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Name: Deb
Birthday: 11/15/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: I love babies! I love nursing and everything that goes with taking care of babies :)
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4/10/2005
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| I am supposed to be sleeping... oops. But since I know some of you will care, and are not facebook friends with me, I wanted to let you know.... We should be arriving at the hospital at about 8:45 in the morning so I can get started around 9am. Yay! Unless we have a miracle in the next 8 hours. Which would also be awesome. So I'll go to bed for the last time as a mama of 2... by this time tomorrow, I should be snuggling our new little man! Feel free to pray for us! Thanks!! | | |
| So I have contractions pretty much always. A good majority of them are hard enough that I actually have to make sure I keep breathing and, even though I don't feel like I need to push, if I did, he'd come out.
This has been going on for a few weeks. Usually they become more frequent in the evenings, especially when I finally sit down to relax. My body doesn't know what to do, I guess, so it just tries to get him out.
Anyways, yesterday they started at 5:30ish. Or at least that's when I started paying attention. About every 3-5 minutes when I was doing things, and about every 7 when I was sitting (which is backwards to how it usually is). The longest break I had between them was less than 10 minutes.
So at 9 Jesse decided that we could give it another hour and then if they stop or slow enough, we'd head in. So we called for Becca and his parents to be on standby.
We called Becca at 10, and told her we were getting things together to leave in half an hour. So she came over around 10:30 and we left. contractions still going strong.
I got checked in and as they were taking us upstairs, the lady says "there aren't any empty beds, you'll have to stay in the waiting area for a while." Oh. goody.
In the hour and a half we were there, we sat across from a girl who did not seem to be having any discomfort at all. Once I got up to pee, and once to refill my water. Both of those times I talked to girls in wheelchairs whose waters had broken. Thankfully, they got to go back before I did.
Tristan's heart sounded great. Always good! I had some pretty hard contractions while on the monitor too. The nurse checked me..... one. ONE! AHHHHH are you kidding me? AHHHHH
So she checked with the doc (on call- not really mine, but the same one that delivered Bug) and he said to have me walk for an hour and see how I progress.
So that's what we did. From 2 til 3am we walked. Slowly and painfully we walked. Laps around a quiet square that had 2 funny and very encouraging nurses at a nurses' station. Poor Jesse. he stayed positive... got a little weird sometimes... but he at least didn't get annoyed.
(We did see the not-in-pain girl go home.)
So we went back to triage and it was empty! In an hour it went from overflowed, to empty. We tracked down a nurse and she checked me again. Almost 2. Not really 2. She wanted it to be 2, but couldn't force anything and if she tried, it would have hurt me pretty badly. So I guess more like 1 1/2.
Ugh.
She talked to the doctor, told him that we are planning on getting induced on Thursday*, etc. But since he's not my normal OB, and they didn't know they plan for induction, my water wasn't popped, and I wasn't really progressing, AND there weren't enough beds (stupid construction), they sent me home.
So at 3:30ish, we gathered up our few things and left. Still contracting about every 3 minutes or so.
I'm glad I took a little nap yesterday, but even when I do that, I usually am in bed around midnight. And not functioning for hours after that.
Anyways.
I go back to the doctor tomorrow morning.
*She's told me a few times that I can get induced at 39 weeks if I want. Which is today. But her guaranteed full day at the hospital is Thursdays, so that's when we would schedule it.
I do badly wanted to know what it's like to go into labor naturally. But I cant keep doing this for much longer! My body is exhausted. Hard contractions, less than 10 minutes apart for hours at a time almost every day for weeks.. it's exhausting. I know all you mamas are thinking that it's just part of being 9 months pregnant. But I've been having contractions since 16 weeks and they have just been getting progressively stronger for the last 23 weeks. Tristan does not love being squeezed so hard all the time. He cant sleep. And they bother him, so whenever he can, he stretches and pushes and isn't nice about it either. So when I go on these long stretches are crazy contractions, he's fighting back the entire time. I don't get a break for even a second. My whole torso is sore.
Unless my water actually breaks in the next 36 hours, I'm not keeping track of these crazy things anymore. I don't want to get all excited again and then go for no reason again.
So. if all goes well, and my doc is still on board, Tristan's birthday will be November 19th.
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| This cant be too long since I don't have a ton of battery left, but I thought I would give an update on my situation.
So I'm 38 weeks.
I'm dilated a whopping 1cm.
Ugh
I have been taking the kids on some pretty long walks and doing some other things to help move things along and that's all we got.
I'm feeling like I might wind up being the second person ever to be induced after all those crazy shots.
which would be an option as of next week.
but I don't know if I want to do that.
I asked about having my membranes stripped but 1.(according to my research) you have to be at least 2 to even think about it. 2. (according to the doc) it doesn't always work as well as people usually want it to. and 3. It tends to make things a little bloodier and she doesn't want me to freak out after what happened last time.
I'm all about limiting the freaking out.
well the battery died before I finished. thankfully it didn't all get erased.
Alex had a dentist appointment last week that he was really excited about that I had rescheduled for December because I was so sure I was going to go by last weekend. eerrrrrrrr
I wanted to have this kid before my birthday so I would still be 26. November is a pretty busy birthday month for Jesse's side so he has a good chance of sharing with someone, but I didn't really want him to have to share it with his mom. Because, let's face it. It's going to be so uncool in about 14 years.
However. At this point, if he comes on Sunday, it might just be a fantastic birthday gift this year. And he would have NO excuses for not at least calling me on my birthday when he's older! haha
So my question for all my baby-wearing friends: About how long after the kid falls out is it comfortable to wear it? In a sling or wrap. I know the whole front of me is going to be sore for at least a little bit, but I'm looking forward to using my wrap! and I still have my little slings- well- I have my pretty pink one, and I have an idea where my yellow one is, but it's too hard to try to look for it now.
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| I know it's last minute, BUT if you happened to see this in the next half hour or so.... the Extreme Home makeover tonight is in Beavercreek- the next town over from us. I know quite a few people that got to go over there this summer and see things live. I'm keeping my eye out for them! I think we know some people that helped, too, but I dont want to say for sure. But I'm watching extra carefully for little glimpses of them, too.
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