Matteo's Birth Story - Copied from FB

Matteo's Birth Story born at 40 weeks 3 days -

5:20 Am on Feb 23, 2011 my water broke. Well started breaking. I thought it was a false call so I took a shower and told Zach to kind of wake up but he went back to bed. lol Took a shower and my contractions came on quick. Had contractions every 3-5 min for about an 1 hour before I woke up Zach again and told him it was go time and he needed to call people. I went downstairs and did the dishes and picked up toys while Zach took a shower. More of my water broke and we started to head for the hospital. Dropped the boys off at Katie's (Thank you sooooooooooo frickin much Katie!) and went to the hospital. It was about 8 am when we got there and my water kept breaking in bigger gushes. They gave me this thing to check if it was my water and it definitely was. They told me the name of the dr who would come check me out and I was PISSED. It was Dr. Aarfa and I had a horrible delivery with him when I had Ryker. I was about to ask for another dr but he came in and was super nice so I decided to give him a second shot. I was dilated at a 3 cm and they admitted me. Got hooked up to the Iv thing and just chilled in the room. I wimped out and got the epidural at 1pm. The guy had a trainee watching him do it and he did it twice. The anesthesiologist was awesome but he didn't tell me what was happening as he did the epidural. I was contracting and he put the needle in all the way, just to take it out and put in a whole new needle that was longer. Hurt like CRAZY but once it was in and running, I was in heaven. They checked me at 3 and I was 7 cm and 0 station. I was sooo happy cause I didn't dilate half that fast with the other two. I started feeling like I needed to push around 4 but I didn't want to actually push so I didn't tell anyone. lol The nurse came in at about 5 and I told him the pushing thing was getting stronger. He checked me and Matteo was about 2 in from coming out. He left for a few min, came back and had me do a trail push. Baby moved even lower so he ran to get the dr. He came back with another nurse and they told me to do another trial push. I pushed for about 6 min and his head came out. They made me sit there with his head half way out so they could grab the doctor. Aarfa came in and I pushed once and he was born. Easiest labor ever. Started at 5:20 am and I had him at 5:19 pm. He got a freakin TEN on the APGAR :D Absolutely perfect. I started nursing him about an hour after labor cause it was freezing and I couldn't stop shaking. So far, breastfeeding is a success and he is an angel. Definitely a good baby. He barely cries and when he does, it only lasts about a min. He has sucked his thumb and he does really well with the pacifier. We try not to give it to him to much though. Every dr/nurse who would come into our room would comment how good he was. I'm soo happy not to be pregnant and I'm already in love :) We got out of the hospital at about 7:30pm on the 24th. They got us out of there fast. He had an apt today and no jaundice or anything. Ryker calls him the "little baby" or "Tayo" and Jaidyn is still pretty sick so he's not to aware of it yet. So far, so good. Thanks so much for all the congrats! I'm still kind of out of it so if you want to see him, just let us know a head of time.

Rykers Birth Story - Again, copied from my myspace

For me personally, I love hearing other people's birth stories so I figure I would write mine out. At least for me :) Feel free to ask any questions if you have any. I know this pregnancy thing can be crazy..

- My LMP was March 7, 2008
- I found out I was pregnant at the end of April 2008 due Dec.12
- In around June/July found out it was a boy and that I had pregnancy  pre-hypertension.
- October we had a 3D ultrasound done and found out it was a girl at 32 weeks. We went back the same week and the confirmed it was a girl again.
- November I had a routine ultrasound done and they confirmed it was a boy again.
- November I went in for another appointment and the doctor did an ultrasound and said it was a boy. (about 35/36 weeks)
- November appointment we set up for me to be induced on December 5(39 weeks on the dot) because the were worried things would get bad if I continued the pregnancy with pre-hypertension(even though my blood pressure was fine and I hadn't had signs of pre-hypertension since June...) and because I had gotten pre-eclampsia with Jaidyn.
- December 5th I go in to be induced at about 12pm and they say I shouldn't even be getting induced.
Ok, now mind you, I had seen just about a different doctor every time I went in and they all said something different. I had seen the one who diagnosed me with pre-hypertension several times so I listened to her. She was not at the hospital when I went in and the lady who said I shouldn't be there was a midwife so I was a little skeptical. I went in to a different doctor the week before and he said that I should still be induced just to be safe(of course he thought I had pre-hypertension). The whole pre-hypertension was due to faulty equipment on there part. I had my blood pressure tested by the machine(which made it higher then it was) and by hand(which was fine). Anywho, she talked to another doctor and they said I could be induced but I didn't have to be. I had planned on being induced, Zach took work off, and Jaidyn's was at a friend's house so this was all kind of pissing me off. I thought that something was there that wasn't and they shouldn't have messed with my mind. I went with my original doctor's opinion and decided to be induced. I was 39 weeks so I wasn't really putting me or the baby at risk and I wanted to be safe rather then sorry.
So, we came back at 7 pm that day and they got me in a room and put an IV in(which after I had the baby, moved into the wrong vain and made my hand blow up like a balloon..). I was already 1 cm dilated but not effaced so they started me a Cervidil. They checked me at 12pm and since nothing changed they put in a balloon catheter to help me dilate quicker. That thing was a pain but after it fell out I was 3-4 cm dilated and more effaced. After that they broke my water and put me on Pitocin. That didn't help much and by noon on the 6th I was still not much more dilated. I had now been through 2-3 different doctors and a bunch of nurses. At about 3pm they decided to put in an internal monitor to see how my contractions were. I wasn't happy about that at all and I asked them to take it out about an hour after they put it in. I could feel the baby playing with it and it hurt like heck. By this time I was pissed off that I had been in labor for almost 24 hours and nothing was happening. They weren't listening to me and the doctor wouldn't even come talk to me about taking it out. He had nurses come tell me that he wouldn't. I had gotten the epidural done a few hours earlier and it started wearing off about this time so the guy came back and gave me an extra dosage. The doctor came in to check and tell me who the new doctor on call was (a family practice doctor...not even an OBGYN!). I was at about 7-8 cm and he told me it would be soon. This is about 5:30. A few minutes after he checked me I had a huge urge to push so I had Zach go get the nurse. He check me and I guess I dilated allot more but I wasn't thinned out enough for the baby to be able to fit through. They told me to wait it out but I kept feeling like I had to push so they told me to try it. I did but nothing happened so they tried to push the cervix out of the way so they could get the head through better. That didn't work either so they told me to still wait it out. I am about ready to kill someone by now. I have had so many people shoving things up places they don't need to be and I am hurting like none other. I swear the epidural only made my stomach and my legs numb cause I could feel EVERYTHING. So, I tried not to push but ended up pushing anyways with the nurse. Now, I had Zach, a guy nurse, and a guy doctor. The doctor didn't even come in until about 2 hours after pushing when the baby's head started to pop out. I was so upset that the doctor wasn't there throughout the pushing because Jaidyn's doctor didn't make it there in time. Needless to say I wasn't at all happy with any of the doctors but he's here. The doctor announced it was a boy and we were thrilled! Ryker Frank Griffin was born at 7:35 pm on December 6th, 2008. He was wide awake and scored a 9 on the APGAR test(which is perfect). He weighed 6pounds 12 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long. He was perfect and even shocked the pediatrician with how alert he was. I am definitely waiting till we get back to the states for another one. I've got two beautiful boys and its going to stay that way for a while..or so we hope ;)

Jaidyn's Birth Story

This was copied from my myspace. I wrote it a long time ago but here it is. Jaidyn's birth story :)

I love pregnancy stories and now i finally have one!! so, you don't have to read it but it's so i don't forget lol

Friday may 25th i went in for three different doctor's appointments. at 11 was my ultrasound, 12:30 was an NST (where they monitor the baby for a half an hour), and at 1:15 was my doctor's appointment. zach's dad had to take me and drop me off cause zach had the car. the ultrasound was fine and then i had to wait an eternity for the next appointment. the nst went well and then they had me wait a while longer before my doctor's appointment. for my doctor's appointment the nurse checked my blood pressure and it was really high(it hadn't been high throughout the other part of the pregnancy) and i had high levels of protein. the nurse said i would probably be having my baby that weekend. I had to wait for the doctor to come back to tell me what was going on cause he was at a c-section. so i sat there for another hour or so trying to stay calm for my blood pressure but wondering what the heck was going on. i called zach and told him he'd probably need to pick me up. lol the doctor finally came and said i needed to go straight to the hospital. all the while they are telling me to stay calm..right!! i get to the hospital and they do a 24 hour test to watch the protein levels. the higher it gets the worse it is for me and the baby. they also checked my blood pressure every two hours. whohoo. fun stuff. i had my blood drawn every so often and so i got no sleep the first night. the doctor came in the next day around 4 PM and said i would probably get to go home that day only to come back two minutes later and tell me she thought i was someone else. i was staying there until he was delivered.  they did another 12 hour test and my protein levels went up even higher so they decided to induce me. monday at about 10 they gave me a pill to induce me. four hours later i wasn't dilated at all. they did another one and four hours later i was about 1 cent. 4 hours later nothing changed so they put me on an iv with magnesium to help lower my blood pressure and pitocin for the inducement. i was so tired monday night that i got an epiderel so i could sleep. zach about passed out when they did it but it really wasn't that bad. my water broke on its own that night. tuesday morning at about 10am i was 3 cent. so they said they'd wait a while longer but we'd probably need a c-section cause mine and the baby's blood pressure was now to low and he wasn't handling everything well. i took a nap and they woke me up to check again at 12. i was 10 cent. and had him 29 minutes later.they messed things up with my doctor though and he only delivered the placenta. another doctor delivered the baby cause he came so fast. it was an experience alright. i was in the hospital 4 days after and he was in it for 10 days. he was 4lbs. 12 ozs and 18 1/2 inches long. brown hair. blue eyes. he's definitely a fighter though. so...that's my story. now baby's crying and i am needed. cio!