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Permalink Reply by Sunnymay on September 3, 2009 at 4:21pm

My OB Dr. planned on using the Birthing Room, because I was tall and thin with a quiet pregnancy. My baby was due on Labor Day and I was overeating double portions to quell hunger and quench thirst, although only put on 30 pounds. On July 15, I went into labor 7.5 weeks early, christening the recently laid carpet tiles at the nurses station at work. The next call pulled my husband off the golf course and he drove by to take me to the hospital. The new ultrasound machine showed shoulder presentation which automatically meant a C-section, but there was something about the feet (too many for 1 kid) and 2 round shadows (heads but they didn't figure this out until later.) So on a Sunday afternoon, I had a baby and then a yell, " There's another one in there." Everybody ran around and got Twin B another team of doctors. My mom thought the call that we had twins was a prank. The roller coaster started and I brought Twin A home at 3 weeks and her sister had a rocky road on a respirator, chest tube and tube feedings. A few days before Labor Day,Twin B came home at 7 weeks gaining steadily at 4 pounds. 5 kids altogether in 9 years have been sweet and people would call and ask, "Are you busy?" It always made me laugh, since this was way before camera phones.

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Permalink Reply by Mommas in the House on September 3, 2009 at 11:21pm

My Labor Schedule, down to the minute!
1:45am: I was awaken in the middle of the night with severe cramps where I could not breathe. I could not move nor talk. The contractions came every 30 minutes throughout the night.
5:00am: The contractions came every 20 minutes. I thought that maybe I was finally in early labor.
9:00 am: The contractions came every 15 minutes. The contractions were getting closer and I told my husband that maybe he should not go to work because if he does, maybe he would miss the birth.
11:00 am: Contractions come every 10 minutes. The last time I was at L&D my midwife told me to come into the hospital when the contractions were 10 minutes apart because I was already dilated to 3cm.
11:30am: I call my midwife to see what I should do.
12:00pm: The contractions are now 20 minutes to 30 minutes apart. I am thinking that they are braxton hicks contractions because they become irregular.
1:00pm: Still no call back from my midwife.
1:30pm: I have something leak down the side of the leg and instantly think it’s my amniotic fluid. I finally get to talk to my midwife and she tells me to come in so that we could check on it.
2:00pm: My husband and I get ready to leave the house to go to L&D which is 5 minutes away.
2:30pm: We stop by Trader Joe’s to get snacks and water, so that we have something while we wait at L&D.
3:00pm: We walk over to a Pasta Cafe next door and grab a bite to eat because my husband is extremely hungry.
4:30pm: We finally arrive at L&D. They don’t have any free rooms, so we are sent to the waiting room to wait.
5:00pm: They come to get us. My midwife checks me and tells me it’s not amniotic fluid, however, I am dilated to 5cm, and wants to know if I want to be admitted now or later. I asked to be admitted.
6:00pm: I walk the L&D corridors to get the contractions going. I have to go back 30 minutes later.
6:30pm: I am monitored.
7:00pm: My midwife comes to check on me. I am now 7cm dilated and the midwife and nurse are amazed.
7:15pm: I am sent to walk again for another 30 minutes.
7:45pm: The nurse puts me on the monitor again.
8:15pm: The midwife comes to check on me again. I am now 9 cm dilated and they are surprised again how fast everything is moving.
8:30pm: The nurse prepares everything for the actual birth. I am at this point in significant amount of pain. No drugs, no nothing. Just a lot of pain, plus my added back pain.
9:00pm: My midwife comes back to check on me, but I am still at 9cm, but a very good 9cm.
9:15pm: We talk about positions I can be in to deliver because I cannot lay down to deliver since my major back pain. We try putting in the birthing pole, but I can’t do that either because of the back pain. Finally the nurse brings in the birthing stool.
9:25pm: I am told that I am 10cm and to push with the next contraction.
9:29pm: With one push, Ella Hanul was born! She cried so hard and so loud.
9:30pm: They gave her to me with her umbilical cord still intact and then was handed to my husband. I lost all the energy that I had and was close to passing out.

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Permalink Reply by Joy Brown on September 4, 2009 at 7:10am

My most memorable 'labor day' was on my 32nd birthday! I was due with my 3rd child, my 3rd son and they decided to induce my on Feb 26th, which happened to be my birthday. I went into the hospital early and they started the pitocin drip about 8am. Afternoon came and he still wasn't born. Little did I know the doctor had already put me on the schedule for the next day. They checked me about 3 pm. I think I was only around 4-5 cm then, if even. Shortly after that, I wanted to throw up and push! Hubby got the nurse. I was 10 cm! So they hurried me over to delivery, I heard them call down to ER to get a dr STAT! lol... My doctor had gone home to take a shower. So I was in delivery with just my hubby and two nurses, who said, don't worry, we have delivered babies before. About then, my dr came in, wet hair and all, sat down, said the only thing keeping him in that long was my water had not broken. About then it did, I pushed, once. He literally FLEW out and she caught him , kind of like a football! Best birthday present I ever got..and only one that day too!

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Permalink Reply by Kaelo on September 4, 2009 at 11:03pm

I was out running around during the day hoping to bring on labor! I get home, get ready for bed, sit down to watch a little TV hoping to fall asleep and my water breaks. I waited for awhile thinking that labor should start and it doesn't. I called the doctor. She says I should go to the hospital to be checked.
But before I would go, I decided that I should have a shower and be fresh! Put on makeup and grabbed my bag to go. All the while, my husband is just crazy nuts wanting to go and I made him wait. The doctor apparently had called the hospital and I wasn't there yet (it had been about an hour). She was hoping to get a report as to how I was doing, if it really was the real labor.
The doctor calls me at home and says 'where are you', the hospital has been expecting you for over an hour and a half. I told her I was getting ready to come to my delivery party. She too thought I was a little nuts.
I arrived at the hospital, still not in labor, but they were going to keep me and start a pitocyn drip. The doctor arrived just 15 minutes before my baby was born and she said she got there in the 'nick of time'.
My baby girl arrived three hours later and hard labor was maybe....... 45 minutes. All the labor horror stories I had heard did not materialize and it really is true that labor is different for each woman.
It was great!!

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Permalink Reply by Sue M on September 5, 2009 at 5:49am

For DS, our first child, I wasn't diagnosed with pre-eclampsia until I was in labor and arrived at the hospital. Long story, but they ended up transferring me via ambulance to the other hospital in the area that was for more high-risk deliveries. I don't recommend ambulance rides in labor, particularly with back labor! We were all fine in the end, but the delivery definitely knocked me for a loop (ended up anemic on top of being on BP meds for a couple of days when my BP wouldnt stay below 140/90. For DD, I ended up getting induced at 40 weeks on MY birthday after finally being induced as having too much amniotic fluid, which explained why DD didn't go heads down until 38 weeks. While she did it on her own, a kid turning at 38 weeks is another thing I don't recommend, but I'm sure it's better than a c-section. Since the induction was started at night, DD was born the next day (after my birthday).

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Permalink Reply by Tamara Shurling on September 5, 2009 at 4:17pm

I have 5 girls, the first one was great! An epidural and 4 hours later I had my oldest. My next one was preemie and I had to have an emergencey Csection. 11 years later I had twin girls with no pain meds, nothing! That was probably the hardest one! And last in 2003 I had my youngest again by Csection due to placenta previa. I wouldn't change anything though!

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Permalink Reply by Bonnie Patterson on September 6, 2009 at 6:38pm

Well I was in preterm labor with 2nd child. Stayed in the hosptial 2 days went home. Had her on the 10th. This was 5 years ago. She wanted out so bad that day. ( On Labor Day that year.) My mother and sisters made a comment to me that she was going to come on that day. She sure tried, but the doctors stopped it from happening. They said it was to early. Thats one Labor Day I will never forget. Its a day that Labor really means Labor.

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Permalink Reply by robyn long on September 7, 2009 at 12:48am

My labor day was 59 hours and 45 minutes of hard labor pains! I had a midwife delivering my baby and I would go into the hospital and they would send me home to wait for my water to break. This happened a number of times! I would go to babies r us and walk the aisles and all the workers knew me by name. The last time I went in the nurse said lets see if we can get that water broke with the midwife knowing. First she had me stand on my bed facing the wall while grabbing the headboard, then she had me do a squat. It felt like someone just grabbed me down there and ripped it apart. I screamed and cryed. So she got me into the shower and as I stood there naked with my husband, sister and the nurse she had my sister rub my back to relax me. The nurse talk to the midwife and told her the pain I was in and all the midwife wanted to know was if the water broke. The nurse came back into the room and said lay down and spread them and she broke my water for me. I still wasn't at a 10 so they put a machine on to monitor me. After 55 hours I couldn't take me so they hook me up with medicine in the back (don't remember what it is called) and then I went from a 7 back down to a 5 and they took the medicine away and said you have to do it naturally. Okay, but let's get him out, was all I could say. I finally reach a 10, that was one of the happiest moments and I was pushing and pushing until ~ the midwife was down there, the nurse on one side and my husband on the other side holding my legs and the midwife said stop. I don't remember all of my reaction, but I remember saying, Are you joking???? I wasn't thinking to clearly and they would talk to my husband privately, but not tell me what was going on. I remember hearing, call the doctor now and then a few minutes later he will be here soon, but he is eatting lunch. So, I lay on that table needing to push and having contration after contration and no one doing anything. There I notice a table being pushed into the room with tons of instruments on it. Remember I am not thinking clearly and in labor for a long time. I laid there trying to figure out what they were going to go with all the knives. Atleast it took my mind off the pain for a while!!! Then the doctor, who I've never met walks in and says let me see. The midwife moves to the side and he looked around for a while and then I heard, get the vacuum. What the heck ~ a vacuum? I wanted to know why do you need to vacuum now ~ get the baby out! Then I saw the machine and that is when they explained that my baby's head was jammed into my pubic bone and everytime I pushed he would stop breathing. Now I am freaking out and the midwife said, okay Robyn I am going to connect the vacuum and you will hear a popping sound. She got it done and she was right there was a popping sound and it felt weird. The doctor check it out to make sure it was done right and then seconds later the head was out. I said, thank God he is out! And the midwife said, oh no that was just the head now you have to push hard to get the shoulder out and then we will be done. I gave a push and he was out and they took him to the other side of the room to check him out. I was so happy to see my beatiful baby boy for more then one reason!!!! But he was perfectly fine except a big indent in his forehead and being coneheaded for the first couple of days. Just so you know his head is perfect now and he will be five at the end of the month. I have heard tons of mother say, oh you forgot about all the pain, well I haven't yet. But I am very glad to have my wonderful boy, whom I love dearly and would go throught all of it over agin for him!

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Permalink Reply by robyn long on September 7, 2009 at 12:49am

Oh and I forgot to say two other moms gave birth in minutes while I was there and the nurse would keep me updated on another baby was just born or another mom is here.

robyn long said:

My labor day was 59 hours and 45 minutes of hard labor pains! I had a midwife delivering my baby and I would go into the hospital and they would send me home to wait for my water to break. This happened a number of times! I would go to babies r us and walk the aisles and all the workers knew me by name. The last time I went in the nurse said lets see if we can get that water broke with the midwife knowing. First she had me stand on my bed facing the wall while grabbing the headboard, then she had me do a squat. It felt like someone just grabbed me down there and ripped it apart. I screamed and cryed. So she got me into the shower and as I stood there naked with my husband, sister and the nurse she had my sister rub my back to relax me. The nurse talk to the midwife and told her the pain I was in and all the midwife wanted to know was if the water broke. The nurse came back into the room and said lay down and spread them and she broke my water for me. I still wasn't at a 10 so they put a machine on to monitor me. After 55 hours I couldn't take me so they hook me up with medicine in the back (don't remember what it is called) and then I went from a 7 back down to a 5 and they took the medicine away and said you have to do it naturally. Okay, but let's get him out, was all I could say. I finally reach a 10, that was one of the happiest moments and I was pushing and pushing until ~ the midwife was down there, the nurse on one side and my husband on the other side holding my legs and the midwife said stop. I don't remember all of my reaction, but I remember saying, Are you joking???? I wasn't thinking to clearly and they would talk to my husband privately, but not tell me what was going on. I remember hearing, call the doctor now and then a few minutes later he will be here soon, but he is eatting lunch. So, I lay on that table needing to push and having contration after contration and no one doing anything. There I notice a table being pushed into the room with tons of instruments on it. Remember I am not thinking clearly and in labor for a long time. I laid there trying to figure out what they were going to go with all the knives. Atleast it took my mind off the pain for a while!!! Then the doctor, who I've never met walks in and says let me see. The midwife moves to the side and he looked around for a while and then I heard, get the vacuum. What the heck ~ a vacuum? I wanted to know why do you need to vacuum now ~ get the baby out! Then I saw the machine and that is when they explained that my baby's head was jammed into my pubic bone and everytime I pushed he would stop breathing. Now I am freaking out and the midwife said, okay Robyn I am going to connect the vacuum and you will hear a popping sound. She got it done and she was right there was a popping sound and it felt weird. The doctor check it out to make sure it was done right and then seconds later the head was out. I said, thank God he is out! And the midwife said, oh no that was just the head now you have to push hard to get the shoulder out and then we will be done. I gave a push and he was out and they took him to the other side of the room to check him out. I was so happy to see my beatiful baby boy for more then one reason!!!! But he was perfectly fine except a big indent in his forehead and being coneheaded for the first couple of days. Just so you know his head is perfect now and he will be five at the end of the month. I have heard tons of mother say, oh you forgot about all the pain, well I haven't yet. But I am very glad to have my wonderful boy, whom I love dearly and would go throught all of it over agin for him!

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Permalink Reply by kathy on September 7, 2009 at 3:45am

My first girl took 19Hrs,I was told by my mother law that I would not feel any pain cause I would be given on epiderel.........BOLONY...I add pain for 16hrs and no shot was given to me,my mother was fighting with the nurse,and was thrown out of the room. i WANT TO GET UP EVERY SECOND TO GO TO THE RESTROOM,BUT THE NURSE WOULD NOT LET ME. My Dr was very mean and ask me :as anyone ever told you to stop eating?the reason was cause the baby was 8bl10oz and back then baby's was never bigger then 7pounds.I told my husband....I went pee in my pants.......he was try to keep me quite,he told me it was the water that broke.................I WAS ONLY 18 DID NOT KNOW ANY BETTER ,I swear at that moment to never have another baby..........took me 9 years to forget.

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Permalink Reply by katrina mroczek on September 7, 2009 at 9:11am

I slept through most of my labor pains until they got severe enough that it woke me up I rushed to the hospital and my doctor came running in with her shower cap still on they said if I would of waited any longer I would of had my daughter at home.my total labor was only 43 min.

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Permalink Reply by vera mcconnell on September 7, 2009 at 1:36pm

MY Labor Day was just thanking the LORD for beening here to see another day,my family is doing fine,and church family are doing just fine.i count it a blessing to be able to say Lord i thank you for watching over me and my family all night long as we sleep.thank him for his graces and mercy.just thank everything he has done and what he about to do in my life.and most of is to be able to go to church and praise and to give him glory.and to be able to love everybody according to his purpose.we should thank him for the good and the bad,because he has us in the plams of hishands,not we have him.we realize that jesus loves us so much ,we should be leaping for joy.thank him for putting incourging peoples in my life,to help me strong and stand on the word of GOD.tell someone to day i love you,and jesus loves you to.keep looking up and never look down,cause jesus will always be around.look forward not back and let satan know he is on the wrong side of the track

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