A few pics

4 days old

Well my baby boy is almost 4 days old already. Our first night home was HORRIBLE, as my milk wasn't in yet and the poor thing was starving. I know he was getting what he needed from the colustrum but his poor lil tummy wasnt full so he just cried and cried all night long. I basically got ZERO sleep because I was nursing every 1-1.5 hours for 45 min at a time. So it was nurse 45 min... then again 15-45 minutes later... talk about exhausting.

My milk did finally come in yesterday but it isn't quite up to par with the amount he wants yet, so I am pumping between feedings. Last night was a lot better, I mean A LOT better. He ate at about 11 and fell asleep at about 12, slept til 1, ate, slept til 4, ate, and it is now 8am and he is STILL sleeping. Im expecting a very fussy and hungry baby to wake up any minute now. Im guessing he was exhausted too from not really sleeping the night before.

He had his first pedi appointment yesterday too. He was down to 5lb 9oz, he was 5lb 11oz when we left the hospital so not too bad I guess. She doesn't want him losing much more though so she was the one who recommended I start pumping between nursing sessions. I have a whole 2oz of breast milk in the fridge!! (OK its weird that Im super excited about this, but it is a BIG deal to me, lol). Everything else at the appointment went really well... he is only actually 18.5 inches long, but the hospital told us he was probably shorter than 19inches anyways cause they measured him when he had his huge cone head... hehe.

The dogs have done a pretty good job so far, they have spent the majority of the time outside. At night they get to sleep inside and Tucker whines allllll night, so we will have to find a way to deal with that. Ginger gets REALLY excited anytime she is near Cody, so we just have to get her to calm down.

I will try and upload more pictures soon, I haven't had very much time at all to even take pictures, yesterday was full of trying to soothe a crying baby.

I will let you know how today goes!

He is here!

So induction was schedule for Sat morning, when I got up Sat I started to have my bloody show, so I knew I was getting close on my own. We got to the hospital at 6:30 Saturday morning, they didn't want to start me up til after shift change at 7 so I sat around from 6:30 until 8 when they started the pitocin.

My dr. came in at 8:45 and I was a "good" 2cm and 90+% effaced. At that time she broke my water... can we say ewwwww. Def felt like I was peeing myself. As soon as my water was broken I started feeling the contractions A LOT better.

I was checked again at 10 and at that time i was up to 4cm and completely effaced, I asked for staidol (sp?) at this time to take the edge off the ctx because they were getting really intense and only about 1-2 min apart and lasting 1 min. That helped a lot but wore off after 1 hour and they wouldnt give me any more for 2 more hours, so I had them check me at 11:45 to see if there was any change to see if I could make it without an epi. Well when she checked me I was only at 4.5cm so I had barely changed in 2 hours so I knew I wouldn't be able to make it without some more drugs, and since they wouldnt give me anything else I got the epi.
The anesthesiologist did a great job as I could still feel the contractions and my legs werent numb and when it came time to push I easily felt the pressure.

So I got the epi at about 12 when I was 4.5cm, they checked me again at 1:20 and I was 9.5cm! So 5cm in about 1.5hours, if I would have known it would go that fast I might not have gotten the epi.

I started pushing at 2:15 and at 3:04 he entered the world with a HUGE cone head! He was 6lb 3oz and 19in long. A full lb less than what the dr. thought he would be.

I had a post pardum hemorrhage and lost A LOT of blood so I had to have a blood transfusion yesterday, besides that I have been feeling great. We came home today, if it werent for the hemorrhage I would have been able to come home yesterday.


Here are some pics, we have tons of them and its hard to pick my favorites!

place your bets!!

So since Cody will be here in FOUR (!) days I thought I would be fun to post guesses on his weight and length. His estimated weight at 31w2d was 4lb 6oz and his femur was measuring as a 34weeker. He will be born at 39w exactly. So leave a comment with your guesses!!

Pictures!!

Here is me at 38 weeks:


These are a few of the maternity photos that were taken at 34 weeks:











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38 Week Appointment

Well Cody is still hanging in there! I went in today and everything is "about" the same... my doctor isn't very big on giving out exact numbers, dont ask me why. I asked her to strip my membranes and she did. It hurt pretty bad but as soon as she was done the pain was gone, so not too bad of an experience.

As soon as I got home I went to the restroom and had a huge gush of blood, I am assuming it was from the sweep. I have been spotting ever since but it seems to be tapering off now. I had a lot of cramping afterwards but that is starting to taper off too. From everything I have read it says if it is going to do anything it will do it within 24-48 hours. So only time will tell!

She did say that she gives me a 75% chance of going on my own before the scheduled induction... have no idea where she gets that number from. She also said she still thinks I will be able to deliver vaginally which is a relief for me because I am small and afraid he is going to end up too big to fit through my pelvis! Let's hope she is right!

11 more days til induction...

"37 Week" Appointment

So I recently found out my dr has me 2 days ahead of what I have me... making my due date 1/1. Whatever... I dont think it really matters at this point. So today was my "37 Week" appointment according to her... so for the fun details...

I am slightly more effaced and slightly more dilated but nothing significant. But I am honestly glad that at least SOMETHING has changed... she even made the comment "look I put you on bed rest to stop things and now nothing's happening!" I was like yeah, tell me about it!

My GBS came back negative so that is good.

And we are scheduling an induction for Dec 27th if he is not here by then! It is soooooo nice to have a date set. I will be over 39 weeks by then. So now I know I will not be pregnant for any longer than 18 more days!!!

She also told me the pain in my back is from him dropping... I told her it felt like he was sitting in my butt, lol. She says he is really low and she seemed surprised that I haven't really changed or been experiencing many contractions.

When I got home from work today I went to the restroom and noticed some brown tissue looking stuff... then I wiped again and there was a lot more brown discharge. I lost part of my MP when I was in PTL then I have been losing little bits and pieces here and there and then on 11/30 I lost a pretty big piece of it. It has always been yellow though and never brown. I realize this could be from the internal, but I have never bled from an internal before so Im holding out hope that it means *something*.

Friday is a full moon so wish me luck!