More to come later but…
After having my membranes stripped at my Friday (oct 24) monitoring appt, my water broke at 11:15pm just after getting in bed.
Zaia Bee was born saturday October 25th at 4:07PM. she weighs 7 lbs 1 oz. we’re having some breast feeding issues, but she’s getting her colostrum. She’s long and lanky with round smooth sweet cheeks. She’s warm and soft and the best to snuggle. I had two labors. The first was awful, around 7 hours long, and didn’t have any relief between contractions, I shook uncontrollably for 4 hours (very exhausting) and threw up a lot. The tub made things worse, sitting on the toilet made things worse, laying on my side made things worse, dancing made things worse. I gave in on my natural labor dreams and had an epidural
.. then I had a dreamy wonderful labor. I napped a few hours.. they came to check me around 3pm and suddenly I was fully dilated and she was at +1 position. about 20 minutes later she was out. (i was saying 30-40 minutes. my mom swears it was more like 20 of pushing). and the pushing was easy and I was in a great mood through it all. Hans and my mom were my rock star supporters.
ZB is perfect and we will post photos tomorrow and zaiabee.com will become active once i’ve downloaded photos.
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Congratulations!! I’m sorry your drug free birth plan didn’t work out….but labor is pretty darn painful, and I can’t blame you for giving in to the epidural.
Congratulations!!
YES!!!!
Congrats!!! Sorry you had such a rough time at first, but super fantastic that you got some relief!
welcome to the world zaia bee (man, i just LOVE her name!!)
cant wait to see you, little girl…
and good job, h!!!
have you checked kellymom.com? good for bf’ing questions…and just keep at it. like anything else, it just takes practice…xoxoxo!
Congrats!!!! I love the name!!!!