Labor & Delivery Story

I uploaded this video a month ago and after edit it I saw that theres a couple of things I missed and I thought it'd be great if I drafted a blog with a different point of view (more technical and more personal)
It's been 8 months since I had my baby but all the memories are as fresh as it happened yesterday!
It's true when people tells you that you can tell that you're going to labor a week before, you start to see a lot of physical and emotional changes in yourself and its kind of hard to expalin if you haven't been pregnant; Most of the energy, happines and what not are gone and you start feeling sore all the time. For me it wans't fun anymore (the last two weeks of my pregnancy) and all I wanted to do was to watch movies and eat all day.
My first symphtom of labor was kind of unexpected and I didn't knew it could happen (Even though I read a lot of books about labor and delivery during my pregnancy) One night I was having a really bad stomachache (I thought it was related with a chronical disease I suffer and not with labor) I took my medicines and it didn't go away, so called my OB and he told me to go to the hospital so he could check me out; One hour later he told me that I was 1cm dialated and the stomachache was part of early labor symphtoms but this could happen 1 week before real labor, So I was sent back home.
Later that day I lost my mucus plug and so the labor begun! One week of irregular contractions, some of them were strong, some of them were soft, sometimes they were short, sometimes they lasted longer than expected and it was unconfortable but not painful at all.
The day before I went to real labor I was feeling the same way I felt one week before but then again I never thought it was related with labor so I took my medicine and went with my family to the mall. A few hours later of walking and shopping I started to feel a little bit cramped so we went home; I was having the same back cramps you get with your period but this ones were stronger (I asked to be massaged a few times) also I was having a lot of pressure "down there". At 7pm my husband came from work and thats when I knew I was in real labor because at this time I was having contractions too and they were really strong.
For some reason the contractions stopped the next couple of hours but at 10pm they started all over again; My mom and I started to count and they lasted 1min every 5min; We called my OB and he went to check me out...I was 3cm!
I couldn't go to the hospital until I was 5 or 6 cm, So we had to wait.
At this point I was in real pain and I started to cry because I was anxious and scared but happy at the same time! I almost gave up to my natural birth but my mom reminded me that I really wanted to have a natural partum so I men up and did my breathing exercises until I fell asleep. I have no idea how I could fell asleep at that time but I DID! I remember havig contractions in my sleep but I just breath through them and thats it, like it was nothing!
4 hours later I woke up and the contractions started to be more painful to the extent that I couldn't do anything to cope with them. We filled the tub with warm water and I took a shower but I was literally screaming (through a clean towel) I puked and had diarrhea (YES! That can happen and you have to deal with it) It was time for me to go to the hospital.
The contractions were extremely painful because I was 6cm already; I remember the pain but I also remember the joy and the excitement of the waiting of my baby girl; We were crying and even laughing every time we could.
At the moment I arrived to the hospital I recieved the epidural and a dosage of pitosin, they also broke my water (because it never broke by itself) Finally the pain was gone and seriously was the best thing I could ever had! (After that I never felt any pain at all)

An hour later of pictures, jokes, laughs and what not my OB came in and checked me out...I was 8cm! It was really fast and they thought they stopped my labor with the epidural (because I had no pain at all) but the true was that my baby was almost here!
The doctor told me to do a couple of pushes and 10min later he said:STOP! We rushed to the delivery room (even my husband was literally changing his clothes through the hallway) because we had no time!
They told me not to push but at this point I couldn't help it...I was pushing! We were going down the elevator and I remember having this peace in me and I felt really happy that made everything so worth it.
In the delivery room was my OB, the anestesiologyst, my husband and a nurse (the pediatrician came in later) Everyone was ready so I started to push...with the first two pushes the head came out (and my doctor helped me to stand to see a little bit) I pushed two more times and she was out!
Her crying was really cute and soft, all I wanted to do was to see her and have her in my arms but first the pediatrician check her out and everything was fine. They put her in my arms and we fell in love with her right away!
In the meantime I was expelling the placenta and getting stiched (I had an ephysiotomy) but I never felt anything because I was busy watching my sweet little monkey!
We named her ALINA and we couldn't be more happy!

Alina Cantero Carrillo
Born in July 3, 2013
3.300kg
49cm


NEXT BLOG: Delivery Recovery and My Near Death Experience

My Third Trimester

(My milestone from 5 1/2 months to 8 1/2 months)

SYMPTOMS & OTHER DISCOMFORTS

This is when everything went crazy. As the pregnancy was coming to the end I felt more and more unconfortable; The main reason was that my belly started to grow sooo fast that within a couple of weeks I was 50% bigger and thats when my ciatica started to bothering me soo much. Also heatburns at the middle of the night came back so I was really tired all the time. 

At the begining of my 8th month I got really sick, the flu was killing me that I couldn't even get up from my bed for a week or so...it was hell but then I got a bust of energy that I started to nest. As some of you may know by this time I started to moving in to my new home so I was really busy all the time moving around stuff and going back and forth from home to home; It was healthy but at the end of the day I was sooo exhausted that only a hot shower helped to calm my soreness.

BABY SHOWER PLANNINGS

Starting this trimester everything was about the baby shower and the planning of it. My mom, my mother-in-law and I did everything and I couldn't be more happy for it. 

I was lucky because I had two baby showers; The first one was in a really beautiful garden with the theme of a french tea brunch and the second one was more an intimte family baby shower, they were more than I expected to be and Im beyond grateful for everything my mom and my mother-in-law did for me and my baby and for the people (family members & friends) that showed up, I got you in a really special place in my hearth. (Also thank you for all the beautiful things you'll bought for my baby girl)

THE LAST MONTH

The last month was more a waiting game. A couple of times I thought I was in labor but they were only braxton hicks that were getting more intense as the baby's head was putting in position. I was  so heavy that I really wanted to do nothing but eating and watching movies all day, and so I did LOL 

My mom did everything to take me away from the couch, she even took me to the mall a few times to walk around but all I wanted was to lay down...

TO BE CONTINUED.....

My Second Trimester

The best part of the whole pregnancy is the second trimester, well at least for me it was...I was feelng really energetic and happy all the time! My belly started to show (just a little bit) and I felt my baby move for the first time.

It was wednesday january, 30 of this year when I felt her move and that made the whole thing so real; I mean, at the first trimester you see the positive pregnancy test, the ultrasounds and feel sick but somehow that's nothing compared with that new sensation of having a life inside of you.

This 3 months I tried to enjoy the blessing of being a pregnant lady, like eating whatever I want (with moderation of course), taking naps, parking in the pregnancy spots or just doing nothing at all...heaven! I spent my days most of the time in pijamas watching movies with my hubby or in the mall with my mom.

At this point I realized that The secret of a happy pregnancy is behind of all those cliches that mom and grandma used to say!

TO BE CONTINUED....

Mon Petit Chat

ALINA CANTERO - July 3, 2013

My inspiration, my life, my everything.

Welcome to -Mon Petit Chat- a cute little blog dedicated to all mommies and babies in the world.

May my experience help you in some way....Shall we begin?

MY PREGNANCY:

November 2, 2013 I found that i'm pregnant! 

That day was a typical day, I woke up early and because I had to do a lot of errands I didn't even had time to have some breakfast. Everything was doing perfectly fine, until I arrived to the bank; I was waiting on the line in order to pay some bills and suddenly I felt really really bad, my head was spinning, my mouth was dry and my blood pressure dropped so fast that I had to leave the bank right away; that gave me a hint but because I didn't have breakfast I wasn't really sure and I assumed I was just starving. As the day passed my head erased completely the incident. 

Later the same day, I was working in my computer waiting for my husband to come home from work and suddenly I felt asleep with my computer still on my lap; I woke up 2 hours later in a pond of spittle and sweat (LOL) and that's when I knew I was pregnant! As soon as possible I ran to the drug store and bought the first pregnancy test that I saw and I was right...IT WAS POSITIVE! 

It definitely wasn't planned...my husband and I only had 3 months of marriage (but 6 years of relationship) and we thought It'll take longer to us to get pregnant and we couldn't be more wrong LOL

Even though we were really happy and excited about what was going to come...

TO BE CONTINUED....