BBW Birth Stories: Normal Vaginal Births. BBW Birth Stories: Normal Vaginal Birthsby KMom. Copyright . All rights. This FAQ last updated: February. What should I eat when I'm breastfeeding? You don't need to eat any special or different foods while you're breastfeeding. Just do your best to follow a balanced diet. Archives and past articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com. More Food and drink safety. Is it safe to eat cheese during pregnancy? Alcohol during pregnancy. Caffeine and pregnancy: what's safe? Is it safe to drink alcohol. Get a fun and fabulous daily dose of Cosmo by checking out Cosmopolitan.com.DISCLAIMER: The information on this website is not. Consult. your health provider. BBW Birth Story Pages. BBW Birth Stories: Normal Vaginal Births. CONTENTSIntroduction. Terms and Abbreviations. Birth Stories. Normal Vaginal Birth. Rachel's. Story (homebirth)Darla's Story. Barbara's. Story (group B. Strep, vaginal birth)Jameel's Story (Supersized. Group B Strep, homebirth)Aylene's Story (homebirth)Kathy. Story (Supersized. Robyn's. Stories (2 hospital births, then home. Kimberly's Story (posterior, induced vaginal birth)Christina's. Story (med- free vaginal birth)Aliza's Story (Supersized. Heather's. Story (baby. ![]() Sandra M's Story (homebirth) B. G.'s Story (normal vaginal birth)April's. Story (induction, vaginal birth)Carol C's Story (PCO. Group B Strep, vaginal birth)Atheena. R's Story. (Supersized, induction, vaginal birth)Jennifer's. Want to know how to conceive a girl? If you’re swaying for pink, here are 9 tips which may help increase your chances of conceiving a girl. How to have a healthy diet while you are breastfeeding, including advice on what vitamins you need, and foods to avoid while breastfeeding. Story. (quick vaginal birth)Laurie's. Story. (baby malposition, vaginal birth)Kimberley. Story. (PROM, augmentation, episiotomy, vaginal birth)Julia. M's Story(group B Strep, home waterbirth)Mary's. Story (planned unassisted homebirth)Veronica's Story. Tracywag's Story(posterior. Suzy's Story(epidural. Kati's Story(unmedicated induction, vaginal birth)Naomi. Stories(induction. Vickie's Stories(induction. Aimee's Story (SROM, rapid natural. Lori W's Story. (postdates induction, unmedicated vaginal birth, PPD)Camila's Story (PCOS. Amy. 3's Story(Supersized. Angela's Story(SPD. Emma Fearon's Story. Jan A. Heirtzler's Story (borderline BP, pelvic pain. Tami's Story (Supersized. Isadora E's Story(pelvic. Melissa's Story (pelvic. Jennifer T's Story (Supersized. PROM, group B strep, induction, vaginal birth) Jenni M's Story. Supersized, PROM, spontaneous labor, easy vaginal birth)Adrienne's Story. Dawn's Story (borderline blood pressure, possible IUGR. Many women over the years have requested a section for birth. Large women come into pregnancy with. Pregnancy books and. Although there are many birth stories online, most are of. While these are also important to read. It is important for us to see that many of. This is a collection of BBW birth stories collected by Kmom. Stories have been separated into various categories (vaginal. This. section briefly defines some of these in order to help women. AFP = Alpha- Feto Protein test for certain birth defects (also. MSAFP at times)AROM = Artificial Rupture of Membranes (when the doctor. G = blood glucose, a measure of a person's blood. Mostly does birth center and. DEM = Direct- Entry Midwife; a midwife that does not. Usually trained through accredited. CPM. (Certified Professional Midwife). Some states also. LM) through state agencies. DH = Darling Husband (or damn husband, as the case may be!)dilation = the amount a cervix has opened in preparation for the baby's. EFM = External Fetal Monitoring; checking the heartbeat of the. Also often called pre- eclampsia (when other symptoms are present) or. Toxemia of Pregnancy. Terms not truly interchangeable. PCO (PCOS) = Poly. Cystic Ovarian Syndrome; a disease of too much. PROM = Premature Rupture of Membranes; when waters break before. RE = Reproductive Endocrinologist; specialist in infertility. SNS = Supplemental Nursing System; a way to feed the baby formula. Gain in Pregnancy: ~4. Gain in Pregnancy: 1. My contractions did not. Sandi (my midwife) advised going back to bed and trying to. She said to call her back when they were about 8 min apart. Almost immediately contractions started and were 5 minutes apart, but only. I called Sandi back after an hour and told her I. Unfortunately, I. I had a fear of prolapsed cord - a residual of my horrendous. I was confined to bed to . Contractions continued at this pace for the entire drive up (1 hour). Sandi checked the heartbeat and did a Vaginal Exam (VE). Baby's fine, 2cm. I went and lay down in the bed and relaxed for about another hour. The contractions. So, I got up to walk around hoping to start them up again. The family and I. We all traveled up the street and I had eggs and. We returned to the birth center at about 1. I spoke to. Sandi about our options. State law in Florida is that active labor must be. At 1. 1: 3. 0 we started using the herb pennyroyal that I had brought. Boy, did it. taste awful! Jim (dh) and I went for a walk around the neighborhood. I. had another dose of pennyroyal at 1. I tried getting in the water to labor, but my contractions. I labored facing backward on the. At about 2 my family. Roast beef never tasted so good! All this. time I continued to drink and pee. Sandi will back me up that I drank a total of. At 9 Sandi faithfully and legally offered me IV antibiotics for GBS. I had. not tested for it during pregnancy and my waters had been broken for 1. At 1. 0: 3. 0 or so, we began transition- like contractions (I. Sandi did a VE, 6cm 8. I was very. disappointed! I learned my lesson. Next time. no VE! All my wonderful support, however, quickly reassured me and we got back. I finally got in the tub again and labored there for about 1 1/2 hours. It. was great, but I think it would have been more effective if the water had. I was leaning on the side on my knees so that my. My doulas were rubbing my back and. After about an hour in this position, my legs. I tried sitting, leaning back. It was a roman style tub and I. I got out and labored on the bed for awhile. Through the entire labor, though, I always had at least three minutes. At this point I really began the self- doubt stage, crying, praying, yelling. I can't do it anymore. Freya (my 7 y- o daughter) later told me that this. She thought that I might die! However, they had lots of. SIL explained that it was normal. I was really having a hard. I never really had an urge to push like I did with my. I felt Kelson move down and the contractions began to feel as if they. Sandi checked me and I had a small lip that. I pushed through a couple of contractions. I pushed on the bed for about 2. I got. into the tub and what a difference! It was so much easier to concentrate on the. Soon, I could feel Kelson's head. Sandi reminded me to. I slowly pushed out his head. There was no cord around the neck. I pushed out the rest of him and held him in my arms! It was 3: 0. 5 am. Exactly. 5 minutes over 2. SROM. He was 8 lbs 6 oz, 2. Alec (my 5. year- old son) peeked under the towel and announced, . After the cord. was done pulsating, Freya tried to cut it. It was too hard, so Daddy helped her. This pregnancy and birth was the most amazing experience! Everything was. exactly the way . Kelson had . No shots, tests. The whole family fell asleep until about 8 am. We went. home about 9: 3. I definitely want to. Darla the Doula, Birth Doula (Mom to Freya, highly interventive vaginal. Alec, natural birth; and Kelson, waterbirth)Name. Gain in Pregnancy. Infertility Problems? It took 5 cycles to conceive. Any Complications: Group B Strep. Type of Birth: vaginal Birthplace: hospital Provider: OBBreastfeeding: yes, going well. Special Notes on Pregnancy: Kmom's Notes: Birth Story. This was my first pregnancy, and was . I also. had a very wonderful OB who never made my weight an issue and was never anything. By the time I reached my 3. I had been having lots of. Braxton Hicks (BH) contractions for a couple of weeks, and losing pieces of my. I was dilating and effacing, but. On Tues, October 1. I began having contractions that were the real thing. On Wed, I went to my 3. I. was 4 cms dilated and 9. My OB said he didn't expect me to make it. This is coming from. At around 5 pm that evening (Oct 2. We spent the next 8 hours at home, watching. Finally, at around 1 AM, they were around 6 minutes apart. I labored for another 5 hours in my LDR room, using the whirlpool tub and. I took a shot of Demerol at 7 AM when they said I was now. It didn't do much for the pain, but it did allow me to sleep between. The time between 7 and 9: 3. AM were the absolute worst. I had no idea the. Finally, at around 9: 3. I began. feeling an urge to push. The nurse checked and said I was 9 1/2 cms, fully. I went through another 2 or 3 contractions. I wasn't going to make it much longer, when they. I pushed through 4 or 5 contractions, I think, when the. Fortunately, his. The dr. At this. point, the baby's head was crowning. The nurses were yelling at me to stop. I had no control over this. I pushed once and her head was out, one more time for the shoulders. She weighed in at 8 lbs, 3 oz and was 2. She has a full head. I could not have hoped for a better baby. Wt. Gain in Pregnancy: 2. Infertility Problems? When we met, we both had office. But about three years later he decided to become an over- the- road truck. This worked out really well for our relationship, but when we lived in. Midwest, he was only home on the weekends. In the Fall of 2. East Coast, and by the next summer we decided to start trying to have a. Mike got a trucking job that had him home four days a week and by. September of 2. 00. A couple of years before, I had read a book called Birthing From Within and. I was interested in having a child, as long as I could have it. Before that I hadn. I think I thought an over weight person automatically equaled an. It was really important to. The feeling that this decision was the best choice. I was looking forward to additional research on. I discussed it with Mike and he seemed fine with the. She had worked in. I asked her. if she had any concerns about my weight, and she didn. She provided all the. I needed throughout the entire pregnancy. I only wanted one or two ultrasounds, and we decided we wanted to be. I had all the standard tests throughout the. I was concerned about getting. I did test positive for Group B Strep, so Vee and I. We determined that if. They were. 1. 3 minutes apart, and felt like muscle cramps in my lower abdomen. However, as. soon as I sat up, they stopped and didn. This. happened again around the 1. On June 2. 0th, around 7. PM, I started having. Mike called his. boss and told him he wouldn. The surges were. regular, lasting about 3. However, they weren.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
November 2017
Categories |