Hey ladies! At last I'm home with my baby
This is the birth story, I'm not doing a thread about it , just posting it here:
As you may know I was overdue a week, so I went to the hospital for induction. On Thursday 25th of April at 6 am I was given a pessary, that actually started working really well as my cervix was already soft and 2 cm open. I had very light contractions every 10 min and at 9-9.30 am I went to the labor room were I was monitored and given a drip (for hydration). My midwife and doctor saw no progress for an hour in terms of baby going lower in the pelvis so they started pitocin drip too. That made the contractions a little more regular. Still I would say they felt more like a bad IBS kind of pain, totally manageable, and I was free to move around and change positions. My midwife tried to bring the baby a little on the left because his head was stuck on the right part in my pelvis and wouldn't come down, so with me moving around the bed and her help we managed to bring him lower in the pelvis and drop lower. At around noon they made the drip go faster, and my doctor came for artificial rupture of the membranes. That caused the contractions come even faster and very powerful. I kept managing it really well with changing positions and breathing techniques, so I denied an epidural. I had 3-4 REALLY painful contractions and then the urge to push came. They didn't take me to the surgery room immediately and just let me do it my way on the bed. I kept moving around while pushing in very unorthodox positions. It was so out of ordinary for hospital birth that all the student midwives came to watch. They'd never seen pushing outside the surgery room. I pushed 5 times, and then taken to the surgery for the final one, to get an episiotomy as baby was a big one, and I was anatomically too narrow for such a baby.
Baby was born at 1pm! He was perfect and cried immediately, he had the cord wrapped around his neck twice and we think that this and my anatomy was the reason why he wouldn't drop and the labor was not starting on it's own.
I unfortunately had to suffer 35 stitches as I was torn pretty bad, inside and outside. This was the worse for me, as I couldn't enjoy my little baby and breast feed immediately... I could have an epidural just for the stitches.. OUCH
At around 4pm I was taken to my room, and a little later they brought me my baby! He started breastfeeding immediately, woohoo! I had him with me all the time and I was responcible for feeds, diaper changes, everything but his bath that the midwives did for me.
Yesterday on the 28th we came home
He is a lovely baby, very strong, sleeps through the night without problems, and only wakes up once at around 3-4 am for a feed and diaper change. He is very healthy and alert.
I don't even dare complain for anything so far, I had a lovely pregnancy without a single problem, a wonderful birthing experience that I had a lot of control, and a very sweet & healthy baby boy.
My only problem at the hospital was 1 nurse that she was a total cow, she told me that my baby is dehydrated and my milk is not enough and to give him some formula. I was devastated for the entire day that she was there, I thought I was a total failure and I put my poor little baby in danger. Thank god the other nurses, and 3 different pediatricians were very supportive, told me that the particular cow is nuts and not to listen to her, that the baby gets exactly what he needs and he is the image of health.
Will update you more in the next few days, I'm pretty busy here at home, trying to get to a new routine. I can't figure out how to bath the baby yet. It has become my only challenge. He screamed so hard last night when I bathed him I'm now scared to try it again...
As for breastfeeding: we are perfectly ok, only I have 2 challenges right now, he only likes to breast feed in the lying position, and my left nip is a little sore but I sorted it out this morning with a little lidocaine gel that I rinsed off before I fed him. It makes the nip totally numb, no pain.
I also think it was giving her a bad tummy (sounds weird I know) BUT she was having really runny runny poos until I stopped and now they are 'normal' - I know bf babies have different poo anyway but this was like water. So yeah....no expressing now - lets wait for my lovely boobs to dissapear!!!
face then this explosive noise that seemed to go on forever. So loud my in laws heard it in England (ok so we were on Skype at the time 
) and when I changed her.........oh my lord. Unreal. And so much of it. So very much.
Sarah, that is awesome!!!! Grayson makes similar sounds regularly and Rob and I try to guess if it was a shart or the real deal. Sometimes it's so explosive, that I can feel it through the diaper while I'm holding him 
I had to wear a uniform to highschool, but it definitely never got ironed and lived on my bedroom floor. lol
