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thesynergizer

happy birthday to my baby!

Dec 12, 2006 12:50

in honor of benjamin's first birthday, (which was yesterday) i am going to post the detailed birth story that i'd wanted to post last year but didn't have the time. by the time i had time, i felt silly recounting such "old" events. who wants to hear a birth story in june ( Read more... )

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ewokgirl March 18 2008, 18:27:53 UTC

Thank you for sharing! I love reading about labor. :)

thesynergizer March 18 2008, 21:34:01 UTC

:-)

it's hard for me to read it, even now, two years later.

in all my worst case senarios, it was always ME that had the problem. i used to fear that i couldn't do it and they'd have to take him by emergecy c-section because i'd passed out of whimpyness. but not once in my wildest dreams did it occur to me that there would ever actually be anything wrong with the baby ...

ewokgirl March 18 2008, 21:38:20 UTC

Labor tends to bring out our fears and vulnerabilities. I was very much afraid of something happening to my son and had a hard time believing things would be okay until he was in my arms, which is why I gave in and agreed to an induction. I am looking forward to having a second chance at labor and birth in the future now that I have experience under my belt!

thesynergizer March 18 2008, 21:47:10 UTC

i couldn't have said it better. there are SO MANY things i'll be doing differently next time. cloth diapering, delayed solids, standing up for myself when doctors complain about wanting to delay vax, and most of all, being more patient waiting for baby to be ready to be done cooking.

and i wouldn't do a water birth again. my research has reflected that one of the reasons i tore with a 6'4 baby is because i wasn't able to stretch well, and the oil she put on me kept being washed away.

ewokgirl March 18 2008, 22:14:02 UTC

The tearing could have been because of whatever you took to speed up your labor and the shortened duration of pushing. I'm pretty sure that's what happened with me - my OB did lots of stretching and used oil but I was on pitocin and things just went so fast that I couldn't stretch enough to accomodate my son's head. Jack was a big baby, but I think between the pitocin and the OB breaking my water, things sped up so much and I *had* to push even when I hadn't quite reached 10 yet (there was still a lip but I couldn't wait because the urge to push was too strong ( ... )

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