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The Baby Page
We would love for you to let us know when you’ve had your baby! It’s become so tough to keep track of everyone’s due dates here and we want to be one of the first to congratulate you!
Please post below if you’ve recently had your baby. Feel free to share:
- Your story
- A link to your blog where you tell your story and show any pictures (Your name will be linked and clickable, so be sure to link to the full address of the blog post you want to link to
- Anything else
We’re not sure if this is the best solution, but we needed to get something up and running here. We’ll see how this method goes. :)
We’re looking forward to reading your stories!
Jane and Tarzan
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Hmmmm. My baby girl, Charlotte, was born on July 20th. The story was not very exciting – I suffered at home until I told my husband to call the doctor. He was on lunchbreak, so we left for the hospital. By the time we hit the hospital, I was 9cm. They gave me meds to slow it down. At 6:14pm, I delivered a healthy baby. And a HUGE placenta lol. And got 12 stitches. And found out that breastfeeding hurts at first. =)
I had my first baby, Rory Michelle, on July 30. The full birth story is posted at my blog here: Birth Story
@Sarah … Whooo hooo! Congrats Sarah! 9cm by the time you got to the hospital!? Whoa! You just reminded me. There was so much going on in the room after Monkey was born, I never got a chance to see the placenta. I really wanted to see what it looked like. Oh well, I’ll have to wait until Baby Jane comes along.
@Brittany … Whoo hoo! Congrats! Jane and I will check out your birth story.
What a lovely idea J&T!
My little guy , Asterios Erik , was born on July 30th. Welcome little leo! My husband is allergic to cats, and I am a cat fanatic – so now I have my hypo-allergenic lion!
We had a weird pregnancy with lots of scares (we had Dr. DoomandGloom who gave me agida everytime we had an ultrasound) : a two vessel cord, what they *thought* was an enlarged ventricle in his brain (turned out to be a shadow), family history of heart abnormalities(his echo was perfect), predicted low birthweight due to cord issue (he was 6lbs 12oz), off center cord insertion (also never true), & placenta previa (it was next to cervix but never blocking it).
It turns out that I had a c-section because he didn’t tolerate the induction meds at all (his heart rate kept decelerating to 50!!) and he is PERFECT!!!! not one little thing wrong. not even jaundice. so take that Doctor Doom! we will be changing OBs for the next (and last) babe.
he eats like a champ (regained all his birthweight plus an oz and grew an inch in 7 days) and the nurses said he has the strongest suck they have ever seen in all their years of nursing. YEOWCH! i pump one side b/c he was voracious from first latch-on and made me bleed for everyday for the first week on one side (no, there is nothing wrong with our “form” – he is just a maniac)…i will pump that side forever if I feel like it too – i refuse to feel fear everytime i feed my child!!
I don’t have a blog but I thoroughly enjoy yours. It’s nice as a first time Mom to read what another first time Mom is going through – so encouraging and so relieving to know we experience so many similar feelings. thank you thank you!
My baby boy, Xavier, was born August 13th at 11:21pm.
It was a fast and easy delivery for me! I’m trying to keep up blogging about parenthood as well, but it’s so much harder than blogging about pregnancy with an extra addition!!! I really respect you guys (and everyone else… I actually read your blog too Sarah) for being able to keep up with so many posts!
Abbreviated Birth Story
I came across your blog a few weeks ago after seeing a reply someone made to you on Twitter. I have been enjoying it ever since.
My birth story is a little older than most of the rest on here! My daughter (affectionately known as Darling Girl or DG) was born on August 27, 2008. She will be a year old in a week! We had a fabulous pregnancy despite lots of worries. I have two uteruses and a family history of congenital heart defects. DG came through just fine. She was born healthy and happy. DG was a planned c-section exactly one week before her due date because she was breech. We made the choice not to turn her in utero because of the two uteruses and the risk of uterine ruptrure was VERY high. I caught all kinds of hell from people for that choice! I had people tell me my child would grow up retarded if I had a c-section (no, I’m not kidding!!). We kept her a surprise through the pregnancy, but we were certain we were having a boy until she popped out and the doc said, “Tell her what we have, Dad!” I was so shocked we had a girl, I made hubby tell me twice!
DG lost 7% of her birthweight in the hospital and we had to supplement with formula. She had trouble with latch and we thought she might be tongue-tied. We did a lot of work with a lactation consultant and a BF’ing support group to figure things out. She finally made it back to birthweight at 3 weeks. She has since gone on to meet or beat all milestones and she’s fine. Go figure.
It has been quite the year! I can’t believe we made it sometimes! There were times that my husband and I weren’t sure, but here we are! DG is happy, healthy, trying to walk, crawling like a champ, eating and loving solids like crazy, and still getting the occasional breastfeeding in before naps and at bed. I love being a first time mom and I love reading about your experiences on here! I can’t believe it was just a year ago that I was in this place!!
I love the idea of the baby page! I just gotten to the point that I can read or hear about other people’s “normal” deliveries again. My experience was not so nice. But the result is:) My baby Mia was born on July 1. My due date was August 15.. On July 1st, after having a tiny bit of bleeding, I decided to call my doc and they send me right to L&D of my hospital, which was around the corner. I went there with a coffee in my hand and sunglasses on my head and thought I would be out of there in 10 minutes. And that’s what everybody else thought too. The nurse joked how it would be nice that I filled everything out so that I wouldn’t have to do that six weeks later when I would deliver. They put me on the fetal heart monitor and examined me and I remember hearing the midwifes saying that everything was fine. And then everything changed. They started to shift me around from side to side w/o telling me why (my baby’s heart rate dropped into the 50’s!). I realized that the room filled with more and more people and then somebody disinfected my arm. I looked at him and asked him why he was doing that and he says “because you’re having an emergency c-section now”. I thought they must be joking, but they were rolling me to the OR!! That was 15 minutes after I walked in there. All I could was yell out my husbands number and that he would not pick up for another hour. I saw doctor’s coming from every side (and heard them talking how they had to quit their lunch early because of the call..). I don’t know how many faces I saw in the next five minutes who tried to calm me down, by telling me how scary it all must be. One of the doctor’s just told me that the baby’s heart rate dropped and that we need to get her out now. One minute later I was out. My baby was born at 12 pm. 30 minutes after I walked in there, thinking I would be home in no time. She was 4 lbs 13 ounces. When I woke up, one of the nurses showed me a picture of the baby on her cell phone. I was in so much pain and didn’t know what to think. When my husband finally arrived he looked so shocked! I will never forget his face when he saw me.
My baby spend the next 2.5 weeks in the NICU. I was not able to see her for the first 24 hours and never worried so much before in my life. When I saw her for the first time with all the machines I was devastated. Now she is almost two months and today four days past her due date. Although there are still a lot of things that are difficult (breast feeding doesn’t work as I imagined and she is on a machine that monitors her breathing and heart rate), she is doing great now. She is over 7 pounds now and I am so glad that she is healthy. I love her so much!
The worst thing about this is that I still don’t really know what happened. My doctor said that it might be that I had placenta abruption, but they can’t say for sure. For weeks I couldn’t see a pregnant woman without crying. I felt so robbed of the whole birth experience. But everybody tells me, I will forget all that soon and just be happy that all went well.
I’m getting there, but I never ever would have thought that I would have my baby all alone and completely knocked out..
You have inspired me to write my birth story, but I won’t get it up for a few days probably (my baby takes very short naps!)
The shortish version:
My waters broke on Friday 22nd May. And nothing happened. Hospital policy is to be induced after 18-24hrs after waters break if labour hasn’t started. As we had planned a home birth and were being closely monitored (2x daily) by my midwife we decided to wait longer to see if labour would happen spontaneously. On Saturday night I had contractions every 7 or8 minutes but they didn’t progress, so on Sunday afternoon, 48hrs after waters broke I headed to the hospital to be induced. The baby was posterior by this stage which I was really bummed about – She’d been in a great position until about a week before.
I was hooked up to the drip and monitors. It was pretty awful, induced labours hit you hard and fast, with little chance for resting between contractions. I was doing every I could within the confines of the hospital room to get baby to turn anterior (standing/leaning forward etc). After 6hrs of labour I had an epidural and was found to be 8cm dilated. I had a rest and then pushed for an hour or so, at which point baby’s heart rate started getting erratic, and her head wasn’t in a good position to come out. I was wheeled down to the operating room for a C-Section – something I really hadn’t considered as I was so certain of my bodies ability to deliver a baby. My husband stopped the team and asked if we could pause for a prayer, which they very obligingly did.
In the OR the dr said she would be willing to try with the vontouse vacuum cup for 3 pushes before starting the cesearean (last chance!), as baby was getting quite distressed.
After the 2nd push I heard a “wow” from the drs. Baby had turned anterior of her own accord, and on the 3rd push was born. This was a miracle as babies don’t turn from posterior to anterior while mum is lying flat on her back, working against gravity.
Our daughter Daisy was born on Mon 25th May, and was 10lb 11oz (4.86kgs) and 61cm long. Praise the Lord!
I had 3rd degree tears which have healed well.
She is now nearly 3months old and delightful.
I found your blog when I was on bedrest during my pregnancy. My little dude was born June 7th (due date was June 18th), 6lbs 7oz. 19.5 inches long. My birth story is pretty simple… planned c-section due to breech presentation, and then we moved the date up five days because I was toxemic and swollen like crazy, with a higher than normal BP. He lost over 10% of his birth weight while we were in the hospital thanks to jaundice, which required four days with light blanket therapy. BFing was a no-go thanks to him being too tired to latch on, so we supplemented with formula and I pumped exclusively. Luckily for us, last week he started latching on again and now I’m BFing most of the time with a few formula bottles here and there. There are tons of pictures and videos on our family blog (linked) that I update at least weekly.
Hi Tarzan and Jane
I had my little girl on the 11th
The labor its self was a bit of a drama, labor started at 2.45am on Monday morning, I stayed at home till about 6 pm then we went to the hospital only to be sent home
. when we got back home my waters broke about an hour later at (about midnight). We rang the hospital they didnt believe me and told me to stay at home a little longer. contractions then started coming on at about 2 mins apart, I started freaking out and realised i was not going to be able to make in a taxi to the hospital so we Dave called an ambulance, they took us to manly hospital (I was booked in a royan north shore) once there the pain was completly unbearable and I wanted my epi but they were so understaffed they could not do it there and said I would need to be transfered to Royal north Shore after all, so off I go in another ambulance (dave was not allowed to come with me and followed behind in a taxi). Once we got there they were ready and waiting to do the epi but because of my back problems they took over an hour to get the epi in. I was on the gas plus was given a pethadine shotr and totally high I dont remember those couple of hours. All went really well from there on and Paige Arrived on at 1.31pm on tuesday the 11th.
she is perfect in everyway.
I was blessed with a quick, complication free delivery. My little guy was in a flying hurry as it turned out! I’m not sure how to put a link in here, but here’s my birth story:
http://www.i-am-pregnant.com/vip-kids/EmilyG
Now he’s 2.5 months old and I’m still amazed by him every day!
My twins were born on 7 July – they are IVF miracles but I’m discovering that mothering is not as easy as I thought it would be………..
Hello!
My baby girl, Natalie was born on July 31, 2009. I was scheduled for an induction on August 2, but was surprised to be 40% and one centimeter when I went in for the NST! My BP was a little high at the time and we were told that we could be induced that day…And the rest is history. I had 4th degree tears and although I am feeling much better, I can still feel the stitches.
We found out that she isn’t gaining enough weight after 3 weeks and so we have started to supplement BF with formula. I wish I could be one of those BF mothers who have enough milk to feed their baby, but I can’t be happy knowing that she’s not getting enough to help her grow. So, this was a decision that my husband and I have made. My family is very supportive of our decision as well, especially after they have seen me struggle.
Now, she sleeps! Allows us to get rest, get out, and play with her without her screaming all the time.
Great idea! It gives us a way to connect with you two
Great idea!
My baby boy was born on July 18th. He came so fast and furious that we didn’t make it to the hospital, and he was born on the stairs at home. His birth story can be found here
P.S have now made a wee video clip to go with my story. you can see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XneAbPHWu4Y
Hey guys! Jane and I will be going through these this weekend.
Sorry for the delay on this, but as you know, things have been a little crazy around here.
But I must quickly say… CONGRATS to Peta! We’ve been wondering where you’ve been! If you look at some posts awhile back, I mentioned in some P.S’s that Jane and I were about to call the search party and have them look for you!
Thanks for sharing your stories with us – big CONGRATS from us and a more ‘formal’ reply to come to all of you this weekend.
@Elisa Please visit http://www.ican-online.org They have forums with very supportive women who can help you grieve your birth while celebrating your baby.
My birth stories are at
#1 & #2 http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/BBWBirthStories/bbwvbacstories.htm#Devaskyla%27s%20Stories
#3 http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=71605328956&h=Hv5yj&u=MtCn3
Long stories very, very short ; #1 cesarean in 2001, #2 complicated UBAC in 2005, & #3 easy, fast but painful water UBAC on March 3, 2009
My son Julian was born on July 23! He’s our first and it’s been an interesting (and sometimes difficult) journey. My blog with birth story.. http://www.thelotaks.blogspot.com
Hopefully I’ll be added soon!
We’re finally TTC but I just had the first failed month… I know things weren’t as you planned but right now I’m thinking expenses and all yall are so LUCKY!
Congrats to everyone who has a baby story right now.. Hopefully I won’t be too far behind *fingers crossed*
Little “B” was born June 24th. I hated being pregnant, but loved giving birth. It was a great experience and just makes me want to do it all over again…crazy I know. I just started a new blog. I was blogging for a long while, but kept it private. I now have one public and hope that my journey as a new mom will meet the needs of others out there going through this fabulous time in life. I don’t want it to end.
Visit me @ http://dietdrlovingmom.blogspot.com
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Hello Tarzan, Jane, Monkey and fellow readers,
After a roughly 10-hour labor, my wife gave birth to our first child on September 17. She was very tired during most of the pregnancy, so I guess it’s fitting that the labor went through the night and into the early morning.
I’ve started a blog to document life as a new dad — one who hadn’t changed a single diaper in his life before this but is ready and willing to do his part.
Good luck with Monkey, and keep up the good blogging!
We just had our first child on September 8th–a beautiful little girl named Maggie. I had a blog for my pregnancy experience: http://www.threetimesababy.wordpress.com and my “regular” blog is http://www.airingdirtylaundry.wordpress.com.
Short version of birth story . . .I was one week past my due date. My water broke on Labor Day (ha!), but I wasn’t having contractions. After choosing not to have an epidural and 19 hours of pitocin-induced contractions, I was only at 5 cm and had to have a C-section. She was 10 lbs 2 oz and 21 1/2 inches long. She’s thriving and happy (a good portion of the time, at least) !
Hi guys! I didn’t realize y’all were doing this page so I’ll add my crazy story. I found this blog while pregnant and am STILL loving every minute of it!
) Much love to T&J and baby Monkey!
I was due on September 23rd, but due to complications from gestational diabetes and heart problems that i had was induced on Sept. 7th at 9 p.m. They started me on cytotec to get things going, which immediately gave me menstrual like cramps. At 6 a.m. on the 8th, I was given pitocin, which is when the real fun began.
About 9 that a.m. I became very very sick from the pitocin and the pain i was beginning to feel. When i asked to be checked i was only 1.5 cms lol I thought i was going to be a tough gal and be able to get to 5 without pain intervention. boy was i WRONG! I asked for something to take the edge off, so i was given Nubain. 45 minutes later the pain had returned and i was given another dose, which did NOTHING! At 11 a.m. my contractions were coming on so fast and furious that my water broke. The contractions after that were so severe i honestly thought iw as going to die lol My doctor came in around 1 to check me and i was only 2 cm. God Bless him he was so sweet and so sympathetic to my pain. Around 3 p.m. i asked to be checked again and was FINALLY at 3 cms, whereas i received my epidural, THANK GOODNESS! One of the BEST inventions EVER! LOL! But after receiving the epidural, baby’s heart rate kept dropping to the 80’s. They were propping me up on my side and giving me oxygen which finally stabilized his heart rate.
I was very comfortable and was able to get some sleep. My doctor returned at 5 to check on me, where I was only 4 cm. He was very concerned and told me he would return in an hour to check me again and if i had not made significant progress, he would section me. At 6 he returns and I was suddenly 6 cms, which was the biggest jump I had since being induced. He wanted to give me a little bit more time to see how i continued to progress, but he was going off of call. He didn’t think I would be able to do this vaginally as I was being induced because the baby was so big, but he wanted me to give it a fair shot. He said that if i began to slow down or stall in progress that he would tell the other doctor to do a section on me. Well it all went downhill from there.
My two night nurses were TERRIBLE! One was a new RN who would check my cervix and would just leave her hand in me, trying to figure out how dilated i was. Then the more experienced nurse would come in and double check me. Not fun at all. Around 7 I was still at 6 cm, so I requested that we go ahead and do the section as I was exhausted from being in labor almost 24 hours. The experienced nurse told me my “real labor” had only begun not that long ago (oh really?!) and that i WOULD do a vaginal birth. We gave it another hour. I was 6.5. So we asked again. They told me my dr said i was doing a vaginal birth (which we knew wasn’t true). At this point my epidural was starting to wear off a bit, so I was feeling the intense pressure with the contractions. I also started to run a fever being my water had been broken for so long.
Around 11 p.m. I couldn’t take the pressure anymore, and told them i felt i needed to push. They checked me and I was 9.5 cm. His head was still behind the lip of the cervix, so they were trying to stretch me to get his head pass it. PAINFUL! PAINFUL! PAINFUL! I was feeling quite a bit at this point and they weren’t giving me another epidural. I pushed until 1 a.m., which was 2 hours later. He was NOT coming down, and though he was head down he was facing my left side. They flipped me on each side for about 15 minutes in a position called the “pretzel” *thank goodness i’m a professional dancer lol* At this point i’m SO exhausted I’m in tears, and I told my husband I simply could NOT push anymore. I was done. He was so high up he was hurting me, i was feeling an incredible amount of pain, and I just couldn’t go on. Justin went and yelled at the nurses b/c they were being ridiculous and weren’t being honest with the doctor. The doctor came in and after checking me (i was still at 9.5, which put me there for two hours) he said “we’re taking him”. So they began to prep me for surgery.
At 2:04 a.m., 28 hours of labor and 2 hours of pushing later, Baby Dax was born at 8lbs 3oz (2 weeks early), and 20.5 inches. Despite the very difficult labor, he was in great health, tho he had some fluid in his lungs. That was quickly expelled, and he had a black eye. it took a while for him to be able to breathe well, but he was a-ok. I was able to kiss him before they knocked me out and whisked him away.
There were more complications afterwards, but since i’ve written a novel i’ll stop there. Baby Dax is a very healthy boy at 8 weeks, and is continuing to thrive. Thanks for letting us all share our birth stories
Love this blog – Jane was 2 months ahead of me or so, so it was fun to see what was to come!
My boy is 3 weeks old now (born Oct 18th) – my birth story is here:
http://ocrumbs.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-wrote-this-down-day-after-giving.html
My little M was born Sunday Nov 8th at 9:47 am. Friday my doctor said that he thought I had a big baby cooking in there. The ultrasound predicted 9lbs 2 oz. My husband and I had discussed the possibility that if she was 9 or 10 lbs we would most likely schedule a c-section. Large baby’s run in the family and we wanted to be prepared. At this point I was not effaced or dialated at all. It seemed she’d settled in for a long winters nap. We decided to do the section and the only time the dr had the next week was on Sunday (my due date). At 9:47 we heard that wonderful powerful scream and my beautiful M was born. A couple minutes later I heard the nurse say “8lbs 13oz”. I said “Only 8 13?” To which another nurse replied, “Only!!! That’s plenty big honey!” LOL
PS . If you are worried about a potential C-Section, don’t be. They are not all riddled with complications like I was constantly reading about on the internet. Mine was a breeze. One week later I can’t believe how well I’m feeling and the staples come out tomorrow.
Good luck to Everyone!!
Jane and Tarzan- We love your blog as always!!
My due date was the end of August; i went to the hospital on July 25th bc i thought i was leaking fluid; turns out my liver has stopped working and my blood was full of biliruben. I had cholestasis and was 36 weeks pregnant. if you look up cholestasis after 36 weeks it is dangerous to carry your baby bc they have a greater chance of being stillborn. so i had an emergency c-section that night. Karidee Jane was born at 1110 and weighed 6lbs. she was in NICU for 10 days. now she is happy and healthy and VERY CHUBBY
I just now noticed this page and thought I’d make a quick comment. I have been following you for a little bit now. (Before Monkey was born) I love your site!! I stumbled on it somehow (I don’t remember) and just became addicted. I am due on March 12th and I can’t wait to meet my little guy. So far everything has gone pretty smoothly with the pregnancy. I am miserable all ready and I am just waiting to get him out : ) Oh the joy. That’s about it! Only 3 more months to go : ) Yay!
how can i make a calendar where friends can guess the date and time they think my daughter will be born? please help me
Just came across your site today and love it! Congratulations on the baby
I love the page for dads and emailed the link to my husband. I’m sure he’s sick of the fruit references as well! Continued well wishes to you and your family and I’ll definately keep coming back to read your blog!