Friday, September 24, 2010
Written the night of Nieva's Birth- The Day
5:45 am woke up late
had eggs and moldy toast.....
had picture taken and coming in fell really hard on my knee. Pic wasn’t good enough so went downstairs to cat puke and poo city for a pic….left house very cranky..........
7am arrived at hosp and checked in
7:20 checked into our birthing room started candles and spa jafra music
8:30 broke water. was dilated to 3 and 90% effaced and contractions 3-4 min apart
9:00ish doula arrived and breakfast. Had omelet and banana bread and grape juice
9:15 started feeling contractions, but not painful.
10:10 woke up from attempting to nap
contractions became regular. Felt like bad menstrual cramps. Was able to breathe through them fine. Walked halls to get gravity going and then as they increased intensity got into tub at 11:10am and stayed in here until 12:45. Towards the end contractions worsened to almost not being able to handle and only ended up getting 2 bites of lunch in. Listened to hypnobirthing in tub.
12:45 everything got hazy and hard after this and turned into many many position changes through progression after progression. We tried birthing ball, aromatherapy, music, birthing stool, slow dancing, hanging over bed, etc... Had horrible back labo and Carri Jo (doula) and Jordon had to take turns pushing with all their might to do counter pressure.
4:30ish pm progressed to pushing phase. The transition to this phase was the most painful. Through the rest I was told they’d never seen someone so relaxed in labor and they were all really amazed how well I was doing.
Never asked for even a Tylenol through it all.
5:3oish The midwife thought Nieva was almost there and kept saying just on more push but she just wouldn’t come. Finally at 6:43pm she was born. I couldn't believe how big she was! She was very cranky looking and purple with a cone head at first (not so cute haha). I was so exhausted that I must admit I didn't have much reaction at first aside from relief she was here. They put her chest to chest w me. I was so worn out I could hardly react. Jordon cut the cord as a very proud papa. We kept her skin to skin with me as requested for 2 hours. She wouldn’t nurse at first but finally around midnight after one last try she nursed beautifully for 20 minutes.
Had a third degree tear after was all done. Needed a surgeon to come in for quite some time for some semi painful poking and prodding. Needed a shot because I wouldn’t stop bleeding. After they got me fixed up my family finally came.
We named her Nieva Rebecca Boer-Breuer. She had Becca’s cry and eyes. My Grandpa J, Jeff, Gma and Gpa Boer, Kristin, Lana and Steve were all here and came to visit. I had so much swelling and pain from surgery I finally needed the meds(that I didn’t take all through birth) so was a bit goofy talking to everyone. Finally after weighing her (9 pounds 10 oz!!!!!) we moved to new room where everyone got to hold her (all grandparents and jeff went home n coming back tomorrow) but mom and dad looked so excited and lana and steve. Kristin got to hold her too. It was really special to have all my loved ones up to see her so soon :0 ) After breastfeeding til 12:20ish am they took the baby to try to get us some rest and that takes us to now :0 )
We got the birth we wanted because everyone at Sanford was absolutely amazing at honoring our requests. Carri Jo was an indespsensable part of our team. I don’t know how I would have kep same w o her suggestions/coaching. Jordon was so great. I know he was so tired after helping m through back contractions for hours. I feel incredibley blessed and thankful and certainly have a new respect for anyone who has made it through labor pain med free. It was challenging, but doable, and I’m proud I survivd…… even though I’m not sure I’d go so far as to say I want to experience it again………… but I am really proud I did it and that people felt I did such a great jo.b <3 August 20, 2010
had eggs and moldy toast.....
had picture taken and coming in fell really hard on my knee. Pic wasn’t good enough so went downstairs to cat puke and poo city for a pic….left house very cranky..........
7am arrived at hosp and checked in
7:20 checked into our birthing room started candles and spa jafra music
8:30 broke water. was dilated to 3 and 90% effaced and contractions 3-4 min apart
9:00ish doula arrived and breakfast. Had omelet and banana bread and grape juice
9:15 started feeling contractions, but not painful.
10:10 woke up from attempting to nap
contractions became regular. Felt like bad menstrual cramps. Was able to breathe through them fine. Walked halls to get gravity going and then as they increased intensity got into tub at 11:10am and stayed in here until 12:45. Towards the end contractions worsened to almost not being able to handle and only ended up getting 2 bites of lunch in. Listened to hypnobirthing in tub.
12:45 everything got hazy and hard after this and turned into many many position changes through progression after progression. We tried birthing ball, aromatherapy, music, birthing stool, slow dancing, hanging over bed, etc... Had horrible back labo and Carri Jo (doula) and Jordon had to take turns pushing with all their might to do counter pressure.
4:30ish pm progressed to pushing phase. The transition to this phase was the most painful. Through the rest I was told they’d never seen someone so relaxed in labor and they were all really amazed how well I was doing.
Never asked for even a Tylenol through it all.
5:3oish The midwife thought Nieva was almost there and kept saying just on more push but she just wouldn’t come. Finally at 6:43pm she was born. I couldn't believe how big she was! She was very cranky looking and purple with a cone head at first (not so cute haha). I was so exhausted that I must admit I didn't have much reaction at first aside from relief she was here. They put her chest to chest w me. I was so worn out I could hardly react. Jordon cut the cord as a very proud papa. We kept her skin to skin with me as requested for 2 hours. She wouldn’t nurse at first but finally around midnight after one last try she nursed beautifully for 20 minutes.
Had a third degree tear after was all done. Needed a surgeon to come in for quite some time for some semi painful poking and prodding. Needed a shot because I wouldn’t stop bleeding. After they got me fixed up my family finally came.
We named her Nieva Rebecca Boer-Breuer. She had Becca’s cry and eyes. My Grandpa J, Jeff, Gma and Gpa Boer, Kristin, Lana and Steve were all here and came to visit. I had so much swelling and pain from surgery I finally needed the meds(that I didn’t take all through birth) so was a bit goofy talking to everyone. Finally after weighing her (9 pounds 10 oz!!!!!) we moved to new room where everyone got to hold her (all grandparents and jeff went home n coming back tomorrow) but mom and dad looked so excited and lana and steve. Kristin got to hold her too. It was really special to have all my loved ones up to see her so soon :0 ) After breastfeeding til 12:20ish am they took the baby to try to get us some rest and that takes us to now :0 )
We got the birth we wanted because everyone at Sanford was absolutely amazing at honoring our requests. Carri Jo was an indespsensable part of our team. I don’t know how I would have kep same w o her suggestions/coaching. Jordon was so great. I know he was so tired after helping m through back contractions for hours. I feel incredibley blessed and thankful and certainly have a new respect for anyone who has made it through labor pain med free. It was challenging, but doable, and I’m proud I survivd…… even though I’m not sure I’d go so far as to say I want to experience it again………… but I am really proud I did it and that people felt I did such a great jo.b <3 August 20, 2010
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