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WELCOME TO THE WORLD SOFIA MARIA!
My birth story.... (I will try to keep it short and sweet)
Original due date: August 20th. Went to the doctor on July 29th and was told I was still long and closed - no where near labor.
DH & I spent all weekend preparing for our LO. We cleaned out our "storage room" to make room for the nursery. I put all of the baby's clothes in the closet, organized baby care items, etc... Before gonig to bed Sunday night, I tell DH that I now am starting to feel ready to have this baby!
I wake up at 4am Monday morning, having to go to the bathroom... nothing out of the ordinary EXCEPT that as soon as I go to the bathroom, I wet myself. Still feeling the urge to go,
I sit and finish. I start crying that I wet myself. DH hears me and comes to see if I'm ok. I clean myself off and get into bed.... oh wait, why am I sitll leaking? Could my water have broken? I go back to the bathroom where I see that I'm leaning a pink-ish fluid. DH and I call my doctor... he tells me it's nothing to worry about. It's probably just my cervix opening up but just to be safe, go to labor and delivery. He says to take my time, take a shower, pack a bag and he will see me in the morning....
As I'm showering, I begin to feel a dull pain in my lower back... is this a contraction or am I just sore from all the cleaning and moving we did this weekend? To be ont he safe side, DH & I begin to time them.... 10 minutes.... 5 minutes.... 10 minutes.... 20 minutes.... the don't seem regularly spaced apart to me. Maybe this isn't labor. I'm probably being a hypochondriac....
5:30 - I notice the light on next door (my mom lives there) so I call my mom to tell her I'm off to L&D but that it's probably nothing. Mom is ecstatic! I hope I didn't get her hopes up for nothing.... I sit at the kitchen table to eat breakfast. DH left the window shades open last night - the phone rings. It's my mom. "Why are you eating? Get you a$$ over to L&D." I finish up breakfast and DH & I leave the house. My mom is waiting outside to wish us luck. She gives me a big hug and puts her necklace of a patron saint around my neck. DH & I drive to NSUH - the dull pain in my back is getting a little stronger.... 7 minutes apart...... We drive to the hospital.... DH asks if this means we can't have sex for a while. I want to slap him, lol.
6:45 - get admitted into the hospital. I tell the girl that it's probably a false call. I contemplate calling into work sick....
7:00 - on the exam table... hooked up to a monitor.... I'm told my contractions are 2 to 3 minutes apart.... Seriously? Wow! I call out from work....
8:30 - Resident finally comes in to check if my water broke. Yes, it did and I am 1 1/2" dialated. I am in labor... time to take me to the delivery room... Doctor walks in to room. Wait, it's not the doc I was expecting - I went to JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL with this doctor!! Oh no - is SHE going to deliver my baby???? She tells me that it's time to start the pictocin! WHAT?!?!?! I dont think so! I tell her I want to wait - she says she will give me 2 or 3 hours but not much longer because my contractions are close but I'm not dialated much.
9:00 - In the delivery room.... now I am starting to feel contractions every 3 minutes.... the feel like menstrual cramps.... by 9:30 they're getting worse.... DH is holding my hand and calming me down. I ask to walk around a little bit.... I keep having to go to the bathroom. Nurse lets me up for the bathroom but I can't walk around the room. Grrrrrrr.....
10:00 - My mom arives with an Egg McMuffin & coffee for DH. DH & I asked her to be there with us. Unknown to me, he called her and asked her to bring him breakfast too! Typical DH.... Eating his Egg McMuffin as he passes me another ice chip. I am so thirsty!!! I let the ice chips melt and take a sip. I feel guilty that I'm drinking water - oh well! Contractions are starting to hurt.... Linda, my nurse is awesome! She might as well have slapped me across the face and told me to snap out of it and take control! "Look @ me. You are in control. This is your body - DO NOT give in to the pain. You can control it. Do not let it control you. You don't strike me as someone who likes to be controled. Why start now?" From that moment on, I took control.... deep breaths.... look at a focal point (why is there a stain on the curtain? gross!).... I ask DH to hold my lower abdomen during contractions. Having his hand there makes the pain more bareable. Deep breaths work - I didn't think they would.
11:00 - Something is happening. I feel lots of lower pressure and the urge to push. I tell Linda. It seems to soon for you to be ready to push she tells me. Because my water has broke they are hesitant to check how much I've dialated due to risk of infection. I tell her that I think it's time and need to be checked.... she goes to get the doctor.... 8 CM!!!!! Everyone is in disbelief! DH & my mom are ecstatic! We are all Hi-5ing eachother and cheering (yes, I know, we are corny!)
I feel like I am on top of the world! I can do this..... "Do you want an epidural?" Hmmm.... I start to get nervous & ask if I need it. I start to panic now... I'm told that at the rate I am going, it's now or never because the baby will be here in less than an hour... DH & my mom beg me to take it. "Don't be a hero" says my mom. "Do it for me baby" says DH... I decide to take it out of fear of the unknown. The contractions really aren't that bad - I CAN get through them, but will they get worse?
11:15 - anesthesiologist comes in.... putting in the epidural was more painful than the contractions. DH holds my hands as it is put in. Nurse tells him to step away from me or he will have to leave the room - LOL.... by 11:40 it's in. Doctor checks me out.... 10 CM!!!!! I'm told to wait for the epi to kick in before pushing...... I am told I'm having a contraction. I don't feel a thing - I'm laughing about it!
11:45 - doctor preps for delivery..... is my junior high school classmate REALLY going to deliver this baby?!?! This seems more like a strange dream than reality.... At this point, it doens't matter. I'm almost a mommy! I start pushing..... DH is holding up my leg... my mom is holding up my back.... everyone is cheering for me.....
Round one of pushes, I did pretty well..... Doctor tells me she sees a head of black hair.... Round 2, told I can push a little stronger, pull my legs in closer..... Round 3, I'm determined to get this baby out of me before lunch. I pull my legs and push with all my might. Doc tells me to keep pushing just like that! Doc lets me feel the baby's head as it's crowning. Wow, I feel hair! DH peeks down below(oh no he didn';t!) I tell him to stop looking!)..... Round 4, almost there.... one more set of pushes should do it..... nurse tells me to start laughing during my next set of pushes..... Round 5, i push and laugh.... I feel something coming out of me...DH is looking down - stop DH! You promised you wouldn't!!!.... I hear my daughter cry!! My mom is crying out "She's gorgeous! Look at her! She's perfect!" DH cuts the cord.... the nurse puts my daughter on me. DH & I are kissing and crying. I can't get my eyes of my little girl - she is beautiful!!! My mom is crying & tells me she didn't think she would ever live to see this day (my mom has been living with cancer for the past few years). Everyone is so emotional....  is perfect! Very alert. Eyes wide open, looking righ tat me! Bright red full lips! She stops crying as soon as she is placed on me. DH takes some pictures of her. I am so overwhelmed with emotion!!
Sofia Maria ~ born August 2, 2010 at 12:09 pm. ~ 5 lbs 7 oz ~ 18 1/2 inches ~ perfect in every way!
I am so in love with her!
Recovery went very well..... I was walking an hour after delivery. Only needed 1 stitch for the tearing..... Minimal discomfort down there - no need for pain killers. Nurses didn't believe I was up and about as much as I was during my hospital stay. I even wore jeans my 2nd day in the hospital (But only because I forgot to pack my sweats!). 1 week after delivery and I was back to my prepregnancy weight - but I feel very flabby around my belly. Slowly, it's all starting to firm up and flatten out but I still have a way to go. I was a little overweight before getting pregnant so I'm determined to lose more weight in the next few months.
Here is one of my princess' first pics from the delivery room: (Nurse Linda made the hat for her - I love it!)
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Message edited 8/12/2010 12:40:09 AM.
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Aristotelina
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Re: WELCOME TO THE WORLD SOFIA MARIA!
Oh my God Zev, I just cried reading that...and I'm still crying writing this. That was BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!
And Sofia Maria is absolutely GORGEOUS!!!!!!!! She doesn't look like a baby that came out naturally!!!! She looks so perfect!!! FTOU FTOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so happy for you!!!! What a beautiful story you will have to tell her!
and p.s. you had me LOL'ing when DH was looking "down there" hahahaha!
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