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| Jonah Glenn ~ born Wednesday August 22, 2012 1:47am |
Our beautiful baby boy made his entrance on Wednesday August 22, 2012 at 1:47am! I was able to have him naturally (a VBAC since my daughter was C-section) and it was the most amazing experience of my life. I was full term plus some and baby boy McMillan took his sweet time. I had false labour on Monday ~ and for anyone who has had false labour ~ it SUCKS! You get all pumped up that soon baby will be here and then it peters out and simply leaves you tired and a little sore. Then Monday night it started back up (something about 3am ~ it's the "witching" hour for sure!) By 8am or so I was having good contractions. I waited until 511 (5 mins apart, 1 min long for 1 hour) and called my midwife around noon. Oh and by the way GET A MIDWIFE if you are going to have a baby ~ the amount of one-on-one care and knowledge is astonishing! She came and checked us out and I was around 3 cm dilated. We waited a little while longer and had some yummy pasta to help with my energy for the labour. It is quite interesting having good, strong contractions while looking after a 18 month old toddler ~ she just looks at you funny every time I stop to brace myself on a counter or wall until the contraction passed:) At 3pm we headed up to the hospital and checked in. Our midwife met us up there and stayed with us until 4 or so hours after he was born! She is dedicated<3 SO...labour...well tried just walking around the room and would usually lean over a bed or chair for each contraction. My husband Paul was super accomodating and would put pressure on my lower back as I was having a little back labour. Moved to the shower eventually and by this time they are coming like crazy and my body is pretty shaky ~ I'd say we were at around 7pm or so...I eventually moved to the bed and took the gas to help ease the pain ~ all 4's, gas mask, very intense contractions~some 10 minutes long (peaking for 10 minutes folks!), blacked out a bit:) Few hours later, took phentanol which I don't know if it helped or not ~ was close to 7 cms dilated, getting tired, changing positions to get things all lined up (ladies you know what I am talking about:), due to some circumstances decided to get an epidural at 9cm, crazy anestegiologist sort of reminds me of Dr. Nick from the Simpsons gave me a different type of epidural were I was not frozen but the pain of the contractions subsided enough for me to really focus and get baby out. So after about 30 mins of pushing Baby JONAH arrived!
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| about 4 hours old ~ getting weighed and measured! wants to go back to mama!!!:) |
Right when he arrived he was put on my chest and they covered both of us with a blanket. Paul announced that it was a baby boy at that time ~ not like we cared either way as we were so excited our healthy little guy was here! We laid there for more than 3 hours, staring at each other, him napping on me and then our midwife checked him over on the table ~ did the weight and height and all that fun stuff (he weighed 8lbs 6oz, measured 20 inches, head size 34.5 cm). That only took a couple minutes and he was back on me to feed. He ate for about an hour and fell asleep on me once more. So around 4-5am, our midwife finally got to go home! Thank you midwife<3 Paul slept for a bit and so did I. He went home around 8am to help grandma get big sister up for a visit. They all came up to the hospital shortly after 9am. Jonah did not get named until the next day after we got to settle down a bit from all the excitement. He is such a calm baby ~ very efficient eater and good little sleeper. We are on week 6 right now and he has still not done any purple crying(knock on wood!).
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| A week old |
We got to bring him home on the 23rd and it was so nice to be home. Paul was lucky enough to spend 2 weeks at home helping me with Marley. He eats about every 2 hours so I am pretty busy:) Things are going great and we love have little Jonah Glenn in our home. Marley is adapting quite well and so is our dog Flora. He has been gaining weight like a little piggy and now weighs 12 lbs! He was gaining 2 oz a day for a few weeks! He has also grown 4 inches! He is cute, cuddly and completely chill:) He was an early smiler too (3 weeks!) We are so happy and I could not feel anymore blessed with the way labour went. I desperately wanted to have him on me immediately after arriving and we were able too ~ I felt so disconnected when Marley arrived via c-section because we didn't get to finally be with one another until 2 hours after surgery ~ it was very hard. Recovery this time was so quick in comparison too! We were at our local fair 1 week after he was born! I am feeling good, Jonah is doing fantastic, Marley is a ham and Paul is such a great support. I am so lucky<3<3
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| ONE WHOLE MONTH OLD!!! |
Our beautiful baby boy made his entrance on Wednesday August 22, 2012 at 1:47am! I was able to have him naturally (a VBAC since my daughter was C-section) and it was the most amazing experience of my life. I was full term plus some and baby boy McMillan took his sweet time. I had false labour on Monday ~ and for anyone who has had false labour ~ it SUCKS! You get all pumped up that soon baby will be here and then it peters out and simply leaves you tired and a little sore. Then Monday night it started back up (something about 3am ~ it's the "witching" hour for sure!) By 8am or so I was having good contractions. I waited until 511 (5 mins apart, 1 min long for 1 hour) and called my midwife around noon. Oh and by the way GET A MIDWIFE if you are going to have a baby ~ the amount of one-on-one care and knowledge is astonishing! She came and checked us out and I was around 3 cm dilated. We waited a little while longer and had some yummy pasta to help with my energy for the labour. It is quite interesting having good, strong contractions while looking after a 18 month old toddler ~ she just looks at you funny every time I stop to brace myself on a counter or wall until the contraction passed:) At 3pm we headed up to the hospital and checked in. Our midwife met us up there and stayed with us until 4 or so hours after he was born! She is dedicated<3 SO...labour...well tried just walking around the room and would usually lean over a bed or chair for each contraction. My husband Paul was super accomodating and would put pressure on my lower back as I was having a little back labour. Moved to the shower eventually and by this time they are coming like crazy and my body is pretty shaky ~ I'd say we were at around 7pm or so...I eventually moved to the bed and took the gas to help ease the pain ~ all 4's, gas mask, very intense contractions~some 10 minutes long (peaking for 10 minutes folks!), blacked out a bit:) Few hours later, took phentanol which I don't know if it helped or not ~ was close to 7 cms dilated, getting tired, changing positions to get things all lined up (ladies you know what I am talking about:), due to some circumstances decided to get an epidural at 9cm, crazy anestegiologist sort of reminds me of Dr. Nick from the Simpsons gave me a different type of epidural were I was not frozen but the pain of the contractions subsided enough for me to really focus and get baby out. So after about 30 mins of pushing Baby JONAH arrived! 
