LittleOnes
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Hey gals, thought I'd share my that was it/birth story thread.
At 34+1 I woke up at 4am to my waters leaking out fairly steadily, was swabbed at the hospital and cofirmed it was my waters. They wanted to induce but I was looking for other options. Doc agreed to wait until 35w for the induction if I stayed in the hospital on IV antibiotics for that week. Spent the week on modified bed rest, chugging water like you wouldn't believe, on IV antibiotics, and getting daily sonograms to monitor the fluid levels around baby. Luckily we found out through some tests that his lungs were mature, and I had managed to replenish a good amount of fluid - went from 2/2.5 in the first two days up to 7 and 8.
35 weeks came and I went down to another floor to be induced around 9:30pm and the induction would begin with cytotec to ripen cervix (was already 1cm dilated and a bit effaced, probably from all that amniotic fluid leaking out over the course of a week) and would typically follow with pitocin.
In the end it started tough but ended beautifully - took first dose of cytotec at 12midnight and nothing happened, second dose around 3am and had what I thought were contractions but were 'uterine irritability', third and final dose at 6am and soon after was having contractions coming fast and intensely (as we know so many induced contractions do!) and I was reaching my limit after a couple hours of that and considering an epidural thinking I needed sleep so badly! Luckily my midwife came and checked - after 2 hours of contractions I had gone from 1-2cm to 6-7cm!! That was the second wind I needed (with encouraging words from DH too) and I decided to go on without the epidural.
Literally an hour and fifteen minutes later at 9:13am on April 19th little Jackson Thomas was born after maybe 20 minutes of pushing among less than 3 and a half hours of active labor. My midwife and DH were total rockstars getting me through the worst of it. I had a very small tear, only a couple stitches, and those post-birth hormones are amazing - I felt like the BOMB after he had come out
So here he is, Jax, born 5 lbs 4 oz and 19 inches long
shock
at 35 weeks. He's staying in the NICU because of his age and the PPROM, but is already doing some breastfeeding and we hope to go home tomorrow.
At 34+1 I woke up at 4am to my waters leaking out fairly steadily, was swabbed at the hospital and cofirmed it was my waters. They wanted to induce but I was looking for other options. Doc agreed to wait until 35w for the induction if I stayed in the hospital on IV antibiotics for that week. Spent the week on modified bed rest, chugging water like you wouldn't believe, on IV antibiotics, and getting daily sonograms to monitor the fluid levels around baby. Luckily we found out through some tests that his lungs were mature, and I had managed to replenish a good amount of fluid - went from 2/2.5 in the first two days up to 7 and 8.
35 weeks came and I went down to another floor to be induced around 9:30pm and the induction would begin with cytotec to ripen cervix (was already 1cm dilated and a bit effaced, probably from all that amniotic fluid leaking out over the course of a week) and would typically follow with pitocin.
In the end it started tough but ended beautifully - took first dose of cytotec at 12midnight and nothing happened, second dose around 3am and had what I thought were contractions but were 'uterine irritability', third and final dose at 6am and soon after was having contractions coming fast and intensely (as we know so many induced contractions do!) and I was reaching my limit after a couple hours of that and considering an epidural thinking I needed sleep so badly! Luckily my midwife came and checked - after 2 hours of contractions I had gone from 1-2cm to 6-7cm!! That was the second wind I needed (with encouraging words from DH too) and I decided to go on without the epidural.
Literally an hour and fifteen minutes later at 9:13am on April 19th little Jackson Thomas was born after maybe 20 minutes of pushing among less than 3 and a half hours of active labor. My midwife and DH were total rockstars getting me through the worst of it. I had a very small tear, only a couple stitches, and those post-birth hormones are amazing - I felt like the BOMB after he had come out
So here he is, Jax, born 5 lbs 4 oz and 19 inches long
shock at 35 weeks. He's staying in the NICU because of his age and the PPROM, but is already doing some breastfeeding and we hope to go home tomorrow.
your baby boy is beautiful 
