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ical unicorns birth story simon atlas 12 31 2018 after my ob basically guaranteeing that i d go into labor before christmas based on my dilation effacement baby size you can imagine how ready i was when it was almost a week post christmas and i was still very much pregnant i know i shouldn t have believed her but i did after my 38 week ultrasound only the 3rd i d ever had they adjusted my due date from jan 3rd to dec 31st not only was that exciting because that was 4 less days that i might not be pregnant but it would also be nice for the taxes i had an ob appointment on the 30th with wendy a nurse practitioner i had never met but really liked she checked me and was going to strip my membranes but there was nothing to strip she said he was so low i was 100 effaced dilated to a 4 and was watching me have somewhat regular contractions right there on the table so she thought i should go to the hospital right away i smiled and nodded and got myself dressed i didn t feel like i was anywhere near having the baby so i had no intention of checking myself into the hospital just yet i knew the longer you re at the hospital the quicker and potentially more interventions they would try and introduce and i was aiming to go for as long as possible without interventions i was pretty sure i wasn t going to go natural this time around but i wanted to know how bad it got so that if i ever did want to try natural i would have some idea of what i was signing up for as we walked out to the car marcus started saying how we needed to run home and get the bag and get poppy squared away and then i told him that i wasn t going to the hospital he wasn t so excited about that idea i reminded him that i had written out a birth plan and he had agreed to support me on it and that one of the points was that i was going to labor out of the hospital for as long as i could on the car ride home i had to actually call and cancel the prenatal massage i had scheduled in hopes that it would put me into labor because i already was in labor we went back to my mom s house where my two sisters were and told them that it looked like i was in real labor and would probably have the baby pretty soon it was exciting but also i felt very calm too calm as marcus would put it he was going crazy all day he couldn t understand why i wasn t freaking out and why i wasn t listening to the np s advice and going to the hospital i told him that if this is what labor felt like then i was just fine with having him right there in my mom s bathtub but that what i really thought was that it must get a lot worse than this and when it does then i will know it s time to go my sisters were headed out to do some shopping at tempe marketplace and since i wanted to do some walking to hopefully get things going i decided to come along marcus of course joined too the sisters shopped but marcus and i just kept walking and walking i was feeling the contractions much more and didn t feel like browsing and sharing pleasant conversations haha he kept asking me can we go now how about now eventually he stopped asking but his quiet frustration was almost worse by that evening the contractions seemed to spread out which was really discouraging but i thought at least i ll be able to get a good nights rest at 3am i woke up with strong contractions i got ready while marcus slept because i couldn t sleep and i wanted to make sure they were real and timeable i couldn t believe how calm i felt as i floated around the house getting things in order it was like time was going slow and fast all at once and that i was really just watching myself from outside my body it s hard to explain but marcus stayed asleep until i was ready and sure this was the real deal i whispered that it was time for him to get ready and then we could go he woke up in total shock first because it was really happening and second because he couldn t believe he slept through all of it i tried texting my sister heidi who flew in from utah to be with us in the room for delivery as support but she wasn t responding so when we took poppy over to my mom s i snuck down into the basement and whispered that we were heading over and that we d text her once we got closer of course she couldn t sleep after that and ended up at the hospital not long after us when we got to the hospital the contractions were much more uncomfortable it took a little while to get checked in they had me in a little side room to monitor and decide if they d admit me when they checked me i was just a little above a 4 and they said i could go home if i wanted i was so discouraged and shocked why would they send me home when the nurse saw my shock she said she d go ask the doctor then she came back and said i could stay but would be put in a room they usually just use for storage because they were full i told them i didn t mind a bit but that i didn t want to go to my room yet i wanted to keep walking they said that was fine just then my sister heidi showed up she snapped a few pictures of us walking the hallways and then settled in our room and waited for us to come there after walking for sometime i decided to go on with my plan to labor in the laboring tub they have at banner gateway the nurse filled the tub and i got in my swimsuit the room was quiet and dim but the water was just luke warm not exactly the jacuzzi spa i was hoping for but it still felt nice to be away from the medical room and with two people i loved in a calming space at first i laid there focusing on my breathing but after about 45 minutes the water was cold i was in serious pain and i couldn t tell if my uncontrollable shaking was from my dropping body temps or my nervousness so i decided to get out and dry off to the room to robe up use the bathroom and get settled in my very large storage delivery room i met some of the nurses gave them copies of my birth plan and settled in to get checked at this point i was between a 7 and an 8 things were getting pretty terrible but i wanted to wait a little longer i had grown up with absolutely terrible menstrual pains read here some gyns speculate that i have endometriosis and my entire pregnancy i was wondering if labor would be anything like that pain well it was pretty much exactly like that which was partly terrible because it s probably the worst pain i ve ever experience but it was partly comforting because it was something i had experienced and survived although usually with the generous help of my best girl midol i should clarify that the contractions felt like terrible period cramps the extreme pressure in your nether regions were much more stressful and unfamiliar i had told marcus that i would go without the epidural as long as i wasn t passing out or throwing up two things that happen to me during my worst periods i didn t want that to be my memory of delivering my baby after an hour or so the nurse checked me and i was at a 9 they kept asking me if i was ready for the epidural even though my birth plan mentioned several times that i would ask if i needed it and i didn t want to be offered but what can you do a few minutes after being checked i started shaking bad and throwing up and that s when i knew it was time my anesthesiologist buck was right out in the hall ready and waiting he works with marcus regularly and marcus was glad i got him because he knows he s good i leaned over trying not to shake too bad he said i was super easy and it was done in a jiffy before getting it i told him to do the lowest possible dose and he agreed within 5 minutes of getting it i was professing my love for him and within 10 minutes i was fast asleep i think i slept for around an hour i could still feel my contractions when i woke up and the nurse kept asking if i wanted to up my dose and i kept telling her i liked that i could feel them the edge was taken way off but i still knew what was going on i could also feel when i flexed my stomach muscles and could move my feet and legs i was so happy and wouldn t let the nurse come near the button that upped my dose it was like she didn t believe me that i wanted to feel something another nurse came in and checked me and told me it was time to start practice pushing they broke my water and i did my first practice push one or two of those and the doc on call was there telling me it was for reals now i pushed and i pushed and i pushed and everyone kept telling me how awesome i was pushing and i knew i was doing awesome because i could feel all the muscles i was engaging but where the heck was my baby the contractions were right on top of each other i had literally no time to take a breath between pushes and i thought the veins on my head were truly going to burst and so did marcus again and again and again they kept telling me to keep going keep pushing i was so so tired but i refused to show it because i was so scared the doc was going to say i was too tired and would have to go in for a c section that was my worst nightmare that and an episiotomy after about 45 minutes of hard back to back pushing the doc said i was doing everything right but the baby wasn t coming down i was too tiny and he was wedged behind a muscle that wasn t budging she said she needed to do an episiotomy she then proceeded to tell us how dumb we were for thinking a tear would heal better than a cut i had done a lot of research on the subject and except in the rare case you re going to tear all the way up then a natural tear always heals better than a clean cut i was so mad at how she was belittling us i told her we d keep trying but eventually she said she needed to do it and i was too tired to fight it and she promised that as soon as she did he d pop right out i begrudgingly consented hanging on the promise of him popping right out he did not i kept pushing and he was still stuck then i tore and tore some more and finally she said the hair was out it was a lot of hair and it was dark then i felt the pressure of him coming the rest of the way and then he was on my chest and it was glorious he was swollen and pink and healthy and fat and he was adorable i proudly proclaimed we did it we beat the odds we had a cute newborn and everyone laughed and agreed marcus cut the cord once it stopped pulsing and we cried and cried as we looked at our wide awake super aware little baby boy simon after they weighed him 7 lbs 12 5 oz and got his foot prints we tried nursing and he took right to it i was so tired and so happy he was the sweetest little person and i could not believe it was all real besides the fact that i pretty much hated the on call doctor and swore if i ever ran into her on the street i d punch her in the face i absolutely loved my labor and delivery i ve never felt so loved and adored by marcus and i ve never felt so strong and triumphant and i ve never loved anything so much in all my life it was truly glorious i look forward to nothing about pregnancy i can candidly say that i hated everything about it other than watching him move inside me but i look forward to everything about labor and delivery it was so hard and so tiring and so exhausting and so painful but it was so empowering and i loved it so much recovery was a whole other story that i will share some other time but all i can say is that it s worth it pinky pinky promise spread the love 169 comments labels baby boy nielson birth story motherhood parents simon prepping for a summer vacation bikini wax 7 02 2018 thank you waxing the city for sponsoring this post unwanted hair is part of life and so is getting rid of it from brows to backscaping to bare it all brazilians we ve seen it all with 100 locations open you ll be sure to find a waxing the city studio near you first time customers get 50 off their first service simon s swim lessons friend bbq pool parties and family reunions at the lake an overwhelmed mother of two attention seeking toddler boys who doesn t have a lot of time to keep up on her shaving desires don t mix super well but who wants to miss out on all the water fun especially when 115 degrees is the norm not me overall i d say i m a pretty low maintenance lady but the idea of not having to worry about shaving the bikini line for a few weeks straight sounded like a pretty nice perk this summer i decided to take waxing the city up on their offer to try out a modified bikini wax you can try one too your first service is 50 off i scheduled my appointment online it was so easy and even virtually the service was personal and top notch i chose a day marcus was home and headed down for my wax now i m kind of a prude when it comes to being naked in front of stranger haha i m going out on a limb here in assuming i m not alone in that way of thinking so i was secretly hoping since i was getting a modified bikini wax i wouldn t have to bare it all i was wrong but my waxer was so chill and didn t make me feel weird at all of course they truly don t care they chose this profession and have seen it all apparently they ve done over half a million brazilian we chit chatted about life her engagement and how it s kind of weird that we all care about body hair anyways she educated me a little on waxing but wasn t pushy or salesy at all the process stings a bit but was overall so much better than my first experience at a different salon where they used much bigger strips of wax and the end result was bloody and bruised hair follicles at waxing the city their goal is customer comfort above all not speed one wouldn t assume an hour laying naked in front of stranger while they ripped tiny hairs off my body would be relaxing but i guess that shows you how un relaxing taking care of two little crazy cute boys is here are a few tips before you head down for your first wax grow out period is about two weeks the hair has to be long enough for the wax to grab hold your hair grows in two cycles so you follow up wax will be even less painful smoother and faster if you 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