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It looks like we finally got all those boys balanced out! I can't believe how soon August will be here!

Ahhhhhh!!!

My August baby turned July baby!

Monday July 20th was my first official day of maternity leave. I was so excited to have a couple weeks off before baby! Until I woke up Monday morning and realized my water was broken. Guess this little guy didn't want to miss out on the party! DH worked from home just incase even though I thought it would be a long day. We went and had a good breakfast then he went grocery shopping while I got a pedicure (you know, the important stuff!) my contractions were extremely spread out and not painful at all. we were supposed to have a contractor come by at 1 to finish up our door repair from being broken into. My husband wanted to cancel it but I was insistent on getting it taken care of before baby! So from about 1-3 I stayed in our bedroom and contractions got progressively more intense. Our midwife wanted us to come by at 6pm to check and make sure everything was ok and then would send us home...well by the time we left for the hospital at 5:30, I knew we would be staying there. They immediately admitted us!. Got the birthing tub all set up while they checked me in. Once that was done I got in the water right away. It helped a lot & I was probably in there for 4 or so hours. I went from the birthing tub to sitting on the toilet to standing in the shower...anything to get relief. My contractions were 100% in my back, it was pretty bad. Finally I got checked at about midnight I think, it may have been later, and was at a 6/7. I labored for a few more hours & got checked again. Was at an 8/9 but my cervix was dilating unevenly & one side was swollen because of his posterior position. My midwife wanted my contractions to be stronger so that it would force him to turn. I was running out of energy & actually was falling asleep standing up. My contractions were spuddering out and spacing further apart. My midwife urged me to get a small amount of pitocin but I knew I wouldn't be able to tolerate it without an epidural so I caved and got one. I was at a full 9cm and had been laboring for about 26 hrs by the time we made the decision to intervene. Once I got the epidural I slept for a while and let my body labor a bit. I started pushing around 4:30pm and pushed for two hours before he got out. He was a little limp so the peds team rushed in to make sure he was breathing which meant immediately cutting the cord and no immediate skin to skin. everything ended up being just fine though! As for me, I didn't have any perineal tearing but a few small internal tears and needed two stichtes. I'm pretty sore from all the pushing but otherwise good.

My labor and birth was nothing like I Intended but at the end of the day I'm happy with the decisions we made, it's what got me through everything! I know if he was in a better position I would have delivered him easier and without intervention. But I had to do what I had to do!
Happy birthday baby Miles!

@Portboston: congrats!!! He's beautiful!!!

@Portboston: Congratulations! So happy for you!

@Portboston: congrats! Sounds like a great birth!

@Portboston: Hi Miles!! Congrats, Mama!

Wow! 26 hours without an epidural - I hope I make it that long!!! I got a really bad charlie horse this morning and I was pathetic.

@Portboston: congrats!!!!!

@Portboston: cute little guy! Congrats!

@Portboston: Comgrats mama!! Sounds like everything went really well and amazing that you only had a couple of grazes and no real tearing!! Welcome baby Miles!!

@Portboston: SO happy for your little family! He is a doll! Way to go!!!

Just checking in to see if there were any updates to this thread, and I'm surprised that we're at the end of July and there aren't any new announcements! I'm sure we'll have some more babies born soon though. Good luck to everyone!

@Mrs. J: Haha, I didn't mean to get your hopes up

@Portboston: LOL! You did! That's why it's so crazy! This is like when two friends of mine- totally unrelated- had boys named Calvin on the same day. WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!

Ahhhh come on, August babies!!!

@Torchwood: I'm sooooo sick of nursing and it's only been 4 days!!! My poor nipples

@buttermilk: I'm hoping so!!!