not much Lemon
Squeaky clean and delicious
Blessed
I’ve been thinking about what to write about this year for Thanksgiving, and it dawned on me on the way home from the family get together. LB has helped me and my honey put so much into perspective, and I cannot believe how wonderful these past few months have been being her mama. I know it’s cliched, but no one can tell you how wonderful and hard and amazing it is.
Like any new mother I had many fears about labor and delivery; I was scared of laboring for hours strapped to a bed with the fetal heart rate monitor. I was scared of not being able to handle the pain and requesting an epidural. I was scared of something going wrong enough to require a caesarean section, and least verbalized or thought about I was scared of birth and death coming hand in hand.
While my birth wasn’t what I hoped for, we eventually left the hospital with our sweet LB, and here is our story.
I cannot remember if LB’s official due date was my last day of work or the day that my labor actually began, but regardless she wasn’t born on either day. The Sunday before Memorial Day I went to bed around midnight only to get up shortly thereafter due to discomfort in my back. With all the weight I was carrying I didn’t think of it as labor until I noticed the pain was sporadically intense. Around three in the morning I counted a few contractions, but they never got closer than five minutes apart so I decided to prepare for our trip to the hospital by baking some tofu for my labor snack and cleaning the bathroom rather than wake my husband and the midwife. After those tasks were completed and I still couldn’t sleep I baked banana bread for the nurses. Around five I had to get off my feet because they were so swollen that they hurt, but I still wasn’t able to lay down so I continued bouncing on my physio ball until around 9 am when I put in Fantasia and fell asleep on the couch. I got up a bit later and went to sleep in the bed, but I woke every hour or so with back pain. While I was active I didn’t really notice the pain but being still made it all too noticeable.
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