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October 2022 Babies 🇺🇸

My birth story

I gave birth this morning via an emergency c-section. I came into the hospital at midnight with painful contractions at 3 cm dilated and they admitted me because I was fully closed a couple days before. They immediately started me on pitocin so my labor could speed back up because it slowed down due to the pain, I got my epidural and let the medicine work it’s magic and in a few hours I was 6 cm dilated but babies heart rate showed signs of distress so after about an hour and a half of trying different methods to regulate his heart rate my OB broke my water and found that he had pooped in the womb which could be the reason he was in distress (it was, turns out he swallowed some). The doctor tried one last method of regulating his heart rate but after 30 minutes of no improvements we decided to rush to do an emergency c-section. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever been through but my baby is so perfect and I am so in love that it was worth it 100 times over in the end. He’s so chubby and hairy and chinky like his daddy. Meet Malakai James, born 10/11/2022 weighing 8lbs 13oz and 21in long!!! Mommy’s big boy💙