Fay's birth story
Thursday May 2, I went to see Rebecca (my midwife) I was due
the next day and feeling so very, very tired of being pregnant. She did a non-stress test and made sure the
baby was happy which she was and then checked my cervix. The baby was very low and I had a very
favorable cervix. Which by 40 weeks has
always been the case but my babies just don’t want to come. She stripped my membranes and gave me an
herbal tincture that she calls rocket juice to see if we could get labor going. Within 10 minutes of drinking the juice I was
having contractions 3 minutes apart.
They stayed that way until 10:30 pm when Rebecca came to see if I was
progressing, I was so we broke my water at 11:00 pm and Fay was born at 1:10 am. We called Bob just before Rebecca broke my
water and she came to help just in case the kids woke up or we needed to
transfer thankfully neither one happened.
It was my longest labor, 12 hours but we did make her come a week or so earlier
than she would have come. Although the
labor was long and hard (I was having a harder time relaxing then I have in the
past) I am glad I only had to be
pregnant 40 weeks exactly. I am always
amazed at how quickly my nausea goes away after birth, I was throwing up through
labor feeling so sick and boom I have a baby and I feel great. I started eating just a couple of hours after
birth and haven’t stopped. Last week was
binge week and I thoroughly enjoyed eating again and being able to satisfy my
hunger since it has been nine months since I have been able to do that. Starving and pregnancy shouldn’t go
together. The only perk, I don’t have
any weight to lose but it comes at a high price.
This time I really thought we were having a boy. This pregnancy was so similar to Jensen’s in how
high my nausea stayed throughout and my weight gain it was much more like
Jensen’s pregnancy. I have always been
wrong on the gender but Derek and Rebecca thought it was a boy too. We had a boy’s name picked out but hadn’t
been able to decide on a girl’s name. We
had about 6 that we thought were OK but I was so sure it was a boy I didn’t
worry too much about it. So when SHE
came out I was shocked! Really I must
have check 4 times to be sure. Of course
we are very happy to have another girl a little afraid of the teenage years but
we have some time to learn to be better parents before we have to deal with
that.
Rebecca and my mom left about 3 am Derek and I talked about her
name and tried to get a little sleep.
Derek got about 2 hours but I couldn’t sleep still too high on adrenalin
to sleep. I was trying to pick a name so
over the 2 hours I called her each name we liked and tried to decide. We hadn’t told our kids I was in labor but
Jensen has this internal awareness and always knows when something has happened
and was up and in our room at 6:00am exactly(he is not allowed to get up before
then). He saw the baby laying there in
bed and I asked if he wanted to guess what it was. He of course said a boy. When I said it was a girl he response was “oh
shoot” Then he climbed into the bed next to her and me and started talking
about how tiny she was and how cute and has been in love ever since. I discussed names with him and he liked the
name Fay, I still wasn’t convinced.
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Siesa and Elsie woke up about 7 they both came into the
room. Their eyes got so wide with
excitement. How fun for them to go to
sleep and wake up to a baby. Of course
the girls were so happy to have another princess in the family and oohed and
aahed over her all morning long. We
still needed to pick a name so we gave the girls a few choices they liked
another name and for 30 minute she was Lydia but then Siesa came in and changed
her mind Elsie followed suit so the vote was in favor of Fay. She has been Fay Pauline ever since.
After some breakfast the kids all gave Fay her first
bath. Fay of course screamed the whole
time then we pulled out some pink clothes and the girls have been fighting
pretty much every day about what she should wear. Apparently they not only have strong opinions
about their own clothing but Fay’s as well.
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We sent the kids to school a little late but very happy to
share the news. My mom came and took
Elsie for a few hours so Derek and I could get a little sleep. Sunday afternoon Rebecca came to check on me
and Fay she did the PKU and hearing lest which she passed. So for 9 days I didn’t leave the house. It has been great. Derek is the best nurse a girl could want and
has been so great cleaning and doing laundry and cooking. We have had some meals brought so that has
been fun for us all. Derek took a few
days off work but thanks to moms he has been able to get some work done
too. Fay has slept 5 hour stretches at
night so I am not feeling too tired yet.
Hopefully the trend will continue.
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| We took this family picture a few days before Fay was born. |
