I frequent a website called TheBump. I recently submitted my birth story and I am the featured birth story! (Not sure for how long). I thought I would share it with you while it's still up!
Here it is:
http://community.thenestbaby.com/cs/ks/blogs/birth_stories/archive/2008/12/18/mrs-mclstar48-hailey-s-early-delivery.aspx
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Friday, August 22, 2008
Hailey's Here! Her Birth story!
Hailey Cathleen was born August 19th @ 3:31pm. She weighed 5lb 12oz and was 18 inches long. She came when I was only 33 weeks pregnant. I guess she wanted to show her face early! And she decided to come on her Uncle Jeff's birthday (Randy's brother)! Here's her birth story.....
Tuesday morning at about 4:30am I am dead asleep. I feel a huge gush. For half a second I thought I peed but once it dawned on me I realized it was my water. I got up and ran to our bathroom. I couldn't believe how much water I had (even though I knew I had a lot already). I realized I didn't have my cell phone so I got up and waddled over to grab it and went back into the bathroom. My phone had no service so I got up and waddled to the front bathroom (all while water is STILL coming out.....fast) and stood in the bathtub.
Here's the funny part....Randy was on a business trip in San Francisco. So I am all by myself.
I called my mom so she can make her way down to my house. I called Randy. He had to get an emergency flight home. I called my doctor. I was instructed to go to a different hospital then the one I planned on because it doesn't have a NICU and I was only 33 weeks. I called my in-laws (they live next door). I realized the door was locked so I got out to unlock the door then went back to the bathtub.
My contractions didn't start until I was in the car but they were very mild. I didn't know how to get to the hospital and my mom couldn't remember exactly but she had GPS. The GPS was taking us to a hospital named the same as the one we needed to go to but it was directing us to the one in Napa!! (That's about 9 hours north of here by Sacramento). So we were lost but found our way. I went thru the ER because I didn't know where L&D was. I stood in the door way because I was still leaking water and didn't want to get it all over the floor. So I called to the nurse and they brought a wheel chair. (I was only wearing a longer maternity shirt and beach towels wrapped around me because my water was still leaking so I didn't put on pants).
When I was checked I was 1cm dilated. Once I got moved into a labor/delivery room I was almost 2cm. Contractions really started to get intense. Randy was able to get an 8am flight home. So I just sat there with my mom and eventually my in-laws and others starting arriving too. At about 8:30 I was 3cm and the contractions were extremely painful (And I am a wuss when it comes to pain). My nurse was great and grabbed the Anesthesiologist before he went into a c-section. The Epidural was great. It hurt less than the IV so it wasn't bad at all. Once it kicked in it was so much better!!
Randy got to the hospital at 10am. At about 12:00ish I was 4-5cm dilated and was put on pitocin. At 2:30 I was 10cm and ready to go!! We had to wait a bit for my doctor to come. At about 2:45 the nurse had me start pushing. 46 minutes later Hailey showed her cute little face!!
She was checked and then we got a few moments with her and then she was taken to the NICU.
Tuesday morning at about 4:30am I am dead asleep. I feel a huge gush. For half a second I thought I peed but once it dawned on me I realized it was my water. I got up and ran to our bathroom. I couldn't believe how much water I had (even though I knew I had a lot already). I realized I didn't have my cell phone so I got up and waddled over to grab it and went back into the bathroom. My phone had no service so I got up and waddled to the front bathroom (all while water is STILL coming out.....fast) and stood in the bathtub.
Here's the funny part....Randy was on a business trip in San Francisco. So I am all by myself.
I called my mom so she can make her way down to my house. I called Randy. He had to get an emergency flight home. I called my doctor. I was instructed to go to a different hospital then the one I planned on because it doesn't have a NICU and I was only 33 weeks. I called my in-laws (they live next door). I realized the door was locked so I got out to unlock the door then went back to the bathtub.
My contractions didn't start until I was in the car but they were very mild. I didn't know how to get to the hospital and my mom couldn't remember exactly but she had GPS. The GPS was taking us to a hospital named the same as the one we needed to go to but it was directing us to the one in Napa!! (That's about 9 hours north of here by Sacramento). So we were lost but found our way. I went thru the ER because I didn't know where L&D was. I stood in the door way because I was still leaking water and didn't want to get it all over the floor. So I called to the nurse and they brought a wheel chair. (I was only wearing a longer maternity shirt and beach towels wrapped around me because my water was still leaking so I didn't put on pants).
When I was checked I was 1cm dilated. Once I got moved into a labor/delivery room I was almost 2cm. Contractions really started to get intense. Randy was able to get an 8am flight home. So I just sat there with my mom and eventually my in-laws and others starting arriving too. At about 8:30 I was 3cm and the contractions were extremely painful (And I am a wuss when it comes to pain). My nurse was great and grabbed the Anesthesiologist before he went into a c-section. The Epidural was great. It hurt less than the IV so it wasn't bad at all. Once it kicked in it was so much better!!
Randy got to the hospital at 10am. At about 12:00ish I was 4-5cm dilated and was put on pitocin. At 2:30 I was 10cm and ready to go!! We had to wait a bit for my doctor to come. At about 2:45 the nurse had me start pushing. 46 minutes later Hailey showed her cute little face!!
She was checked and then we got a few moments with her and then she was taken to the NICU.
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