I finally have a Feb bub!!!! she is awesome, so placid and perfect in everyway!
Lisa - so sorry to ruin your perfect baby sex guessing record you were on a roll! I think I secretely wanted a girl but didn't really expect to get one! Benji said I was shocked when they told me she was a she!
My labour story is not how I would have liked and I feel a little cheated and cry a little bit when I think about it but the result was perfect I'm just extra sore for a while.
(here it is I guess i should have put it in the birth stories, maybe i will later)
I woke up on Saturday morning 3am with a show, felt pains basically straight away 15mins apart then quickly turned to 10 mins apart and they were all intense... (benji has been rubbing my back the whole time) at 5am i phoned the hospital and they told me it was prelabour but that would be seeing me today so that was exciting to know i was not getting "stuffed around" with fake labour as heaps of girls i know have lately!! At 8.30 I was 3-5 mins apart and very intense (benji still rubbing my back), rang the hospital and they said to come in even though i was only timing them being about 30secs long they said i was probably just feeling the peaks of the contractions.
Got the neighbours to feed the dogs and rang my Mum so she could prepare herself to drive to the hospital sometime that day.
Got to hospital at 9.45am and was 4cm, laboured until about 1.30 and was only 6cm (benji still rubbing my back) which i thought sucked but the midwife said that was better than she thought... she then broke my waters to try and progress things along. Then the contractions got more and more intense so about 2pm I said "tell me about the gas..." by about 3pm I said "whats the story with pethadine?" meanwhile Jemima's heartbeat is doing all sorts of weird things dipping up and down at one stage when they rolled me on my side it dipped ALOT a scary lot a scary enough for a couple more midwives a lot so we started to wonder what was going on....
The pain was mainly in my back so after being told i still had a long way to go I asked for an epidural (i am so glad i did) that was 4pm (benji exhausted but still rubbing my back) as I remember getting told it would take at least 30mins..... the epidural guy was a weird russian dude that talked to much i have no idea what he said but it worked, i couldnt feel a thing but Jemima's heartbeat kept going UP and DOWN and up up up and down down down which we made a lighter point by saying when it was over 150 it was a girl and under it was a boy.... noone had any idea what was happening.
By 7pm they phoned the OBS (which was not my normal guy it was his stand in that I did not like - she ended up being good though) they came back and said when she got here she would most likely recommend a c-section and that I should get used to the idea, so I did, I wanted my baby out and alive!
By 7.30 my parents were in the building i had rung them at 6.30 and told them to come in anyway even though baby was a while away so by 7.30 i was ringing them again saying i need you now they are going to cut the baby out
At 7.30 they were there for a couple of minutes and then they wheeled me away.
I have never been more scared in my whole entire life, I was so frightened something would go wrong with my baby, i mean we had the perfect baby belly buddy thread what are the chances all 7/8 of us had perfect babies??? this is what was going through my mind....
the feeling of a c-section is so so weird quite an experience but in a way i feel cheated i dont know what it feels like to give birth "naturally" feeling like someone big and fat is jumping on top of you may feel better than trying to push watermelon out, I may never know.
The cord was wrapped around her neck twice, if i had tried to deliver naturally i dread to think what may have happened.
they said she was a girl and I got a quick peek (benji got to peak when they were pulling her out) and I said she was my little Jemima, then I checked with benji if that he was still ok with the name...
They took her away (i was already a little prepared for this as when they broke my waters there was meconium in it and they had said she would need to be checked straight away and then of course more so with c-section and cord problems)
Benji got to cut the cord closer to her belly and then i got to hold her all wraped up and so all i got to see was her perfect little face but it sealed the deal on calling her Jemima Alice she is so pretty, beautiful eyelashes and really long hair and fingers (i saw those after)
Benji and Jemima then left to be cleaned up while they were sewing me up.
While they were sewing me up they saw a mole on my belly that had been bothering me and the Obs offered to remove it - this was very exciting as I knew it had to go so I said YES (it now hurts more than the other wound!) so that was cool.....
In recovery I wanted to know the stats, when they said she was 57cm long I was like "yes!!" as sister in law's baby was 56cm heheehe if anything though this is going to make buying clothes and one day for the poor thing shoes more difficult! I guess she is going to take after her father who is 6 foot 4!
Benji looked so cool dressed up as a scrubs doctor, we have a whole heaps of photos of "Dr Wylie" I cry when I think about everything as it was so perfect in the end but I am still confused about how i feel about a lot of it.
Jemima is on day 5 right now and so far perfect, I am still waiting for an unsettled time that lasts more than 2 minutes, I am still waiting for her to do anything 'wrong' she has been so placid and relaxed and so so pretty, Benji and I have truely been blessed to have her!
I am very very sore and made it a little worse getting her out of the back of my beetle so benji will have to do that until i am healed and not being able to drive etc for 6 weeks is going to annoy me because of the last couple of weeks when my feet were so swollen i couldnt drive.
My room was so nice and had an awesome view so Jemima and I could just sit back and relax looking at the city and the story bridge it was perfect and private.
I had some interesting midwives in the hospital I really hated some of them, i've decided 2 out of 3 midwifes are bitc*hes the couple of nice ones i had though really reassured me i was doing the right thing.
She feeds incredibly well she sculls it down, which suits me fine no stuffing around! Her discharge weight today was more than her birth weight which is apparently very rare she only lost 120grams on day 3 and put it all back on and more in the last 2 days. Midwives said I was a good cow... nice.
I cant believe how the milk goes everywhere though! Poor Jemima gets it all over her face! Or today i was trying to put my nickers on and i was beant over so my milk was spraying on my nickers!!! geez louise!!!
when i got home benji had made a sign that says "welcome home jemima and kelly love benji, clyde, kingston and felicty"
how is everyone else going???
Michele congrats on Isabella
Nat congrats on Beau
all these stories of nipples in despair are scaring me just a little!!! and sleepless nights are scary too so far Jemima wakes up at 12, 3/4 and then 7 which suits me fine we go to bed about 10.30 will see what she is like at home........
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