https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 15 May 2026 14:09:11 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-161021 Thu, 17 May 2012 06:49:33 +0000 Rosie Girl 161021@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yay! Congrats!!!!! Back labor is probably the worst pain to ever be in! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-160863 Wed, 16 May 2012 20:45:11 +0000 Nskillet 160863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pastemoo: I sure did get the headache it was terrible!!! Worst neck/head pain of my life. The only time I felt normal was when I was laying down or on percocet AND Motrin 6 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-160840 Wed, 16 May 2012 20:00:33 +0000 pastemoo 160840@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations, what a beautiful story! And so... did you get the spinal headaches? Are you doing OK?<br /> Again, congrats!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-159205 Tue, 15 May 2012 13:25:58 +0000 lavender 159205@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congrats! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-159060 Tue, 15 May 2012 12:06:08 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 159060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Awww - I love that you sang Happy Birthday to her when she came out! What a great idea :-) Congrats!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-159018 Tue, 15 May 2012 11:42:03 +0000 Nskillet 159018@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Alivoo01: Right?! I straight up ruined a chair in there. I was laughing with coworkers the entire time. A male co worker friend of mine came into my cube and was like "hey dude!" and I grinned and said "hey!" and that was when my water broke. I wish i had a picture of that guys face!!</p> <p>@Mrs Jacks I am majorly amazed you birthed her!!! My poor little gremlin (I call her this cause shes a major grunter) ended up with some serious skull bruising/blister cause of the time she spent in my pelvis hitting a bone. Doctor said the first thing she saw when they opened me up were her making a huge kissy face. She let me push so long because I was making progress but then the exhaustion set in and my contractions were so far apart I was done for. My body didnt respond to pitocin at all!!!</p> <p>Thanks for all the compliments, giving birth was a crazy cool adventure for me :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158990 Tue, 15 May 2012 11:20:02 +0000 Alivoo01 158990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations on your new bundle of joy!! Curious as to how y'all cleaned up the water mess in your cube? LOL! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158897 Tue, 15 May 2012 10:22:35 +0000 PBandBaseball 158897@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations!! Such a wonderfully written story &amp; I love her name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158731 Tue, 15 May 2012 08:09:26 +0000 Andrea 158731@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What a great story and I love her name, too. Congrats!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158692 Tue, 15 May 2012 07:21:01 +0000 sorrycharlie 158692@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>congratulations! love her name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158658 Tue, 15 May 2012 02:59:24 +0000 SAHM0811 158658@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Beautiful story! Congrats!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158578 Mon, 14 May 2012 21:37:34 +0000 birdofafeather 158578@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>congrats! what a crazy labor story, but i'm so glad that's you are both okay and doing well! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158560 Mon, 14 May 2012 20:54:57 +0000 mediagirl 158560@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158537 Mon, 14 May 2012 20:23:25 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 158537@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congrats! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158528 Mon, 14 May 2012 20:17:20 +0000 HLK208 158528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158511 Mon, 14 May 2012 20:02:55 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 158511@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations! I can hear you talking when I read this, which is so nice :)</p> <p>My daughter was OP too. We didn't know until I was pushing... The slow progress of labor suddenly made sense. Somehow, I was able to deliver her without a section with a few manuevers by my amazing OB! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158503 Mon, 14 May 2012 19:44:19 +0000 heffalump 158503@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yay so exciting, and yay for red heads! Lots of my family, including my mom, have red hair so I was hoping my LO would too... but no luck. Maybe the next one :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158437 Mon, 14 May 2012 19:07:22 +0000 mrs. wagon 158437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>CONGRATULATIONS!!! Your excitement through your birth story was so adorable, I read the highlights out loud to Wagon Sr. We are both sitting here "aw"ing at your story. :) Congrats on your new baby girl!!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158406 Mon, 14 May 2012 18:53:43 +0000 MamaMoose 158406@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congrats!! I love the spelling of Abbey! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158380 Mon, 14 May 2012 18:32:02 +0000 chopsuey 158380@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love red hair!! :D Congrats!!!!! :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158379 Mon, 14 May 2012 18:31:41 +0000 winniebee 158379@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158372 Mon, 14 May 2012 18:21:52 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 158372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congrats!!!! Love the name too :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158351 Mon, 14 May 2012 18:01:05 +0000 cvbee 158351@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Nskillet: oooh eeee! I've been waiting for this story! Hey, you and I had SUCH similar stories....everything except the epi and c-section (at work water break, back labour, dilating fast, pushing for a long time). Must be the red hair. (And, yep mine was a cone head too). So happy for you and your healthy new baby Abbey! Thanks for sharing your story! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158350 Mon, 14 May 2012 18:01:04 +0000 banana 158350@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congrats!!! What an adorable name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158347 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:50:55 +0000 Nskillet 158347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsMini: ME TOO! I even had staples and having them removed was a breeze. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158344 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:42:58 +0000 MsMini 158344@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations! I have been amazed at how easy c-section recovery is! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158340 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:38:38 +0000 regberadaisy 158340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yay! Congratulations mama!!! Your LO was born just as I started pushing!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-of-abbey#post-158333 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:28:13 +0000 Nskillet 158333@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>April 27th started with some major excitement. 37 weeks 5 days pregnant and it was my last day at work before my maternity leave began!! I woke up liesurely with my DH who gave me the biggest kiss. Finishing up work was a huge milestone I was anxiously awaiting. I got up and started my morning routine when I felt something almost loosen. I sat on the toilet and then lost with a huge splash my mucous plug!! I yelled out to DH excitedly and then got this bizarre huge rush of energy. I lost my appetite and began excitedly cleaning my kitchen. DH works from home on Friday he asked if he should drive me to work but I was insistent that losing my plug could mean labor could still be days away. I was already 80-90% effaced and 1-1.5cm dilated according to my cervical check the day before but all that means nothing right?</p> <p>I hopped in the car and headed to my last day! My co workers had a small breakfast for me and everyone talked about how they wished I would get my full 2 weeks before my due date. Our maternity leave is kinda crap in that all expectant moms get 2 weeks before their due dates and 6 weeks post delivery regardless if by vaginal or c section. However, if your baby is early you loose that time and if you're late you get additional. My motherly instinct knew I wasnt getting my 2 weeks before and I proclaimed that in my meeting. This baby was coming soon!</p> <p>I headed back to my desk and worked finishing up final emails, getting my desk packed up and chatting with my DH in IM (we work for the same company with IM). Around 2:15 or so I had to pee AGAIN! I headed to the bathroom and did the deed bemusing to myself that itd be hilarious if my water broke at work. I chuckled, returned to my cube and my water promptly broke....EVERYWHERE! I was shocked, they tell you only 10%of waters break....and its my last day!! Drats my 2 weeks was gone. I quickly IMed DH who excitedly logged off and made he commute to pick me up. This slightly complicated matters because we had an extra car. Luckily, Im paranoid by nature and had our hospital bags packed and in my car for a few weeks. Despite the odds we were totally prepared.</p> <p>Contractions didnt start right away, and people at work kept me distracted/quiet. Company policy for liability purposes is to call an ambulence for anyone in labor so they kept me hush hush till my husband arrived. I made calls to all our family and hopped in the car with DH. Holy crap I was in labor and so friggen excited. </p> <p>By the time we got to the hospial (20 minutes) or so the contractions began. They werent horrible but they werent fun and they were all in my back. I literally had no tummy or period like cramping. This made tracking my contractions apparently difficult. We were admitted and then the doctors came to see me and gave me some terrifying news. The fern test for amniotic fluid was negatve and I still had tons of fluid. They werent sure they were keeping me as they claimed my water hadnt broken. They proclaimed this after using a speculm on me for an internal. I cannot tell you how painful this part was I was so upset and at that point petrified of being sent home. MynDH was so supportive and kept saying therr was no way they were sending us home he wouldnt allow it. My contractions had started picking up as did some bloody discharge and I began ti labor some on the toilet/while walking around. They put me on observation to see if id progress. After an hour or two they checked me again and id dilated! Yay labor! I was formally admitted and then began the longest IV process ever. None of the nurses could stick me right. At this point the back labor was unbearable in bed (where the nurses kept telling me to sit) I finally asked for the epidural but had to wait till I was over 7cm dilated with contractions ontop of one another because of he IV issues, having to clear 1 bag of fluid and then delays with anesthesia. Back labor is excruciating!! I was in a zen deep breathing place and begging for relief. Once anesthisia showed up more fun! They had to stick me more than once and deemed me a "hard" patient. They warned me I would likely suffer a spinal headache but the relief was amazing. It was another 2-3 hours before it was time to push. DH and I took a nap to prepare for the marathon of pushing. And marathon it was. I pushed for almost 3hours and was exhausted. The baby stopped coming down and they called it. C section. I honestly wasnt sad, I was relieved. I tried so hard to have the baby naturally and my narrow birth canal was preventing it. DH suited up and Abbey Marie was born on April 28th at 6:47am weighing 7lbs 2oz. Turns out she was posterior the entire time and the doctor said she was shocked I got as far as I did pushing. She had a full cone head of red hair and as soon as they put her in my husbands arm and near my face I loved her more than anything. DH and I sung her happy birthday as they stitched me up. Our enormous family camped out in the waiting room from 4:30pm on the 27th till nearly 10am when they each got to hold her. </p> <p>She is the absolute light of our lives!! C Section recovery has been amazing. I did suffer from that spinal headache which was the worst part of my recovery. We muscled through though and are now a happy new family of 3!! </p>