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first mix together in the palm of our hand and during this time while we are mixing the creams is when he decides to pee and then we have to start all over again it is slowly getting better his tongue is a little white from the thrush and so i have been making a paste out of probiotic powder and rubbing that on his tongue atleast 3 4 times a day plus i have to put the cream on me after each feeding so it isn t much fun but i am determined to beat this he is 5 weeks old and is measuring 22 inches and weighes about 13 lbs he is growing so fast and is so big he is already in 3 6 month clothes which are fitting him perfectly so he will probably outgrow those really soon he loves to be held and hates to be set down which means he doesn t like the bouncy seat or the swing and he doesn t really care to be carried in the wrap so that makes it difficult to get things done but i am learning how to do some things with just one hand he loves to be held and bounced on the yoga ball though that almost always helps him calm down and fall asleep he likes to be outside when i need a break brad will take him outside for a little bit and he loves it out there he started smiling at us and making happy little cooing sounds at us too he is very strong just like jake was and has been holding his head up very well ever since he was born he also has a very straight and erect back and already likes to be held standing up on our laps and tries to bounce just like jake did he hates to be swaddled but he won t sleep for very long periods of time unless he is so we have compromised he doesn t fuss as much if i leave one of his arms out of his swaddle and he sleeps longer that way he does okay sleeping at night he has his good nights and his bad nights but the older he gets the better he has been sleeping 3 comments september 10 2011 the arrival of mason bradley i am a birth story addict i love to hear people s birth stories and watch birth videos on youtube that is how i usually kept myself busy during all those restless nights the last few weeks of the pregnancy so here is our birth story for all of our friends and family that have wondered about this whole home birth water birth thing and what it would be like our original due date was august 18 when we had our 20 week ultrasound though the tech said that it was august 12th as much as i really wanted an earlier due date i also understood that it didn t really matter cause the baby would come when he was good an ready regardless of some date that i was given so we just stuck with the august 18th due date really late thursday night early friday morning i started to have some contractions nothing really different from what i had been having the past two weeks but they were just a little bit stronger and a little more regular than what i was experiencing i was having a hard time sleeping so i decided to get in the bath which in turn made my contractions completely stop and being the emotional pregnant woman that i have been it made me start crying for some reason i decided that i was being completely ridiculous and must be overly tired so i tried to go to bed but the contractions started up again they were keeping me from getting comfortable and so i didn t fall asleep until almost 5 in the morning then i woke up at 8 in the morning when jake and brad got up to the contractions again this made me wonder if it really was labor so i told brad just in case it was we should go to the store and get some stuff and maybe take jake to the park where he can play and i can walk around to see if that helped get anything going well it didn t really make anything change my midwife happened to call me that morning to schedule our prenatal appointment so i told her what was going on and she told me to keep in touch throughout the day since they weren t really strong and i wasn t really sure if it was real labor the day went on and contractions continued but they never got any stronger or closer together so i just tried to stay busy and tried to not get my hopes up we went out for a late lunch and then met up with our midwife around 3 we talked about what had been going on all day she warned us not to get our hopes up cause it could be false labor and even though i knew this it was still hard to hear she did tell me to go home and get some rest just in case it was early labor and considering i only got 2 hours of sleep the night before i would need a lot more rest than that going into labor so we went home and contractions had actually kind of fizzled off so i was able to sleep from about 4 6 pm but at 6 i woke up with a really strong contraction it was stong enough that it woke me up but i was sure it was nothing and tried to go back to sleep then i woke up with another strong contraction now some of you may be thinking jennet this is your second child don t you know what labor is like i only know what an induced labor is like i have no idea what it feels like to go into labor i got up cause i was done sleeping and just tried to pretend that nothing was happening i tried to go to sleep but it got to the point that every time i had a contraction i needed to get up on my hands and knees and rock back and forth it was the only comfortable way for me to get through the contractions brad woke up to me on my hands and knees rocking back and forth and was a little shocked but then realized what was going on i was trying so hard to sleep but everytime i was about to fall asleep a contraction would start and as the night went on it got harder and harder and by 4 a m i needed my midwife brad texted called laura the midwife and told her what was going on and she said she was on her way and only a short 15 20 minutes later the midwife and her team were all here and started setting up all the while i just sat on the lazy boy watching everything and thinking this better be labor or i will feel like a fool if i just made these wonderful ladies come to my house at 4 a m for nothing i only remember having a few contractions while they were setting up and that is why i was thinking that once they got all set up dy midwife assisting my midwife suggested we watch a movie or something and we just happened to have the backup plan from netflix at our house sometime into the movie labor started to really pick up i wasn t looking at the clock at all so i have no idea what time it was through most of labor and at one point i had a contraction that felt like it was never ending i remember saying why won t it stop once the contraction was over dy suggested she check me to see if the baby was in a weird position and that maybe why i was having such a long contraction when she checked me i was dialated to a 6 almost 7 i was so shocked that i was that far a long and relieved too but baby was posterior and in a funky position she explained it to me better than that but i honestly can t remember what she said but because of the position it was causing the long contractions and back labor i think it was then that she offered counter pressure on my lower back during a contraction but i needed to be able to rock and move my hips while i was on my hands and knees i hope i told her that nicely then she offered another technique where she injects sterile water into 4 spots in the lower back on either side of the spine and what that does is tells the body to send endorphins to that area i figured it couldn t hurt to try i ll admit the feeling of the needle going in wasn t the most pleasant but once those endorphing kicked in it was the best feeling at the point in my life it was a warming and soothing sensation it really helped a little while later the birthing tub was ready for me to get into again one of the best feelings at that point on my life it was so warm and to be weightless like that in the water contractions slowed a little once i got in which was a nice break but before i knew it i was on my knees leaning over the side of the birthing tub squeezing brad s hands through contractions i don t know what time it was but i eventually felt my water break during a contraction around 6 30 i told brad to call my mom and have her plan on coming to get jacob at 7 30 he was still sleeping in his room thinking there was no way the baby would be here by then then during my next contraction i couldn t help but start pushing i just kind of let my body do what it needed to do i didn t really feel like i had much of a choice i told my midwives i was pushing but i am sure by the noises i was making it was pretty obvious i never imagined myself to be that vocal dy asked to check me to make sure i was fully dialated and there was still a lip so she said that she would hold open until the head came through oh by the way we were able to get the baby to turn so he was in the proper position anterior prior to pushing once most of the head was out she told me that i could reach down and feel the head my first thought was i can already feel it and i don t like it so let s keep on working to get this baby out but i decided to do it and i couldn t believe that my baby was coming and it all of a sudden became all so real to me and it gave me even more motivation to get him here and i felt i was able to focus better from that point on one thing that i remember during the time that i was in the tub was that i had my eyes closed most of the time because whenever i opened them i felt like i would get lost or become unable to focus on what was going on and it was almost like an overload and everything would become more painful and distracting to me which is kind of weird cause we were at my house with people i know well and in a very familiar environment i never would of thought that i would find that distracting now we all know that i had a big baby we knew he was going to be big before he was even born but at this point as he was coming out the midwives noticed that the chord was wrapped around his neck which is common and usually they can just slip it off and keep on going but since i had such a big baby there was no room to be able to slip it off and as i was pushing it was getting pinched so the midwife had to clamp and cut the chord and then at 7 14 a m on aug 13th mason was born it took a little bit to get him to cry but he eventually did and we got to cuddle him for a little and the he really started to cry which was good but jake woke up around then so brad went to get him and jake was really worried that he heard a baby cry so brad explained to him that his baby brother was born and that he could come out and meet him by then i had gotten out of the birth tub and i think jake was more interested in the birth tub than the baby he was looking in there and was very curious at what just happened here he came over and saw mason i was on the floor on some padding and then he told me mommy that water is yucky i don t want to go in there then my mom showed up to come pick up jake which was actually perfect timing cause we needed someone to take him during the after birth and clean up part of the birth we asked her to just take him for a walk or something and then they could come back and meet the baby once we got all cleaned up so after they left the placenta was born and then they examined me and to my shock i didn t even tear which is great be cause that makes healing afterwards so much easier i think it s cause i was in the water then they helped me get into the chair so i could start nursing mason and he latched right on he was a hungry boy then my mom and jacob came back and this time jacob was more interested in the baby cause everything else was cleaned up then it was time to weigh him we all knew he was more than 9 pounds you could tell just by looking at him laura thought he may even be close to 11 pounds but she did attend a twin birth two days before and the twins were around 5 pounds each so i can see why my baby looked so huge to her jake felt it was very important to get a picture of his balloon in the picture mason weighed 9 lbs 12 oz and was 20 inches long jacob was 8 lbs 2 oz and was 21 inches long and i swear that extra pound and a half is all in his cheeks he has the chubbiest cheeks and i love them after they weighed and measured him they did an exam to make sure everything was healthy and normal and then they cut the extra umbilical chord off which they offered to let brad do but brad had no interest in doing it in fact brad didn t want to cut jacob s either but they didn t ask him they just shoved the scissors in his hands and showed him where to cut those kinds things make him kind of queasy so my friend kristy who is also laura s apprentice cut the chord and the it was back to mommy and daddy then they tucked me into bed with mason to try and get some rest and relax it was soooooo nice to be at my own house and in my own bed to recover i can t even explain how wonderful that was for me the midwives soon left and my mom took jacob for the day for us so we could get some rest and that is exactly what we did i can t even begin to describe what a great experience it was for me to have our baby at home we chose to have the baby at home for many reasons and now i can t see me having a birth any other way everything was just so laid back and comfortable i could go on and on about this but instead of making this post any longer i will just post some more pictures instead my wonderful midwife and her team 5 comments august 08 2011 getting ready for baby we are officially in what i call the safe zone meaning we could have the baby anytime and baby would be healthy and if i were to go into labor i can have the homebirth that we have been planning on i am getting so anxious and excited to have my our baby here having a homebirth is going to be a whole new experience than what it was like last time which is the reason why we chose to do a homebirth we have our childbirth classes done and out of the way and i have total confidence in brad that he will know what to do for me and to help me get through labor i also have total confidence in my midwife and her assistants as well it s funny when people ask if i m afraid scared to have my baby at home my response is first of all if it scared me i wouldn t do it but thinking about it some more it doesn t scare me at all now if you would have asked me that at the beginning of my pregnancy with jacob i would have said yes it would scare me to do a homebirth and that women who do have homebirths are irresponsible hippies putting their own lives as well as their childrens lives in danger but look at me now it s amazing how doing some research i have been reading studying etc on this subject ever since i had jacob completely changed my mind on the matter i guess we really do fear what we don t know anyway i hope to go into a little more detail on why we chose to do a homebirth later on but for now we are just waiting and anxiously anticipating the arrival our newest member who we have decided to name mason bradley brad...