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Baby Poll
Because I'm just sitting around waiting for baby, thought i'd start a poll about just that:
1. How old where you when you had your first child?
2. How did your labor start?
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date?
4. C section or vaginal delivery?
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise?
6. What did your contractions feel like?
7. Did your water break?
8. How many hours were you in labor?
9. How many years were you married before having your first?
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor?
Re: Baby Poll
2. How did your labor start? I was induced a week prior to my due date
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date? 1 week early
4. C section or vaginal delivery? vaginal
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise? Girl. We did know ahead of time with #1. With #2 it will be a surprise!
6. What did your contractions feel like? Painful cramps. And lots of painful tightness
7. Did your water break? no, it was broken for me.
8. How many hours were you in labor? Everything started around 7:30am, and I had her at 2:40 pm.
9. How many years were you married before having your first? We were married for about a year and a half before we had Savannah.
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor? I loved being pregnant (I was induced because I had been having issues w/ preterm labor and my doc. didn't want me to end up with an infection...) I loved the whole time I was in the hospital. I was really against having an epidural, but I ended up getting one...it was a COMPLETE NIGHT AND DAY difference!!!! I will get another one with my second, for sure. I don't know what else in terms of advice... Good luck! Its really the most incredible experience ever.
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2. Contractions twenty minutes apart, out of the blue. No other symptoms.
3. 2 days overdue when I went into labor, 3 days when she was born
4. Vaginal
5. Girl, we knew ahead of time
6. They started out as bad menstruel cramps. When they were coming quickly, they sort of felt like a vice grip in my stomach..hard to explain
7. Yes, but after I was in the hospital already.
8. Hmm.depends when you count it from. Here is the timeline: 9:20 pm, first contraction. Midnight: contractions 50 seconds long, 4-5 minutes apart. 2 am, called hospital. 3 am admitted 8:28 am DD was born
9. A little over a year
10. Hmm...make sure to take a picture of your family that first day. We didn't and I wish we had. Also, take ANY help you can get. From anyone. Sleep whenthe baby sleeps. Enjoy it. They are only small once :-)
Annelise 3.22.2007 Norah 10.24.2009 Amelia 8.7.2011
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2. How did your labor start?
It didn't. I was induced when we went 12 days past our due date.
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date?
See above.
4. C section or vaginal delivery?
I was started on Pitocin at 3am. After laboring most of the day and pushing for 5 hours, my blood pressure became an issue so we decided on a c-section.
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise?
We had a little girl. We found out at 20 weeks. Both DH and I really wanted to know.
6. What did your contractions feel like?
I'm not a good one to answer this since I never had a contraction until we were at the hospital and then they gave me the epi pretty early on.
7. Did your water break?
No. They broke it for me.
8. How many hours were you in labor?
15 hours. She was born at 6:20 pm.
9. How many years were you married before having your first?
We were married 1 year and 2 months when she was born.
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor?
Enjoy the experience and try to go with the flow. I certainly wasn't planning on a c-section, but in the end it worked out for the best. I know some women get an idea in there head of exactly how their birth experience is going to be and when it doesn't happen they feel disapointed. I had no disapointment that day. Only pure joy. My other suggestion is to take advantage of your time in the hospital. I wish that I would have asked visitors to limit their stays and come only during certain times so that we could rest and work on the BFing. I've been very clear with family about that this time!
I hope the rest of your pregnancy goes quickly and smoothly. It's such a beautiful thing to have a baby. I can't believe I'll be experiencing it all again in less than 36 hours!
2. How did your labor start? I had to be induced because of pregnancy induced hypertention
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date? 3 weeks early
4. C section or vaginal delivery? Vaginal
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise? Dh and I found out, but didn't tell anyone else.
6. What did your contractions feel like? I'm not exactly sure, but I remember they took the breath right out of me and I was very concentrated to breathe through them.
7. Did your water break? No, my doctor had to do it.
8. How many hours were you in labor? About 6 hours from the pitocin
9. How many years were you married before having your first? 4.5 years
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor? I brought a ton of things to read at the hospital, but I was so anxious and excited that I didn't read/look through any of it. I know it sounds cliche, but the time really does go so fast. I remember DD's birth like it was yesterday, and she will be a year on March 17th. Enjoy all of the little things (and the monumentous things too).
1. How old where you when you had your first child? 26
2. How did your labor start? going for a routine dr.appt and her telling me I was dialated and the pains I felt were conntractions so I was sent to the hospital
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date? My son was born at 33 1/2 weeks
4. C section or vaginal delivery? c-section because he was breech
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise? Surprise
6. What did your contractions feel like? like a tightning
7. Did your water break? no
8. How many hours were you in labor? about three weeks. I had conntrations on and off and kept dilating slowly while on bedrest in the hospital. The day I finally had him my conntrations were bad and I was dilated 6cm
9. How many years were you married before having your first? 1 and a half
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor? Even though your uncomfortable and eager to have your child please don't wish to have them early, they need lots of time to grow healthy and strong. My son had to stay in the NICU for two weeks after I left. That was SOO incredible hard on me.
1. 34
2. My water broke while I was out to dinner
3. Early, I was 37 weeks 5 days
4. Vaginal
5. Boy and we did find out ahead of time
6. They were like strong menstrual cramps, there was pressure but I wouldn't really call it pain
7. Yes, see above
8. My contractions started about five hours after my water broke and I had the baby 20 hours after that
9. Not quite two years
10. Have a plan for what you want but be open to having the plan change. If you go into it not being too rigid you won't get upset if things don't go exactly as you thought they would.
Good luck to you!
Secondary infertility success with IVF, then two losses, one at 14 weeks and one at 10 weeks, then success with IUI and then success with condoms! Who would ever have guessed.
This Cluttered Life
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2. How did your labor start?
I just woke up in the middle of the night (12:30) w/ contractions 7 minutes apart. I had period like cramps the day before though.
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date?
4 days early
4. C section or vaginal delivery?
vaginal
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise?
girl - found out at our 20w u/s
6. What did your contractions feel like?
I don't know how to describe them other than painful.
7. Did your water break?
Not until after I was at the hospital.
8. How many hours were you in labor?
From the first contraction at 12:30, a little more than 11 hours. She was born at 11:44.
9. How many years were you married before having your first?
about 1.5
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor?
Be prepared for anything. I thought I was going to have a super long labor because that's what everyone says is the "norm" for first time moms. I had my eyes closed the whole time because I was trying to rest in between contractions like they told us in class. I was shocked when the nurse announced "We're going to have a baby before lunch." I thought it was already after noon and had no idea I was that close. 11 hours seems like a long time but it went so fast. The first 5 hours of that were at home, then 2 or 3 in Triage.
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2. How did your labor start?
Water broke while I was leaving my NST appointment
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date? Early by 5 days
4. C section or vaginal delivery?
Vaginal
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise? Boy, surprise.
6. What did your contractions feel like?
Really, really bad cramps.
7. Did your water break?
Yes....above
8. How many hours were you in labor?
26
9. How many years were you married before having your first? We were a month shy of a year.
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor? Enjoy those first moments with your baby and when everyone leaves for the night. I just looked at my son all night long those first 2 nights.
2. Mild contractions started on our 2nd wedding anniversary in the morning when I awoke - we still went to church and the family visiting didn't know I was in labor all day
3. I started labor on May 27 and she was born on the 29 (11 days late)
4. I ended up with a c-section because no amount of pushing could get her to drop (she was posterior for much of the pregnancy and just liked that spot!)
5. Girl - I HAD to know so we could call her by her name
6. They weren't bad at all. I have horrible periods and I thought they just felt like cramps
7. Nope, the midwife broke it the second day of labor to try to get things going
8. In all, over 60
9. 2 years 2 days
10. Relax - it goes by in a flash. Your little one will be here soon.
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2. How did your labor start?
Induction at 37 weeks due to PG induced hypertention (almost Pre-E but no protien in urine)
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date?
Early - 3 weeks!
4. C section or vaginal delivery?
Vaginal
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise?
Boy
6. What did your contractions feel like?
The worst cramps ever! And then just indiscribable pain.
7. Did your water break?
By the doctor
8. How many hours were you in labor?
six
9. How many years were you married before having your first?
10 months
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor?
Be open to anything. I wanted a med-free birth, walking around, warm showers, birthing ball. I got NONE of that. I was on bedrest with bathroom only. Labor was so fast and I couldn't take it just laying in the bed and got the epi.
GOOD LUCK TO YOU!!!
2. How did your labor start?
It didn't
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date?
One day overdue
4. C section or vaginal delivery?
Scheduled c/s due to his breech presentation
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise?
Boy. Found out at the 20 week scan. I hate surprises and like to be prepared in everyway.
6. What did your contractions feel like?
Never experienced any.
7. Did your water break?
No
8. How many hours were you in labor?
C/S took about an hour and a half from spinal to the last stitch.
9. How many years were you married before having your first?
3
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor?
Don't have any I hoped and prayed from the beginning that I would have a c/section. I don't personally feel it's important how the baby comes out as long as the baby comes out happy and healthy.
2. How did your labor start? I had to be induced due to my son's size.
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date? Two days overdue
4. C section or vaginal delivery? vaginal
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise? Boy, found out ahead of time
6. What did your contractions feel like? Nothing I've ever felt before
7. Did your water break? They had to break it for me.
8. How many hours were you in labor? 18
9. How many years were you married before having your first? Years.
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor? I agree with all the PP. Enjoy your baby, try to do kangeroo care as much as you can because they grow up so fast. Have a plan but understand that could change. I did not want a C-section but they told me he was not dropping and that if he went much longer I'd have to have one and I was fine with that. Enjoy your little one and congrats!
I was just wondering if you'd had your baby! You're SO close! Good luck with everything.
1. How old where you when you had your first child? 27
2. How did your labor start? I was scheduled for a c-section because DD was breech, but once they hooked me up, we all realized I was actually in labor (stronger contractions than the girl next door in L&D!)
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date? Scheduled c/s one week before due date
4. C section or vaginal delivery? c/s
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise? Girl. Found out at 19 weeks.
6. What did your contractions feel like? I didn't realize what I was feeling were actually contractions--I thought DD was just stretching (duh--it was actually my muscles tightening and contracting)
7. Did your water break? No
8. How many hours were you in labor? n/a
9. How many years were you married before having your first? 2
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor? Not only with labor, but with everything baby-related: Expect the unexpected!
1. 30
2. My first contraction was at 2am on Aug 10th
3. Overdue by 8 days
4. vaginal...I was a push and vacuum away from a c-section
5. Girl...we were surprised
6. The early ones were just like menstrual cramps...later they were just very painful. Literally had to stop and breathe through them.
7. Nope, they had to break it for me
8. About 34 hours...4 of them were actual pushing.
9. We were just shy of 3 years
10. WALK...it helps get those contractions comign fast and strong! At least is worked for me once I went into labor. And seriously...you forget the pain.
2. How did your labor start? I had some minor contractions around midnight. It turned into full blown back labor within an hour or so.
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date? 10 days overdue
4. C section or vaginal delivery? c-section (failure to progress after getting to 9.5 cm dilated. My cervix actually started to swell closed.)
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise? girl - found out at 20 wk u/s
6. What did your contractions feel like? I had back labor, so this isn't typical. I felt like someone was pounding on my back with a huge blunt hammer. Not fun. After the epidural, right before I started pushing, I could feel a little bit of contractions. Those just felt like menstral cramps.
7. Did your water break? My ob broke it in the hospital.
8. How many hours were you in labor? We got to the hospital around 2am. My c-section was close to 3pm.
9. How many years were you married before having your first? almost 2 years. married Aug. 14 '04. DD was born May 29 '06.
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor? Just go with the flow. Expect things to not necessarily go according to your plans.
Charlotte Ella 07.16.10
Emmeline Grace 03.27.13 (repeat c/s)
2. How did your labor start? with bleeding, I was surprised to be in labor!
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date? I was 2 weeks early
4. C section or vaginal delivery? Vaginal
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise? Girl, we found out at 20 wks
6. What did your contractions feel like? I had back labor for awhile, not bad contractions at all! I think I got the epidural in time before they got bad. I could feel the contractions on one part of my stomach even AFTER I got the epidural
7. Did your water break? No, broken for me
8. How many hours were you in labor? Began at 4p on Friday and had her at 1:56p on Saturday so 22 hours
9. How many years were you married before having your first? Just shy of 2 years
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor? Enjoy every moment with the baby! take pictures, I had to have emergency surgery after I had her so there are NO pictures of her and I in the hospital and I wish I had some.
Good luck and can't wait to see pictures!
1. How old where you when you had your first child? 22
2. How did your labor start? back pain (I didn't even know it was contractions bc I had all back labor)
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date? about 1 week early
4. C section or vaginal delivery? vaginal
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise? Girl, suprise
6. What did your contractions feel like? I never felt normal contractions, just stabbing acheing throbbing back pain
7. Did your water break? yes
8. How many hours were you in labor? 10 hours (that I was aware of)
9. How many years were you married before having your first? 6 months
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor? plan on not having a plan because it's probably not going to go the way you expect it.
Good Luck!
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2. How did your labor start?
Back pain and nausea. I was 37 weeks so I was in denial that it could be labor - I went to work and then to a bachelorette party/bridal shower at a bar!
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date?
3 weeks early
4. C section or vaginal delivery?
Vaginal
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise?
Boy - found out at 19.5 weeks
6. What did your contractions feel like?
I had back labor so I don't really know what true contractions feel like, but I do know that back labor is very painful.
7. Did your water break?
Yes. I walked in the door from the shower, sat down on the toiled and heard/felt it pop.
8. How many hours were you in labor?
Water broke at 10:30pm (I was still in slight denial! We both showered and finished packing the bag.), admitted to hospital around 12:30pm, Drew was born at 4:59am.
9. How many years were you married before having your first?
1 year 4 months
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor?
Rest now while you can, you will soon be sleep deprived.
2. How did your labor start? I was induced with some pills to soften the cervix
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date? I was 9 days late and then induced.
4. C section or vaginal delivery? vaginal
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise? girl and we found out.
6. What did your contractions feel like? Inexplainable
7. Did your water break? Yes, about 5 hours after being induced.
8. How many hours were you in labor? induced at 7:30 p.m, had her at 9:30 a.m.
9. How many years were you married before having your first? 4 days shy of our first anniversary.
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor? Go to lots of movies and date nights right now while you still can, life changes completely after baby.....I really missed my husband the first few weeks because everything was so much about the baby it wasn't even funny.
1. 25 years old
2. I had contractions for about 3 days (at random intervals) and then I called it quits on the 4th day and went into the hospital and they broke my water
3. 1 day early
4. vaginal delivery
5. girl...found out ahead of time but told no one
6. BAD period cramps
7. by doctor
8. I pushed for about 1 hour
9. 3 years
10. take time to enjoy your husband and your house quite
1. 26
2. Induced
3. 1 week overdo
4. vajayjay
5. Girl, it ws a surprise though we didn't know until she was born, and everyone (us included) swore I was having a boy.
6. at first bad menstral cramps and then a horrible stabbing pressure with horrible cramps. And the ring of fire when she was crowning.
7. My water never broke, it came out bulging right ahead of her, my dr broke it and then a few minutes later she was here.
8. 7 total, quick induction, I had no dilation,effacement, etc when induction started.
9. 1, but we had been dating for 8 years.
10. It seriously goes by quicker then you think, even without an epi I forgot the pain by the time she came out and it really helps you to focus on the outcome of that pain which is a beautiful little baby!
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2. How did your labor start?
They induced me.
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date?
Overdue by 8 days.
4. C section or vaginal delivery?
Wanted natural, but had emergency c-section.
5. Boy or girl? Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise?
Girl - knew ahead of time.
6. What did your contractions feel like?
Like nothing... I was induced, but my contractions never got to the point where they hurt... my DD's heartrate went down to 70 something and I told them "c-section now. I am NOT giving birth to a dead baby." They agreed with me and off I went.
7. Did your water break?
That was the problem, I hardly had any - I guess I had been slowly leaking and didn't know it... when they wnet in they said there was hardly any fluid.... SCARY!
8. How many hours were you in labor?
I was induced at about 10 am - "labored" for maybe 4 hours or so??? Then had c/s
9. How many years were you married before having your first?
2.5
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor?
Go ahead and plan what you want, but be VERY open-minded that things can change and change fast... have the strength and brains to do what is right for your baby.... I thought that I had it all planned out, ready to go, but when my DD's heartrate fell at the littlest contraction, it was MY decision to have a c-section (and I had my heart set on a natural birth) and still to this day, I KNOW in my heart Ani would have been dead if I wouldn't have had that c/s.....
my mom always says "let go and let God...." and know that you are strong enough to get through whatever He hands you!
GL
1. How old where you when you had your first child? I got pg right after HS I was 18 ( so not what I had planned, but couldn't imangine it being different now.)
2. How did your labor start? Slowly, I had to be induced
3. With your first, where you early, overdue, or right at your due date?Early
4. C section or vaginal delivery? vaginal
5. Boy or girl?Boy - Adam John
Did you find out ahead of time or was it a surprise?Found out
6. What did your contractions feel like? I don't really remember to be honest. They told me (the drs)sometimes we forget the pain so we want to do it again. lol
7. Did your water break? No, the dr punctured it.
8. How many hours were you in labor?36 w/ 20mins of pushing and there he was
9. How many years were you married before having your first? I wasn't we were HS sweethearts - obviously didn't work out.
10. Best piece of advise for a first-time mom eagerly anticipating labor? Get the pain meds! LOL
Serioulsy, breathe and try to relax