Re: Birth Announcement [long]

[Guest guest]

Sandi,

Congratulations! I'm so happy for you and your family. What a

great Christmas!

I hope you get answers about the shape of your uterus soon. Take

care and rest up.

Becki, UU, TTC #1

[Guest guest]

Congratulations! I went and saw Austin's picture and he's a

beauty!!!!!

[Guest guest]

Sandi,

Wow, congratulations! Sounds like quite the birthing experience...and that

you have a septum. perhaps? Nice to hear success story. Take care!

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> Well, I'm now officially a Mommy! I had him Friday, December 7th at

8:40 PM by c-section.

Sandi-

Congratulations! I am so happy for you and Austin. Sounds like labor

was a bit rough- but worth it of course! I can't believe you went

past your due date. Let us know how you're doing.

So glad to hear yet another success story on the board!

Gretchen

32 weeks, EDD 02/06/02

[Guest guest]

> Well, I'm now officially a Mommy! I had him Friday, December 7th at

8:40 PM by c-section.

Sandi-

Congratulations! I am so happy for you and Austin. Sounds like labor

was a bit rough- but worth it of course! I can't believe you went

past your due date. Let us know how you're doing.

So glad to hear yet another success story on the board!

Gretchen

32 weeks, EDD 02/06/02

[Guest guest]

Congratulations, Sandi! He's adorable!! Just in time for the holidays!!

Tammy

Digest Number 276

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[Guest guest]

Congrats on your little holiday blessing!! Happy Birthday Austin!!

, UU

Birth Announcement [long]

> Well, I'm now officially a Mommy! I had him Friday, December 7th at 8:40

PM by c-section. Well, my due date was 12/04/01 and I was starting to feel

like I would never go into labor on my own. Well, hubby and I went to bed

Thursday night at 11:30 as we had been and a short 4 hours later, I awoke to

nearly hear a pop and feel my water break and I jumped out of bed [difficult

for a pregnant woman, especially from a waterbed!!] and ran to the bathroom.

My husband asked what I was doing and I told him that my water broke. About

20 minutes later [4 AM], I started feeling the contractions and I decided to

take a shower. After I got out of the shower, I started timing the

contractions and they were clockwork at 2 minutes apart but not

painful...just a bit uncomfortable. So, we figured we'd better head to the

hospital. My family has a history of fast deliveries...I was a first born

and my mom was in labor for only 4 hours and my sister just had her second

baby [due the day after me but had her on the 3rd] and labored for 4 hours

also. Well, I was about 2-3 cm dilated when we were checked in and hooked

up. I was moved to labor and delivery and by 7:30 am my contractions were

very painful and I caved into myself and asked for an epidural. I felt much

better. Well, I progressed well but by the afternoon, I was still sitting

there and I was about 7 cm. They kept checking and were 'debating' how much

I was dilated and believed that I had part of my cervix that was not

dilating on one side. Well, I had several different doctors coming in and

trying to 'guess' too but they determined that it was a septum [i'm

BU...supposedly but only diagnosed via ultrasound at 6 wks pregnant] and

this was news to me because I didn't know or think that I had a septum and I

was beginning to doubt my BU also, being that I went past my due date and

all. They also did an u/s to see the baby's positioning and they could see

the septum in my uterus and that the baby was face up instead of down.

Well, they tried to do different things [have me lay on one particular side

only] to encourage my septum to move [or something] but I didn't make any

progress and to make matters worse, epidurals work with gravity and if one

side gets painful, you roll to the other side to get the medication to

'fall' to the side that hurts but they didn't want me to do that and I was

hurting. Finally, another doctor came in and was checking me and was trying

to figure out about my septum and I had a contraction and he said that he

could feel that the baby wasn't even moving down during the contraction like

he should. He was down there [the baby] because the doctors all kept saying

" well, I can see hair " when they would check me. So he said that the best

solution was c-section and that the baby was a bit crooked and wasn't going

to fit through properly. So, I had a c-section and my baby was born at 8:40

PM..a boy, Austin, at 8 pounds exactly and 20 1/2 inches long and lots of

dark hair like his daddy!! I'm still sore but every day I feel a little

better but I remind myself every time I look at my son that it was all worth

it. Also, they said during the section that they could see that my uterus

was sectioned or segmented [can't remember well now because of the

medications] and that he was in the left side of it. I have to have a follow

up appointment with the doctor who did it [not my regular doctor] and I hope

to get a better idea of what my uterus looks like since I think it sounds

like it may not be a BU. Anyway, that's it for me but if anyone wants to see

a picture of my son, I don't have any to load but the hospital took one and

I have a password and all and you can see him. The website is

www.sparrow.org and you go to the Baby Online link and type in the username

of dousebaby and the password is Austin. Okay, that's if for now...I'm

tired.

> Sandi

> Mommy to Austin, born 12/07/01

> BU??

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[Guest guest]

Congratulations Sandi!!! So glad to hear your news! Rest up and enjoy your

precious little one! He is so cute.

Ula

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