Oh and yes I am getting to the point where the movements baby makes are getting painful. I love having an active healthy baby, trust me! But my insides feel worn out.
We are having an ongoing disagreement about whether or not heels should be placed in ribs...
LOL. Autumn was way up in my ribs while also being way down low in my pelvis. I'm short and she was long and it was painful. However with Hannah, I just carried her SO low so she never really got into my ribs but I had some nasty SPD-type stuff going on & it caused me to go on medical leave several months before I was due. I already feel it starting up again and I'm not too happy about that lol.
Sooooo cute Amanda! I hope to document well with pictures.. Gotta get a nice camera from Santa though
I'm totally checking out the one you have. Any recommendation on a good one under $500? My dad always had Nikons and said they're good but I just want something that is NOT a digital camera lol and have no idea how to work all the crazy stuff. Although I really want a panorama lens or setting or w/e, I love those pics.
Thanks!! I wish I'd had a better camera when Autumn was little but oh well. I have it now. I have a Canon Rebel T3i and I'd recommend it in a heartbeat. Even just shooting it on auto-mode and not messing with all the functions would give good pictures but I believe it was $600. I don't remember... we got it with our tax return this year and added some insurance to it and then with taxes it came to like $700-800.
Canon Powershots are good cameras. That's what I had before this one. It's a little point-and-shoot digital camera but very user-friendly I think. I prefer Canon over Nikon personally (and my first DSLR was a Nikon lol.)
I had an all-natural labor at a hospital and wouldn't have changed a thing. They were wonderful and I never felt pressured into anything. I labored at home for 5 days. Yes, 5 days... it was "pre-labor" but by the 5th day I was pretty ready to get the show on the road. Finally on Saturday my mucus plug came out, and then my water broke at like 12 or 1 in the morning on Sunday (and it was a huge gush, not a little leak...). I got to the hospital 3 cms dialted at like 2 in the morning, but he was born at 7:50 AM. So getting to 3 cms took FOREVER! But once my water broke and labor started in was between 6-8 hours, which is really not bad. I went from 7-cms in one hour! It was intense... but I have no reservations about doing it all over again! I hope it goes just as well as the first time.
My first, I was in pre-labor for 3 days or so and on Sunday evening I did a lot of walking & squats (I was only dilated to a 1 at this point, 12 days early), had sex around 2:30am and then at 3am had my first contraction. Got to the hospital around 8am and was told I was 4cm, 90% effaced, station -1 and having my baby that day. They broke my water around 10am, started Pitocin slight after and around 4:45 or so it was time to start pushing. She was born at 5:23pm. I didn't know how to push and it was taking forever. They almost wanted to use the vacuum to get her out but I said "hell no" and just beared down with all I had.
With Hannah I was admitted to L&D 15 days before my due date to be monitored because I was having regular contractions but they weren't changing my cervix enough over the course of 2 hours so I was sent home. I was 2cm at this point. The next day we walked a lot, did lots of squats, sex, etc. That evening and night I felt like my waters were leaking. Nothing crazy but I definitely felt some wet action going on down there that felt more than normal. I was having really bad back pains as well. Talked to the on-call OB who sent me to L&D just to be safe and the nurse that swabbed my pantyliner (for fluids) said it was probably just normal increased discharge you get at the end of pregnancy & that my pantyliner tested negative for my waters but the L&D OB swabbed inside me anyway. Around 1am she walks back in and says "It was positive for your waters, you're going to be admitted." I was in such shock because they sent me home just the night before and I asked the nurse, "So this means I'm not leaving until I have my baby?" LOL. I mean, you have to deliver within 24 hours of your water leaking/breaking but I still couldn't believe it. When they checked me, I was 3cm and like 100% effaced. She was sunny-side up so I had nasty back labor and got the epidural around 4am. The leak was a slow/high leak so my labor kept stalling out and they were talking c-section until they had another doctor come in around 2 or 3pm to check me. So she checks me and she goes, "Um... there's another bag of waters that hasn't yet been broken." So they broke my water and before we knew it I was 10cm and ready to go. LUCKILY I was given the best piece of advice this time... push like you're pooping... so that's what I did and I pushed for maybe 15 minutes and she was born at 5:45pm. The doctor and nurse kept going on & on about how great I was at pushing which really helped and I make sure I pass that tip along to everyone I know in labor lol.
