I finally get to make my arrival post :)
It's a little slow but my little girl was born July 23 at 1047.
After seeing my doctor on the 21 I was 41+3 technically but 40+4 to my new due date they has given me. Regardless - overdue. They booked me in for the 28th go be induced If it hasn't happened. Apparently my little girl just needed an eviction notice as that's all it took and I woke up the next morning with contractions. They were 12-14 minutes apart starting at about 2 am.... throughout the day they spaced themselves out and I was sure I was in for a few days of work. We went to our alow pitch game and our usual Wednesday night things. We were out for wings witg friends when I started feeling the contractions more frequently... like 4 to 5 minutes apart. So I told my husband I thought we needed to go home.
Went home. Had a shower. . Came out and decided we needed to ho in as I am a FTM and didn't know what was a reasonable amount to go in for this was about 11 pm we went in she told me I was 3 cm so to go home try and relax in between and when I got to the point where I felt like I couldn't elax in between or the pain git worse to come back in. Could be an hour could be 4 she didn't know buy knew I would likely be back that evening.
I went back at 330 am the pain was getting increasingly worse and I didn't want to be one of those people who got there and heard oh your 8 cm top late we can t di anything as I was very much planing on getting an epidural. I don't consider myself one who handles pain well....
So I was 6 cm and they decided to admit me. She said she was shocked with how I was handling everything and didn't seem like I was a person at 6 cm at all. We questioned the epidural as things seemed to be running quite quickly a d smoothly and did we really want to slow everything down. So I decided to be brave and no epidural it.
Anyways doctor came in at 715 and basically said hey why not let's break your water instead of waiting. So they did that and things started to speed up very quickly. The pain was insane enough to make me wish I had done the epidural!! After over an hour of pushing and nothing happening I kind of felt as though something wasn't right. Babes heart beat dropped to 68 bpm so they rushed to get the on call obgyn in to check things out. He basically said babies head was tilted at an angle basically making it more difficult to come out and he had a feeling she was going to be a big baby so he strongly urged us to go to c section. I agreed as I don't think I could of even pushed more if I tried I felt truly defeated at that point. ....
We had to wait over an hour for the anestesiest to get to the hospital.... pretty much the worst hour of my life. Once he was there I fit my spinal... one of the best moments off my life NEXT TO....
Hearing my babies first cry and the announcement of a baby girl! We went in leaving gender a surprise!!
The next 2 hours were really hard as my husband got to go with our baby girl to the nursery and to go see our families while I went to recovery....I'm quite upset about it still... I never got my skin to skin contact or first try at breast feeding till 2 hours after she was born! :(
Breast feeding got off to a really rocky start some days going awesome and some times terrible she lost more weight than usual so finally Saturday night after weighing her that that they were not discharging me Sunday but then starting me on something to bring in my milk.
I had a very emotional morning yesterday as they had started talking about using formula to top her off.... I felt as though my body was failing me again... FINALLY yesterday afternoon my milk came in!! My little girl seemed the most satisfied and eager to nurse yet! ! Best news yet is she GAINED weight back yesterday so today we get to go home!! I'm so excited!!
So rest assured mom's still waiting! It's coming! And sometimes it's a struggle but it's so worth every second in the end!!
I get to take my Amelia Elizabeth home ťoday!♡