Christi85
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Oh Bug, I'm sorry you seem to be having a rough few days while still adjusting 
Things will definitely get better from now on
We've been dealing with an ant invasion in the house in the last couple of days, which isn't helped by the fact that we're having YET another heat wave in So Cal
We're hesitant to call an exterminator as I could be going into labor any day now, so we might not even be home to meet him, so DH has been spraying all around the house with moderate success, and we've been doing all we can on our own to keep them away, again with some but not total success. This has been stressful and upsetting and very time consuming, and I feel like it's the last thing I need right now (I'd been hoping to be completely relaxed to focus on caring for baby, breastfeeding and recovering from delivery whenever it happens, and I'm not sure this will be happening at this rate 
). In any event, I'm trying to keep calm and hoping things will get better as well 
On a different note, I'm officially overdue now (it's still 10pm here, but there's no way I'll be going into labor AND delivering in the next two hours, lol
)
Good luck tomorrow carebear! Keep us posted!
Things will definitely get better from now on We've been dealing with an ant invasion in the house in the last couple of days, which isn't helped by the fact that we're having YET another heat wave in So Cal
We're hesitant to call an exterminator as I could be going into labor any day now, so we might not even be home to meet him, so DH has been spraying all around the house with moderate success, and we've been doing all we can on our own to keep them away, again with some but not total success. This has been stressful and upsetting and very time consuming, and I feel like it's the last thing I need right now (I'd been hoping to be completely relaxed to focus on caring for baby, breastfeeding and recovering from delivery whenever it happens, and I'm not sure this will be happening at this rate ). In any event, I'm trying to keep calm and hoping things will get better as well On a different note, I'm officially overdue now (it's still 10pm here, but there's no way I'll be going into labor AND delivering in the next two hours, lol
)Good luck tomorrow carebear! Keep us posted!
I know I can be that way awhile but I'm still excited for progress. 
That's where things went south though. I did a few trial pushes with the nurse and baby's oxygen levels and heart rate went way down, as low as 60. Then they went back up. Then they decided to let me wait a bit longer, since baby was still at +1 station in the birth canal, so fairly high up still (+4 being the crowning stage). Half an hour later they got me pushing again and with the first 3 or so pushes it was obvious that the baby was in distress. Heart rate went way down again, and so did oxygen levels. The doctor came in to check the monitor and they weren't going back up. At some point they did rise to normal levels and then went down into the red zone again, at which point my doctor flat out told me that if I wanted to have this baby, I'd have to consent to an emergency c-section right there and then, otherwise the risk was too high for me to continue with a vaginal delivery. We basically had no choice. So they wheeled me to the OR and within minutes I was being cut open and the baby was there before we knew it. He was given a relatively poor initial APGAR score of 6, but 5 minutes later it had improved to 8, yet they still took him to the nursery for heart and oxygen monitoring for 2 hours. I'm kinda glad I was out of it due to all the medication they gave me, because otherwise it would have been terrifying (and it still was). DH went to the nursery with him and he told me the whole experience was very traumatizing for him. But anyway, all is well that ends well. Baby was deemed to be well enough to join us in our room after the initial nursery monitoring (in the beginning we were told that even the NICU was a possibility) and he's been doing well ever since. We were discharged yesterday after spending 4 nights at the hospital (terrible experience, but that's another story) and we've been trying to get a hang on breastfeeding and establish some sort of a routine at home. 
