1/3 - around 6pm, monitoring for a little while before cooks catheter inserted
1/4 - sometime after midnight. Cooks catheter inserted and we were working on dilation - I was only 1cm and 80% effaced when it was inserted at 10pm. It fell out at 830 the next morning and I was at 4cm
1/4 around 1pm - pitocin had been running for a few hours and I was trying to get contractions to become stronger and more regular.
1/4 - 9pm Water had already been broken and I was dilated to 10cm, but baby would not get lower. I was trying everything I could think of to get her to engage and drop. This was after my second ECV.
1/5 1236am - baby Lyra born via c-section after nothing I did could help her move her hands from on top of her head. I had been at 10cm for 6+ hours and was to the point where even the pitocin contractions weren’t affecting me - I hadn’t felt pain since after the version even though contractions were registering on the monitor and looked strong.
First time meeting Lyra
She kept her eyes opened for over an hour after her birth
Meeting her big brother for the first time 1/5 around 10am
Going home at 42 hours old
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