Birth Pictures

Here is a slide show of the pictures my brother took. He also made an awesome video that makes me tear up every time I watch it. Complete with editing, captions, and a soundtrack. He's the best that brother of mine. But watching the video and seeing the pictures makes me realize how shitty I looked! LOL Seriously, I looked like crap during my 14 hours of labor and after. My friend A commented how "different" I looked. I know what you really meant A. I looked like crap! Hahaha. It's cool.

Enjoy!

I'm in LABOR!!!

Had my bloody show. That's mucus tinged with blood. And then some more blood.

Contractions are closer together and regular at about 2-3min apart.

I just showered.

We are getting ready to leave to the hospital. Calling them now.

Please send me baby dust and labor dust! I am eerily calm....obviously i'm blogging between contractions. I swear if there was cell reception in the labor delivery area I would live blog!

Next time I blog I better have a baby in my arms!!

Thanks everyone for all your support thus far.

See ya on the flip side!

1st trip to L&D and more

Let me tell you about my fuckedup night.

When I got home from dinner at my mom's I had the sudden urge to take a huge dump or throw up. So I took a small [tmi] loose dump and my stomach immediately started hurting really bad. I laid down and my back started hurting. I couldn't tell if it was contractions or just overall pain. But I was in pain. Lot's of it. I chugged some water and immediately threw up. It was like I was auditioning for the exorcist. I felt like shit. I laid down again and my back pain became more intense.

And then the contractions started. There were some I couldn't even talk thru and were really close together. I wasn't sure what was going on though. I kept texting my cousin who is a postpartum RN for advice. She finally said I should call L&D. Of course, they have no useful info and just told me to go in if I'm worried. I felt like a lame ass going in because I really didn't think I was in labor and didn't want to go in for nothing. But 2 hrs later my mom convinced me to go in and get checked out just to make sure everything was ok.

We arrived at L&D just before midnight. I felt so stupid being there as [of course] I was no longer in pain. Maybe the nerves of going magically made the pain disappear. So they hooked me up to the machine. My BP was high but then the 2nd take was low [this has been happening at every appt]. Absolutely no contractions while I was there. [Although there was a girl next door in A LOT of pain. I'm sure she's holding her baby today.] Baby was sleepy and not moving much so the nurse used this "stimulator" that buzzed my belly and made baby's heart rate shoot up. Poor guy! It must've freaked him out. It was so sad.

So after an hour and a half we were home. Contractions were brought on by vomiting. Tea for stomach pain and low-dose tylenol for back pain and cut down on salt for BP. Had some tea and tylenol and headed off to bed.

As soon as I tried to lay down my back pain returned with a vengeance. It hurt so much that I couldn't even cry. It hurt standing, sitting, walking, and especially laying down. OMG did it hurt laying down. And I couldn't breath when I laid down because the pain was so intense. Finally busted out the heating pad which only took the edge off. I was so tired I would fall asleep while it was on and when I removed it the pain was still there just as intense. I would just cry thru the pain. DH finally passed out at 4:30am when I fell asleep for about 20 min. But I woke up in pain and was up until 6:30am. I couldn't take the exhaustion anymore so I laid down in pain and sucked it up. Found a spot that it didn't hurt as much and I could breath and eventually fell asleep. I woke up at 9:30am to my mom calling and was not in pain anymore. Slept till 12:30pm.

LONGEST SUCKIEST night ever. Now I'm crampy. :-(

And it didn't help that the nurse told me to ONLY sleep on my [dreaded] left side.

After last night I am SO ready to be done!

But of course baby isn't. Nurse said I am still 1cm, thick, and high. Baby is nowhere near descending.

OH! And did I mention we had company when all this began? Yeah we eventually left my brother my keys so they could lock up and go home if we took long.


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Contractions?

It's just before 5am and I've been very crampy since just before 3am. Just after 4am the crampiness actually became contractions...irregular but noticeable.

Yesterday, I was at a b-day pool party and I started getting very irregular contraction around 6pm. Thought nothing of it till about 7:30 when it was still happening. Nothing painful but I felt it from my back to my lower belly. And also in my butt hole like I had to go #2. My cousin the postpartum RN was all excited telling me it sounded like real contractions. Around 8pm I started chugging water in case I was just dehydrated. Got home about 9ish and it all seemed to go away. Chalked it up to dehydration.

After getting up to pee 3 times before 3am [has never happened!] I became crampy just before 3am. Just felt like period cramps so I wasn't sure what was going on. The suddenly around 3:45am I had a painful one, but then I totally had to take a dump. LOL. I ended up taking my first middle of the night dump! Weird. Is my body preparing for something? I don't know but now I'm wide awake and trying to time myy irregular contractions on this website.

G just left to work during my dump and he was all worried and nervous.

I've been up for a while so I just had some lucky charms. Really wanted a PB&J sandwhich but our bread was starting to mold. :(

Also, Baby G is moving a lot. So maybe he isn't quite descending into the birth canal just yet.

Don't some women have mild contraction FOREVER before going into labor? Maybe these are just the "practice" ones? I don't know, but being at this point is crazy! I mean...I'm finally here!

Watch me still be over due in 2 weeks. LOL

To be continued...

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