Saturday, October 13, 2007

Baby Dash Arrives...

So apparently, whatever the Dr. did on Wednesday to "stir things up" worked! I started having a lot of "show" immediately and had a few good contractions Wednesday night. By Thursday morning they had regulated - just in time for Brooks to have to take my mom to the airport! I had him take Fin with them and I stayed at home to monitor things.

My contractions picked up a bit so I called Yvonne, our doula, and put her on notice. Then I called Jenny to come sit for Fin - and she had the FLU!! A quick call to Monika and Fin was taken care of for the evening. I finished packing my bag, packed a bag for Fin and had Brooks bring some lunch home. After we ate, things really felt like they were taking off so I had Brooks take Fin to Monikas and Yvonne came over. We all chatted while I worked through things at home from about 12- 3:30. At that point I wasn't sure about handling contractions in the car, so we headed up to the hospital.

Once we were through admitting etc., I got a room and was checked - I was at a 6! Great to hear since I felt like that was where I would be. Our nurse was amazing - super supportive of my drug free plans and full of nothing but encouraging words. She didn't make me have an IV or a heplock which was fantastic! The Dr. stopped in briefly, ok'ed all my birth wishes and said he'd see me later. By about 5:30 I was in some serious pain. I'll have to put more details in here later when our doula gives us her version of the birth, since it's all a blur to me. One nurse said I was at 10 around 6pm with just a small lip, then another nurse came on and she said I was only at 9. My bag of waters was bulging and they knew that all I needed was to have it broken and baby would follow, but the Dr. was in with a difficult delivery and unavailable. Finally, the nurse checked me again and "Oops, I broke her water" :) What an angel! Unfortunately there was meconium, although it was "thin" I was still freaked out. The next few contractions were unbearable and all of a sudden I was totally out of control. It was like my body was totally not my own and I almost laughed when told not to push yet! By the time the Dr. came in, he was looking into Dash's eyes as I had half his head out already! He caught the babe just in time and all was well! He put Dash right on my chest, which they didn't really do with Fin, and that was pretty amazing.

Dash nursed right away, pooped, and passed out :) We went right into a recovery room and were able to get some sleep before they brought me an early morning roomate (the hospital was SUPER busy!). Brooks spent most of Friday with Fin - they had an early morning visit and then came back to get Dash and I at 3pm. It was SO GREAT to get home! The girl sharing a room with me was electing to stay until Sunday. That would have been such a nightmare for me!! Dash wasn't so into the whole "sleeping" thing last night, so here's hoping that gets better, but he's so cute I can't complain. I'm recovering pretty well, no stitches or tears which is great, but the "afterpains" the second time around are NO JOKE! I'm seriously regretting telling my Dr. I didn't need pain meds before leaving the hospital. Other than that all is well! I posted pics over on Fin's blog - check out the new brothers!

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Welcome Spanky!

Dashel Brooks Martin
10/11/07
7:52 pm
7lbs 9oz
19 in long

and DRUG FREE!!!

more info & pics tomorrow :)

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

39 Week Dr. Appt...

So I went to the Dr. this morning - I keep making these appts and laughing to myself that I'll never make it. Anyway, I'm at 3cms and I'm pretty sure that the sneaky bastard stripped my membranes to speed things up. He wanted to talk about inducing. I told him that last week I would have been the #1 fan of that idea, but this week not so much. After explaining to him that my mother leaves tomorrow, I told him that we had high hopes to see her return the first week of Nov. and that as far as I was concerned, the baby could wait until then. He told me that I have until monday to have the baby or I better work on turning my "I can be pregnant forever" 'tude into a "get this baby outta me!" mood. Really, Spanky has made me wait this long, I'm not in the mood to rush him anymore. My BP, his HR and weight are all good so there's no medical reason to put a rush on things. Stay tuned, I go back in to be "reassessed" and likely endure a NST on Monday...

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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

39 weeks and counting...

Yes, I'm still pregnant. Yes, I will call or e-mail you as soon as anything that could even remotely approximate labor begins. Yes, my mother leaves Thursday - baby or not. No, do NOT call me on Thursday and ask how I am unless you would like to listen to me cry.

Sigh.

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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

38 Week Doctor Visit...

Since I'm still pregnant (sigh), I had my weekly Dr. appt today. I saw a Dr. who just started with the practice today. She was extremely nice so I'm really feeling better about the possibilities of who will be there when I go into labor. Best of all, I overheard as I was checking in that the AWFUL Dr. will be on vacation next week. Yipeee!

No big news- BP was good, weight holding steady (for four weeks now!), measuring good, babe is still head down and engaged in my pelvis snugly. He wouldn't stop moving which made the Dr. laugh, when she was finally able to get a heart rate, it was good so all-in-all a good appt!

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

38 Week update...

Well, as of 11:19 pm tonight, I will be more pregnant than I've ever been! I think it's safe to say that this baby will NOT be the September baby I had anticipated :). We've had some pretty good contractions and last Thursday they were super consistent and we had everyone on call, all for nothing! Yvonne, our doula, had another client experience the same thing so it must have been something in the air.

To say I'm ready is the understatement of the year! I'm very much done being pregnant and even more I'm ready to meet this little guy. When I was pregnant with Fin, I looked so awful at the end that it was safe to say that I looked worse than I felt. This time it's the opposite, but as nice as it is not to look like a total troll, it's difficult to convince people how really awful I feel. I think Fin knows that life is about to change big time. He's been acting out far more than usual and just being a handful in general. It's making me a little nervous about how this transition is going to go. Thank God for Brooks who has given me some really nice breaks this weekend and also had an abundance of patience for Fin. Now if only I could go into labor before he has to leave for work tomorrow...suuure!

Nanny arrives on Thursday so I am under strict orders to produce by then. I'll keep you posted!

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

37 week update

So we're back from our latest Dr. adventure! Everything is looking good - Spanky is measuring right on time and had a great heartrate. My BP was a little higher, but nothing to be worried about and my Beta Strep test came back negative - Yay! He's still head down and his booty is sticking out my left side and his feet kickig out my right side. We saw one of the new Dr.'s and I really liked her so that's encouraging too. More updates after our appt next Tuesday!

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