Babies Born June 2007

Hello June Mummies!!!

Well I know that my little Mikayla was running late but seeing as she was only 13 hours into July I was wondering whether my dear dear June friends would be happy for us to stay :P

Hope this isnt too long but here is our story...

I first started having contractions on Thursday 28th June after finishing the big move into our new house. 2 more days passed and the contractions were still 15 minutes apart. I phoned the hospital at 1am on Sunday morning as the contractions were now unbearable. They were 5 minutes apart and lasting 3 minutes. I was told to come in for an internal to assess the progress. When we got to the hospital at 2am our OB already happened to be there with another patient and made a joke about him having been waiting 3 days for me to get there! He examined me to find that I was only still 3cm dialated and my cervix was still quite high. He organised a drip for 7am in the hope that things would happen naturally but wasnt very optimistic. The pain after the induction was excruciating and I opted for an epidural as I really wasnt coping with the pain at all. I didnt have any faith in the doctor who came in to give me the epi from the moment he walked into the delivery suite. He kept pointing out what could go wrong and trying to justify every movement he made which made me feel like he was waiting for something bad to happen. Well it did! First of all he said he couldnt find a gap in my spine to insert the canula - he kept asking me to curl up further into a ball - YEAH RIGHT - like thats possible with a hugely pregnant belly. Even the midwife was getting annoyed with him - telling him that there was no way I could curl up any further! When he finally found the spot and began inserting the epi I almost died!! The pain was incredible and to top it all off I was having strong contractions right the way through the process! I think I almost broke Matt's hand off trying to break through the pain barrier! Just when I thought it was over - he calmly explained that it hadnt gone in properly and he'd have to do it again!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE???? By the time he was finished I was wondering why I'd bothered and I was still feeling the pain because the epi had already worn off before he'd finished. After this was over my OB came back for another exam (approx 12noon) and said that the drip hadnt worked. I was still only 3cm dialated and my cervix seemed to be thickening up again. He told me that the monitors showed that bubs' heart rate was dropping and I had no option but to have a c-section which at this point I was welcoming! It took them 30mins to set things up and finally at 12.43pm our beautiful baby girl Mikayla Jaide come into the world!!

Words cant describe the feeling of happiness, excitement and relief that we both felt the moment she was born. Mikayla is the most precious and beautiful little human being I've ever set eyes on! All the sickness and discomfort of the last 9 months was completely forgotten when she was placed into my arms which I'm sure you all well know first hand!

Hope to catch up with everyone soon. Take care of those precious babies and of course yourselves! xxxx

Hello teepee 2

I am happy for you to stay in Mikayla was only 13 hours late LOL

It sounds like your labour was horrfiic. I couldn't imagine going through all that. I had Mackenzie in 2 1/2 hrs. My waters broke at home and I rang the hospital they told me to come in but they might send me home if I hadn't dialted. When they examined me I was 4 cm so they sent me up to the delivery suit. I thought it was going to take hours. The pain was so bad that Iasked for an epi. The midwife stuffed around and said it was to early for one. I was in so much pain that I beg my DH to go get her. The only thing she did was put the neddle in my arm ready for the drip. She gave me gas (which did nothing I might add). By this time my contractions are really close and full on. I had my best friend in there with me also along with my mum and sister. She decided to go out for a smoke and while she was gone I had this huge erge to push. My sister ran and got the midwife who said she is 10 cm start pushing. I said to the midwife um what about the epi and she said sorry its to late. I was not happy but in no state to argue with her. Well within 10 min Mackenzie was born. My best friend had missed it all!!!!
Cause Mackenzie had come so quickly my plecenta didn't come. They told me a hourmone is suppose to come and relaise it but didn't. They wait 2 hours and still nothing. They sent my up to theatre to get it removed. So after a drug free birth I get drugs to get the placenta out.

Mackenzie is 3 weeks old now and I can't imagine life without her now. She had another good night last night:)

Princessmya and charlyfrog how are your little ones? Have the stopped vomiting?

Thanks Danielle :D Mikayla was due on 24th June but she decided it was too warm in there and didnt want to come out on her own :P

I agree about the gas - all it did for me was make me feel sick - didnt take the edge off the pain at all!!!

Things are going pretty smoothly for us here. Mikayla sleeps very well - she wakes to feed every 3-5 hours but generally goes for 4hrs most of the time. I thought it would have been a whole lot harder to adjust but so far everything is going really well.

A few days after she was born, she was sent to the Special Care Unit because of jaundice. They had her under photosynthesis lights for about 30 hours which was heartbreaking because we had to leave her there for so long. Matt and I just sat in my hospital room on our own feeling lost. Even though we'd only had her for 48 hours we definitely felt her abscence. Both of us had tears rolling down our faces when we had to leave her in SCU all alone :crying:

Where are all the other mummies?? Sarah, Celsie, Feathertop?? I know a few of us were bumped into July but we did all promise to meet here right??

I'll try to update Mikayla's web site soon with some more pics - only 1 on there at the moment but I'll try to find the time in the next few days.

Hope your all doing well. Take care xx

i hope our June girls that ended up popping in july stay with us. We all got along so well!

A brief run down on Aidens Birth:

Arrived at hospital at 5.30pm. Straight into labour room. The midwife put me onto a monitor to monitor baby’s heart beat and the uterus movements – to check for contractions etc. Baby beating away strongly. About 9pm, obs came in, (was running late) and did an internal, declared that the cervix was still firm enough to go ahead with the inducement. If it was to soft, he would of sent me home, as inducing me then would of brought the labour on to fast.

So, he puts in a tape. Has some more technical name, but, basically, a long string, about the width of a shoe string, thin, maybe about 20cm long, that was sorta folded up and inserted. What I imagined happened is that after it was inserted, it was allowed to ‘unroll’. Obs says to me, you will have an ‘uncomfortable night’ so, have a couple panadol, and a sleeping tablet, and try and get some sleep. Obs says he will be back about 7am to do another internal, check progress, insert the drip, and break my waters. Darren went back home, with intention of returning at 6am the next morning.

So, back onto the monitor, for about 45min, till about 10am, and then at 11am, midwife checked my blood pressure etc, gives me tablets, and says she will be back at 2am to monitor baby again. Good night she says.

So, I laying in this bed, trying to get some sleep, but, I just start getting pains, cramps in my front, and really sore hips and thighs, but, nothing in my back.. So, about 12midnight, I get up, start walking around the room, pacing the corridors etc, thinking “This must be what the obs meant by uncomfortable, but, geez, how did he expect me to get some sleep!’, I wondered if I should ask the midwife if this was normal, but, I didn’t, thinking, well, this is what I choose to do, so, deal with it. That was my thinking.

Anyway, 2am comes along, midwife comes in, asks how I was going, told her cramps are really bad, and just bang bang, one after the other, been like that for about 2hours. Sometimes a few minutes gap, but, mostly just one after the other. She says, ‘hmmmm, strange’, and does an internal. Tells me I am 4 – 5 cm dilated!!!. Bugger me, those pains where contractions. How dopey was I. Goes to show what you can do hey, got that far without any help. She removes the tape, as it is bringing it on to fast. Puts the monitors on, and just as she picked up the baby’s heart beat, he dropped right down, and his heart beat dropped to about 60bpm from 130-140bpm. She panicked, (well, calmly panicked) and hit all the emergency buttons. Midwifes came racing from everywhere, but, after a couple of seconds, it picked back up, and carried on. At that stage, she wasn’t sure why it had dropped, but, she said if it does it again, then I will have a c/section. Darren was called in (did 30min trip in less then 15min – when he moved the car the next morning, he could still smell the burning brakes!), obs was called in. By this time, midwife had done another internal, where she confirmed that the drop in his heart beat was caused by him dropping down. And he was now stable.

Did I want gas – YES PLEASE!!

So, there I was 3am, fully in labour. It was not that bad. At the time, sure it felt bad, I had small dose of morphine about 4ish I guess, which took the edge off it. My midwife was very firm, and when I asked for more, she told me that I was doing good, and that I didn’t need it. At the time, I was annoyed at her, but, looking back, she was right, and I was doing ok. IYKWIM. I am glad that she was hard on me for that reason.

Whilst you’re having contractions, you want everything under the sun, and think illogically. But, when you have those breaks in between, that’s when you tend to focus on what you want, what you are doing and you think more logically about what’s happening. Midwife told me that the morphine had worked on me. During contractions, I told her the morphine was a heap of **** wasn’t doing anything, and that the gas didn’t do anything either. Between contractions, I could think straighter, and realised that it was working, and that she was right. I think the gas was more of a distraction, or security blanket thou.

Darren was really good. During antenatal classes we talked about massaging, showers etc for help with contractions. I wanted none of it. All I wanted during contractions and labour was to sit on the yoga ball thing, have him sit beside me and hold my hand. He rubbed my back with his other hand, tried 2 handed back massages, but, nope, that irritated me. I am glad now I didn’t get a TENS machine, as I don’t think I would have used it. Hated the shower as well. Being on the bed for contractions wasn’t good either. Just sitting on that ball. Midwife said to rock sideways, as it helps baby to move down, but, I wanted to bounce for some reason. So, I bounced.

Midwife also did lots of monitoring of baby’s heart beat. Not strapped on, she just knelt beside me, and held the monitor on my tummy. And that was so reassuring to hear his little heart.

Anyway, apparently, about 5.30, started to need to push. Well, I didn’t think I needed to, but, midwife does internal, which by now is not the most comfortable, as she is doing it while I am having contractions, and I did hate that, and she says, right, its time to push.

For me, pushing didnt hurt. Baby coming out, didn’t hurt really. The stingy bit towards the end hurt abit, but on the whole, didn’t really hurt. The worst was the first push of each contraction, as you had to get your body back into position. And, if you push correctly, you can actually feel the difference in terms of pain etc. If pushing correctly, I don’t think you can feel the contractions as much. For me, the worst part of the pushing part was my hips. I was not laying straight on the bed, I kept twisting, which made baby moving past my hips hurt, and that hurt more then baby coming out.

I also remember wanting an epidural, a c/section, and wanting to go home all at the same time. Apparently, that’s not possible :)

After each contraction/pushing session, she would monitor baby’s heart. And I focused on that a lot. Each time I heard his little heart going strong, I felt good. I was disappointed when she wouldn’t get time to monitor between contractions. I seemed to have 2 close together ones, then a break, then another one, then a break, and then back to the 2 close together ones. Well, that’s how I remembered it.

Midwife kept saying just 30more minutes, baby will be here. I pushed for 2 hours, my muscles where to strong, and weren’t letting the baby thru. I could feel her massaging the perineum (which didn’t hurt at all) but, to no avail. Didn’t work. Obs came in, says if he doesn’t come out soon, will have to get forceps or vacuum. Again, during contractions, would of agreed to anything. Between contractions, I knew I didn’t want that, and I focused on the fact that the baby’s heart beat was still strong, so I knew he was still ok.

So, push push push, felt baby’s head etc, but, still nothing. Started to tear internally, at this point, obs says we need to do an episiotomy, So, a few injections (Darren says he just pumped heaps of local in) and cut. Could feel him cutting, but didn’t hurt. Just sorta felt the pulling type sensation, but, no pain. I asked the midwife (2 of them by this stage, shift changeover) if it was done, and she said yep. Darren said it was so close, but yet so far. He reckons it was frustrating in a way, cause you could see it coming, then I would stop pushing, and the head would drop back. I wonder if I had a mirror, how inspiring it would have been for me to have seen that as well. Has worked for some woman. But, then again, wouldn’t of changed the fact that I was going to tear, so perhaps better it was slower.

I think it was another push, she told me to pant while she twisted him, and then, it felt like a whole bunch of tadpoles coming out. I felt the head come thru, and I was expecting then to have to push or something to get the shoulders thru, but nope. The most amazing thing, there was this baby on my chest.

During the final stages of pushing, I said to Darren that this was going to be an only child, (and also that it had better be a rich doctor and give me all its money) as there was no way was I doing this again. When I heard Aiden cry for the first time, I said I will do this again, it was all worth it. Truly, the pain had gone. It was like it had never happened. I completely forgot about it as I looked at this little baby. (it came back to me later :)) but, everyone says you forget about the pain when they give you the baby, I used to think what a crock of ****e, how could you forget something like that. But, truly, it really happens. Its amazing. No words there to describe it.

Darren says he would watch it all again. He watched everything. Its funny really, I would be so horrified if he seen pads etc during AF, but, he seen my waters break, my mucus plug come out, me poop (I am sure it was only little, it felt little) seen everything. Me walking around with blood dripping out etc. Watched this baby come out. Helped to clean up after me etc. (they very good at cleaning up, must of gone thru a bucket load of towels and those little blue mat things, always changing them) When I felt the head, was only a small hole still, and I felt the rest of the bits, and I said, “that doesn’t feel like it would look very attractive’. Funny the things you think of. At one stage, LOL, I decided I didn’t want to push anymore, as I didn’t want to get hemaroids.

Anyway, obs did my stitches, again, it hurt a little bit, could feel it pulling I just focused on Aiden.

And thats about my story. Sorry, not terribly brief, but, belive me, its edited from the original version.

Hi everyone,

Sorry I haven't been around. Having a terrible time settling this baby of mine. He is thankfully ok at night time. Feeds about 11pm, 2am, 5am but goes back to sleep ok. Through the day it is a different story. He can be up from 7am to 9pm with one sleep on a bad day. And that sleep is generally in the baby bjorn only. He doesn't seem to have wind and pretty sure he isn't hungry. He just refuses to sleep no matter what I try. He is so so alert and even if he falls asleep wakes 10 mintes later. He tends to go to sleep much better for people other than me though. He seems to smell the milk or something and keeps trying to feed. I have tried constantly feeding him and that doesn't help either. He is also putting on 350g a week and I know he isn't actually hungry - he acts differently when he is.

My 3 yo is also being very demanding so I am mentally and physically exhausted at the moment. I am going to borrow a friends rocking swing and see if that helps. Hopefully this will pass as he gets older. I don't remember it being this bad first time round.

Sorry no personals. I thought he had gone to sleep but - nope awake already.

bye...

ps. my birth story is in birth stories if anyone is interested. It already seems so long ago.

Hey Ladies,
Just a quick one, have been reading but havnt actually posted in here....still seems sureal that im finally a mother.

I had a long and very exhausting labour, but dont regret one minute of it, Lachlan is worth every bit of it, we are even planning on TTC#2 in a yrs time!!

Just reading others birth stories, i want to write mine, but am scared for some reason, scared that i'll forget somethin important or exagerate on things, plus i dont remember it all, some i only know b/c of what others have told me.
I guess i can write it on paper first and then type it out, that makes more sense lol

I was in hospital for 5 days, as i had 3rd degree tears and wasnt allowed out until i did no 2's, which i ended up having 2 suppositories for.
a day after being home my wound reopened and had to go back to hospital and get it checked out, to find i have to have a nurse come out everyday and repack it!
Not only that have had real drama's with breast feeding, now Lachlan is completely bottle fed, the anxiety and guilt i had over that was crazy.
Plus 2 1/2 days after getting home Rick went back to work full-time, i had major major panic/anxiety attacks with that, so much so, mum had to take 2 days off work to come be with me. I have calmed down and seem to cope quite well now, thing is though, have only just magaed to cope during the day by myself, now Rick is going to work nights starting wed finishing fri, im fearful about this, i dont know if i can cope, i cant just call on my mum either as she has my younger brother and sisters to care for. Rick has said if i get that bad to call him and he'll come straight home, but we really need the money (hence why he went back to work so soon). i just hope that the 3days ( thur and fri last week and today) and then tomorrow on my own during the day, will have prepared me enough to survive the nights he wont be here. (he starts at around 6pm finishing at 3 am, wont be home til around 4am!)
I shouldnt worry until it happens but i cant help thinking about it now!
I struggle on bad nights with Lachlan with Rick here, dont quite know how i'll cope if he has bad nights without Rick here!

Anyway enough of my whinging, im sure i'll be fine, i have to be dont i??

Sorry for no personals, just had to get that off my chest.
Will pop on tomorrow for personals.

Sorry Mel, i dont really know what advice to give you, hope someone can help, i know how exhausting a non settled baby can be, hope he settles for you soon. Take Care sweetie

Oh Mel, I hope your little man gets the idea that he needs to sleep and give him mummy a well earned rest. It's really hard to function when you're running on low batteries huh? :hug:

Debbie - Thank you for sharing your birth story. You're a very brave girl. I don't think I would have coped as well as you did. Well done! :)

Caeleb's birth was quite straight forward I guess. My water broke at 5:15pm the day before. DH was out shopping (so glad I decided not to go with that day). He'd forgotten his mobile phone, so after an hour, I was on the phone to Coles asking them to do a call out. He turned up about five minutes later thank goodness. As soon as he got out the car, I told him that my waters had broke. He had the cutest grin on his face. I rang the hospital and told them my waters had broke and that I'd call when contractions started. They said they wanted to do an internal and wanted me to come in. Okay, fair enough.

On the way to the hospital, I started to get a sore back. I didn't even realise that it was the beginning of labour (how bad is that?!?). The hospital is only five minutes away from our house. As soon as I arrived, they did an internal and hooked up the ECG. The ECG showed that I was having regular contractions, so they wouldn't let me go home.

DH and I were settled into our room and since I wasn't into "established labour", we were left for about four hours on our own, so we walked up and down the halls to bring on labour. At about 12pm, I decided the pain was getting stronger and I went into the labour ward and had a shower. That did nothing, so the midwife gave me some capadex.

A few hours later, when the pain was getting too much, they offered me a shot of pethadine, which was very welcome. This went on for about six hours, but they could only offer me pethadine every four hours. So, after the second shot, they said that all they could offer was gas.

It was about 8am. I sucked on that stuff for three hours straight, as I was having contractions every minute. DH was rubbing my back and my Mum was rubbing my hands and talking me through the contractions. Another contraction would come on and I'd say "RUB MY BACK!!!" DH would reply "But, you've got blisters...". My reply... "I DON'T CARE!!! RUB HARDER!!!" :lol:

After 18 hours, they did an internal examination and said... "Congratulations... you've dialated 2cm". WTF?!? "You're joking!!!" DH and I couldn't believe it. They explained that since it had almost been 24 hours since my waters broke, they wanted to give me anti-biotics and they didn't think my contractions were strong enough, so they were going to give me an epi and bring the baby on.

A lovely doctor (who happened to look like my GP) turned up to do the epi. I was off with the fairies, and thought it was my GP. I was SO happy that he'd come to visit me during my labour. DH had to explain to me very quickly that it wasn't Dr Brown. DH and my parents said I was absolutely hilarious, offering everyone who came into the room a suck on the gas. LOL

Anyway, the doctor did the epi, but I didn't have to roll up into a ball. He just said to relax and lean forward onto my Mum. Other than a slight sting from the local, I didn't feel a thing.

Three hours later, I still hadn't had Caeleb. They asked me to push, which I did, but as I did, I could feel him dragging across my pelvic bone. They didn't tell me at the time, but he was stuck. They called in an Ob. She said she'd have to use a ventouse, which was fine. I was cut, but didn't feel it. She asked me to push again, but he was still stuck. She managed (with great force) to get his head out, but had to manually turn his body. They asked me to push again, but wanted me to stop shortly after. I didn't hear that bit, so I tore. But, I didn't care, I had my baby looking down at me from my belly.

The past 21 hours had all become a blur as I bawled and bawled, as this precious little boy just stared down at me, so calm and peaceful.

It's been 3 weeks since he was born and I really struggle to remember what life was like without him... although I do recall I had a lot more sleep! :lol:

Celsie. xoxox

Hey Naomi - you posted as I was typing. Try and stay calm. The more stressed out you are, the more stressed out Lachlan would be. Try not to worry about things until it happens. Maybe give your community midwives a call, see if they can help?!?

You know I'm always here if you need to talk, as is Natalea. Vent here as much as you need to, that's what we're here for. To support and help each other through the good times AND the bad. :hug:

Celsie. xoxox

p.s. OMG OMG OMG! I almost forgot!!! Caeleb was 6 pounds 14 ounces when he was born. He lost about 10% of his body weight. I went and weighed him today and now he's 8 POUNDS!!! So, a little woo hoo for Caeleb, my clever little man!!! :happyforyou:

Congrats on the weight gain Sarah.
Thankyou heaps, i know i'll be fine and i have you guys to fall on when i need to.
Lachlan got weighed today, in 1 wk 4 days he has put on 440grams, so doing extremly well. He lost approx 270grams off his birth weight!
I just have moments where i freak out, and normally after getting it off my chest im back to being me again. Sometimes it takes longer, but generally not to long.

So expect me on here quite a bit wed, thur and fri night!! lol

Thankyou for sharing your birth story! very interesting, i felt the same when they gave me Lachlan, i didnt care what they did to me down there, i now had my son and thats all that mattered.
Well better go and get ready for feed time.

i might pop on later if not will be on tomorrow,
take care, and thankyou again sarah

i just realised too Sarah, there is exactly 7days between our little boys birthdays!! How cool is that!

Naomi - i am on mostly at nights as well, so will be here to talk to :) I would hate it if Darren was away, he is my rock, but, i am sure it will get easier for you as time goes on, and we will all support you as much as we can. :hug: Darren helped me write my birth story, and that was also a nice special moment for us, sorta like a walk down memory lane. I have heard bits and peices about yours, so, when you are ready, i look forward to reading it.

Celsie - thanks, but, reading your story, you did it much tougher then me. (oh, i assume you meant 8cm dilated, not 18cm.....:)) It seems that i have had one of the easist births really, compared to yours, Sarahs, Naomi's, Tinas. Mine was hard, and fast, but, reasonably straight forward, no complications barr the inital scare.

By gosh, i though Aiden was tiny, but Caleb - Wow, i look at clothes for Aiden and think no point, he's to little for cute stuff. Its bonds wondersuits for him for alittle bit longer yet. Thankfully, they all seem to be a small fit. I brought him home in 0000 suit from Best & Less, i had brought a few cheapies, thinking i probably wouldnt need them anyway, given Darren and i are tall. But, they are to big still! The bonds suits 000 are smaller. Go figure

Having my first weigh in with Aiden tomorrow. Am excited to see how much he has put on. Will let you know!

Sweet dreams girls and your darling babies.

Hi girls, I popped in July aswell but on the 1st so I nearly had a June bubba! (She was due on the 22nd) I had a realtively easy labour. Actually, no, I had a great (but painful) labour. All day Saurday June 30th I was getting contractions but they wernt unbearable just more niggly and annoying. By 9.30pm that night I was really annoyed with them I wanted them to become more painful so I knew that I'd be on my way. But no.
Anyway, I was booked in the next morning to go on the ctg machine to check bubs heartrate at 8am (being so overdue) so I phoned them up at 10pm and asked that since I was coming in the morning could they just do it that night and would I have to come back the next morning so they said to come in.
When I got there they did a stretch and sweep and I was still only 3cms (been that way for a week) so the midwife spoke to the doc and fibbed and said that bubs heartrate was a bit down so the doc said to break my waters. When I heard this I nearly jumped fr joy.
So at 12.25am they broke my waters, and after several hours of contractions with a bit of gas and a shot of pethidine, little Aliyah came into the world at 6.31am July 1st 2007 weighing 8p 9oz
Anyway she's waking up now so I better go feed her
love Stacey xxx

Debbie - Typos are what happens when you're feeding your baby and trying to post of BB at the same time! LOL - That was supposed to say 2cm, so don't ask me how the hell I managed to type 18! ROFL

Naomi - I know our boys are a week apart. It's funny considering that you were due weeks before me!!! :)

Celsie. xoxox

p.s. I'm just adding some more photos to Caeleb's website, so feel free to have a look. :)

Hi girls. Just a quick one as Oscar has been a *little* unsettled for the past few days. Poor little love has a hoarse voice from all the screaming he has been doing. No real reason - occasionally tummy pain, occasionally a refluxy puke which must hurt him too. No idea :dunno:

For those with the nappers - I empathise. I am soooooo tired after an unsettled night last night and I was hoping for a nap after his feed at 1130hrs but no such luck. He is yet to sleep and is really only napping for about 10 minutes at a time before waking and having a little cry. Can't get the washing done, can't get the cooking done. One of those days ...... and he's off again.

BBL

Oh Michelle - you poor sausage. Have you got someone who can come over and take Oscar for an hour or two so you can have a sleep? Does Oscar suffer from wind? Is that possibly what could be making him upsettled?

Celsie. xoxox

Celsie - he occasionally gets wind but there is no predictable pattern unfortunately. As for someone to come over - no, not today. DH is on nights and currently asleep (4 down, 3 more to go) and my best friend is working today too. Both families are between 3-6 hours away and the siblings are all at work. So I think we will try a co-sleep on the lounge. He is settled in my arms at the moment and the next feed is an hour away. Here's hoping anyway. He doesn't scream all day but the past few it has been an hour or two a couple of times a day so his throat is sore :(

Caeleb certainly had a good weight gain!!! We are off for a weigh tomorrow so we will see how much he has grown.

Hi girls,

Well first of all A HUGE BIG CONGRATS TO EVERYONE WE ALL MADE IT IN THE END!

Since everyone has told there birth story i might as well give a brief version to you all of mine:

It was about 1.30am on Thurs morning and i woke my Dh up to say i think we need to call the hospital as my contractions are getting closer and closer. I went to the loo while he called and my show had started. Since it was my 2nd child the midwife told DH to come in to the hospital but don't break the speed limit.

I arrived at the hospital and my contractions were so painful and close it was shocking. I couldn't remember it being this bad for my first DD. The wheelchair came out and up i went into the birthing suite. I was told to do a urine sample and then to get comfy and all of that. The contractions were strong and close now so i asked for gas. On went the gas and i sucked away at that.

The next thing i knew the gas just wasn't working so the midwife turned it up for me. After about another 1/2hr i said this gas is not doing anything at all can i have a shot of pethadine. Off she went to check with the Ob as he was not in yet. I had one jab and it didn't kick in for a while at all. I was nearly breaking DH hand when the contractions came.

I then felt as if i had done a pee in the bed so i got DH to get the midwife and she said it was my waters breaking. Oh thankgod for that i thought not long to go now! Then i wanted to push the midwife tiold me to hang on she didn't realise i had already had one baby and i didn't need to hang on. I screamed at her and said "HANG ON I CAN'T HANG ON" so i just pushed and something just went POP and it was the rest of my waters the next minute i knew i was pushing again and i felt a slight stinging sensation and i knew Shayla's head had come out, i looked down and i couldn't believe it. Then another push and out she came my beautiful daughter number two. I had a 4 hour labour all up and my ob missed the whole thing Pam my midwife delivered Shayla for me. The next minute my Ob turned up and i remember i said to him " Your a bit late your wages should go to Pam" the Pethadine had kicked in too late thats for sure, we all thought it would take alot longer than 4 hours.

Shayla weighed a Wopping 10pound 6 (4.555 kg) she was born at 5.30am Thursday the 28th June 2007. I couldn't be happier.

Thats my brief story of labour for you all to read. :)

Anyway i have been out of hospital for 9 days today and things are going good. I had a few days were i was so sore from having a few stitches internally but it was all bruising in the lower area for me mainly. I then got internal hemerroids from the pressure which really was a PAIN IN THE B****t!:p

In the last couple of days i have felt alot better but i am ver sore and bruised still so hopefully this will all go soon.

I am not sure how many of youhave other kids but i have another DD who is coming up 16mths on the 22nd. This has been another life changing experience and i must say i am extremely busy with a toddler and new born. I knew i would be but gosh it is full on! I think the hardest part is that i am so sore i am finding it hard to play with DD#1 so i am just reading to her, she seems to be ok with that though thankgod. Fortuneatly she is not jealous at all of Shayla and kisses and cuddles her all the time as well as trys to pick her up it is very cute really. :lol:

Well must be off but thats my long post for the week i will try and keep up with you all but please forgive me if i don't. I hope all of you are doing well and that your bubbas do give you some sleep and rest soon.

Jen

Hey i wasnt sure how much weight DD had put on (not weighed since birth) - so funny you watch them 24hrs a day and dont notice them growing,,,,

anyhow
birth 2660gm 47cm
1 month 3820gm 52cm

wow.. i guess those bbs are working overtime! lol

how is everyone elses bub growing?