Yep, you read it right, I started skipping a night feeding this week Just letting Mom and Dad have a break. Besides, all I do is eat, sleep and poop. I don’t need so much food all the time!

Évelyne Julie Lefebvre
A birth story

Where to start. Well, I was due october 8th (Friday), but nothin’ was happening then. The next day (satiurday) I had a few contractions but nothing regular, just enough to get us all anxious. Then nothing until Monday afternoon. At around 3:00PM I started timing BH contractions, as they didn’t hurt, they we’re just consistently coming back. This went on until about midnight, when they started hurting a little. This is a little confusing to me as I don’t know if it was actually the contraction that hurt or the fact that after each contraction I would have back pain.

I kept timing them for the next 3 hours. At 3:00 AM I decided it was time to call labor and delivery and see at what point they wanted me to come in. The nurse told me the contractions had to be less than 5 minutes apart for 2 hours before I could be checked in. Being as they we’re still 6-7 minutes apart, we waited still. From 4 ’till 5AM, I got really excited because they had now been 5 minutes apart for the whole hour, but then they went back to 8, then 7, 6, 5, 8, 7, 6, 5. At which point I was completly frustrated, crying because this wasn’t going anywhere and I was exhausted as now it was 6AM. I went back to bed (my Lay-z-boy) and tried to sleep. I kept waking up at every contraction but may have had a couple minutes sleep in there.

When DH alarm came on, (I let him sleep so he could be there for me in the morning) I promptly told him he wasn’t going into work. That I really needed him to help with the pain. So from 7Am to 10AM he proceeded to strongly massage my back and put heat on it when the contraction started and especially at the end with the back pain. At 10AM he decided it may be a good idea to eat breakfast and prep himself a lunch to bring with him to the hospital. I then got up to eat myself as I was mildly hungry. Half an hour later I went to the bathroom to pee and lo and behold, mucus with a tinge of blood! On top of that, just the walking around to eat and go pee made the contractions come every 2-3 minutes as opposed to 5-6 minutes they’d been since 7AM. I then called back L&D and they said to come on in. I think it took less than 20 minutes to get everything and leave, most of our things we’re already in the car.

Around 10 - 10:30 I’m checked in and get something to get a good BM. (enema??) I’m so happy for that, it meant no poop on the table, and boy did it make me feel better. At 12:30 my Dr decided they should rupture my membranes as it hadn’t happened yet, so the on call resident proceeded to do so. I was pretty ok with the pain from check-in until they broke my water, after that the contractions intensified or I should say, the back pain after the contraction intensified to the point I thought I was going to pass out. I asked for the epidural. I think the guy was there and done inside 20 minutes, but heck was that the longest 20 minutes of my life! Somewhere in there they started me on Pitocin because my contractions weren’t strong enough to dilate me enough. I think I got the epidural I was barely 2 cm and 80% effaced (something like that). They usually wait until 4cm before giving the epidural, but I couldn’t take anymore.

During the afternoon, they had to stop the pitocin because they’re wouldn’t be a resident in the hospital until 5pm. So they started it up again at 5. Things weren’t progressing very fast with my nurse. While she went to eat supper, the head nurse came in and decided she was going to do it her way, upping the meds more, even though Évelyne’s HB went down after the contractions. It got the other nurse fuming, and me stressed. But it still had the desired effect because in about an hour I had openned up a few cm. By 9PM I was almost 10 and completly effaced. By then my Dr had shown up and decided it was time to push. The on call resident (a defferent one) was also there. I pushed for an hour, and it was really hard pushing at the right place, because they never stopped the epidural. They had to cut twice, once down and then diagonnaly so I wouldn’t tear.

At 9:54 Évelyne was born. Yannick (DH) was supposed to pull her out and on top of me, but the Dr’s hesitated about what to do with the cord as it was around her neck. Yannick got confused but snapped out of it in time to cut the cord. He was a trouper. The coolest thing is she really started wailing at this point and Yannick took out his “Oh Baby the places you’ll go (in utero)” book he’d been reading since father’s day and started reading it to her. She stopped crying instantly and was very aware that this was something she recognized.

All in all, a very good delivery.

Hey friends, I turn 1 month today! Happy birth day to me! I’m settling in still, this is a very different place. I love being held most the time, daddy likes to hold me until I fall asleep, I like it that way. I don’t really like to be put down after that, I’d rather stay and be cuddled while I sleep. It’s so much warmer.

I’ve met many people already, my grand-parents and even my great-grand-parents made a visit. I’ve seen my Aunt/Godmother Karine, my Uncle/Godfather Gaétan and also my Aunt Marie-Josée. I like them all very much. My grandma Francine comes over often to help mommy take care of me. I like that alot, makes mommy happy!

Mommy and me started to go to some, well, mommy and me classes! I like them, I slep through the first one though, couldn’t be bothered you know!

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