bekkie
Mommy Due Sept 20
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Cordelia Lynn Clarke was born yesterday, September 26 at 2:28 PM weighing 8lbs 4oz, 55cm long, with brown hair and blue eyes
Those of you that saw my last thread basically know how this goes, but for those interested in more details... here's her birth story
I was initially scheduled to be induced this morning... she had other ideas:
Thursday at 12:30 in the morning, my water broke - no contractions had started, which is how labour with DS started, so I was nervous. We went in to get monitored, and they asked if we wanted to be induced right away - we decided to go ahead and do that... so at about 2:45 I had the IV in and on pitocen.
I was feeling tightenings and really light contractions pretty quick, at about 7:15AM they became a lot more intense - still manageable.. It's amazing what breathing will do for you.
At 8:30AM my doctor came in and broke my hindwaters, which got things going a lot faster... by about 9:45 I decided it was time for the epidural. My experience with it this time was so much better... I could still move my legs and my feet, and I could tell when I was having a contraction, but I didn't have any pain.
I was dilating and progressing really well but she was not dropping. At about 2:00 my doctor came back and checked how things were going... reached in and felt that baby was back to back - so when a contraction came... I pushed... she rotated... and decided it was time to come out. 4 contractions later (3 sets of pushing with each one) and a total of about 15 minutes and she was on my chest.
For anyone else on team yellow for the first time - it was SOOOOOO worth the wait!!
We got to delay the cord clamping for a minute, I did have a first degree tear and a bit of stitching but nothing major... held her and tried to nurse - she wasn't having any of it... she wanted to yell at us for a bit. They took her to do all the vitals and within the hour we were being transferred to our room - I was able to stand up and walk to the wheelchair, and to the washroom... and was off the IV 4 hours later.
Cordelia latched on within an hour after being born and has been a natural ever since... we spent our entire first night co-sleeping, cuddling and nursing and it was fantastic.
DS is very excited to have a baby sister, and we're happy to be home as a family now.
I can't get pictures uploaded from my ipad so I will have to add them once I have access to my computer.
maybe this link will work to one of them
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153371403910045&l=07a54b44b3
I will be watching for the rest of your birth stories
