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@Banana330: Congrats! I had missed that you'd added yourself when you updated the list earlier.

@Banana330: may mama popping in! Congrats! I share your daughters name she's beautiful!

Lyle was born this morning at 9:36, weighing in at 7'6" - considerably less than predicted and the same amount as his older sister

I was scheduled for an induction Tuesday night, and really hoped to avoid it. So Tuesday morning I took castor oil, ate pineapple and drank copious amounts of red raspberry leaf tea. I was also losing my mucus plug, with quite a bit of blood. Finally around 1pm I started getting contractions about 7-8 minutes apart and when they were 5-6 I called my doctor. He told me to come on in around 5.

Long story short, labor took forever. At 8am this morning they gave me Pitocin because my contractions were so slow to progress. Once they started that, things progressed quickly. By the time I started pushing it only took 4 minutes. All in all, a good experience -- and I am thrilled that he's here. Not too thrilled about my giant pad and enormous mesh panties, though, lol.

@meredithNYC: congrats! So good to hear everything went well and good work with that long labour! He's so cute!

@meredithNYC: congratulations! And you managed to induce yourself too!

@meredithNYC: Aw congrats!

@Mrs. Sunshine: good luck!!

@Mrs. Sunshine: sounds very promising! Hoping you are holding your sweet babe or very close to it!

@meredithNYC: popping in to say congrats, mama! He's just precious!!

Sadie's birth story

I started getting intense period cramps around two am on Friday. I tried to sleep through them but they were getting more intense and uncomfortable. My Dh got up at 6 to go to work and I tole him to work from home that I might be in labour. The contractions were getting stronger and longer so around 9am our midwife came to check me. I was 2-3 cm dilated (up from nothing on wed afternoon). She left me to labour a bit longer and the contractions started getting super intense and I needed DH to put counter pressure on my back and in between contractions he fed me water and snacks. Around 12we called the midwife again and she said come straight to hospital. I was 4cm at that point and very uncomfortable.

I laboured in the shower for a little bit, which was nice but the pain was building. My midwife suggested breaking my water to help the baby drop, I agreed but only if she'd start the process for me getting the epidural.

When she broke my water it was full of muconium. This wasn't a bad thing but required a paediatrician to be present at birth in case she had aspirated some.

It took three nurses to get and IV in and during that time the baby's heart rate dropped. The midwife had me frantically flipping over trying to get it to recover and 10 staff ran in to assess the situation. Meanwhile I'm still contracting it pain. Poor DH was just sitting there a bit stunned.

Her heart rate recovered and they continued with the epidural. She had a few more scares where her heart rate would drop and they would move me in to different positions to get it to recover.

Just after the epidural kicked in and I started getting some relief we had another scare and the on call OB came in to say he recommended a CSection immediately.

They weren't joking, 30sec later I was being rolled in to the OR and they were prepping me for surgery. At 5:31pm she was born, checked out healthy by the paediatrician and put on to DH's chest for skin to skin. Once they were done sewing me up she was put on my chest and we went to recovery.

It turned out she was totally wrapped in her cord and it was cutting off supply with each contraction once my water broke and wasn't letting her drop low enough for me to dilate past 6cm.

We had two very long days in hospital, the first in a semi private room where our roommates talked all night long. Then got moved to a private but little Sadie spent the whole night crying. We were told to supplement a bit cause she lost 10% of her weight in the first two days but she's slowing gaining back now my milk has come in.

Since then we've been improving our latch and working on feeding. She's been cluster feeding every night but sleeps well after and is pretty cute the rest of the time.

@Banana330: she's precious!! So glad they got her out safe and sound!

@Mrs. Sunshine: she is so adorable!! You look amazing!

After a very difficult 48 hour labor, and an extremely rough delivery, we had little baby Ellie yesterday. She is sweet as pie and feeding like a champ!

@lilyofthewest: yay! good luck today!!

@lilyofthewest: yay! My fingers are crossed for you to go soon!

@lilyofthewest: glad to hear he made his appearance!

@lilyofthewest: Congratulations on your baby boy! We waited until Quinn was around 40 hours old to decide on his name. Which I realized that I never updated on HB. Been so busy. Can't wait to find out what you called him.

In other birth news, Will and Kate had their baby this morning. So that's another April birth month baby coming in May. How are we doing with everyone else? I haven't really been following much lately. Been so busy with the little munchkin. Being a mom is so much more wonderful than I ever expected!

@Rockies11: Congrats to you, too! Ellie is such a sweet name. Sorry you had a rough delivery. I hope you're doing well now.

@lilyofthewest: congrats!!