as a patient since I haven't been monitoring your progress, so I'm giving you 30 minutes to push and then we're going to do a C-section." (This was before she had even lifted my sheet to see how I was progressing or what was going on!) Many many more insults and injuries (to me and my midwife) followed, but then the OB was called away for a few hours to another poor woman's bedside, so with the much gentler approach of the hospital midwives we did have an unmedicated vaginal birth. Baby boy -- all 9 lbs. and 23 inches of him -- was wisked away to the NICU table to get suctioned and oxygenated. His Apgar score reached 9 by the 7-minute mark, but he was taken to the NICU anyway for monitoring. We stayed at the hospital for three days, coming home last Friday with a big healthy boy and only a few emotional bruises.<br><br>
BUT, I was in such a rush to tell you all everything that I asked DH to go home and get my computer and bring it up to the hospital. I plugged it in as soon as I got up to the recovery room, saw a blue spark, and that was it for my laptop for the next week. I had a 3rd degree tear that's taking a long time to heal, and so haven't been up and about enough to track down another computer. But we got our computer back yesterday. And I have a baby!! We're calling him Woody. And we're totally in love.<br><br>
So I'm off to read all about YOU and your kiddos. Can't wait to share outside-of-the-womb stories -- lemme hear ya holla if your boy has peed in your face while you were changing his diaper! Oooohhh yea!
Thanks so much for all your hugs and wonderings about me!!! I have a lot to catch up on, but I'm tickled to be back <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/smile.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="smile">.<br><br>
I went into labor in the wee hours of Monday, November 28, and my water broke at about 2:30 on Tuesday, November 29. There was meconium in the amniotic fluid, so we transfered to the hospital just as I was entering the "pushing phase." (Did any other mothers try this in the car? I highly recommend it if you are the daredevil sort...) Well we got the OB who was on call, a horrid woman whose touch was like scissors jabbing me in the crotch and whose first words to me were, "I'm not at all comfortable taking you on as a patient since I haven't been monitoring your progress, so I'm giving you 30 minutes to push and then we're going to do a C-section." (This was before she had even lifted my sheet to see how I was progressing or what was going on!) Many many more insults and injuries (to me and my midwife) followed, but then the OB was called away for a few hours to another poor woman's bedside, so with the much gentler approach of the hospital midwives we did have an unmedicated vaginal birth. Baby boy -- all 9 lbs. and 23 inches of him -- was wisked away to the NICU table to get suctioned and oxygenated. His Apgar score reached 9 by the 7-minute mark, but he was taken to the NICU anyway for monitoring. We stayed at the hospital for three days, coming home last Friday with a big healthy boy and only a few emotional bruises.<br><br>
BUT, I was in such a rush to tell you all everything that I asked DH to go home and get my computer and bring it up to the hospital. I plugged it in as soon as I got up to the recovery room, saw a blue spark, and that was it for my laptop for the next week. I had a 3rd degree tear that's taking a long time to heal, and so haven't been up and about enough to track down another computer. But we got our computer back yesterday. And I have a baby!! We're calling him Woody. And we're totally in love.<br><br>
So I'm off to read all about YOU and your kiddos. Can't wait to share outside-of-the-womb stories -- lemme hear ya holla if your boy has peed in your face while you were changing his diaper! Oooohhh yea!
