Well, I type this as my baby boy turns 1 week old already and I can't believe I was in labour this time last week. Last Sunday after two lots of accupuncture and still no movement in the station I was discussing my concerns with Col about having to be induced if I made it to Wednesday. I had an appointment booked with my ob who came back from Hong Kong, on Monday 6th April. He had told the baby to wait till he got back to be born but I never expected the baby to be LATE, after one being on the day and the other being a week early. But to my relief my baby boy decided at 3:15am to start his move, I had a "show". I woke Colin up and told him he wasn't going to work cause we were going to have a baby in the next 24 hours. My contractions were all over the place all morning and by 11am I'd had enough of them not progressing. So Col and I got the kids and dogs and walked to the BP service station for milk and back home. It worked!! after lunch my contractions were 9 minutes apart for an hour I was sitting on the pilates ball and leaning onto a chair, so I rang Dr Tuicolo and asked him if I needed to still see him. He said to stay at home and he'll see me in the labour suite later that night. At 3:30pm I asked Colin to call his Mum and Dad to come look after the kids. I was now in the bedroom leaning onto pillows on the bed watching TV. My contractions were 5 minutes apart when they arrived at 4:30pm but if I got up and walked around they got to 3 minutes apart. They were still manageable but were getting closer. We left for NorthWest Private Hospital and I arrived just after 5pm telling my midwife Tracey that I wasn't sure if we were too early. She checked me and I was 4 1/2 cm dilated so I was staying. Colin rang Mum to come to the hospital as she was videotaping the birth for me. I laboured mostly in the shower sitting on a pilates ball and having one nozzle on my back and one on my belly, but standing and swaying my hips for the contractions. After the shower just wasn't comfy anymore I moved to kneeling on foam at Col's feet. Tracey kept coming to check on me. I then moved to leaning on the bed where my legs became jelly so Tracey and Col helped me onto the bed. I resumed the all four position which I used for Nic and found it easier to deliver. Tracey was an AWESOME midwife and told me to push when my body told me to. So that is what I did. But after 15mins of pushing this bubba just wasn't moving. I was in labour land oblivious to everyone around me and completely fell asleep between pushes. BIZARRE feeling! Tracey felt the side lateral position was perfect for this bubba so we tried it and 2 pushes and his head was there. Dr T came in to help with the delivery and got me to stop pushing and huff/puff and little pushes when the head crowned. I then had to wait for another contraction to push the body out, the pain had gone and it felt like I was waiting for ever but at 8:24pm my baby boy was born. He was passed straight up to me and my first glance of him was amazing, I said"He's bigger then the others" He looked chubbier but sooo cute. We all took bets on how big he was, even Dr T, but we were all shocked to find I had delivered a healthy 9 pound 2 baby boy with a 37cm head. No wonder he was harder to push out!! Great labour but hard work. and perfect timing my little man due to it being Easter Daddy has managed to have Thursday through to Tuesday off work at his new job!
This week has been a challenge for us. My milk started coming in the night of day 3 along with contracting ductal thrush by day 3 from the antibiotics during labour for my heart condition and breastfeeding. I have used a combination of doctors drugs and naturopath herbal remedies to finally be almost free of it a week later. I rang my lactation consultant by day 4 who gave me a phone consultation on what to do. Thanks Jan!! Colin has done a mad dash to Woolies for cabbage leaves on day 5 for engorgement. I got a urinary tract infection on day 6 and had to send Colin for a mad dash to the chemist for Ural. Nate has had 1 night of feeding every 2 hours. 2 nights of cluster feeding from around 4 till 8pm. But last night he slept 9pm till 3am after his cluster feed, then slept from his 3am feed through to 7am. I don't mind cluster feeding if it means sleep!!!!! And worst of all my Cheeky monkey Dominic has been really sick since I got out of hospital on Thursday with a throat/mouth infection and ulcers all through his mouth.
But here we are a week later and almost have the breastfeeding sorted and I am suprisingly very calm and patient with the frequent feeding and suprisingly coping with the lack of sleep third time round, better then any other time. Maybe because I really wanted the third baby to complete my family and knew what I was getting myself into.
Nathaniel Benjamin Tunney or Nate for short
Born 6th April at 8:24pm
9 pound 2
37cm head
52cm length
5 hour natural labour
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