Claim to Fame
You know when you get to swapping baby stories, birthing stories and nursing stories how you can sit with other moms and talk about it forever? Even if you don’t know them terribly well, you find the hardest, most embarrassing and greatest moments just come spilling out. I have to be honest. Lots of the time I really don’t enjoy these discussions. I like to…let’s say…FORGET THEM…although…
I always feel quite proud when I announce
MY FIRST BABY WAS TEN POUNDS.
It’s my “Claim to Fame” cause that stinker took over 3 1/2 hours to push out. I can’t even tell you about it because, honest-to-goodness, my mind has erased it.
I am re-organizing once again and came across pictures of my little ten pounder Abby and thought…REALLY that kid does NOT look like a newborn. She looks like a 3 month old and that…just…wasn’t…nice to do to your mama whose number one fear (really) was and still is giving birth.
What’s Your “Claim to Fame” pregnancy/giving birth/nursing wise.
*PS I know the scales say 9lb 15 oz BUT they weighed her after she went to the bathroom everywhere so I am sticking with TEN. *PPS We induced my second baby a week early so she would be smaller and it worked. She was 9 lbs. *PPPS Believe it or not, I never gained more than 30 lbs in either of my pregnancies. I just have big babies, horribly big babies. *PPPPS No silly gooses, I am not writing this because I am pregnant. YOU WISH! ;)(Talking to Grandmas here) See, look I can talk about this forever!
Tags: birthing
She seriously already has rolls on her legs…that isn’t nice of her AT ALL. I really don’t think that I have a claim to fame. If you consider being able to get my baby out in two pushes…that’s all I’ve got!
10 pounds - wow! My claim to fame is 3 kids, no drugs. Apparently that is not very common these days because the nurses were always shocked when they switched shifts or whatever and looked at my chart.
That’s a huge baby for you! My claim to fame is delivering twins - breech - naturally. By the time I got to the hospital, one had her foot hanging out. At least I got to the hospital. That was 34 years ago. The docs monitor much better now!
Dude, you are awesome and that is a GIANT baby.
I myself was 9 lbs 12 oz at birth so naturally I thought I’d have a huge baby too. Turns out not so much since my baby boy was only 6lbs 11 oz. My claim to fame is that I actually felt like I had done something wrong because he was so small!! I will say this, he was almost 2 weeks early and the cord was wrapped up around his body like crazy so I don’t feel so bad about it anymore.
I love fat babies. I don’t love what they do to bajingos but that’s a whole other issue.
My first baby was 10 pounds 5 ounces - 5 hours of labour - no drugs
So worth it, I LOVE big babies. My second was 8 and a half pounds, c-section and she felt like a tiny little thing.
First let me say, lol! Its true we tend to talk about this stuff a lot, I find myself in the mothers room at church every Sunday talking birthing, babies, and nursing with women I wouldn’t normally talk to because I am too shy. Second let me say that Kalli up there has made me laugh hysterically with her “I love fat babies. I don’t love what they do to bajingos” not only is that too true but I have never heard it referred to as a bajingo, Laughing again that is just so funny ;D Third my claim to fame is not only did I give birth to all three of my children without pain medication, but one of those children was posterior and took two hours of pushing to get him out one came out so fast that the doctor barely made it in time to catch him and one was an induced labor (no pain medication) and I made it through all my labors without screaming, swearing, and bawling. At least not till the very end anyways and with the second two I was only screaming because I had to hold my babies in they were coming so fast and nobody was ready, Ha! My nurses would brag about me to the other nurses because I did so well. Now I need to add that I think its funny that that is my claim to fame as I don’t think there is anything wrong with getting pain medication if you need it. And I need to add that my claim to fame pales in comparison to my Mothers as she had all but one of her babies at home without pain medication. There are eight kids in my family! Why is this so fun to talk about? I really don’t know.
Wow, Vanessa!!!! You go, girl!!!
My claim to fame with labor and delivery is that I have a very high tolerance for pain and generally don’t even ask for an epidural until I’m dilated to a 6 or more. Even then, I just get one so I can have one before it’s too late. Next time I’m going for all natural, though - no epidural. We’ll see how that goes.
Evonne–Cameron came out in 2 1/2 pushes it was WONDERFUL! Thats the way to do it
Amy–That is awesome my Mom did all 5 of hers au natural
Connie–I have heard that story, it might have scarred me!
Kalli–bajingo lol
Shelby–ahh you beat me!!
The nice part about it IS they are way less nerve racking to take care of bc they aren’t so super small.
Rose–You should be a doula
Kalli always makes me laugh out loud. I knew I loved her the moment I first read her blog. I’ll have to add “bajingos” to my vocabulary for sure!
We don’t call them “fat” around here; we call them “healthy” or “chunky monkeys” and we LOVE them that way! Funny yours were so big at birth, Vanessa. They don’t have an ounce of fat on them now!
I thought I had a claim to fame before reading about natural breech births and holding more than one baby in before the doctor arrived. Me? I did four natural births but had easy labors and deliveries. I only had to figuratively cross my legs with one waiting for the doctor. The other two I made it in time. I did get to drive myself to the hospital after my water broke during a work meeting. Found a company hoodie to tie around my waist, got in the car and met my husband at the hospital. Nothing like walking around in soaking wet jeans!
Ok, I dont know why we always LOVE talking about it, but I truly could talk about it for hours, it is just intriguing. I dont know if this counts as a claim to fame, especially cause after I read all these brave women having au natural deliveries, cause I go straight for the epidural, no messing around. BUT, I have 2 kids and with both, my water broke, because a storm hit the town where I live with both of them, people tell me I am lucky, cause then I cant get sent home…and they were both two weeks early, and 8lbs 8oz, 22 inches, and 8lbs 9oz and 22 1/2 inches…I am GLAD I didnt go full term! But your baby girl is so cute, and big, it makes me smile!
My claim to fame is that I called in sick when I was in labor with my first because I thought I had the flu. I was whining all day long about how bad my stomach hurt and finally Kiff decided to “time” my stomach aches. Needless to say, we went to the hospital and had us a baby.
That’s not really THAT awesome. What IS awesome is that my husband weighed 12 lbs 6 oz when he was born. Yes, his mom had gestational diabetes but STILL . . . she pushed that thing out! I weighed 10 lbs 8 oz when I was born so I always expected monsterous children with the two of us being so large. Macy was 7 lbs 14 oz and I said “oh she’s so little!” The nurses told me she wasn’t very little and then I set them straight.
Penny was a whole pound bigger, 8 lbs 14 oz. I hope this next one isn’t a pound bigger than that or I myself might pop out a 10-pounder. Maybe then I can be cool like you?
With my last baby, 3 months ago, I went to the fair because I knew it would send me in to labor. NO DRUGS. Only gained 16 lbs for this 8 1/2 lb girl, and that was after I lost 8 in the first 3 months. Called my husband a pussy during delivery. AND her cord blood gave us 1.5 BILLION stem cells, average is only 250 million. Oh, and I started lactating when I was 4 1/2 month along. That was fun.
With my 3 year old the nurse lied to the anesthesiologist and I got more epidural when I was dilated to a 9 which means i couldn’t feel a thing! And when I would nurse him, I could put a bottle up the boob he wasn’t drinking on and would drip 2 oz in 10 minutes. I have good milk.
I had two average-sized babies, after being induced and with a comfortable amount of epidural.
No claim to fame here - except they both came out with wigs on their heads!
My claim to fame - no stretch marks. We’ll see if it lasts through the next kids.
Bravo on the 10 lb-er!
Stories like this scare me to death. My mom had big babies, my grandmother on the other side had big babies…And I am not a very big person. So scared…
LOVE the p.s.!!
My claim to fame is having babies within an hour of epidurals. They come fast. Even the first, yay!
I had 4 kids in 3 1/2 years. All of my births were crazy. I had 2 with epidurals and 2 with out.
#1, no epidural. dialated from a 3 to a 10 in an hour. nurses didn’t think I was in labor. pushed maybe 5 times. 7 lbs 12 oz
#2, nurses didn’t think I was in labor. fully dialated in about an hour. epidural. pushed 2 times. husband missed the birth. 8 lbs
#3, water broke at home, didn’t know what it was. hour later at the hospital. had baby while sitting up getting my epidural. pushed 3 times, baby literally, came flying on the bed. epidural kicked in about 30 min after he was born. 8 lbs 1 oz
#4, waited, waited, and waited. epidural, anxiety, couldn’t push her out. finally figured out how to push.
8 lbs 1 oz
My claim to fame is that my daughter was born at 30 weeks weighing 2 lbs 12 oz and was only 15 1/4 inches long. She was in the NICU 8 weeks and came home Christmas Eve. People always ask if I had an epidural, which I didn’t and think that’s amazing, but really, she was so small she practically fell out. Oh, and she’s a prefectly rambunctious 2 year old now. No problems or delays. Pure miracle.
Oh, my goodness! What a beautiful newborn! Total perfection!
MY claim to fame is ALL my babies are born with perfect round c-section heads!!!
Emily–I know they lost the weight fast and now are super skinny! One day I was a chubby baby that stays chubby to munch on
Vinnie–My Mom had one baby during a storm she almost didn’t get there!
Jill—Holy Moly how did your mother in law survive that?!
Jessie–I didn’t know that about you and your kids
Camille–Yes they did and it was beautiful!
Sarah–That IS a claim to fame!
Phoebe–Ignore us
Amber–how nice!
Cindi–you are a rockstar
StaceMay–now THAT is special
Pineapple—Thank you!
Alex—your kids are beautiful