Birth Story

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Comments

[the_laugh]

Congrats from one type 1 to another! My second is due in August!

[coolrunning]

Thank you! August is a good month ;) (I'm an August baby)

[snuck]

Thankyou for sharing :) Such a positive and helpful post, and so wonderful that you have had such a happy outcome.

Your daughter is beautiful - such hair!

[coolrunning]

Thank you!

[katefinn]

She's an adorable baby and you're a brave woman for enduring all those hours pushing her for a VBAC.

[coolrunning]

Aww thanks. Looking back i think, "that was 3 hours? It didn't seem that long!" But at the time i was in tears from exhaustion.

[thejoysofjess]

Congrats! She's beautiful!

I had a failed VBAC last week and also consider it to be one of the better things that has happened to me.

[sandokai]

What made it one of the better things?

I'm hoping for a VBAC in about 20 weeks so I like hearing stories and thoughts on VBAC attempts...

[thejoysofjess]

My first son's birth was crazy traumatic. I had to be knocked out for my c-section when the epidural didn't work and I bled excessively and didn't get to meet my son until he was 3 days old because I spent that time in ICU totally out of it

[coolrunning]

i found my second c section easier as well. One of my nurses this last time had 8 kids, 6 by c section. She said each one was easier. By the time she got to her last she actually went home a day after the surgery (not that she recommended it - with 7 other kids though she needed to be home to, as she put it, "sit on the couch and direct .")

[nynaeve_sedai]

Congrats!! I always say that one cannot fail at childbirth. :) Glad they were able to get her here safe and sound.

[coolrunning]

Thank you!