Mid June and July Firecrackers Group Due June/July 2017!

[Girly922]

Congratulations Betty!

I'm super jealous of all you ladies going into labour at the moment! I'm feeling like I'm going to be pregnant forever! Lol. Good luck to you all!! I hope for speedy and complication-free deliveries for each of you

 

[DobbyForever]

Oh yes forgot to say congrats Betty!

 

[Flueky88]

Congrats mommas and I hope that pretty and gag are enjoying their LOs!!

 

[DobbyForever]

Oh yeah I'm in labor . At 9cm now

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

My little girl was born at 1:34am. She is absolutely perfect in every way. I labored for 13 hours and pushed for 25 minutes. She is the light of my life for sure. I'll post my birth story soon..

 

[DobbyForever]

Congrats!

 

[second.time]

Huge congrats, betty and gag, on your little girls! Sounds like you both had wonderful births.

Good luck, dobby! You didn't have to wait very long at all!

 

[PrettyInInk42]

Well, he's here.

At 5am on July 19th, I got my first cramp/contraction. At 8am, my water started to break. At 9am, my mucous plug started to go. I went to the hospital at about 4pm after labouring at home for a while. I was 2-3cms when I got there, so I walked around the grounds. I went back a couple hours later and was still only about 3cms. I walked around a bit more, but they admitted me at 8pm cuz my water had already been broken for 12 hours at that point. I got checked a couple more times over the next few hours, walked the halls, tried the whirlpool, but only made it to 4cms at about midnight. I was told the OB on call wanted to start me on pitocin and I was already having painful contractions every 2-3 mins, so I didn't think I could deal with it for another several hours. I decided to get the epidural, and I'm not too pissed at myself. 19 hours of painful labour was more than enough. Within 4 hours of getting the epi and pitocin, I was fully dilated, but they wanted to wait for the head to come down more, so everyone (BD, my mom, and my friend from out of town, and I) caught a couple hours of sleep.

I pushed for about an hour and a half and then, at 7:54am on July 20th, Alexander John Ewing [BD's last name] was born weighing 8lbs, 20 inches long. I know I tore and got stitches on both sides, but I'm sure how many.

He's been a pretty good baby so far. He's good at BFing, loves to take long naps, and enjoys being a quiet spectator of his surroundings.

 

[Girly922]

Huge congrats gag and pretty!

Hope all is going well dobby!

When's it my turn??

 

[DobbyForever]

Details to come but Baby Aiden was born 7/21 at 9:17pm after 11.5 hours of labor and 9.5 at the hospital. He's small so having issues with blood sugar, so supplementing with formula. But the bright side is we have so far avoided nicu.

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Details to come but Baby Aiden was born 7/21 at 9:17pm after 11.5 hours of labor and 9.5 at the hospital. He's small so having issues with blood sugar, so supplementing with formula. But the bright side is we have so far avoided nicu.

Congrats!

 

[Girly922]

Congratulations Dobby!

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

So here's a quick run down on my little princess Peyton Ruth. On Wednesday my parents came into town and that evening my cat was acting extra strange. She wouldn't leave my side and when we all went to bed she started howling like a banshee, so I went into the living room and slept on the couch with her. Well I woke up Wednesday morning and my back was pretty sore on the left side and I thought it had to be from the way I was sleeping as well as being very crampy again. Well I was getting ready for my appointment at 9:30 to check my blood pressure and decided to go shower. I ended up having to pee before my shower and when I wiped there was blood. I came out and asked my step dad (who's an obgyn) about it and he said "that's great you're probably in labor).. so I called my doctors office and the nurse told me to keep my appointment and go on in... So I got into the shower and then noticed my cramps were getting more intense and they were about 6 minutes apart. So I got out of the shower and called back the office and they told me to just go to L&D. In the meantime my mother already called my husband to tell him he should probably come back home from work. So my husband walks in, we hop in my car and my parents take my husbands car and we head to the hospital. We get to the hospital around 10am and head to triage and the on call doctor checks me and I'm 4.5Cm dilated so of course they aren't sending me home. About two hours later we get into a laboring suite and get settled. The doctor in my practice that was on call comes in and checks me.. she said everything was looking great and asked how I was feeling.. the contractions were about 5-6 minutes apart and not to bad. So she comes back around 2:30 and checks me again and I hadn't progressed so she decided to break my water and told me there was very light muconium when she broke my water so the pediatrician would have to be in there when I delivered. I went ahead and requested the epidural because I had a feeling things were about to pick up.. so about twenty minutes later the anesthesiologist came in and explained the epidural to me. As I'm hunched over to get it I started having pretty intense contractions. My husband was holding my hand and we hear glass shatter.. well the anesthesiologist dropped the needle. Then my husband tells the nurse he's feeling faint all the while I'm having a second contraction trying to remain still. They give him juice and crackers and sit him down and then the nurse takes over. The epidural finally went in and they put me on my side. I feel nothing now and by this time my parents have come back. At around 5pm the new doctor comes in (he's my regular gyno too) and checks me and I'm still only 4.5. since my water was broken they decided to start me on pitocin to get me to progress because my contractions had spaced out and labor kind of stalled. So they started me on 2 pitocin and installed a catheter monitor to see how intense my contractions were.. well the first one didn't work so they put a second one in.. well my contractions started back again. By 11:30pm I was at 8 cm. The doctor checks me again and sure enough I was 9cm so he tells me he's really happy with things but the baby was looking to the side and needed to come down more. So they put the peanut ball between my legs and gave it to around 1am because my legs were so numb from the epidural I got banned from the button to press for more meds. They came back to check me and I was at 10cm. So she was still looking sideways so the doctor told me we are going to try practice pushes because sometimes that can turn the baby facing down like we wanted it to be. So we tried three practice pushes and sure enough I had managed to turn her. Well then we did three more sets of pushes and the nurse looked shocked and picked up her phone and called the Pediatrician and told them shockingly I was moving her down with every push and they needed to come right away. I gave another couple of pushes and I literally started crying because my legs were numb, my belly was numb, but my vagina wasn't numb and I could feel everything and it hurt so bad. The nurse told me the head was already pretty much right there and I can do it. So about three more sets of pushes and the doctor goes "well she is crowning and you did a great job but now I need to get my work clothes on". So he suits up and I give two more sets of pushes and her head is out.. but her heart rate dropped and they tell me immediately to push again which I did and put comes her shoulders and the rest of her. They cut the cord immediately and hand her off to the pediatrician to check out. Took a second but she started to cry after they suction everything and I just start balling. After checking her out they tell me she has a slight fever so they need to take her to the NICU triage and monitor her fever. Then they took mine and I had a slight fever too. About twenty minutes later my doctor delivers the placenta and then tells me I have a slight level one posterior tear and will need three stiches inside and a few small tears in the front they won't even stich up. So they get me all fixed up and I get to hold my little girl. She latched and breastfed for about fifteen minutes and then they took her to the nicu. She is currently there on antibiotics and Im pumping every two hours to try and get production going. She was really fussy today and I'm going to try and get her to latch today as we've had to supplement with formula since I'm not really producing anything yet.. I'm in love though.

 

[Weebles]

Thanks for sharing gagrl! Looks like your pelvis injury wasn't an issue at all, woo hoo! I'm glad your DD is doing well but I know how hard it is to have a baby in the NICU.. and how draining the visit pump visit pump schedule is. Hopefully she's discharged as soon as she finishes up those antibiotics.

Congrats Dobby! Can't wait to hear your story as well.

I have some catching up to do on this thread, I'm sure I've missed an announcement or too.

 

[Weebles]

Congrats Betty!

And congrats Pretty! Alex (name: yay!) is adorable but looks humongous to me! My preemie 7 week old daughter daughter is just now normal newborn size. I've only ever had preemies so when I see other newborns I always feel like they are giants. I hope you heal quickly!

 

[second.time]

Wow, so much to catch up on! Congratulations, pretty, he's very handsome! And I'm glad you ended up with a name you like. He sounds like a sweet, mellow baby.

Dobby, congratulations on your little one! I hope his blood sugar issues resolve quickly.

Gag, that's a wonderful birth story. I hope her NICU stay is short and that the transition to BFing goes smoothly. It always took several days post-birth for my supply to truly come in.

 

[lesondemavie]

Charlie Joan born 7/22 at 4 am, 7lbs 8oz, 18" long



It was a long 38 hours from when contractions started for me on 7/20, but a relatively easy labor. In the end, I pushed for just 45 minutes from the practice pushes to delivery with down time between! Waiting to meet our new nurse, but then rest for us all.

Girly - Charlie was born at 41+4. It felt like forever waiting for baby, but she's finally here! Your time will come, and hopefully sooner than that since this is your second.

 

[ALiKO]

Hey Everyone! :wave:

My baby boy Hiro was born 7/18 at 3:06am, 6lbs 13oz and 19 inches long. I was in labor for a total of 7hrs. So glad it's all over. I couldn't be happier with my little bundle.

 

[ALiKO]

Congratulations everyone! Your babies are so cute ! You all did an awesome job!

 

[Flueky88]

Congrats wow what a busy week for babies being born. I hope everyone is recovering well and loving their babies