Yes it's been a while
Okay so the birth story:
On Sunday the 8th I had dannielle come over and laugh at me as I drowned myself with castor oil... THE MOST DISGUSTING THE IN THE WORLD. I woke up at 5:45 on Monday the 9th, and felt my water break. Well, actually I wasn't quite sure if my water broke, so I went pee, and then came to the room, woke Brandon up and said, "Now I don't know for sure, but I THINK my water just broke." Well, Brandon got all excited jumped up and forced me to go to the hospital *I didn't think it was nessicary* Well turns out it was nessicary, because my water had infact broken. They checked me in, and layed me in a room. Well, I was there for quite a few hours, (3-4) and my contractions were not even noticable. So they broke my water completely, at around 10 and one hour later my labor picked up a little. They gave me pitocin and from about 12:00 on my contractions were clustering, painful and I was rapidly dialating (Active labor) When I was 5-6 I wanted the epidural, but when he went through the prompt "There a chance of headache, numbness after it wears off and death for you or the baby" I absolutely wasn't taking a chance on that, I had a gut feeling to say no to the epidural... not to mention in the beginning of my pregnancy I REALLY wanted a drug free birth. So I got it...
It was extremely painful, but every contraction I had *about 10 seconds or less apart* I just breath through, loosened my body, and kept my eyes closed. Honestly I was pretty much asleep my entire labor. I opened my eyes a couple times, and I didn't make much noise at all. When I got to 9 3/4 I got stuck, so I actually had to roll to my side and push him down, because they tried pushing the cervix manually, but after 4 painful times trying, I rolled over and pushed him under it.
So at 6:21pm on October 9, 2006 Aydin was born at 6 lbs 11.8 oz and 19 1/2 inches long. Today he is one week old.
On Sunday the 8th I had dannielle come over and laugh at me as I drowned myself with castor oil... THE MOST DISGUSTING THE IN THE WORLD. I woke up at 5:45 on Monday the 9th, and felt my water break. Well, actually I wasn't quite sure if my water broke, so I went pee, and then came to the room, woke Brandon up and said, "Now I don't know for sure, but I THINK my water just broke." Well, Brandon got all excited jumped up and forced me to go to the hospital *I didn't think it was nessicary* Well turns out it was nessicary, because my water had infact broken. They checked me in, and layed me in a room. Well, I was there for quite a few hours, (3-4) and my contractions were not even noticable. So they broke my water completely, at around 10 and one hour later my labor picked up a little. They gave me pitocin and from about 12:00 on my contractions were clustering, painful and I was rapidly dialating (Active labor) When I was 5-6 I wanted the epidural, but when he went through the prompt "There a chance of headache, numbness after it wears off and death for you or the baby" I absolutely wasn't taking a chance on that, I had a gut feeling to say no to the epidural... not to mention in the beginning of my pregnancy I REALLY wanted a drug free birth. So I got it...
It was extremely painful, but every contraction I had *about 10 seconds or less apart* I just breath through, loosened my body, and kept my eyes closed. Honestly I was pretty much asleep my entire labor. I opened my eyes a couple times, and I didn't make much noise at all. When I got to 9 3/4 I got stuck, so I actually had to roll to my side and push him down, because they tried pushing the cervix manually, but after 4 painful times trying, I rolled over and pushed him under it.
So at 6:21pm on October 9, 2006 Aydin was born at 6 lbs 11.8 oz and 19 1/2 inches long. Today he is one week old.