Baby C Birth Story

Our second child, our daughter C, is actually 8 months and 2 weeks old now and I'm in the midst of planning her 1^st birthday party. LOL. It's just that my sister is in labor right now with her first child and I remembered that I have not blogged about C's birth story. While I'm the only one who reads this blog now, it's nice to have an online record and read it from time to time.

My due date was October 25 and during one of my check-ups, the OB remarked that it could be a Halloween baby. However, when October rolled in, I had my constipation episodes again (gah) and during the BPS screening, my amniotic fluid was a bit low. The OB then had me repeat the BPS for a couple of times, advised me to hydrate, and to keep it easy.

We went in for a check-up on October 20, I was 39 weeks and 2 days then I think. My OB did not perform an IE but put in Dinoprostone to ripen my cervix. She warned me that I will be feeling contractions for 6 hours and any contractions after that will be the real thing. This was at around 6:00 PM. We then went home. True enough, I had contractions and could not sleep but it was not yet six hours. At around 11:00 PM, hubby and I had a McDonald's snack. I must have dozed off and woke up at around 2:00 AM in pain. I thought, is this it? I timed the contractions and they came every 5 minutes for one hour. I showered and put on face powder and lip tint (LOL) and woke up the hubby. We left for St. Luke's at around 4:00 AM. When we got to the ER, I had a hard time talking during a contraction. When they IE'd me in the labor room, I was already 6cms. na pala. Yikes. So they wheeled me into the High Risk Pregnancy Unit (HRPU) so I could labor with my hubby beside me. He went down to have me admitted. With our firstborn, I labored for 19 hours so I thought we were going to be there for a while. But I was in so much pain that when the attending IE'd me, I was already 9cm. My requested anesthesiologist was still in another operation so they decided to put me to sleep. I remember feeling so much pain and then I was out. When I came to,  my Ob and husband were there, they had already put epidural and I was 10cm. I was really groggy and could not answer some of the questions correctly. They wheeled me into the delivery room. And just like her Manong, C came out after three pushes at 7:43 AM of October 21, weighing 3064 grams and 51cm. long. They say succeeding babies come out faster but I did not realize it was going to be this fast!

This time around, I had a relatively easier time breastfeeding because I knew what to expect and I took the entire two months maternity leave. C is still exclusively breastfed although my milk supply is starting to dwindle. C is a relatively easy baby the first few months because she would just chill in her crib if she's not hungry. In fact, I'd wake up and find her in the crib just playing.

She's presently eating solids but she's much more picky than her brother. She has started cruising around her crib and cries whenever I leave for the office. She is such a chunky, cheeky, cheerful baby that I nicknamed her Bachichay. :)