Woke up this morning at 4am with contractions. I could actually time these! They were about 10-15 minutes apart and lasted 1-2 minutes each time. They were not too painful, just uncomfortable. I got up around 5:30 and got some water and told Mike. When I laid back down the pain had moved to my back. I fell back asleep and woke up around 7 with pain but the coming and going contractions had stopped.
At this point I had no idea what was going on. I had to google "how to time contractions". Lilly's labor went like this: no pain, wake up to pee at 3am, get bad cramp, water breaks all in the bed, contractions every 2 minutes (like stop you in your tracks contractions), hospital at 5, pushing at 6, baby at 8:47 am. So these little contractions that I'm feeling today are confusing the heck out of me.
Mike and I went on an hour long walk around the neighborhood around 8:30. I was in pain the whole time, but not bad pain. I took a shower and called the midwife when I got in. After sitting down everything just kind of stopped. Midwife said real labor doesn't stop. I was starting to feel incredibly bummed out. We went and ate lunch and walked around for another hour or so. Pain came back while I was walking and was a little bit more intense. We came home and I took a nap and the pain was pretty much gone when I woke up.
This explains my mood at that point. I was so ready for the real mind numbing painful contractions. I wanted to feel some real labor so bad. But this baby is going to do what she wants and I've had to pray for patience, like a lot. And also focus on the positives, like getting to take Lilly to her first gymnastics class. It was precious. And spending a day with Mike. That hasn't happened in a while, just the two of us, and it was wonderful. I love my time with him.
June 3rd
Woke up at 3am to a pretty painful contraction. I actually had to breath some with this one. I had about 4 more over the next hour but then it fizzled. I finally fell back asleep just in time for my alarm to go off. Oh joy. Having some pains at school but nothing consistent. I can't wait to go home and take a nap. Madelyn is still moving around really well so that is a good thing. I go to the doctors tomorrow so hopefully I have progressed some. Still praying for patience. I'm just so ready to meet this baby.
June 4th
I got a good nights sleep last night and woke up feeling refreshed. I went to the doctors at 3:15. There was no real change... Still 2 cm and about 80% effaced but baby is very healthy and still moving around really well so that's great! I'm starting to think that this labor is going to be very different. It's weird but I feel more calm now about everything. Madelyn is going to come when she's ready, and that might mean 40 weeks, and that's ok. I'm not completely miserable and I can make it a few more weeks.
June 7th
Yep.. Still pregnant. But I keep reminding myself that my due date is the 17th. 10 days away. I think I can do this for 10ish more days. I miss my ankles and my skinny face. And it is HOT. So hot. So so hot. I'm still having irregular contractions everyday. There is only 2 1/2 more days of school. We might need to have a dance party tomorrow so I can shake this baby out. :)
Yes... This is it in all its glory. Veins everywhere. Super tight. Super big. Super excited for her to get out of there.
June 10
I made it to the last day of school. I can't believe it! But I'm glad I got to see my babies off to third grade. I'm 39 weeks.. Due date is a week away. I go to the doctor tomorrow for another checkup. Currently feeling very excited to hold this sweet baby. Any day now!!!
June 12th
Here we go! This part of the story is a little TMI :) We had a baby today. A perfect baby with 10 fingers and 10 toes and a head full of dark hair. It's almost midnight and we are currently nursing so I'm going to write all the crazy details down while I'm awake.
Mike stayed home with me today. I did a bunch of nesting stuff like laundry and we ran some errands around town. Contractions were very sporadic, just like they had been, but a little more painful. We picked Lilly up from her last day of daycare for the summer around 2:30. Mike met his friend Brandon and ordered me some takeout around 4:00. Around 4:30 I started having contractions closer together but I could still talk and breathe through them. My mom came home and I took a shower. They started to pick up . I told Mike to hurry home. I went downstairs and folded clothes and then brought them upstairs to put them away. I was doing anything to stay busy. Then I dried my hair. This is when the "hospital time" contractions started. I went downstairs and told everybody that it was time to leave. Mike had our food. He grabbed the bags and we left ASAP. I had crazy awful painful contractions the whole way to the hospital. They were about 2 minutes apart. We told them to get me to a room ASAP. It was 6:00 pm. I was 7 cm dilated. They started the IV for my antibiotic (I was strep b positive this time). The contractions were still about 1-2 minutes apart and I wanted to die. DIE. I was screaming "epidural" inside my head but I knew I could do it again. They were way more painful than I remember with Lilly. I think I even screamed some out loud ... I knew I wouldn't be able to push for 3 hours like I did with Lilly.
This baby didn't even let me push for 3 minutes. After I barfed, pooped, and peed myself (yes it happened) I felt a ton of pressure. I told the nurse that I felt like pushing. The feeling got way more intense. They got the midwife in there and BAM!! I pushed about 5 big times and there she was... 35 minutes after getting to the hospital and I was holding my baby. I cried and cried. It was a beautiful moment.
My water did not break with this baby and she was actually born still in the amniotic sac. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen. Apparently this doesn't happen very often. The nurse had never seen a birth like that and the midwife had only seen a few. My placenta was also very unique... It was pretty much like I had two placentas in there that were connected. This baby is one of a kind! She weighs 6 lbs 5 oz and is 19 1/2 inches long. And she has hair!!!
Since Madelyn was born 35 minutes after we got to the hospital I didn't have time to get the strep b antibiotic in me. This is something I stressed about while I was pregnant. The midwife assured me that she would be fine (only 1 out of 200 babies will get sick if they don't get the antibiotic in time). We have to stay for 48 hours to monitor her just in case. I'm not really worried but I do hope everything will be ok.
After Madelyn was born we had skin to skin time for a good hour. I nursed her and kissed her. It was the best hour of my life. Lilly came up to meet her and held her hand and kissed her. Now she's all cleaned up and we are moved in to our new room for the next few days. I'm not feeling as sore this time, mostly because I didn't have to push for 3 hours. We are still in complete shock. I thought she might come fast but I never thought it would be that fast. Her new nickname is Speedy Gonzalez.
We are so in love with her!
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