Meet Ty!
Ten days ago Ty Joseph Rosenberg was born! He was due on June 28, however he chose to come on Independence Day. I was a little stressed out that he was so late, just because my mom had come to help out, and had limited time. Otherwise I think I would have been OK being overdue. I didn't feel terrible, physically, just stressed.
The pregnancy was very typical with achy hips, etc., and the only "complication" was that Ty was still transverse at 38 weeks and the professionals were concerned, so I had a version done (where they manually turn the baby into head-down position) and in 2 hours he had turned back, so 2 days later I had another version, after which I had to wear a binder - a 9 inch piece of elastic - 24/7.
After I had gone 2 days past my due date my midwife did a membrane sweep (separating the membrane from the cervix) but nothing happened, so I had another one done 2 days later, on Friday morning, July 2, and I started having relatively painful contractions shortly after that, but they were 20-45 minutes apart. This continued all night into Saturday afternoon, and being desperate I took some castor oil at 3 p.m. This, I'm pretty sure, did nothing, but clean me out (as it is a laxative) 6 hours later, just like the packaging said it would. I took another spoonful at 7...eek. But then my water broke, which was really weird, at about 11:30 p.m., just when I had resolved to not worry anymore and just enjoy July 4th with my family.
We went to the hospital, got hooked up, and they started me on the IV so I could get my epidural quickly. Soon after the epidural was in the baby's heart rate started to drop with every contraction. They rolled me and my numb legs every which way, and turned out that the least stressful position for Ty was me on my hands and knees. I stayed this way and actually slept like this for about an hour, until I had 6 contractions in a row that the baby had trouble recovering from, so I was flipped around again and surrounded by many medical people. I was told that because Ty was in distress he would maybe have to be delivered with the aid of a vacuum, but it took only 3 or 4 pushes to get him out by 5:40 a.m.
So, all my kids have been born on Sundays after many hours of contractions, but Ty broke the mold by being late. He is sooo cute, and he's fit right into our family!
