pregnancy topic - update

[leila]

Welcome new little girl? !!Congratulations Sterling!!

[Sweet s]

AHHHHHH ,Congratulations that's what i want my first one to be a little girl

[Jessica]

I'm pregnant, days past my due date, and starting to think I will be on the cover of Weekly World News for giving birth to the World's largest baby in the next couple weeks.  Seriously, she could easily be over 10 pounds before she's born and I won't get an epidural, so I'm getting a little concerned here.

Everyone (including total strangers) has advice to me for how to go into labor.  I've had people bringing me special pizza, chinese food, pineapple, tea, trying to get me to drink castor oil (not happening) etc.

I'm a pretty cynical person so I don't believe in most old wives tales.  But I thought it would be fun to hear what worked for you parents when you were trying to get your little one to come out?

Oh hun, first of all, CONGRATS !!!!!

Have you had an XRAy of your hip bones ?

I had and they discovered that i was internally very limited, gabriel had 1 cm to go through and this was a week before birth.
By the time his birth was supposed to happen, i was cut open, because his head was too large.

I was expecting a natural delivery WITHOUT epidural up until the very last minute. But the contractions never started, gabriel was situated right under my tits, he wouldn't come down, so the doctor asked me to come on saturday the 3rd of december to shoot me with a gel that starts the contractions ?

All i know was that an hour after, he came in my room, said " right, it doesn't work, we're going into op room".

And the guy shot me the epidural 3 times, well, tried, because i was supposed to make my back as round as possible so he could shoot ? but try to imagine having a baby under your tits and rounding a abck at the same time ? IM PO SSI BLE !

SO, there i am, in frigging pain and all of the sudden, i can't feel a thing anywhere. Not just lower body, but EVERYWHERE.

I panicked. I cried, asked them to take me out and i iddn't want to do it ?

I was very poorly.

They shot me with gaz. I woke up with something green in front of me, a huge cover. I could hear the docs speak about xmas and presents and godknowswhat. Then, blackout and all of a sudden, i am shook, in shock, presented to gabriel who seems to feel as shitty as i do, and he is taken away ( breathing an 80% of full capacities , taken to incubator for 2 hours) ..

I was then sown up for 3 hours. >But i don't remember, i just remember them bringing gabriel on me as i got in my bedroom. I was crying. I breastfeed him for the second time ( i don't remember the first ) and although i was in PAIN, i was beautiful.

My doctor said that a woman who is past 8 months and 2 weeks ( your case) should get herself busy, hoover a lot, walk a lot, be very active and that's the BEST thing to tell the baby " hey, about time you decended !!!'"

[mikegiuliana]

UPDATE: I was induced at the end of last week.? Baby was well over 9 pounds and decided to come out with her hand on her face.? (OUCH!!!)? But she's healthy and beautiful.

wow well over 9 pounds,.... That's a big baby

I only know about getting people prego nothing after that

[Sterlingdog]

Congratulations, Sterling! A baby girl....awww! I have a baby girl...who is going to be 7 in two weeks  They grow up so quick- I know EVERYONE says that, but its sooooo true! Enjoy every moment with her!
Do you mind sharing the beauty's name?

My first daughter just turned 6, so I know what you mean.  My newborn is named Emily.

Jessica - my labor was rough, but nothing like yours.  My first daughter was big also (over 8 pounds) so there was little concern about getting the second baby out.  I was induced with Pitocin (IV medication) and it took all day to get enough into me to do anything.  But once things got moving it was over in about an hour.  Very very painful and scary at the end.  When we all realized her hand was coming out too, I was rushed by nurses, and it seemed everyone was yelling and pushing on my legs.    But really not much damage and I feel great now. 


Thanks everyone for your kind words!

[Jessica]

Congratulations, Sterling! A baby girl....awww! I have a baby girl...who is going to be 7 in two weeks  They grow up so quick- I know EVERYONE says that, but its sooooo true! Enjoy every moment with her!
Do you mind sharing the beauty's name?

My first daughter just turned 6, so I know what you mean.  My newborn is named Emily.

Jessica - my labor was rough, but nothing like yours.  My first daughter was big also (over 8 pounds) so there was little concern about getting the second baby out.  I was induced with Pitocin (IV medication) and it took all day to get enough into me to do anything.  But once things got moving it was over in about an hour.  Very very painful and scary at the end.  When we all realized her hand was coming out too, I was rushed by nurses, and it seemed everyone was yelling and pushing on my legs.    But really not much damage and I feel great now. 


Thanks everyone for your kind words!

I hope you are very happy.

Gabriel is my sunshine for the rest of my life.

I hope your daughter illuminates your days too.

[jarmo]

Congratulations!




/jarmo

[misterID]

Congrats, sterling. I'm glad you and the baby are doing okay, it sounds like it was pretty rough. You and your daughter (and your whole family, for that matter) have my best wishes.


...and boy am I glad I'm a guy.

[Sterlingdog]

Thanks everyone!

[MCT]

To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible

Germ of new life, whose powers expanding slow
For many a moon their full perfection wait,--
Haste, precious pledge of happy love, to go
Auspicious borne through life's mysterious gate.

What powers lie folded in thy curious frame,--
Senses from objects locked, and mind from thought!
How little canst thou guess thy lofty claim
To grasp at all the worlds the Almighty wrought!

And see, the genial season's warmth to share,
Fresh younglings shoot, and opening roses glow!
Swarms of new life exulting fill the air,--
Haste, infant bud of being, haste to blow!

For thee the nurse prepares her lulling songs,
The eager matrons count the lingering day;
But far the most thy anxious parent longs
On thy soft cheek a mother's kiss to lay.

She only asks to lay her burden down,
That her glad arms that burden may resume;
And nature's sharpest pangs her wishes crown,
That free thee living from thy living tomb.

She longs to fold to her maternal breast
Part of herself, yet to herself unknown;
To see and to salute the stranger guest,
Fed with her life through many a tedious moon.

Come, reap thy rich inheritance of love!
Bask in the fondness of a Mother's eye!
Nor wit nor eloquence her heart shall move
Like the first accents of thy feeble cry.

Haste, little captive, burst thy prison doors!
Launch on the living world, and spring to light!
Nature for thee displays her various stores,
Opens her thousand inlets of delight.

If charmed verse or muttered prayers had power,
With favouring spells to speed thee on thy way,
Anxious I'd bid my beads each passing hour,
Till thy wished smile thy mother's pangs o'erpay.

--Anna Barbauld--Past, Present, Future

Tell me, tell me, smiling child,
What the past is like to thee ?
'An Autumn evening soft and mild
With a wind that sighs mournfully.?
 
Tell me, what is the present hour ?
'A green and flowery spray
Where a young bird sits gathering its power
To mount and fly away.?
 
And what is the future, happy one ?
'A sea beneath a cloudless sun ;
A mighty, glorious, dazzling sea
Stretching into infinity.?

--Emily Bronte--

[Neemo]

Congrats Sterling!!!! &

[badapple81]

Congrats!! 

[Sterlingdog]

Thanks for posting those MCT, I enjoyed reading them.

And thanks again to everyone else for your kind words.

[SLCPUNK]

Congrats MOM.

[MCT]

Thanks for posting those MCT, I enjoyed reading them.

You're motherfucking welcome.

[godiva]

Maybe a bit late Sterling, but congratulations on the birth of Emily. I hope everything is well with you and the baby and your other family members. Getting some sleep now and then, I hope?