He's here!
It's been one month and I'm finally getting around to sharing Noah's birth story.
Tuesday night I was sitting on the couch with a gallon of raspberry sherbert resting on my belly as I ate from the tub. I noticed I was having lots of [braxton hicks] contractions but not in any rhythm or time so I didn't think much of it. Within minutes I noticed the contractions were on top of each other then I felt the baby in a way I had recognized from before. I looked at Matt and said "we have to go!". My boss, Heather and her daughter Julia made it to my house in 10 minutes and we left for the hospital.
When I got to triage, the nurse asked me how far apart my contractions were and I told her I didn't really know. She told me they would probably send me home. She checked me and I was dilated to a 6. She called my doctor and my doctor said to keep me over night. I wasn't feeling contractions but was having them every 3 minutes.
I got to my room and stayed on my feet as long as I could stand it.. it was 1:30am so I was pretty tired. The doctors on call that night came in to tell me that they would give me an epidural if I wanted it. With my first pregnancy, anesthesia told me they would not give me an epidural because of the scar tissue and metal rods in my spine. I don't know what changed but they feel confident in giving me an epidural now! I told the doctor thank you, but I would go drug free unless something tragic happened and I needed it. Contractions at this point were 1 minute apart and I had dilated to a 7. I decided to sleep, and when I laid down my contractions slowed down and I actually slept all night!
I woke up at 8am and had dilated another cm over night. My doctor came in at 9 and told me they were going to break my water!
At 9:15am they broke my water.
Almost instantly I felt stronger more intense contractions and I felt the baby moving in that same way I felt when I was sitting on the couch. I asked the nurse to check me because it didn't feel right and she checked me and said "you're getting close! you're a 9!" I thought there was no way I was only at a 9. I could feel this baby and I thought for sure he was ready to come. My doula, Lisa suggested I lay on my left side for a while. I continued breathing thru the contractions as she and Matt helped me roll over and there it was... I instantly started pushing and I told the nurse I was pushing and she called for the doctors and in came a room full of people!
Noah was in my arms at 9:32am!
My mom came right in, and Matt's mom shortly after! All of my sisters came and their boyfriends came too! At some point in the night Heather and Julia went home because my sister Lauren and her boyfriend TJ went to my house to stay with Ivy! They got her all dressed to come meet her new baby brother and see us!
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ReplyDeletePortugal is a Racist country that is not just living in the past but adopting Nazi-style tactics to promote anti-Spanish,
anti-Brazilian, anti-black, anti-Angolan, anti-Mozambique etc. Racism and attitudes rather than focusing on the fact that
it's economy is in total ruins. These Xenophobic tendensies arise in poor, uneducated and backward countries when tough
economic times and sky-high unemployment rates hit hard. Granted, the low educational levels and 50% of the population
living below the poverty line tend to speed up said processes.
The extreme right Nazi party of Portugal known as the PNR (Partido Nacional Renovador) has bombarded the country's media
and has commenced anti-Spanish, anti-black and anti everything else Xenophobic propaganda campaigns on You Tube. Amongst
their favorite topics are gaining back former colonies such as Macao, East Timor, and even lands ceded by them via treaties
to other countries such as Olivenza (which has been fully Spanish for hundreds of years) and the Islas Salvages that were
stolen by them from Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
There need to be mechanisms in place to combat this PNR threat that is prevalent in the poorest European Union country and
there needs to be a will both from within the current government and the uneducated citizenry to stop this negative activity
before the country spirals into a Freemason chaotic paradigm.
Full Interpol investigations are underway to stop the many cadres who spend their time in cyber cafes promoting Xenophobic
and Racist behaviours. Clinical psychologist Dr. Hermano Fuzeta has noted the following regarding the issue:
" Given the deteriorated economic state, and the non existence of meaningful employment opportunities, the already ignorant
Portuguese man slides back into the primitive state of Ignorance; that is genetically marked and more so pronounced in the
Azores Islands where Xenophobic and delusional behaviour has been enjoyed for centuries. Moreover, reliving the past allows
the diseased state of mind to feel powerful worthy, and able to cope with the culturally impoverished surroundings and
reality of a sinking National identity "