Babysaurus birth story (with pics)

I have a few minutes because Donnie is taking Quinlon for walk to try and wake him up to eat. I fell sleep too long and didn't feed him soon enough and now he's pretty lethargic and won't latch on... Stress already! Woo.


After we went back to the birthing center Saturday around 5 PM, I labored for a while until suddenly, within an hour I went from 2cm to 5 cm... Silly me got my hopes up that it would go fast.

The next 8 hours I only dilated 1-2 cm and my contractions were getting soooo hard that I was not getting reprieve in between them. I was so upset and I begged to give up over and over. Donnie is amazing and refused to let me give up and go to the hosiptal even when I begged because I was sooooo discouraged and frustrated by my lack of progress.

When it finally came time to push, my midwife discovered that I had an anterior lip on my cervix, which means she had to try and push it aside when I was pushing. It wasn't working, I was melting down. I also have a v shaped dip in my pubic bone that was causing me to have tremendous pressure and excruciating pain in the front of my pubic bone.

I lost it so many times. I finally had a breakdown and they called the head midwife who came and yelled at me until I came to my senses. Because I was having so many issues with pushing they moved me to the bed and I had to push there.

Finally, after 26 hours of hard labor and nearly 2 hours of pushing, I finally got to hold my baby! He is perfect. Other than our BFing issue that we are trying super hard to solve right now, he is such a good baby.

Watching Donnie with him is the greatest thing in the world. He adores him and I can't help but cry a little.


Thank you to all you people who have been so supportive throughout the last year or so... I really could NOT have done this without you!

And now, pictures!