I am back...well sort of. I have no kept up with this blog like I thought I would. Between working the last two years, getting pregnant, and having a baby things have just stopped. Yana Hazel was born June 8, 2015 and my what an adventure it has been. It has been the most challenging, rewarding, exciting, and exhausting season of life. I have said it is definitely a lot harder than I expected from the birth to breastfeeding to taking care of a baby- it takes a lot of energy that I honestly doubt I have some days. If you ever want to learn to be more patient become a parent...I am definitely still learning. I have a few meltdowns most days but I am also having the sweetest time. She is such a joy, she loves to laugh she loves people and loves eye contact. She wants to interact she wants to play she wants to live and it is so beautiful to watch her develop and learn new things. She is beautiful and I love her so much.
Birth story:
Labor started Saturday night June 6th- at around 11 pm after Roland and I got home from a 3 mile walk... ha! I did have contractions off and on for a week or so but nothing consistent or really that painful. So around 11pm I did some stretches and sqauts and boom they started. It was more intense than the others I've had so I felt like this was probably it. We went to sleep well to bed because I could not sleep through them. They were about 10 minutes apart at that point. We ended up eating at some point in the middle of the night maybe it was 3 am and the bath was later, can't remember? Around 3- or 7am? I ended up taking a warm bath ( the midwife on call suggested it when Roland called to notify her that I was probably in labor). I took a bath and labored at home. Roland made some french toast for breakfast with strawberries and I could barely eat at that point. We ended up leaving the house to head to Statesville around noon on Sunday since it was an hour drive. We ended up getting a hotel room about 8 minutes from the birth center so that I could labor there. My contractions were bout 8 minutes or so apart. Roland watched tv and I just kind of took them as they came. I was trying to drink water between every contraction and eat some snacks. My appetite was pretty gone since that morning. I was losing my mucous plug during that entire time. Roland watched some tv in the hotel room and I just oooooed through the contractions. I did different positions, all fours, leaned over the bed with my head in a stack of pillows, etc. I took a warm shower in there somewhere when I wanted some relief. Roland spoke with the midwife at some point and she said to get on my side and do a few contractions on each side. This was supposed to make me progress more and also do all 4's a few times. So I did the side-lying and the contractions that way were further apart but way more intense. Then I did the all 4's and those were intense too and after that we headed to the birth center. I felt like that progressed me enough and it was getting real. We got to the center around 7pm and the midwife came a few minutes after us. Roland tried to give me some pizza but the smell made me nauseous. He also ate some chinese in the hotel that I took a few bites of. Man it was hard to eat. So she checked me and I was 6 cm...and then we walked around the birth center as she got the room ready. It was a beautiful day outside too sunny and warm. Anyway let me back track the car ride to the hotel from Charlotte wasn't too bad I listened to music and the contractions weren't super close together they slowed down in the car which was probably a good thing. So she got the room ready and I went in there to labor. For the next 4 is hours I pretty much just did different positions with each contraction. The hardest was the side-lying with the peanut shaped ball and squats. I wanted to progress since it felt like it was taking forever. I got in the birthing pool and did some contractions there squatting,etc. At around 11 she checked me and I was at 8.5 and an hour later I was pushing. The most intense was that time probably, I had a contraction with back labor which was hard, I was on the toilet at one point and that was very overwhelming, I felt nauseous at one point, etc...probably transition. i ended up pushing on the bed for 2 hours but my contractions were about 4-5 minutes apart at that point so I was able to rest in between them and almost sleep. My water broke about 20 minutes before her head came out. Roland and the nurse assistant held my legs as I pushed. The team was the Midwife Nicole, a nurse, and a nurse assistant. They worked great together and the assistant was pretty encouraging she got in my face during transition and told me I could do it. That is what I needed to hear at that point. Anyway Yana was born at 2:24am Monday morning June 8. She was beautiful looked up right at me and cried. It was so crazy and unreal it felt so normal when she was actually here. We ended up just hanging out and trying to get her to latch which was hard because I didn't really know what I was doing. We ended up getting home around 9 am that day and Roland took a nap at the center but I couldn't!
It was crazy she weighed 7.2 and 20 1/4 inches long!
She is so beautiful.
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