Made a plan to be induced for May 3rd (not with the doctor, I just decided that would happen), water broke at 1:45am (4/26), laid in bed until 2:30, went in around 3:30, got to hospital around 4:30am. Gush in parking lot. Embarrassing at counter. Nothing. Pill at 9:30am. Nothing. NO FOOD!! Pill at 1:30pm, another at 1:45. STARVING!!! (stole 4 bites of Patrick's sandwich...shh!) Nothing. Contractions at 4:45pm. Pitocin at 5:30, upped the dose at 6:30, sucky, sucky, sucky, checked at 7pm was at a 4. Epidural by 7:20. Funny nurse. Pressure/pain...checked at 9pm'ish, I thought I"d be a 6, she thought I'd be a 10. Was an 8 that turned to 10 as she checked. Everyone came in. Pushed twice "ooh look hair! Do you want to see?" Push twice more and bam, baby. 9:17pm 8 lbs 1.5oz, 19 1/2 inches long, 14" head circumference. Smallest baby ever...but not really as it turns out Isabelle was 8 lbs 1.3oz, so really she was 0.2oz smaller. Put baby on my stomach right after 'cuz we wanted to wait to cut the cord, the nurse held him in place while we waited, which I thought was weird as I was all prepared to do it. Nursed baby, nurse brought me a chicken wrap. Patrick went and got Taco Bueno (it's more bueno!). Patrick stayed night, went to friend's thing Saturday, came back brought me subway then went home. Friends came, left. Thought we'd have to stay until Monday because my water broke so early they thought the baby needed observation. Changed their minds, went home Sunday around 5:30 after Patrick got there from church. Totally forgot to take any pics while I was in labor or of me holding the baby right after...or of Patrick holding the baby right after...bah.
Good baby, tend to block out how sucky the first two weeks of no sleep are. Seems to be getting better now. Nursing problems first week, all cleared up. Baby had to get circumcised this week, that was much sadder than when it's done at the hospital. Has hair (weird) will probably fall out next week like James's did and then get covered in baby acne and be ugly for a month or so....just in time for Grandma to visit! ;)
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That was a great summary. I would put more am and pm things in so it wasn't so confusing though. for a second I thought the chicken wrap was something to wrap the baby in. Haha, chicken baby.
Love the summary! I wish I could write as succinctly.
Glad little George is doing well and I hope you are, too.
It made me think, now that we're pretty sure we're having a boy, about getting him circumcised. Do they normally do it at the hospital or do you normally wait til later?
Julie; All of my other boys were done at the hospital, but this time our pediatrician doesn't have hospital rights where we delivered anymore (for various reason all having to do with a change of policy at the hospital) so we had to do it at her office. In the past she came to the hospital and did that as well as the regular post-birth checkup and came to our room to tell us about the baby and stuff. It was really nice. This time the on-site pediatrician did all of that and they told us we had to go see our own doc for the circ. So I guess it depends on the hospital.
Congratulations! Hooray for another baby in your family!
That has got to be the best and most precise summary of a birth story I'm read. Miss you and congrats five and a half months late!
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