Brother meets his sister \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nShe called the doctor in and within 3 pushes and 6 minutes Ivory Noelle (Meaning: Pure; Christmas) was born with strong lungs crying at 8:30 pm. She was 7.5# and 21 inches long. And guess what!? Calvin was by my side the whole time, encouraging me, holding my hand and even watching! I was so proud of him.<\/p>\n
Ivory was placed on my chest for several minutes until her umbilical cord stopped pulsating. Calvin cut it and then the doctor put 2 stitches in me because I had torn a bit. Then they left my room for over 2 hours where Ivory & I had skin to skin and my epidural began to wear off. Ivory was the calmest baby ever right after her birth. She barely cried at all. So the opposite of Maddox that it seemed unreal.<\/p>\n
We spent one night in the hospital and actually asked to go home. We had to get our doctors permission because they recommend two nights but he released us. It was so hard to rest when the doctors and nurses are coming in every 1\/2 hour it seemed.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t cry when I gave birth but I cried when Maddox came to see us. He seemed like a giant. How had my almost 3 year old gotten so big? I had gotten him a gift from Ivory, his favorite Peppa Pig books for him to feel special and loved too. He opened them and was so excited that he wanted us to read them right away. He wasn\u2019t too interested in his sister just yet but luckily that changed quickly.<\/p>\n
My recovery with Ivory was so much better. I could actually walk normally even though they made me be in a wheel chair on my way out. I did the whole ice pack, cooling spray, witch hazel, giant underwear glory combination and was amazed at how quickly my body healed.<\/p>\n
I remember being terrified to poop (just being real!). I read so many blogs trying to learn the best tips because my goodness there are some horror after birth poop stories out there. Though I didn\u2019t talk about it in my birth story with Maddox it was so painful to poop for the first few times. With Ivory I took stool softeners and went for the first time 3 days later. I was amazed because it didn\u2019t hurt! I was okay. I was so relieved. It\u2019s the little things in life.<\/p>\n
I really felt like birthing Ivory was a redeemed birth experience from my first one. I am so grateful for even the little things that I felt like the Lord honored like my prayers to labor during the day and being able to push correctly. I am also grateful that Calvin\u2019s family took Maddox for the first 2 nights and quite a bit in the first month. It helped so much in our transition from being a family of 3 to a family of 4.<\/p>\n
Every birthing experience is unique in it\u2019s own way, each baby perfectly formed and created by the Lord. I have so much respect for mothers and am amazed at our bodies and how powerful and strong they really are!<\/p>\n
I would love to hear from you. Do you have a birthing story you want to share?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am thankful for redemption. With my 2nd child Ivory I had a MUCH better birthing experience. A fun little fact is that both of our kids were conceived in Mexico, so if you see us heading that way be on the lookout for baby number 3. Just kidding! But who knows? I did the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,27,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}