Baby number 3 aka Qasim, Ka-Sum (currently screaming in my face brb) ok he’s content.. beautiful baby boy, born Jan 13 which makes him currently 11 months to. the. day. He’s still nursing and eats 3 solid food meals a day. I would really like to ween him but I just can’t imagine denying him the boob if he was to ask for it but I mean really for all I know he may ween just fine because to be perfectly honest.. I’ve never even tried lol.
Labor and Delivery oh. my. G. this boy came barging out like it was nobodies business.. at 37 weeks. 36 weeks and 6 days I begged the Dr. to check my cervix and I was 3cm dilated. Went home and took castor oil that night… The next morning I wake up with some pretty legit contractions. I mean they hurt and they pretty consistent. I walked around the track… I took a nap… mothered my other children per usual and now its like 6pm and I’m mad because I’ve been having these contractions that are becoming inconsistent and are fading away all day and it seemed like it was all going away… then 10pm came along. I’m putting my 18 month old to sleep and I’m awaken by what feels like a jolt of lightening through my body.. I’m excited but for what ever reason my slow self still didn’t think to go into the hospital. So I’m sitting there watching “Surviving R Kelly” and I’m like I bet if I just go to the bathroom or take a shower these contractions will just go away and my husband says… go to the bathroom. So I’m up there just having contraction after contraction and involuntarily pushing and pushing and it clicks… I should probably go to the hospital (duh) but at this point its like unbearable. I get to the hospital and was crying and screaming for an epidural lol but the jokes on me because up until the last 5 mins of labor… I actually believed I’d be able to get one even tho I was 9cm dilated!!! It took the midwife to tell me I might as well just break my water and push him out to end the pain and even then I didn’t want to do it. I just could not fathom the thought of a natural birth even tho at that point I had basically already had one lol… but anyway, she tells me she wants to check me and when she does, she can’t even put half of her finger in there because he was right there… so I told her she could break my water and literally one push for the head and another for the shoulders and he was out. He was born at 12:15am but had I not been acting dumb trying to hold him in for the sake of an epidural I probably would’ve had him closer to when I checked in at 11pm.
This taught me that whether you’re ready or not, you’re body will have a baby without your help or consent or even knowledge because even tho I thought I was in control and “holding it in” I really wasn’t doing jack and he was going to come whether I was ready or not.
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