~*~ February Flowers 2014! ~ 37 Babies Have Arrived! ~*
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quick update to show a pic of Leighton (avatar)
we are home doing well not much sleep and nipples are killing me but so happy hes here and so in love dont want to share him lol
good luck ladies and hoping all lo's are doing well
we are home doing well not much sleep and nipples are killing me but so happy hes here and so in love dont want to share him lol
good luck ladies and hoping all lo's are doing well
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aww, cute!!
Do you have any Lansinoh / Lanolin nipple cream? That stuff works miracles!
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Congrats akblaze!! Beautiful!
Good luck 3xblessed, I had Evelyn in a snowstorm here and it was a bit nerve wrecking but everything turned out fine. Hope your area isn't hit too hard and they keep the roads clear for you!
Good luck 3xblessed, I had Evelyn in a snowstorm here and it was a bit nerve wrecking but everything turned out fine. Hope your area isn't hit too hard and they keep the roads clear for you!
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Thanks for the top tip on the nipple cream ladies, have sent hubby out.
Still nothing on this end, sweep booked tomorrow and induction booked for Sunday if are little one doesn't arrive by then!
Has anyone been induced before? Mw said its more painful which has freaked me out x x x
Still nothing on this end, sweep booked tomorrow and induction booked for Sunday if are little one doesn't arrive by then!
Has anyone been induced before? Mw said its more painful which has freaked me out x x x
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I was induced with my second. Only took one lot of the gel and contractions started within 5 minutes. Was less painful than my first birth and overall a pretty good birth experience goodluck hopefully u won't need it x
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I think my labor with my second was more painful (went into labor on my own) than my first (induced). But I pushed for 3 hours with my first bc he wasn't engaged when I was induced (even though he was 13 days late). My second was fast and furious and quite painful but only 10 minutes of pushing. I think that's more bc he was my second child.
AFM, I was scheduled for tomorrow at noon for my csection but I had a slight fever today and my doctor said the anesthesiologist might not want to do the section if I have a fever.
I want what's best for her but I just want her here now so I know she's okay.
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Likkle- I was induced with my first. TBH it wasn't a 'fantastic' experience but I had contractions at 3 min apart lasting 1 min for 6 or 7 hours and failed to progress (total labour time was 14 hours but things didn't 'pick up' until they broke my waters). Turned out my DS was totally wrapped up in the cord and was unable to descend, so that wasn't the fault of the induction. If things had progressed it would have gone a lot faster (ended in EMCS). I've heard loads of good induction stories though! Fx'd for whatever route you end up taking 
3xblessed- good luck as well! Hope you're able to get out in the snow!
3xblessed- good luck as well! Hope you're able to get out in the snow!
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I have been induced with both my girls but I had the epidural with both as well and the first went very smoothly once she descended which took a few hours. This one I was able to work through two hours of contractions before getting the epidural which I didn't think I could do either way. Also with both things really hot going once they broke my waters this time I labored for 4 hours before giving birth. Good luck, you'll do fine I'm sure.
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The BEST thing to do is to stand or squat during labor..
I was so pissed at the outcome of my son's birth.. I laid down in the bed most of the time, and I *know* that was my mistake. Took me forever to dilate fully even though I was having contractions back-to-back for over 8 hours before caving and getting the EPI.
Keep active, stay distracted and stay as upright as possible.. gravity does the job WELL.
I wasn't induced, technically.. I had a membrane sweep and was in labor 12 hours later, and 12 hours after that my son was born.
The epidural made it take me over 2 hours to push, and I was not happy.
I am *definitely* going 100% natural this time. I know the mistakes I made last time, so I'm not making them again
I was so pissed at the outcome of my son's birth.. I laid down in the bed most of the time, and I *know* that was my mistake. Took me forever to dilate fully even though I was having contractions back-to-back for over 8 hours before caving and getting the EPI.
Keep active, stay distracted and stay as upright as possible.. gravity does the job WELL.
I wasn't induced, technically.. I had a membrane sweep and was in labor 12 hours later, and 12 hours after that my son was born.
The epidural made it take me over 2 hours to push, and I was not happy.
I am *definitely* going 100% natural this time. I know the mistakes I made last time, so I'm not making them again
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Thanks ladies for all your tips! I'm hoping I can still go ahead with a water birth after all this. Had my sweep - took two attempts wasn't the nicest thing in the world but if it gets baby moving I'm all for it! At least I know baby will be here by Monday!
Hope everyone's doing well
X x x
Hope everyone's doing well
X x x
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Ok so we are finally home. So here is my birth story plus some….
Feb 9th
The day before I went for a walk around the trailer show. Didn't seem to show any new signs other than a pad that seemed a tad bit more wet than usual. That night we DTD and nothing!
Woke up that morning and had a good amount of blood. I got really excited!! Yet nothing significant was happening. So I went walking a bit more. Didn't get any more good tightenings, though did get a bit of a gush. So I decided to go get checked. Since I didn't think I was actually in labor, I went to get a really good burger. As we sat down, oooweeee good hit with one good strong one. That made me feel better, because maybe this could be the day.
Went home got all the boys packed up and sent them with my mother.
When I got in to labor and birth they checked me and said that it was negative, and my waters had not broke. Though on the strip it showed I was surging very regularly, so they admitted me. First of all what a great new ward. Loved it.
They came in and told me that there was one problem that they saw with my birth plan. I guess because of a previous hemorrhage they would have to start a line for me just in case. Which actually I was fine with because of my very rare blood, there could be only seconds for them if thing got bad.
So as I settled in to my new home and went to the bathroom and in the toilet was a big amount of foggy substance in the toilet. Which we all though weird since the test came back negative!
The Dr came in and started in saying that he was going to break my waters and start me on the drip. I just looked at him like uh…. NO!! I was ok with him breaking my waters cause really at this point I was tired of my body stalling our all the time. I asked him if he was ok to just break my waters, he was cool with that and gave me 2 hrs to show change. WELL, there wasn't much waters to break, I just bled all over the place.
Though it did start some stronger surges. At the end of the 2 hrs I was positive that something was happening. I was using my hypobirthing as they were nice a strong and couldn't talk throughout them. The Dr came in and checked me ….. well no change! ARGH! Really? I was so mad. I should have had some change, but nothing. Grrrr Well the Dr mentioned to start a low dose of the drip. Well I was good with that but not without adding some other form of pain relief, as in the past the drip has ben horrible. So I said bring in the gas! Well here comes the nurse in and said they were out of gas. Well I just looked at her and said then you better give me the epi, cause there was no way I was doing it without it.
I had a great anethiatist (? spell) who only put it in and didn't hock up the actual drip, so I was given the absolutely the minimum. Which was told would last about an hour.
So I was given the minimum of the centocin and epi, and it sent me rolling and with in 1.5 hrs I went from 4cm to 10cm. I didn't even notice that the epi wore off either. All I knew was that my ass hurt, my left ass cheek was in so much pain. Worse then labor. It was horrible. I was delivering on my side. Then they moved me to my other side, I went deep into myself. Didn't even open my eyes just tried to concentrate. Once I was ready I pushed for about 20 min. I started to crown and they called the Dr and I right said nope not going to wait for no dr, as I was going to have him now, and my nurse delivered him. Somewhere in there someone asked her if he was faced a certain way, and she replied that "yes but he turn himself and faced the right way in the end". My DH doesn't remember if he noticed anything but remembers the convo. I was very proud of myself of how well I breathed through it all. I was a lot more alert this time when we were done, and so was my baby! Exactly what I wanted. Oh and no stitches!!
We were then after cleaned up sent into our new mom and baby ward, which each person now has their own room. So much better than sharing a room with three other mothers.
Nursing started off well, but he was at the boob all the time, which caused me to be very chapped. It didn't help that he was so mucusy. Then as we were expecting to discharged, found out our little man was sick. His billy numbers were really high for a one day old baby. So we spent all day under the lights, and supposed to be under them all night, but because of how often he was eating, he spent all night attached to me. He level were not improved enough and he was getting close to losing more then the 10% and was not having very many wet diapers. So we were told we would have to spend the rest of that day with a billy blanket and lights. This way aloud him to nurse and continue his treatment. Well that helped and were told as long as he gained weight by morning we would be allowed to go home. Well by last night my milk came in so he went up in weight and thank goodness I got some sleep.
We are finally home!! And now he is sleeping way more. It is weird.
Zander is so amazing!! Seriously in love with him!!
Feb 9th
The day before I went for a walk around the trailer show. Didn't seem to show any new signs other than a pad that seemed a tad bit more wet than usual. That night we DTD and nothing!
Woke up that morning and had a good amount of blood. I got really excited!! Yet nothing significant was happening. So I went walking a bit more. Didn't get any more good tightenings, though did get a bit of a gush. So I decided to go get checked. Since I didn't think I was actually in labor, I went to get a really good burger. As we sat down, oooweeee good hit with one good strong one. That made me feel better, because maybe this could be the day.
Went home got all the boys packed up and sent them with my mother.
When I got in to labor and birth they checked me and said that it was negative, and my waters had not broke. Though on the strip it showed I was surging very regularly, so they admitted me. First of all what a great new ward. Loved it.
They came in and told me that there was one problem that they saw with my birth plan. I guess because of a previous hemorrhage they would have to start a line for me just in case. Which actually I was fine with because of my very rare blood, there could be only seconds for them if thing got bad.
So as I settled in to my new home and went to the bathroom and in the toilet was a big amount of foggy substance in the toilet. Which we all though weird since the test came back negative!
The Dr came in and started in saying that he was going to break my waters and start me on the drip. I just looked at him like uh…. NO!! I was ok with him breaking my waters cause really at this point I was tired of my body stalling our all the time. I asked him if he was ok to just break my waters, he was cool with that and gave me 2 hrs to show change. WELL, there wasn't much waters to break, I just bled all over the place.
Though it did start some stronger surges. At the end of the 2 hrs I was positive that something was happening. I was using my hypobirthing as they were nice a strong and couldn't talk throughout them. The Dr came in and checked me ….. well no change! ARGH! Really? I was so mad. I should have had some change, but nothing. Grrrr Well the Dr mentioned to start a low dose of the drip. Well I was good with that but not without adding some other form of pain relief, as in the past the drip has ben horrible. So I said bring in the gas! Well here comes the nurse in and said they were out of gas. Well I just looked at her and said then you better give me the epi, cause there was no way I was doing it without it.
I had a great anethiatist (? spell) who only put it in and didn't hock up the actual drip, so I was given the absolutely the minimum. Which was told would last about an hour.
So I was given the minimum of the centocin and epi, and it sent me rolling and with in 1.5 hrs I went from 4cm to 10cm. I didn't even notice that the epi wore off either. All I knew was that my ass hurt, my left ass cheek was in so much pain. Worse then labor. It was horrible. I was delivering on my side. Then they moved me to my other side, I went deep into myself. Didn't even open my eyes just tried to concentrate. Once I was ready I pushed for about 20 min. I started to crown and they called the Dr and I right said nope not going to wait for no dr, as I was going to have him now, and my nurse delivered him. Somewhere in there someone asked her if he was faced a certain way, and she replied that "yes but he turn himself and faced the right way in the end". My DH doesn't remember if he noticed anything but remembers the convo. I was very proud of myself of how well I breathed through it all. I was a lot more alert this time when we were done, and so was my baby! Exactly what I wanted. Oh and no stitches!!
We were then after cleaned up sent into our new mom and baby ward, which each person now has their own room. So much better than sharing a room with three other mothers.
Nursing started off well, but he was at the boob all the time, which caused me to be very chapped. It didn't help that he was so mucusy. Then as we were expecting to discharged, found out our little man was sick. His billy numbers were really high for a one day old baby. So we spent all day under the lights, and supposed to be under them all night, but because of how often he was eating, he spent all night attached to me. He level were not improved enough and he was getting close to losing more then the 10% and was not having very many wet diapers. So we were told we would have to spend the rest of that day with a billy blanket and lights. This way aloud him to nurse and continue his treatment. Well that helped and were told as long as he gained weight by morning we would be allowed to go home. Well by last night my milk came in so he went up in weight and thank goodness I got some sleep.
We are finally home!! And now he is sleeping way more. It is weird.
Zander is so amazing!! Seriously in love with him!!
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Everyone is a bit wound up because of their mini vacation at gma's and gpa's. This morning I was woken with screaming and yelling and running all over the house. Not normal for this house hold.
My milk is in so I am very swollen and sore, not to mention my Reynauds pain, so loads of burning. Good for Zander though cause he is gaining really well. The health nurse came by and took his last (hopefully) bili, and when she weighed him she was very surprised by his weight gain so far. So he is doing wonderfully!! Believe me I know because I am seriously
My milk is in so I am very swollen and sore, not to mention my Reynauds pain, so loads of burning. Good for Zander though cause he is gaining really well. The health nurse came by and took his last (hopefully) bili, and when she weighed him she was very surprised by his weight gain so far. So he is doing wonderfully!! Believe me I know because I am seriously
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