My birth story and a pic!

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Here's Cadi! Cadence arrived at 8:28pm on April 19, 2004. She weighed in

at 6lbs 9oz and is 19.25 inches long. My labor was AMAZING! Long story, but

briefly, I woke up with regular contractions at 5am on Monday morning. Went to

the hospital at 11:30am when they were 2-3 mins apart. (Did NOT want to get sent

home again!) They admitted me when I dilated from 3 to 4+ in an hour. They had

trouble monitoring me, so they wanted to apply the internal monitors. I got my

epidural and they broke my water to put the monitors on. Baby was looking great

but there was ALOT of meconium in the fluid, so they did a uterine infusion to

help clean it out. The epidural was my best friend but it stalled my dilation. I

stayed at 5cm for 3 hrs, then they started a low dose of pitocin. It WORKED! I

felt pressure within an hour, and when they checked me, I was at 7cm. About 1 hr

later, I said I could feel pressure and movement. The Dr on call asked what kind

of " movement " ? I said " Well, I can feel the baby coming out. " He chuckled and

said, " Oh, you'll have an hour or two of pushing to get to that point, but

feeling pressure is a good sign, it means you'll be able to push effectively. "

The nurse said " What the heck, let's check and see where she is " . She checked me

and SLAMMED my legs back together, and yelled, " She's CROWNING!!!! Get the Dr! "

The Dr ran back in and called the team of nurses and peds people. They were

literally holding my legs together waiting for my own OB to get there. As my OB

walked in a few minutes later, she said " Wow, everyone's ready to go? " and she

turned to get her gown and gloves on. Right then I felt more movement. I said

" Uhhh...I feel movement there! " and pointed down. The Dr on call opened my legs

(the epidural had me too numb to move them myself) and said " The head is OUT!

We're doing this on the bed! " My OB kinda leaned over me to help suction Cadi's

nose and mouth. Cadi screamed! The Dr said " OK, just give us one little push for

her shoulders " I didn't push at all. I took a deep breath so I could get ready

to push and they said " Here she is! What was that? HALF a push??? " Her sord was

too short to put her on my tummy and they needed to hurry up to get her lungs

suctioned so they took her right over to the " work table " before I even got to

see her. Bo was taking digital pics and running back over to show me. We were

all sobbing and laughing. Her apgar's were 9 and 9. No problems, no additional

monitoring, nothing. I had no tearing and no episiotomy, so no stitches or

anything. She roomed in with me that night, and we came home last night when she

was 24 hrs old! She's an AWESOME baby, hardly ever cries, and I can't believe

she's OURS!

http://www.thatsmybaby.net/home/viewchild.asp?imageno1=019&imageno2=66491

I hope this works. This is the link to her hospital page. Let me know if it

doesn't work, and I'll try something else.

Hugs to all!

Shari and Bo in Wichita KS

Proud new parents of Cadence .

Shari WLS 8/99 saved my life!