This is the longest birth story yet. I always heard from everyone that each labor is faster than the previous. Mine went in the opposite order. I was going to pull out some pictures and put them at the end but Liam is almost 6 months old so I'm just going to post this.
Friday night around 2 AM a contraction woke me up. I wasn't 100% sure that's what it was. But then throughout the night I was woken up at least a half dozen times with contractions. Then throughout Saturday I had at least one an hour or so. I started timing them at 10AM just so I could see what it was like.
They were so spread out.
Then near 8 PM they got more intense and way closer together. I had 11 in 1 hour and almost went downstairs to call the doctor how you are supposed to but decided to try to sleep a little. Once asleep, I was just waking up about every hour with contractions. So I either slept through them or didn't have them. I did nap in the afternoon on Saturday and Dave commented about my long contraction that I didn't even remember so I could have slept through a ton.
They can be pretty painful and strong. Other times not as strong.
Sunday morning I deleted the data from the app and just stopped marking them down thinking it was ridiculous. I started again near 2 PM.
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| still pregnant |
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| contractions app |
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| still pregnant photo |
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| I didn't get to cleaning up this mess while in labor. |
Finally I figured the contractions were close enough together to go in. But instead of going right in when I was hungry, I decided to eat dinner first. I texted with Beth so had her head over. Then when she was on her way I figured the house shouldn't be as much of as disaster as it was. I unloaded the dishwasher. Dave actually helped. I didn't get the kitchen table cleaned off before leaving.
We were about to head out the door and I ask Dave if he has his laptop. He doesn't remember why or that he had one last time. I said there are hours to kill and last time he watched Twitch TV. So then he had to go get his laptop before we left.
7:37 PM - got to the hospital (talk about living close). Dave actually dropped me off at the door this time and he went to park himself. (Last time he parked and I walked in from the car parked way in the back of the lot.)
7:47 PM - They checked to see if I would stay or go home. I was 6cm dilated.
I had to do paperwork and stuff.
The back pain for 6 weeks made me want one!
Getting the epidural, he was like this will pinch /hurt for like 3 seconds. This or that. I forget what he said. But then it barely hurt. It was nothing like the back pain agony I was in. He gave me props for not flinching or anything. It was not bad at all. Hahaha
How epidurals work is different than it was last time. I have a dosage but then if it starts to hurt you hit a button and it gives you more. You can not get too much because it will only give you extra every 15 min. I was in so much less pain than last time.
It kicked in near 8:50
Felt contractions 9:05 so gave myself more
9:48 PM I got Pitocin. They said it was at at 1 level so it was ok even though I had a previous c-section. I was always told you couldn't induce when you had a previous c-section. The contractions had slowed so they gave me Pitocin. They were every 7 min or so and before they were every 2 min. The nurse said she didn't feel the bag of water so she assumed it broke already and nobody noticed. I had asked and they set the Pitocin to 1 but the normal dosage would be 5 or if it was a new labor it'd be 30.
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| wonder why I took this pic |
Dave: Why do you always want to know your BP? It’s always the same
Me: They keep retaking it so I want to see if it changes
135/75
11:10 The OB came in. He wanted to check water. He felt it during a contraction so realized it had not actually broken earlier. He broke the water. He said I was 7.5 cm, almost 8. They set the Pitocin to 2. They had the nurse change over. Now there are 2 nurses. They tilted me weird saying I couldn't be flat on my back the entire time. I didn't like the tilt. The nurses also said to sleep before I start pushing.
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| 11:12 PM |
11:26 They said I was complete or something and ready to push.
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| 11:33 PM |
I pushed the first push but didn't remember how to push. I was asking the nurse. I swear she said to do it differently than the last time but who knows. I didn't do it the way she said the first time. The second contraction I pushed better but still didn't even do a good real push yet because I couldn't seem to manage to push and hold my breath like they were saying. I was trying to figure out how to hold my breath and push and his head was sticking out. They said I did so well and he was almost out. I didn't believe it but then saw the head in the reflection in the doctors glasses. I reach down and felt the head! Then It was either 3 contractions I pushed on or 4. I think 4 counting the first one that I didn't even push at all.
We did skin to skin immediately.
Liam's stats!
- 21 inches long
- 3630 grams - 8 lb 0 oz
- 30.5 cm abdomen
- 35 cm head circumference
- 99.7 initial body temp
- 8 9 on Apgar scale
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| 12:07 AM |
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| 12:28 AM |
12:26 - temperature 98.9
Around 12:30 Dave left to get home so that Beth could leave and go to her house. He didn't get to stay long but it was better that Beth could get to her house since her husband leaves for work so early in the morning. Right after he left, I asked Gio if she was coming. She wanted to come but I figured it was too late at night. She came right over and got to my room at 12:50. I was in room 4.
At one point they had some specialist or something come down to check Liam's breathing. The nurse just wanted it checked out to make sure it was OK. The specialist said it was fine.
2 am I moved rooms (159).
The nurse told me that if he was born 12 min later, I would have had an extra day in hospital.
The nurses were asking questions to fill out paperwork. They asked his name. Even though I told people he was born via text and hangout messages, I hadn't given the full name. The nurses asked and I said and then Gio told people before I did. We decided on his middle name while at the hospital. Even just thinking about it, I thought of his middle name but that was actually Miles's. Dave wanted to have his middle name be a scientist just like we did for Miles. In addition to that we thought Liam was so popular so we named him William with the nickname of Liam. Liam was the number 1 popular name for awhile and we thought it might be too common so we went with William. Later I learned William was the #3 name with Liam being #1 so clearly we didn't stay away from a popular name.
Gio left at 2:45 and while walking to her car she sent me the pictures she took while visiting. I can't believe she stayed so late. She got home at 2:54 since nobody is on the road at that hour!
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| 3:59 AM |
4:06 AM I Snacked. The nurses came in. I requested more snacks. Ate more then I decided I'd sleep. The baby was beside me versus in the nursery.
4:49 AM They removed my IV.
I slept 5-5:50 but it was broken up with the nurse interruptions (2x) and beeping machine.
6:05 I got out of bed to go to the bathroom. The nurses woke me to do that. I hate how they wake you so much and it's not like you are getting much sleep as it is.
10:20 AM - Liam had his hearing test.
I couldn't get first day photos because the photographer was not on site either of the days I was there.
Ella's Birth Story
Miles's Birth Story
Here are some more pictures.
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