2003-06-29 ~ 11:42 p.m.

birth survery thingy

I did this survey and answered for my other two births awhile back here so I figured I would do this for Chase too, since I was up and he is in my arms right now! :)

1: How many times did you go to L&D thinking that was it? none!

2: Did you drive yourself to the hospital, DH or somebody else? i drove myself since it was for montoring

3: Did you loose your mucus plug if so when? i lost it over several weeks timr

4: Where you induced? How did it feel? yes because Chase's heartrate. It was odd knowing I would go into labor but not sure when exactly

5: How long was your labor? 13 hours from the starts of pitocin and 4.5 hours from first real contractions and my water breaking

6: How long did you push for? Not long. 2 whole pushes! lol

7: Did you have any pain meds or epidural? I had to have the epidural because we were really close to having to do a c-section because his heartrate was dipping too low

8: Was the birth what you expected? NO WAY

9: How helpful was your support person? Wonderful!

10: How did you feel afterwards? great actually & tired

11: Did you follow your birth plan? nope

12: Did you film the birth or take Pictures? we took pictures before and after he was born

13: How long was your hospital stay? Well from Thursday at noon when I started being montored until saturday at 11 am when we got released

14: Did you bring everything you needed? Were you missing something or brought too much in your hospital bag?

I brought everything we needed

15: Did you have lots of visitors? not a lot but I had my sister, her friend and the people who watched the kids for us

16: Did you breastfeed, formula fed? How soon after the birth did you feed the baby for the first time?

breastfeed and about 10 minutes after he was born I feed him the firt time

17: Did the lactation specialist show up? no

18: Did the going home outfit fit the baby or was it too big or small? It was tooo big for sure! Chase was tiny!

19: Were you early, late, on time. By how many days or weeks? early by 10 dyas just like with Jaidyn

20: Was there something you wished you could have done before coming home? no I was way ready to go home

21: Were you missing something for the baby when you got home or did you buy everything you needed? We needed a few preeie outfits becuase 0-3 months were HUGE on him

22: Did you loose any weight after the birth if so how much? 13 lbs within the first day 18 lbs within the first week

23: Is there any advice you would give to future mommies? expect the unexpected. I have had 3 very very different births!

Little man is doing great! He woke up at 9:30 tonight and its almost 12 and he is finally going back to sleep! :) opefully we will get a few good hours of sleep tonight. I have the kids to myself tomorrow all day long! Thank goodness its a 4 dfay week for Brian and he is off Friday for the 4th! lol

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