Good luck, Skittles. Sleep all you can this last 24 hours. Rest all you can. Don’t try to finish up a million last-minute projects and errands no matter how tempting, because you need to be rested up - you won’t get a whole lot of sleep during labor (or for a long time after). And EAT. Your body is going to be working very very hard, and chances are, if your hospital is like most hospitals, they’ll forbid you to eat or drink anything for the duration of your labor, which they consider necessary “just in case” you wind up in surgery, and which I consider one of the stupidest things they can do - take a woman who is doing the equivalent of a marathon for 8-24 hours, and forbid her to eat or drink anything for the duration! If you can sneak in tea with honey, or gatorade, or any sort of calories, do. Your body and your baby (who only gets blood sugar from you after all) will thank you.
Chotii, you’re making me hungry!
skittles, I hope you and your husband get to enjoy a delicious meal tonight. The restaurants should be empty on Halloween.
I will be thinking of you tomorrow morning and sending good wishes your way.
Chotii and Apricot thanks for the good wishes!
Well, I think my husband is mostly freaked out. He came home from work and decided he HAD to wash the truck. So he spent an hour doing that, then came in and we just grabbed some quick sandwiches. Then around 7:45 he said he was just ‘resting his eyes’ and fell asleep on the couch. Now, I did not just meet him yesterday - so I knew that would mean he would be asleep for the evening. I told him to just go into the bed, but as usual, he argued and said he was just resting. So between his snoring and me not being able to hear the TV I went into the bedroom to watch some TV. I woke him up a few minutes ago and finally he went into the bedroom. So now I am back in the living room. 
Have I ever mentioned that he doesn’t handle stress well? LOL
I knew that he would be so overwhelmed with nerves that he would come home and practically go straight to bed. I even told that to my mother-in-law this afternoon. She laughed and said you are probably right. I can’t wait to talk to her tomorrow to let her know I was right! He is VERY predictable like that! Its cute when he tries to argue that things like that won’t happen and I have to remind him that I didn’t just meet him yesterday.
I plan on doing nothing but resting for the next day. I wonder what time they’ll want me to go to the hospital. I have to call them at 4pm to see when they want me to come. I had mr. skittles buy suckers today because my doctor said they would allow me to have them. So I figured if they are going to starve me at least I’ll be able to bulk up on sugar in hopes of getting energy.
Now the next mystery is how long the entire laboring process will take! I figure the baby will definitely be born on Wednesday - I just wonder what time. As usual, I’m thinking ahead to when they’ll discharge me. I believe it is 48 hours after giving birth. But I wonder what they do if you give birth late at night? Maybe keep you longer? Like if the baby is born Wednesday night at say 10pm - I can’t imagine they would discharge me Friday night at 10pm. Maybe they’ll discharge me before 48 hours? Who knows!
Tomorrow will probably be one of the most surreal days of my life!
Sorry - also thanks Nutty Bunny and Dangerosa for the good wishes as well! And thanks to everyone else who sends good wishes, thoughts, and prayers!
I think you’ve got good evidence of that!
Best of luck tomorrow. Don’t let them rush you if you don’t want to be rushed. And Chotii is right - eat well, and pack some food and drink, for both you and your husband. I was allowed to eat and drink pretty much anything I wanted for most of my labor; not all hospitals tell you you have to fast. You don’t want to be sending your husband out for food in the middle of things.
Since several people in this thread (including me) have been telling labor horror stories, here’s a funny one for you. When I’d been in labor for maybe 12 hours (most of it totally comfortable, by the way), a nurse came racing into my room, gasping, “What’s wrong?!” We all stared at her and said, “Nothing, why?” It turned out that while using the bathroom, my husband had bumped the button on the wall that means, “everyone in L&D who’s not actively catching a baby, get in here STAT.” The nurse had just left me a couple of minutes before, and couldn’t figure out what had happened to me. She yelled through the door at my husband and got him to clear the call before the whole L&D department descended on us.
Not all the delivery room panic will necessarily be about you.
You’ll do great. Labor is tough, but you can do it. And the hormones will mean that you probably won’t really remember how tough it is - just the wonderful prize you get at the end. It’s all worth it.
Good luck, and sleep well tonight!
I missed the update yesterday, yes I have been lurking this thread.
Good luck and I hope labor is going well for you. Please post pics of the little one when you get home!
You’re in my thoughts!
(yea, new Doper baby!)
I’ve been away from the computer for a few days and I was wondering about Skittles. Did she post a new baby thread? I did a search and found nothing.
Nope, her last post was in this thread.
Bump.
Hello, Skittles?
Yeah, come on Skittles, you’re worrying us now…
I’m checking the boards every day waiting for you to resurface.
Even if it’s a word to say you’re OK (or nto) would relieve a lot of people.
Here’s hoping you’re just too busy with that new little love affair!
I AM SO SORRY FOR NOT POSTING SOONER. Life has been a bit crazy the past two weeks…here is the story…
Well - Nicholas Alan Krakowiecki is finally here! I have pictures, but don’t know how to post them on the boards…any suggestions?
Even though I was supposed to be induced on Tuesday - he couldn’t wait.
My water broke on Monday night (November 1) around 12:30am. We got to to the hospital at 2am and they hooked me up to the monitors. I was having mild contractions during the night - but I wasn’t feeling them. At 8:30am they started me on Pitocin. They increased that at a steady pace and then really kicked it up around 1ish or so. I got my epidural around 3pm (those were the longest two hours of my life!) and all was well again!
I was fully dilated around 7pm with just a slight lip left…that was gone by 7:30 and I started pushing. Well, the first hour of pushing was not bad at all…and then the severe tiredness hit. I pushed for about three hours and didn’t make much downward progress. And when finally checked again by my doctor the baby wasn’t decending. At around 10:30 it was decided that I needed a C-Section. At 10:43 Nicholas was here!
He weighed in at 9 pounds 6 ounces! He is 22 inches long. My doctor told me during his follow-up visit that he didn’t think I’d even be able to go vaginally if I managed to make him decend. So he was a large boy afterall!
I had some minor complications after the surgery and it took them about 45 minutes to get my blood pressure ‘stabilized’. For that entire time it was around 50/30 give or take. The nurses were finally happy when it got up to around 90/45 or so. Then it increased over the next hour. I was in recovery for a bit over three hours. So I finally got back to my room 2am.
He had some troubles after being born as well. Due to his being born by C-Section he had a ton of mucus. He basically was unable to be fed for the first 24 hours because he was so full. He would constantly spit up mucus, and at times some little amounts of blood. 
That condition lasted about a day and a half. Finally, with that cleared up, his eating patterns were developed.
He is doing well now, and is on a soy based diet because of his mucus condition - but it isn’t too bad.
So - when all was basically said and done - I gave birth to a baby the size of a ONE MONTH OLD!
Congrats! Glad everyone is home healthy. Get what sleep you can and remember to take time to enjoy it. Keep an infant diaper - even at nine pounds in two years you won’t be able to believe how small he butt was!
YAY! Congratulations Skittles!
And welcome to the world, Nicholas Alan!
Congratulation!
For the pictures, you can use a site like Photobucket to post them and then put the link here. We want baby pix!
Congratulations!
Yay congrats!
Congratulations and Welcome to Nicholas Alan Krakowiecki!
YAY! Congratulations!!
Congratulations on your big, beautiful (I’m sure he is, but you know…photos are good) baby!
Sounds like everything was a bit of a drama, and I’m sure you’ve spent the last 2 weeks in a daze of sleep deprivation, take it easy and enjoy your not so little boy!
OK - not sure if I did it right or not…but go here…
http://photobucket.com/albums/d112/ginglover/
That should be my photo album. Not sure if that is just my part or the part where I can share photos.
The two doctor looking people are my doctors obviously.
Let me know if it works or not.