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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Avery's Birth Story (and announcement!) - to be continued
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Sorry it took so long for me to post, I've been mostly mobile and was out of commission for a few days.
I went in for my pre induction appointment on Tuesday, January 14th with the assumption I'd be heading home for a few hours afterwards to start the induction process. Matt and I were planning on a nice lunch and finishing up some cleaning around the house. During the appointment my blood pressure shot up to 170/90-something and I was immediately directed to go to labor and delivery to be monitored. At this point I was a fingertip dilated and 50% effaced (I think...).
Once at L&D my pressure dropped into the normal range when I was laying down, but the second I would sit up or move out of bed it would go back up into the 140's and 150's. Quickly, I was put on bed rest with the exception of being allowed to go to the bathroom. This lead to me being in major pain in my back, because I have a bad back at times and I can't physically lay flat. I'm still in pain from it all today. After a lovely hospital dinner they started me on cervadil for 12 hours. It was a really rough night and as it continued I began having some contractions and cramping, poor H didn't know what to do. They allowed me to have nubain for the pain and I drifted off to sleep very quickly. When they checked me Wednesday morning I had made basically no progress and was at maybe a centimeter. The doctor decided to insert a foley catheter to see if that progressed anything, it was awful. Once it was over it wasn't noticeable at all. I spent the majority of the day laying down and on a monitor off and on. The doctor checked me around 5 pm and discovered that I had progressed to 2 centimeters and the foley had fallen out (the nurse later said she wasn't sure if it was in correctly, because it was supposed to fall out at 3).
I was put back on cervadil for several hours, I'm really not sure how many because at this point I was just very out of it and in pain. When I was checked again I hadn't progressed further, but the doctor decided to start me on pitocin. I immediately started having irregular, but very painful contractions. I requested another nubain and told the nurse I would want an epidural soon. Her response was "I don't think the doctor will give it this early. I'll let her know." I passed out from the nubain and apparently DH flipped on the nurse and demanded to know how much longer I was going to be put through this.
I woke up a few hours later in the worst pain ever and again requested an epi - it was again put off. H flipped out again. The nurse agreed with him and apologized. I was given another dose of nubain and passed out until morning. When I woke up a new doctor had taken over as the on call. He walked in, talked to me for a little bit ... realized that I was still only 2 centimeters and he couldn't even break my water. He tried, twice. He looked at me and looked at DH and said "We can do this 2 ways. We can continue and you won't progress or we can just do a c-section. I'm guessing you want option number 2."
Within a half hour I was whisked off to the OR and Avery arrived at 9:40 am on January 16th. She weighed 7 lbs, 15 1/2 oz and was 19 3/4 inches long. She was stuck in my rib cage and they had to use suction to get her out.
She's awake! I'll finish later!
Re: Avery's Birth Story (and announcement!) - to be continued
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TTC September 2013 | BFP 11/21/13 | Chart | EDD 8/3/14 | It's a girl!
DD born at 42 weeks 1 day | 8/18/14 5:33am | 8lbs 4oz 20.25in of perfection!
my son was stuck in my ribs too and it took 3 docs to pull him out! enjoy your little girl.
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EDD: June 25, 2014
Baby Girl born via induction June 26, 2014
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