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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! |
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