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She's Finally here!

Wow...she finally came! It was rough...the epidural helped a lot. My little one was 6 lbs 9oz and 20 inches long. My back still really hurts, and I'm still waiting to hear what the back specialists are going to do.

Lilone

I LOVE GIVING BIRTH

I have 2 kids they are 2 and 3. When I gave birth they were the best days of my life.... I was so nervous hearing about the pain I would be in. But I had no pain just an epidural...oh my gosh it makes having a baby so fun and enjoyable...

Honestly, why would someone have a baby without one? You just lay there and relax sleep and laugh enjoy every contraction knowing it would be sooner and sooner until you can push.... so finally they notice you are 10 cm dilated so they say push you do. And there is the baby-sitting on your chest! Easy pain free and fun!

So much fun that I am having my 3 yr old come in and enjoy the birth of her new sibling in 7 months! Get an epidural...so you can enjoy the birth of your baby with no pain!

MARNI

first birth

I woke up with small stomach pains early in the morning but didn’t really think anything of them. By the afternoon they were getting stronger so me and my partner called my mum up and she came down hoping something would happen.

By tea time that night nothing was progressing so we went for a walk around the block then I drank two tablespoons of castor oil followed by a hot bath, within the hour my contractions were 5 mins apart so we headed into hospital where they admitted me. My labour was long and hard with terrible back pain (Baby in posterior position). I tried the shower, gas, water injections, and epidural which doctor attempted three times and only got one side of my body to no avail.

15 hours later at 9:15 in the morning I gave birth to my beautiful baby girl, Holly weighing 9 pound 10 0z, I had to be cut as she was so big and had a lot of stitches and tearing but she is a month old today and I have nearly fully recovered and love being a young mum at 19.

People ask me would I do it again, the answer’s definitely yes!


keisha

37 weeks with a breech

I’m 37 weeks with my first child. My husband and I are going to have a girl, which we plan on naming Phaedra. At 34 weeks she decided to become breech. My doctor wasn't worried at that point and figured she would turn on her own soon. At my 36-week appointment he finally told me I might have to have a scheduled c-section since she was still breech. I don't have the option of him manually turning her since the placenta is right over her head. So I am now 37 weeks and 3 days with a scheduled c-section for June 5th.

My pregnancy has gone smoothly except for morning sickness and a mild case of a UTI. With not having anything serious during this time I feel lucky still even though she is breech. I’m glad I have had the time to read up on what to expect during a c-section. It has given me time to mentally prepare for it and to know what I may be losing compared to a vaginal birth. Other than what I am expecting now and how I look at a c-section I don't know how I emotionally will be afterwards but I hope I will be well enough to take care of my child.

I think every woman should prepare herself for a c-section even if it doesn't seem present when you go into labor. You never know what to expect when in labor and most of the horror stories I’ve read had to do with women who did not prepare for it mentally and were set on a vaginal delivery.


LaRae

My Beautiful Pregnancy and Baby Boy

The week before Easter 2005, my cousin and I ate a Denny's restaurant and I told her I just couldn't be pregnant for Easter. I got home and went to bed. I woke up with a sharp pain shooting across my belly. I waited for another, to show I was in labor, but it didn't come, so I went back to sleep.

A half hour later, another pain went across my belly. I got up, called my best friend, my cousin and my sister. I started cleaning the house and packing a bag. I kept calling my son's father, but he wasn't answering his line. I called 17 times before he answered!

He got up, walked his dog and came to pick me up. My contractions weren't moving any faster, so we walked his neighborhood. They still weren't moving, so we lay across the bed and he performed nipple stimulation for four hours. Finally at 6:30 that evening we went to the hospital. I'd decided not to have any pain medicine, but after an hour, I was exhausted, so I used the code we'd come up with to get an epidural.

Well, my OB/GYN wouldn't hear of it. She gave me a shot of Stadol, which did nothing but put me to sleep. The pain was still intense. Finally, at 9:27pm, my 7lb, 2oz bundle of joy was finally born. IT’S A BOY!!!!


Charmanne