EMOTIONAL LIVE BIRTH VLOG / 24 HOUR LABOR /SUCCESSFUL VBAC

Good morning guys, it is about a little bit before 6 on January 10th and we're heading to the hospital. They're going to be breaking my water to start this process. Do you have pants on yet? Ready to go. We have the baby daddy over there. He's finally up and we're going to get ready to go. I'm feeling nervous and excited. Last night I was so nervous I could barely sleep. I felt like I was going to puke, but then this morning I was like, I got this. So I'm excited, I'm still nervous, but I'm really excited to meet you Hunter. Ryan, can you believe that she's going to be in here really soon? Ryan asked me if we were going to have to spend the night tonight. This is our second baby. Of course we're going to have to spend the night. G-Ma's awake. We're a little late. Well, not really late. She said we'd be there 6 or 6.30. It's like 5.50. What is this? You made goodies? What? They're like Cracker Jacks, but without the peanuts. Are you videoing me? I wasn't supposed to be on the video, I was supposed to be on you. Hunter needs to know this day. It's time. It's time to do this. Are you not driving? No. You're so annoying. It's too early. Oh my goodness. We're here. Got the bags. Got my boppy. Going to send Ryan back for my pillow and blanket. Here we go. That's your baby daddy. Got my baby daddy. Were you paying attention to where we have to go? No. I was thinking about Subway and a gift shop. You're getting a lot of camera time. I know, I know. Here is our suite. This is where the baby's going to come. This is where Jessica will do her thing. That's my bed. And this is the star of the show. And this is where our baby girl will... Is this going to be her bed? That's where they put her. It's the warmer after she's born. It's going to be a little colder out here for her. Let's go say hi to Hunter. Hunter, are you ready to... He's showing no signs of wanting to come out. Let me see his side. I think she can stay in there another week if she could. Extra large. Oh dear. Alright, so I guess I'm going to go get changed. It's so weird. Yeah, last time Jessica went into labor naturally it was a lot more of a stressful situation here. We're just kind of getting cozy. All changed. This room is kind of tiny. But here's my bed. There's Ryan's bed. No one really told us what to do. This is a little baby warming station. Bathroom. This is a peanut ball. They didn't have this when I had Miles. I'm excited to use that. Nothing too crazy. Little baby goodies. I'm all changed. It's exactly 7 o'clock a.m. I'm just waiting for something. They just kind of showed us our room and I don't know. I'm pretty sure they're just going to go ahead and break my water. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to drink anything. No one's really been in here so I'm really thirsty. Hopefully I can have some water. I'm too nervous to eat but I don't know. I just want to get this thing going but I'm also really nervous. Alright, they got Jessica all hooked up now. You want to show them how they got you hooked up? I can't really see but they have the monitors on me and the baby. They're going to get the IV which is not going to be fun. Then the doctor is going to come in and break my water. I feel really nervous. I'm not going to lie. I feel really nervous. We'll see. What time is it now? It's almost 7.30. We'll see how after they break my water how long everything takes. I'm a little nervous. The little girl is already moving around in there. They found her heartbeat so she doesn't know what's coming for her. She's got this. I got my IV in. They had to try in both arms. This one flew. It took a few times. It didn't hurt that bad. I was nervous about that so I'm glad that's done. Then at about 8.15 the doctor came in and she broke my water checked first. I'm still only at 3. 3.5 She still had down so good. I was worried about that. She broke my water which was not as painful as I was expecting. It was a lot of pressure but what was pretty uncomfortable was she did a pretty intense membrane sweep. Way more intense than I've ever had before. She said that I can get up in 2 hours so at 10.30 she wants me to start trying to walk around for 45 minutes which is really good because I wanted to do that. Then she's going to come and check me again in 4 hours. She's going to check me and see where we're at. What is that? 12.30? We're making her little bow hat after she's born. I'm allowed to have clear liquids. Is this the water and ice? That's the good ice. These are so good. This is fancy. You have to cut it and everything. The necessities. The important things that they teach us. Oh my goodness. That's so cute. So cute. Thank you. You're welcome. I don't know if I mentioned this but when they broke my water it was clear which is great because one of the reasons that I needed the emergency space section with Miles was because there was meconium in the fluid and that caused the infection and all that stuff. The fact that the water was clear this time is great news. I'm so relieved and I have some contractions showing up on the screen. I don't even feel them yet but I know I will soon. The nurse was saying as I have a contraction, her heart rate goes up which is good. That's what they want so she's responding to the contraction and everything's looking good. I don't even feel that I'm having a contraction. That's incredible. She's ready to come out. Our nurse is so nice. I hope we have her the whole time. She's the sweetest. She can't work forever. I don't think I'm going to be here forever. Only Ryan would be working right now. Oh my gosh, you're on site. Oh my god. They just started the antibiotic and my IV is like on fire right now. I don't even want to move my arm. Oh, I don't remember this with my nails. Oh my god. It hurts so bad. I think I remember hearing that that could happen but that's antibiotics because I'm group B positive so she has to administer that every four hours until the baby's born which I didn't really care so much until it started burning. Oh my gosh. It might be a little bit better now but I'm still having contractions on the screen but I still don't really feel them that much. She said usually when they break the water it's like that and they start to get really intense so I don't know if that's a good thing for me. It's good I'm not in pain but hopefully my contractions are like doing enough where they're gonna get things going so I don't know. It's almost 10 o'clock so I think walking around is really gonna help so we have about half an hour until I can get up so I will update you guys soon. So I just went to the bathroom to pee and my mucus plug came out so or at least like the rest of it I don't know. I've never saw anything like that before so things are definitely happening there's still contractions showing up on the screen and Hunter keeps pushing away and just pushing up against the heart rate monitors on my stomach so she's not loving that. I'm gonna start walking in probably like 10 minutes or so so I just wanted to go pee real fast and still don't really feel any signs of the contractions but I'm seeing them on the screen and the nurse tells me that Hunter's reacting well to them and that when the contraction shows on my end her heart rate responds in a positive way to it so all good signs. Here she is ladies and gentlemen. Like Angelo Vickers in the office. Walking ready. I just put my giant mesh panties and pad on. You mean diaper? Diaper? No actually the diaper is what I'm wearing home. This is a legit mesh underwear and giant pad. Oh nice. I'm leaking still. That's a good look. We're gonna walk for like 45 minutes up and down the hall and I still don't feel contractions so yeah. When did she say to meet back? 11? I think that's what she said. So we're gonna get going. Alright let's go to work. So it is almost 11.30 now. We went for our walk. I don't feel like it did anything because I still feel zero pain. There's still some contractions coming on the screen but they're not really that frequent or regular so in about an hour the doctor's gonna come in and check me and do another membrane sweep I think which was so painful. But my mom and Ryan's parents and Miles are gonna come stop by and visit and they're bringing me more Italian ice because the hospital got me hooked and then they ran out so and I'm starting to get hungry and that's the only like foodish type thing I can have for now. I think I can have chicken broth too, that sounds good but yeah so just hanging out and baby's heart rate's doing good everything's good so I have a feeling it's gonna be a long day. Okay so it is 12.30 and the doctor just checked me. I am now four. I'm still 50% effaced it was the most painful thing cause she's really trying to get in there and do like a really intense membrane sweep and I thought the first one hurt but this one oh my god that was pretty painful but at least I progressed from the last time so she seemed happy with that and she's really cool because she's letting me get up and encouraging me to walk around and stuff which my nurse was saying a lot of the doctors won't let you do and she's also letting me have clear liquids and ice chips and all of that so my mom actually picked up some Italian ice for me I don't know if I said that but we're about to call them. They were waiting in the lobby until I got checked so they're gonna come up and then they're gonna monitor our heart rates and the contractions for two hours and then I'm gonna walk around for 45 minutes again so yeah oh my god I'm still trying to recover from that pain that was so intense what's it like watching that? what is it like watching that? laughing he looked horrified I looked over I mostly looked the other way I was in literally so much pain and so much more like amniotic fluid I don't even know like I felt a huge gush after she did whatever she was doing in there oh my god I could pass out thinking about it what would Miles say? what would he say? oh dear what's going on Miles? what's going on what's mommy doing? Miles Miles come here what's mommy doing? we have all the parents here parents wanna say hi hey youtube Miles what is mommy doing? is she sleeping? Miles is helping me eat my dinner what are you eating? careful don't spill it they are lucky we have some really bland soup tea that's good Miles made the tea and the best thing the lemon ice I love lemon ice and I can't have these but Miles you can have these crackers they taste really good you haven't even had them them are way good I've had some of those you have? give me a minute and see what I got ok tell me what you think I got this it's like a picnic isn't it? yeah it's like a tell me what it tastes like I'll live vicariously through you I don't know what it tastes like oh there's three or two it's good what does it taste like? is it like honey crackers? yeah it tastes like honey crackers and you can put fruits and crackers in this that's jello yeah jello is yummy it's really squishy too it's very good it's way juicy mom I have an idea can I get the juice in here no it doesn't taste good alright just checking in it's 3.30 right now my mom, Miles and in-laws were here for like 3 hours visiting and that was really nice and kind of a distraction so we went for a little walk and Miles came and they let me have some dinner which was nice like liquid dinner so I had some of that, it wasn't the best but it's nice to have something and when we were walking my contractions started to get a little bit more painful nothing that I can't like like I can talk through everything so and I just got really tired so I'm gonna try to take a nap before they get more intense and then once they get more intense I'm gonna ask for an epidural but they're just not there yet so she's coming to check me again in an hour and I am seriously dreading it I don't know if I can survive another membrane sweep holy cow I don't know but I'm just gonna try to get some sleep for like the next hour we'll check back in later so the only things that I have used so far that I've packed have been my water bottle this chapstick and then wherever my phone is. I'm probably just gonna watch a little bit of The Office right now and try to take a nap but yeah hopefully I'll be using more of what I packed after the baby's here but so far water bottle, chapstick, and phone have been the winners and my camera too but yeah I almost forgot I'm also using the pillow that I brought from home and this big comfy blanket such a lifesaver I am so thankful that I brought those they only gave me one thin pillow and it was just not doing the trick so it helps using the thin pillow down by my back and then my pillow up to support my head and stuff and then the sheet that they supply you is really thin and I kind of want to keep the room cold so I have the room cold my sheet to kind of act as a barrier between all the stuff going on and then my big furry blanket and it's just amazing. I would be really sad if I didn't bring these so just wanted to include that little tip oh my god I'm having one now do you see it on the screen? oh my god do you see it? I did not plan to turn the camera on right now do you see a peak? I saw one back there so the doctor just came it's, what time is it? 4.45 I am still only 4 centimeters but I did go from being 50% of face to 70% of face and she did another sweep extremely painful, a bunch of fluid came out, I feel like I'm like afraid to move right now because it hurts my contractions are coming every 4-5 minutes and I'd say pain level I'm still able to pretty much talk through them for the most part that one was a little more intense than I just had but I'd say right around a 3 or a 4 out of 10 the pain level and she's gonna come back in another 4 hours do one more check and sweep I am so ready to be done with those and then we're gonna start on low dose Pitocin so at 6.30 I'm able to walk around for another 45 minutes and then after that once I get on the Pitocin I can't walk around anymore everything has to be monitored so I'm gonna enjoy my last walk at 6.30 for about 45 minutes and then also I'm only able to have ice chips after I'm on the Pitocin as well so I'm gonna try to get in some liquids and get ready, I don't know I mean, doesn't seem like she's gonna be coming anytime soon, my nurse leaves at 7 which makes me so sad because she's amazing so we'll meet our new nurse around 7 and hopefully she's just as amazing cause I've just been loving her but alright I'm gonna try to move but I'm scared it's 6 o'clock right now and my last like 10 contractions have been really intense like cannot talk through them, really need to like focus hard on my breathing through them and they just, I feel so much pressure whenever they come, like down through like my back too which I've never experienced before so they're not coming like crazy frequently, like with Miles, mine were coming like every minute to two minutes, these aren't like that, I probably am like four, maybe three to four minutes at this point but it's getting really hard so and I always said like I'm not trying to go without pain medicine so when it got too intense I want an epidural so I think I'm gonna I had Ryan peek his head out to see if my nurse was there at the station but she's not so I may go through like one more of these guys and then press my little nurse button and see what we've gotta do because nope no no interest in riding these out without a little help from an epidural so and I guess that means we're not gonna be walking at 630 if I get the epidural, I don't know we still have to talk to the doctor too to see what she says I don't see her telling me no but um definitely before they start Pitocin I need to have this epidural this is just, it's not for me, this is just not for me and I forgot to mention the last couple updates how incredibly hungry I am it is, I haven't eaten really anything today but um they don't have any more Italian ice which is really annoying cause I can't have that but soon I'm not gonna be able to have anything and I've been just having ice chips because I don't know it's, I'm like pretending it's food um but yeah I'm just really hungry right now and nervous that um I don't know I don't know why I'm nervous, I'm nervous for every contraction but it means we're getting closer and it means that last sweep did something which is good because that hurt like hell so I will update you guys soon. Alright we got pressure in the butt Jess tell them about it I'm just kidding um but things are getting real right now we're probably asking for an epidural soon and. We did ask for the epidural. We did but. They started the whatever they have to run that's what I meant to say and then I'm gonna show them the peanut ball and then now we got this sweet peanut ball don't wanna show too much really? I think I'm being funny sorry so this is Jess it's got so intense my contractions got so intense it's 6.30 now and there's no way I'm walking because I don't want them to get more intense before I get my epidural so I feel so much pressure down in my butt every time the contraction comes and the nurse said that that probably just means she's dropping down but I never had that with Miles that's the first time and it is. That's why we moved to my side because when I would get the contraction I would literally have to lift myself up like my bottom off the bed because of all the pressure that I felt during the contraction so I'm like I hope I didn't wait too long. You don't think I waited too long to get it do you? No compared to last time? No last time you were shaking the bed. You haven't shaked the bed yet yeah but I didn't feel this pressure for dropping down we're getting older Jess. I'm really freaked out so I'm just kidding. I just wish that we could just like get it now. Grab my handbag contractions are getting more intense it's almost go time oh my god want to say hi to everyone? No epidural any minute more like 20 minutes I guess but you think that's realistic? 20 minutes? half hour? this bag has to finish it has to get here and get set up and then the pain can go away I'm so paranoid it's not going to work where's the pain at? 1 to 10? 7 what's a 10? passed out? I hope I never know a 10 we're almost there our baby hunter is almost here somewhere in there alright guys quick update Jess was in a lot of pain and we're still waiting for this bag to run out and it feels like it's been forever but the pain was too unbearable so we asked for some kind of painkiller before and it's offering some relief it's not stopping the contractions but Jess is feeling a little better in between contractions at least. Right babe? she's kind of a little out of it at the moment I'm not out of it I'm just resting whatever drug it is she thinks I'm really funny so that's pretty cool I'm just trying to rest in between because these things are no joke but whatever this medication is it like it makes you feel drunk in between the contractions the contractions are still no joke alright guys you're not going to even recognize this is the same person after an epidural she's smiling, she's happy that thing is amazing oh my god it's like I was it was so bad it went from a 3 to a 8 to an 8 look at mommy come over here I can't sit up or turn around hi wow I'm so jealous I'm starving oh my gosh that got so crazy do you want me to hold your cookie and you can go give her a kiss and some loving I missed you when we played at the mall can you reach for her I can't Jess is feeling better after the epidural Miles is going to say goodnight and hopefully we keep on progressing and hopefully it's show time soon alright guys I'm going to jump on the vlog again because Jessica can't really talk they're giving her oxygen I'm fine it's for the baby she's fine too they're going to have me take it off soon so we're making progress about what 7 to 8 centimeters they're going to check me again at midnight in 3 hours so we might take advantage of a nap right now we haven't really slept the next update should be the one shaking so bad they said that's normal wish us luck alright guys it's about 3 o'clock in the morning and we're 9 inches sorry and we're 9 centimeters dilated so we're getting really really close the baby's sitting very low Jessica's feeling nauseous right now she just threw up but they said that's a good sign yeah they said it's a good sign super low so I won't have to be pushing forever I'm really shaky which she also said is normal with the hormones I was nervous that the epidural was wearing off but I think it's just the pressure for being down so low I'm a little nervous I wish I was pushing earlier when I felt like fantastic but I'm ready to meet her I just can't stop shaking it's probably nerves too this is a fresh puke bag by the way I didn't get this one yet always gotta have a fresh puke bag it's been almost 24 hours of ice chips for the labor and no food ice chips alright when the pressure goes away relax okay oh my god please don't look do what you want she's that close yep when you're pushing we can see the top of her head still a lot of hair didn't she let me pull it out alright good luck I hate that I spent all that time I'm so happy that's awesome by the time I get to the back I may be able to say congratulations on the baby so when you push bring your legs back yeah relax feel that resistance in here like you want to push us so you want to push back just let this relax she has to do the work so we're just holding her leg and bring it back good good more go go go beautiful do it again 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 come on 1 2 3 4 5 harder 6 7 8 9 10 you got a lot there just like that last one go go go what's your name Hunter proud of yourself not yet the top of her head just so you know the top of her head is showing it's so long we probably could that's a lot of hard work man a little hard Jess go go go you just gave birth 8 11 on 1 11 oh my god you're so cute oh my god you want to get a camera ready I feel so free on my sweet baby oh my god she's beautiful oh my gosh you just pushed your baby thank you so much thank you I can't believe we what time is it oh my god you're so cute look at you Jessica's first time getting to do skin to skin oh my god she's probably so excited to hear your voice again doing some tummy time let me see your face you're amazing so Jess how does it feel amazing on my sweet baby the world meet hunter grace gifford glue the pieces back together yeah you, you take all my wrongs and make them better yeah you, you're making me wanna try forever I feel so free on my sweet baby