We don't have any here yet! What's up?

I'm gonna type mine out in Wordpad then copy them here. Interested in hearing all your stories!

My first pregnancy was horrible! I gained 38 pounds an was not going into labor. I asked my doctor to induce at 40 weeks but he would not. I hurt, was miserable and that @!$^ #!^$@&% @ %#%#@ didn't give a crap! Finally at 42 weeks he did induce, but I had some strange reaction to the meds, so they unhooked that and broke my water and let me progress from there. From midnight the night before I had no food. At five AM they started to induce. At 7:30 they broke my water. Things progressed sssslllooowwwlllyyy...By 5 PM I finally asked for drugs. It was getting painful. They checked me and went ahead and gave me my epidural..aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.. After that I went to sleep and woke up every so often and looked at the monitor spiking while I felt nothing! That was bliss.. Finally at 2AM they said it was time to push. I remember pushing a couple of times and them wheeling me down to the C-section room. My mom and everyone told me I pushed for two hours. I must have blacked out or something because to this day I only remember two pushes... At 4:20 my daughter was born via c-section, weighing in at 10 pounds 9 ounces! No wonder I felt like crud! Carrying that size baby around inside was torture!

Mine was somewhat uneventful I guess. Went to the hospital at 7pm, daughter was born at 2.42am. Natural childbirth with an unncessary episotomy after 30 mins of pushing.

Went in for my OB checkup around 32 weeks....Andie was measuring small...went back in the next week, she was STILL measuring small, plus my BP had spiked WAAAYYY high, I was put on immediate bedrest. Came back in one week later (my MIL who is a nurse came by to check my BP each day to make sure it didn't spike too high), BP was still high, Andie still measuring small....into the hospital the next day, was induced with pitocin at 6 am, given my epidural at around 11 am I think, (HEAVEN!! lol), and Andie was born at 2:20 that afternoon....pretty easy all in all....

I spent about 20 minutes typing my labor/delivery stories (inbetween helping my DH with something) and when I clicked "add reply" I got "page not found".

So forget it. I'm not typing it again.

Basically, Sarah was 21 hours of every awful thing imaginable in labor, and then an emergency c-section. And Sean's was the scariest day of my entire life. The end.

:hug:

Thank you!! I needed that.

I'll post my stories after the kids are in bed tonight.

Oh yeah...I was gonna do this...

Ok. With my firstborn it was pretty much planned. Said to hubby that tonight we could "make a baby". :eyebrows: So, voila. Baby made! Next morning I had pain in my lower abdomen. It was really weird. That pain hurt so bad that I called the doctor a few days later. He checked me out and said it was probably a cyst. The pain lasted 10 days. After that, it disappeared. Well, a couple days later, I got the swollen and sore boobs and such. I was feeling pretty good, too! It didn't dawn on me that I had indeed gotten preggers the night I teased hubby that I could. I just didn't think it would happen that easily! Took a test 2 months later. Yep! Preggers! So the pregnancy went well and was uneventful. Up until the 37th week. Woke up with hubby as he was getting ready for work and I had to babysit my nephew (as I had been doing for the past 10 months). Went to the bathroom as usual and sneezed. No biggie, I always sneezed! Only this sneeze was far different than any other. It was so big that the toilet was full of blood. Apparently, the placenta had let go early. My sister came over early in the morning because she skipped school that day. So she babysat the nephew while I frantically called the doc and even begged Abe to bring me to the hospital, but he said "we can't afford to". :yikes: Anyhooooo, I got my mom to bring me to the hospital. Nobody there seemed to believe my problem because I wasn't doubled over in pain with contractions. But I'd lost alot of blood already and my face was so white. Finally, the got me into bed, did an exam and strapped the baby monitors on. I was confined to that bed for 2 days for observations. Had a couple ultrasounds and things seemed to be well. (So they said.) Well, at the end of the second day the doc announced that instead of sending me home and risking more bleeding, he was starting the drip. Fine by me! I wasn't going home anyway because I'd be such a nervous wreck! So around 2 am Jan. 10th they induced me. After 12 hours and 54 minutes, baby Isaiah was born. 45 minutes of pushing and I had some tearing. Isaiah was 5 pounds, 11 ounces. The doctor let me hold him for a couple minutes, then they had to whisk him off to neonatal care to put some meds on his lungs as he was premature. He was in there for 3 days. In the meantime I made the HUGE mistake of going home early. I was so emotional, yet I did not wanna stick around in the hospital. I developed breast infections (from lack of breastfeeding) and I was depressed. Finally Isaiah came home! After the meds were finished and Isaiah and I developed a routine, I felt much better! Then, at the 6 week check-up, I was told I had a severe yeast infection. Oh great! Well, took the doc's orders and I was back to my old self in no time! :D By the time Isaiah was 15 months old, I wanted another baby! Ok, let's fast forward....
Pregnant with Luke. Had alot of growing pains with that boy! Enough that I went to see a chiropractor every month for 5 months. His treatments made a big difference. Luke was a good and strong baby and very active on the inside (STILL IS!) But I had a lot of pelvic pain towards the end with him. Felt like he wanted out, his head had dropped and he was heavier than Isaiah had been and man, that hurt! He was 4 days away from his due date. Apparently, there was lack of amniotic fluid and there was the fear of the umbilical cord wrapping around his neck. Ok, went in and got induced again. His was around 10 hours long. 13 minutes of pushing. He was a stubborn one! Last one...Candace. Hubby and his lil buddy just couldn't stop. Told him I could get preggers and I wasn't ready to be yet because keeping up with 2 lil boys was quite a chore! Anyways...he didn't heed my warning. Then he didn't believe me when I told him I was pregnant a third time around. :doh: Pregnant with her...she was so small. Even I could tell with just carrying her around. My family doc did not tell me any of his concerns until 35 weeks. Then he sent me to the gyno early. So, the gyno told me after she was born (5 hours labour here! They set me on high inducement because they were concerned for both mine and baby's health. Doc and hubby went down just to grab a quick lunch, assuming I had "lots of time". By the time they came back up about 10 minutes later, the nurse was waiting for the doc at the door. Abe came rushing in with his mouth full of lunch. He couldn't talk! So I told him that this one was coming fast! Nurse was panicking and telling me not to push. Told her I wasn't! Baby's coming on her own! ( I didn't know it was a girl.) So, the doc comes in with just his gloves on and no other scrubs, in time to catch the baby. It was funny! Downside of it all, was they had me on such a high dose of the inducement that I hemhorraged. ALOT. I'd lost alot of blood and my blood pressure went dangerously low. Held Candace for about a minute then had Abe take her. I had no strength left. So Abe and Candace had that special daughter-father bonding. Was about 2 hours before he remembered to call the family about the news! Candace and I went home 3 days later. She was only 5 pounds and had no complications. Colour and apgar scale were excellent. She did drop to 4 pounds 11 ounces just before we came home. But she was a good baby in the hospital. Smiled alot while other babies screamed! Took me a good while to recover from her. I'd lost so much blood my iron was WAY low.

So, I think that's about it. I'm done typing for a bit. :D

Wow Lena...:shock: I don't want to have ANY kids after reading your stories....oh, wait...I already have one, don't I?? B)

The freedom of just havng one child...that would be cool... :huh:

Do you plan on having any more Lena? I have three and I certainly hope there are no more in our future. Pregnancy = misery...

As much as I'd like to have had at least one more, it would be risky. I forgot to add that with Candace I also started to develop gestational diabetes. :blink: Nope...don't wanna risk that again! So hubby has already had a vasectomy. We also have the risk of having another autistic child.

Hahaha, Deb! Make sure you abstain from your hubby then! That's 100% sure so as not to get pregnant! Good luck! :haha: Oh yeah, congrats on the birth of Andy 3 years ago! :doh:



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Since I do not want to live any more labor and delivery stories, do any of you know when fertility starts diminishing? Can't use hormonal BC so I am left with NFP. How long will I have to do this?

Fertility starts diminishing at about age 27. After that it's all an odds game until menopause and you need to decide whether the chances are worth it.

Lovely!

Seems to me that your best course of action would be to pray for peace in this situation. This is something that's obviously troubling you a lot and it might be best to say to God, "Lord, you know I don't want any more children but Your will be done, so I pray for peace whether it's Your will for us to have no more children or Your will for us to have more." And then give it over to God. I'm sure that beats worrying over getting pregnant for the next 20 years.

I know I need to do that. Its hard, you know..I think I would go mental if it were to happen again... Can't realy enjoy "intimacy" because the consequences are too frightening....Yeah, I think pregnancy is my biggest fear...

Not to get too intimate here, but I use these vaginal inserts that are spermidice...I used to be on the pill but went off it after I had Andie...do you think something like that would work for you?

I'm assuming hubby refuses to go in for vasectomy?

He's allergic to spermacides and our Church does not condone setrilization. Its not as strict as the Catholics on the issue and we haven't talked to our priest about it, but at this point it is not really an option... Trojan is my friend!
I'm gonna take some pictures of my kids this week and post them in the picture section by week's end.. just thought I hadn't done it yet, so I will...

Both my kids came into the world in exactly the same way:

With me screaming, begging for pain killers and threatening to sue if someone didn't knock me out.

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:rolf: sounds familiar....