Here's my birth story a week later:

( The birth of Dani... )

So.. dropped some more, thinned some more. STILL no freakin dilation. She said baby and I are both doing very well ect ( Read more... )

Had my doctor's appointment today and I'm 1cm dilated!! I never thought I'd be so excited to hear something like that. The cervical check was super uncomfortable, the only one so far that actually felt like that. Maybe because I was actually dilated this time for it? But yikes, talk about getting all up close and personal haha ( Read more... )

Nicolas Ethan M.
January 15th, 2010 (40w 5d)
7# even & 19" long
APGARs of 9 & 9

My EDD was January 11th and babe had been low ["real low"] for about a month but making no true progress downward so my dr & I decided that if he didn't make his appearance by 40w 4d(Thursday, Jan 14th) that I felt confident in inducing.

( Kinda long so come right this way )

x-posted in Jan_2010

Kirsten Everly was born Friday Jan. 8th
emergency c-section
2:11pm
6lbs 10 oz, 19 inches

Onward to the story...........

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This has been on my mind for a long time, but I'm not really sure how to put it into words. My son will be a year old on Monday, and I have another baby due November 21 (so I'm 34 weeks pregnant). I feel like I need to get my son's birth story off my chest so I can move on and be less scared when I give birth to my daughter ( Read more... )

Jeez, I cant believe I’m posting this birth story SO LATE!!!! Last month and a half have been quite busy - Tim, our new family member, is a real nursing marathoner, hard to keep up with (:
Hope to have enough time to type things up while he's not acting hungry, and his big brother is playing soccer with Papa...
( Oh too long… )

I finally had the conversation with my ob/gyn about wanting a natural birth. Thankfully, she seemed receptive to what I wanted but I didn't get the feeling that she felt it was possible. I asked about inductions first because that is what I am most against. She told me that she usually starts inductions at 37 weeks (!) so that she would be the one ( Read more... )

Aubrey Elaine
July 5, 2009
7lb11oz, 20.5"
Via c-section

( here's the story! + a few pics )

it's still true that having a normal (read: not what is described below) induction increases your risk of c-section because a) your body might not be ready, won't respond to the pitocin, and you end up wheeled off to surgery after a "trial of labor", or b) pitocin, even in normal amounts, *can* cause fetal distress, which makes doctors rush you ( Read more... )