Yes, very busy and forgot to blog about it.
April 16 (my 2 year bandiversary!!) at 4am, they induced me. By 7pm I stopped progressing and his heart rate was dropping, so I had a c-section. He was born at 7:51pm, 7lb 5oz, 19".. healthy and happy!
It ends up the cord was around his neck, so he would never have come along on his own; I was begging the doc to give me just one more hour to try to progress. Anyway, unlike everything I've read, I never actually felt contractions. I had an emergency epidural at only like 1 hour into it because my blood pressure dropped to something like 70/30..I don't really understand why the epidural had to happen, they ended up having to do an intra-uterine catheter (sp all over the place) to monitor contractions, and the little head screw to monitor his heartbeat, so I don't know if that had something to do with it. The worst part of the whole thing was the epidural; I cried and it hurt like HELL.. I guess if you're not in the throws of labor, it's pretty bad.
Then when they told me I HAD to do c-section, I cried and panicked.. I was really scared of that, because I was having weird pains in my cervix so I know the epidural didn't completely numb me.. but it all worked out, and Carson is here.
He's overall a good baby this far, he just is a lil' piggy.. eats more than the 'books' say he should be eating, and my ped said to go ahead and let him.
Originally his jaundice got bad and he lost too much weight the first week, so I had to supplement formula and he had to go in the bilibed (the glowing blue bed in my pics--and he loooooved that thing). In a couple days he was back to good.. now he's growing on schedule and no yellow tint!
Here's the pics... (I update this almost daily, I'm his personal paparazzi)
http://babycarson.aboutmybaby.com/photoalbum/220684
I was 282lb when I checked into the hospital, 285lb (though I thought more, I was swollen for the first time, my face and legs were huge) when I left the hospital.. and I'm 255lb as of 2 days ago. Gotta get back down to pre-pregnancy weight (212lb).. but I am able to wear my pre-pregnancy jeans;hooray!
4 comments:
Wow, congrats to you all! I was wondering where the li'l fella was.
You done good momma!
Sounds like your birth experience wasn't quite what you expected, but that happens a lot. Weird about your epidural though; they usually drop your BP, so I don't know why they'd put one in BECAUSE of a low BP. (At least that's what I learned; I should be putting in my first one tomorrow!) But I'm new at this stuff.
Congrats to you and your happy little family, and great job on your baby weight!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!! He is so beautiful!!!
L xx
Congrats on the sweetiepie! What a proud mama you must be!
Congratulations on the birth of your baby!! I am glad that, despite the complications, it all went just fine. :)
Catherine
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