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Iris pictures
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Last day of pregnancy: 38 weeks, 4 days
Monday, the day after my water broke, we kept trying things to induce labor. We had a nice, long walk up Albany hill. The liter of Gatorade was to help me stay hydrated. |
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Very newborn Iris
She's maybe 15 minutes old in this picture, and hasn't been cleaned off (well, I think her face got wiped off on the blanket, but no bath yet in this picture). Her head is still molded. |
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Exhausted
I'm so tired and overwhelmed in this one. Emotional and happy too - but so tired after the 17 hours of labor. I tried getting her to breastfeed, but that didn't work right away. At this point, the doctor was starting to get concerned because I was bleeding a lot and there were blood clots in my uterus. |
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snuggled
I think this might be my favorite picture of us. |
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medical
Ben took this one to show how much intervention there is even in a "natural" hospital birth. I've got a blood pressure cuff on (it was on for the whole pushing stage of labor). The baby and I have identification bracelets (several different ones). I've had 2 shots (pitocin and methorgen) and then an IV of pitocin to get the uterus to contract and stop the bleeding. I was so dehydrated though that it took 3 tries in different sites to get an IV in. She's already been bathed too, even though she's only about an hour old. |
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Nursing
Our first couple of attempts at breastfeeding didn't work well - she just wasn't interested yet and wanted to sleep. But since yesterday morning, it's worked pretty well. The hospital runs a class for new parents every day, and there was pretty good advice about getting the baby latched on. |
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Uncle
My brother Graham, holding Iris. His hands are so huge! |
Current Location: home
Tags: iris, pregnancy
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![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/78037632/967707) | | From: | ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) janisfan |
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| Date: | November 30th, 2006 09:52 pm (UTC) |
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Congratulations...feel free to give me an email or call 415.378.7092 if you need anything - I know you have a mentor and everything but if you want/need local help I'm here.
Thanks. We're going to try to get to a breastfeeding support group thing tomorrow. I'm having some pain and blister-y looking spots on my nipples, so I want to see if I'm doing things right, or what I should try to change.
I hope the class is helpful. I know the more support I got the better things went.
Mild pain right at first can be normal but anything more than that (including milk blisters which is what i think you are describing) is probably sign of some latch issues (which is a completely normal thing at this point).
Most babies have to be taught how to latch and have to practice it lots... think of this as your very first teaching moment though it can be frustrating. As long as baby is having enough wet and poopy diapers and is gaining weight and has at least 1-2 brief periods of contentment in the day then no need to worry about anything except to keep practicing her latching and positioning. By 6-8 weeks your baby's mouth will be bigger and better able to latch well anyway so it's a matter of practice and waiting for time to pass.
CONGRATULATIONS!
She looks beautiful! You look so happy!
C.O.N.G.R.A.T.U.L.A.T.I.O.N.S.
Beautiful, just beautiful. It was great talking w/ you, even if skye sucked a bit. Congrats all around!!!!!
Birth is such an incredible process ... thank you for sharing some pictures with us! Congrats to you, Iris, and Ben. (And what a beautiful name!)
She looks rather long, which is only to be expected. (Didn't you say she's nearly two feet long?)
Oops, hit post before I meant to. Anyway, she looks adorable.
My mom teased me about having the tiny baby for our family since my brothers and I were all quite a bit bigger than that. But yeah - she's between the 75th and 90th percentile for weight, but between the 90th and 95th for length so kind of a string bean. I wonder where she got that from? :-)
Thanks for posting these. She's adorable! And you look so happy :)
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/35039766/1107608) | | From: | cyt |
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| Date: | December 1st, 2006 02:28 am (UTC) |
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loved the "snuggled" picture too! :)
congrats and thank you for sharing!
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| Date: | December 1st, 2006 04:27 am (UTC) |
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*warm smile*
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/54824298/484274) | | From: | phyxius |
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| Date: | December 1st, 2006 07:16 am (UTC) |
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Aww. :) Congrats.
thank you, and that's a very happy-looking icon :)
awwww! such happy cuteness!
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/43639806/1795952) | | From: | jedusor |
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| Date: | December 1st, 2006 08:48 am (UTC) |
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Aww! I love that picture you said was your favorite.
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/25070553/2083508) | | From: | amnesiadust |
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| Date: | December 1st, 2006 04:04 pm (UTC) |
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May you both be happy and well.
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/53218586/5302653) | | From: | kovee |
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| Date: | December 2nd, 2006 07:33 am (UTC) |
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So cute!
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/74238517/6550037) | | From: | pescada13 |
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| Date: | December 6th, 2006 01:51 am (UTC) |
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Yay my first neice! and she is soo cute too! Good job y'all!
Leah
Tardy and belated congratulations!
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| Date: | December 8th, 2006 10:07 pm (UTC) |
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She is so beautiful, and so are you! What a sweet set of pictures. I'm tearing up.
TBH (http://tiredbuthappy.blogspot.com) |
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