Monday, March 28, 2011
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Baby!
So... I had our baby! He came five days early, on Saturday March 5, 2011 at 10:18 pm. He was 8 lbs. 3 oz., and was 21 inches long. He was perfect!
We had a time getting him here though! It took a total of 32 hours- that's long even for a first baby! The day before, I had gone into labor at about 2:30 pm, and by 12:30 am I finally went into the hospital because the contractions were becoming increasingly painful. When I arrived I was dilated to about 2.5 cm and 100% effaced, but after watching me for an hour, I hadn't progressed at all, so they sent me home. What a letdown! Then at about 3 am, my contractions were coming 2-5 minutes apart, and becoming even more painful, but I waited until 10:30 am before I went back in. This time I was 3 cm, (all those painful contractions had barely done anything!) and they said they'd watch me for another hour. After an hour, I was only 3.5 cm, but they said I could walk around for an hour and see if that helped before they sent me home again. So I did, and after that I was at 4 cm, and that was finally enough for them, thank heavens! By now the contractions were every 2-3 minutes, and were very painful! This was apparently partly due to the fact that our little guy was posterior, and was having a hard time moving downward. So then they officially admitted me, and gave me an epidural which was AMAZING! For the rest of the afternoon, I rested, read, catnapped (sort of) and tried not to get over-excited that our baby was finally coming.
Finally at around 7 pm, after now having been awake for 36 hours, and having eaten only tiger's blood-flavored ice chips in the last 8 hours, it was time to push. So push I did...for 3 hours. Gah! Amy did some massaging of my abdomen to help the baby turn, which he did very soon after. After about an hour, I started to have the most horrible round ligament pain between contractions. The contractions were actually a relief because the pain I'd have in between was even more intense. Amy was a trooper and for the next couple hours stretched out my leg (which was still asleep) between every contraction to help ease the pain. Then after about an hour of hearing, "you're almost there!" we finally were there, and out popped our little Edward, looking cute as a button and screaming his lungs out. He was very strong and healthy and perfect.
We feel so lucky that there were no serious complications! What a relief to be able to say that. And that is the end of our birth story! :)
P.S. This video is of Eddie having the hiccups- so cute!!
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