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@edelweiss: wahoo !!!!

@Kffw: will be thinking of you !!!

@birdofafeather: she's sooo cute!!!

@allison: i need to call my insurance and see what i need to do to get my pump. i was waiting until after the new year since my plan changed so now i am eligible. i won't need it for a while since i have 12 weeks maternity leave, but it looks like it may possibly take a while with insurance, right? guess i should start on that process.

Anyone else sick of family members calling for updates ? My grandmother is wearing me out. I know they all mean well but I'm pretty much ready to say I will call you if I have an update to give !!!

ETA: my MIL also called me and text me 3 times in 30 min after my doc appt today. I was at lunch so didn't have my phone out . All the text were like " how did the appt to ???" And "please text me back so I can know how the appt went". So frustrating for me. I feel like everyone's mind is on my vagina 24/7

@allison: mine only offers the purchase of a manual pump(joke) or the rental of a hospital grade pump for 3 months.

I finally got the correct information after talking to the counselor for my insurance's "healthy baby" program. So if your insurance has one of those i would suggest trying that route.

My coworker called our insurance the other day and they would not even speak to her about what is covered! They refused!

I got my prescription, I just have to take it to the equipment supplier.

Well I just had my 38 week check. The doc told me a cervical check was optional this time. I opted to not get one. I just dont want to know. Doc had a hard time fidning her heart beat and started to get worried she changed positions. So had a last min u/s. Thank goodness she is still in a good position and head down. He looked so releived he held his concern well.
Who all had or will have a membrane sweep/strip?
My doc said he would do this next week if able.

@Rescuemom10: whew! glad she is still head down!

@allison: I think we are all getting to this point! I just keep telling myself that the numbers really don't mean anything. My nurse was at 0, got checked at 37 weeks, lost her mucus plug the next day and water broke a few hours later. I'm hoping I am still progressing and it is killing me to have no idea! it is out of our hands, girl!

@Rescuemom10: I really hope you go early - just for you and your DH!!!

@littlebug: love all that hair! He's super cute. Congratulations! And best wishes for a speedy recovery.

@littlebug: Oh congrats!!!! He is such a cute and I love the name!

@birdofafeather: & @littlebug: Congrats ladies!!! January mommas are picking some great names!! So cute

@littlebug: I commented on your blog but congrats! He's adorable and you're a champ.

I have had spotting and cramping allll day today. Hope it's the start of something. I would really like to go a bit early due to DH's job's dickwaddery.

Alice JoAnn was born Wed night after an unplanned c section. The induction was not going well.. We're both doing great, but it has been exhausting. We finally get to go home tomorrow and I can't wait! She's 6 pds 14oz and 19.5 inches. She's named after DH's great grandmother and my Grannie, two women we were close to and who both had a great deal of moxie.

@BlueWolverine: congratulations! That's a great name.
I definitely had my bloody show this morning...lets get this party started!

@BlueWolverine: Congrats! You gotta love a girl with a lot of moxie!

@dagret: I hope that means things get moving for you! Good luck!

Had a night full of contractions and got 0 sleep. Just had my water broken and I'm at 80% and 2 cm. I want my epi so bad. Should get it soon. Pitocin has started.

So during labor and delivery, I kept a notebook of what was happening. Here are my notes, with a few of my own thoughts/reflections thrown in:

-wednesday morning, i lost my mucus plug. and wednesday afternoon, i started having irregular contractions. right around 9pm, they were more regular - about 7 minutes apart.
-called l&d triage at 9pm, as instructed. was told an rn would call me back. rn called back around 9:30 and told us to come to triage at 10:30. we laid around the house a bit more, enjoying our last few minutes together, then packed up the car and headed over to the hospital.
-10:45pm - check in at l&d triage (nurse patty)
-11pm - placed on monitors and cervical check - still 1cm, 50% effaced. baby's heart rate is "beautiful."
-got iv for fluids. took 3 tries (ended up in left hand)
-11:30pm - baby's heart rate dropped. i got o2. 4rns and the ob came in. had me flip side to side, then on all 4s. baby's heart rate finally came back to baseline (120s).
-12am - transferred to l&d. checked in with new rn (rosie)
tried to sleep - too nervous, too many contractions, too much noise, what have you
-1:30am - ob (dr. piccone) explained that i am contracting quite a bit already, and with the baby's heart rate drop earlier, they decided to skip the cytotec and go straight to low dose pitocin.
-2am - started on low dose pitocin to ripen cervix. told it will be 1mg for an hour, then 2mg for hour, then up to 4mg, where it'll stay for a while. definitely feeling contractions but they aren't painful. just tightening of belly and down in groin.
-4:30am - 4mg pitocin. cervical check - still 1cm, 50%, -1 station. contractions are stronger and becoming painful. when lying on back, hurts in ribcage.
-7am - new rns (sandi and katrina)
-11:30am - contractions about 2-2 1/2 minutes apart. matt and i start talking about getting an epidural. we decided that if i haven't dilated, i will probably get one just so that i can rest.
-12pm - cervical check - 2cm, 90%, -1 station. discussed options - break water and hope to move things along, or epidural. chose the epidural.
-12:30pm - epidural placed. can't feel contractions (yay!). bp issues - flipped sides, increased iv fluids, placed on o2.
-1-3pm - slept! once they regulated my blood pressure, i could hardly keep my eyes open. the nurse was talking to me and i could barely pay attention.
-3:30pm - straight cath
-4:30pm - discussed possibility of foley bulb to dilate. cervical check - 2-3cm, 90%, -1 station. foley bulb would not be appropriate - it falls out at 3cm. o2 off.
-5:30pm - felt a lot of wetness. thought maybe water broke. more bp issues - flipped sides, iv fluids, placed on o2.
-7:15pm - straight cath. new rn (laura).
-8:15pm - dr. piccone checked. 4cm, 90%, -1 station. manually broke water bag.
-9pm - 7cm. feeling intense pressure and need to push. started to push.
-11:46pm - delivery! dr. used the vacuum to assist. he got stuck in between contractions (i thought i was going to split open - it was so painful. i wanted to keep pushing but dr. p told me to wait - continuing to push would have been useless and just made me too exhausted). one more contraction, and he was out. he wasn't breathing when he came out. treated in the in-suite nicu setup by nicu team. given o2 and started breathing on his own after about a minute. once i was stitched up and he was stabilized, they brought him over for a brief snuggle before taking him to the nursery to monitor for 4 hours.
-2am - transferred to maternity. daxon stayed in nursery overnight until about 6am.