This is how I announced the birth of our sweet daughter on my personal blog. I promise, from now on, posts will be original!
Well, our little duo has become a threesome. Jadyn Liana was born Saturday, 9/10/05 at 8:17 AM, weighing 6 lb 17 ounces and measuring 20 inches long. You know, I type that sentence with such ease, but truthfully, it was NOT an easy process.
My water broke Friday night, so off to the hospital we went (after my dear hubby finished an hour's worth of work). Upon arrival, when my doctor found I was not contracting on my own, he hooked me up to pitocin, the devil's drug. On and on the contractions came, but no dilation. So after he kept upping the dosage, I got some stadol to help deal with the pain. Still no dilation. Up went the pitocin. I gave up and got the epidural, which wasn't as bad as I thought. The worst part was having to stay still during the contractions so he could put the thing in. I was literally shaking from the pain. That was around 2:30 AM, and I was only dilated 2 cm. Around 4:30 I had dilated no further, and we decided that it looked like a c-section. The baby was pretty much stuck on some little bones in my pelvis. We made the final decision about 6 AM and at 8 AM I was wheeled into the operating room. She was born and pretty much wisked away for her check-up. Thankfully I got to catch a fleeting glimpse of her and hear the pediatrician say she looked good (over the sounds of her crying).
Anyway, I'm recovering from a delivery that pretty much went completely the opposite of everything I wanted, but in the end, I still have a beautiful baby. Now I see how utterly ridiculous it was of me to bother with a birth plan. Next time, my birth plan will be one word only: c-section.
Oh, here's a picture of my angel child:
And here's one of her with her daddy:
1 comment:
Beautiful. My birth experience too was nothing like I had hoped/dreamed and ended in a c-section. But look what we got out of it, not bad!!
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