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[Tink and co.]

Good luck and well wishes for your delivery!
With my oldest I arrived at the hospital on a Friday morning for a planned induction, and she was born on Monday morning after about 45 minutes of pushing. Not too bad, but a long weekend!
With my second daugther I went into labor 2 1/2 months early, and labor was stopped. I had to wear a needle in my leg for 2 months which contstantly delivered muscle relaxers to keep me out of labor. The doctor said when they removed the meds, I'd go into labor quickly. Not so! A full month later I went in for planned induction, and as soon as they hooked me up to the pitocin she was born. 45 minutes start to finish, and I only had to push 3 times!
So, my little boy should have merely skipped out on the way to the hospital, but children being children, that was not meant to be! He was so large that if they let him go to term, his estimated weight was 12 pounds! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] The doctor assured me he'd have to break his collar bone to deliver him naturally, so we opted for a C-Section. We went into the hospital at 7 am, and he was born at 7:18. I was already in active labor when we went in and I didn't even know it! It was an easy delivery, but the recovery wasn't so fun. All in all, 3 healthy kids! I'm happy!

[Nala]

Best wishes for the arrival of your new little bundle of joy!

First of all, let me say that I am a HUGE whimp when it comes to pain. There was no way I was doing this without an epidural.

The short version of my labor story goes like this: Six hours of labor, one epidural, and three pushes later we had our little girl. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] And to this day, Grumpy swears one of my pushes didn't count as it was a sneeze! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]

[tndisneyfam]

[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] for you and your baby! Congrats to you and your family!

#1 our dd was born after about 15 hours of labor.On my due date my doctor decided to induce me, since my feet were bigger than Fred Flintstone's [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] I was swelling alot! It was a pretty easy labor.The hard part was trying to get some sleep while in labor, since I was in labor overnight. My first epidural did not "take" so they gave me another. Needless to say, I felt nothing!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] She was a long baby. She was 9lbs 5oz and 22in.

#2 Our ds was a different story. The baby was breech from very early on. I started to get really swollen, worse than the first time. And had a lot of pain. It felt like a very big baby. The ultrasound tech said it was definetly a girl. Didn't I say ds??? Yes, I had another ultrasound to see if the baby was still breech and my doc was going to take the baby by c-section the next day if "she" was still breech. WELL, as soon as the baby was on the tv screen, I got nervous and asked if that was a tumor. I saw a round object that was not there before. The tech was like OMG!!! THOSE ARE TESTICLES!!!!! I laughed and laughed. I didn't care what sex the baby was. But, I had the nursery all ready for a girl and girls clothing hanging in the closet. SOOOO I had a c-section the next day. It is such a miracle that they can do this. There was a problem, though. The baby was breech and he had one knee up toward his chin and one leg down, with the cord wrapped around his neck. The doctor said that is was a blessing he was breech. Anyways, DS was a big boy 9lbs 2 oz 22in at 2 weeks early!!!! They had to pull him out, which didn't really hurt, but it is not very pleasant having someone pulled from your abdomen. Thankfully he came out healthy and very upset!! Don't you love hearing a newborn's cry? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] They took ds and dh out and started to sew me up. For some unknown reason my BP dropped and I felt very nauseous. Thankfully the anestesiologist gave me something to boost my bp. I have to say I really like the c-section, because there is no labor!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. Ds had to spend a week at Univ of Tennessee's NICU, because he couldn't keep his oxygen saturation up. Very scary, but a precaution since he was a little bit early and a c-section baby. Now he is a 30 pound 14 month old!!

#3 hopefully in 2008 [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Cheriemek]

Congratulations!!

DD1 and DD2 - my water broke, and I had 36 hours of labor. I had to be induced with piticin that they kept cranking up.

DD3 - normal! Go to hospital, have baby 2 hours later.

DD4 - again, water breaks. Into hospital. Be induced. Wait 18 hours.

[JoanW]

1. Twelve days early. Water broke at 11:00 am, checked into the hospital at 3:30 pm, delivered Grace NATURALLY at 9:30 pm. Stayed two nights, oh joy! Ate a tuna sandwich from mystery source at 11:00 at night. Yum.

2. On her due date. Water broke at 7:30 pm, checked into hopital at 9:00 pm after sitting in bumper to bumper traffic for 45 minutes. Delivered NATURALLY at 10:00 pm, two pushes. No time for IV, blood work, wore my socks because there was no time to get fully undressed. Ate another mystery sandwich at 11:00. Starved!

[lukesmom]

I was only in labor for a few hours before requiring a c-section. I can't really recall the few hours of labor. I guess I don't have much of a tale to tell!

[koalamom]

DD17 aka Tigger_Lizard - Was due on Dec 2nd and did not get here until Dec 14th. She was primping and did not want to come out. Went in the hospital for induction on a Monday on the drip all day, no kid. Off the drip to eat, walk around, shower. Back on the drip Tuesday morning. Started to feel contractions Tuesday afternoon. Got heavier in the evening and got an epidural - nice. At one point I was maybe 5 cm and they upped my epidural and then I jumped to 10 cm and fully effaced and could not feel to push. Major contractions on the monitor, my body was ready to go, but I could not feel! I took a nap. This amazed the nurses. Of course by then this was past my bedtime and I was tired. What was I supposed to do? At some point DH got hungry and got chili out of a vending machine and brought it into the room. I was now awake and getting sick because they put me on oxygen because she was not getting enough and the oxygen messed with my sinus drainage and made me sick. The nurse tells DH to GET OUT! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] He comes back afterwards and we start to have this kid. DH decides to chew spearmint gum while telling me in my face when to push. Between pants I am telling him Get pant Rid pant Of pant The pant Gum! At 3:47 AM on Wednesday we have a nice 8 lb 10 oz girl. Of course the lazy doc did not get there quite in time for my episiotomy so I ripped, a lovely thing to recover from.

DD10 - Kidzilla - Forgive me but I forgot my original due date for her, I think it was something like Dec 21. Anyway I go in for a weekly check on Dec 13 and the doc says "You are so big, lets do an ultrasound to check on her". Ultrasound said 11 lbs 2 oz. I told the tech her computer was broken. Doc says okay, if you do not come in on your own, come in Friday (Dec 15) for induction. Show up Friday morning (because this kid too is not budging) and get put on the drip. Things get going mid day and I get my epidural. Then not progressing well so doc comes and ups my drip and breaks my water. When I get dilated and effaced and ready baby is too big to get out but doc had me push for 40-60 minutes to try anyway. Finally they decide to do a C-section because baby's head was swelling. Should have had a scheduled C to begin with - ultrasound did say 11 lb! Anyway, off to the OR to have baby. That is the weirdest feeling, a C section. You can feel them working, but it does not hurt. Had the shakes really bad postop (did not have these the first time, had heard about them, did not like them). DD10 was 11 lb! DH just kept saying over and over, "she is so big". He said this to my poor mom on the phone so I think she thought I had a malformed kid. Nope, just a nice, healthy, very large kid. TOB - approx 1030 pm.

This puts my girls at 7 years and one day apart!

You do forget/forgive the pain. We were gonna try for a third, but poor DH was already overrun with females so we decided on a dog instead. (Female)

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Good luck and best wishes! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/bear.gif[/img]