I’m excited to announce that our baby boy is here, and while his birth wasn’t all smooth sailing, we have a healthy little guy and a very happy, healthy mama. As I mentioned in my 40 week update, Braxton-Hicks had started ramping up toward the end of week 39. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night all […]
Isla’s Birth Story, pt. 3
This is a continuation of Isla’s birth story. You will probably also want to read parts one and two if you’ve missed them. I was still hoping to labor as naturally as I could going forward (no pitocin–hooray!), so my initial thoughts were that once I got cleaned up and was able to start moving, […]
Isla’s Birth Story, pt. 2
This is the continuation of Isla’s birth story. You can read part 1 here. Considering how badly things had gone so far, I didn’t have high hopes for how the next day might go. I was in for a surprise, though. Shortly after the cervidil and sleeping pill, the contractions I’d been experiencing for the […]
Isla’s Birth Story, pt. 1
We went in to be induced on Thursday the 15th at 6 PM. I was a week overdue with very little signs of progress in the past 4 weeks. 1 cm dilated, 50% effaced, baby at -3 station…sometimes. The plan was cervidil overnight to ripen my cervix, then start the pitocin 12 hours later to […]
