Seewalds 16 - 8 Players Short of an O-Line

[Karma]

25 minutes ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

Extremely fast labors really are traumatic. And so very painful. I had a very long labor and a very short labor like yours and I would take the very long labor thank you very much.

21 hours with my first (7lb 7 oz) and 1.5 hours after an induction with the second (he was little, 6lb 5oz).  Yes it was painful, but no more painful than the first, just a heck of a lot shorter.  I much preferred getting it over and done with!

[SportsgalAnnie]

Well, soon we will find out Hunter J Brady's name and if he is good at football, ohy vey! We will never hear the end of him being born on superbowl sunday.

[zygote373]

She has lyrics from a hymn by Towner in her instagram bio.

Towner Seewald?

[princessmahina]

I'm a little disappointed that the baby isn't in a tiny backwards baseball cap. So precious and so Ben-like.

[Jiraffe]

Okay, I have a question about labour/delivery/c-sections etc. because I don't have anyone else to ask. When my mom was having me, her water broke around 11am or so. They got to the hospital an hour or so later. By 7pm or so (same day) she was several centimeters dilated but her labour was progressing slowly so the doctors said she needed to have an emergency c-section because her water had been broken for too long and I was in danger. I wasn't very big, 7.5lbs, not breech or anything. 

Now I hear of ladies whose water breaks, and they have much longer labours than that. Was this just maybe something that at the time, they thought was normal, but now they know different? My mom to this day says that as soon as the water breaks the baby's got to come out, but I feel like that's not entirely the case.

Sorry to use FJ as my personal sounding board lol...we are going to start trying for a baby later this year and I'm just curious how some of these things work. I'm an only child, my aunt never had children, and my grandma doesn't really remember so I just don't have a clue! Plus our hospital in town is notoriously less than competent, so I feel like I need to be as informed as possible. 

[DaniLouisiana]

Docs like to say 12 hours with the water broken and labor not progressing is c-section time because since the amniotic sac is broke, it is no longer protecting the mom and baby from infection. I was given antibiotics with Bigfoot before my c-section for that reason. There is also an increased risk of cord prolapse, where the cord protrudes through the vagina or gets caught between the baby's head and cervix.

 

Information from being a medical transcriptionist for 10 years.

[ClaraOswin]

1 hour ago, jozina said:

Still a colloquially average sized baby even if it isn't the median weight, rather like a woman who is 5 foot 5 inches in the US isn't tall just because the median height for a woman is 5 foot 4 inches.  Baby weights are so similar in the interquartile ranges and they're such little things that the difference in 70th and 50th percentile is small.  It's only about 6 oz difference.  That can be nearly nothing - if a baby has not passed meconium or urine immediately after birth or they followed delayed cord clamping then there's most of that difference. 

Oh boy yes on the infant lengths being inaccurate!!  I've had a mother come into emergency with her 1 week old who had "shrunk" in length since the birth.  She didn't believe the GP saying it was likely due to it being measured incorrectly at birth.  Poor thing.  21.5 inches is above the 95th percentile but they are so inaccurate that who knows.

Even toddler heights are often inaccurate. At least in my experience. My son has shrunk a couple times over the years too.

[Sydney Fox]

15 minutes ago, Jiraffe said:

Okay, I have a question about labour/delivery/c-sections etc. because I don't have anyone else to ask. When my mom was having me, her water broke around 11am or so. They got to the hospital an hour or so later. By 7pm or so (same day) she was several centimeters dilated but her labour was progressing slowly so the doctors said she needed to have an emergency c-section because her water had been broken for too long and I was in danger. I wasn't very big, 7.5lbs, not breech or anything. 

Now I hear of ladies whose water breaks, and they have much longer labours than that. Was this just maybe something that at the time, they thought was normal, but now they know different? My mom to this day says that as soon as the water breaks the baby's got to come out, but I feel like that's not entirely the case.

Sorry to use FJ as my personal sounding board lol...we are going to start trying for a baby later this year and I'm just curious how some of these things work. I'm an only child, my aunt never had children, and my grandma doesn't really remember so I just don't have a clue! Plus our hospital in town is notoriously less than competent, so I feel like I need to be as informed as possible. 

With DD#2, my water broke at 4:30 in the morning. I had contractions, so I went to the hospital. I had lots of back labour, but didn't progress at all. I was told that I had 24 hours before it was a problem because of the risk of infection. Well, 24 hours later I still hadn't progressed past 2 cm, so I was induced and had an epidural so I could get some rest. Induction worked and at 3:30 pm (after 35 hours of labour) I finally had my daughter, who weighed exactly the same as Baby Seewald. 

[karen77]

19 minutes ago, DaniLouisiana said:

Docs like to say 12 hours with the water broken and labor not progressing is c-section time because since the amniotic sac is broke, it is no longer protecting the mom and baby from infection. I was given antibiotics with Bigfoot before my c-section for that reason. There is also an increased risk of cord prolapse, where the cord protrudes through the vagina or gets caught between the baby's head and cervix.

 

Information from being a medical transcriptionist for 10 years.

My water broke with #1 (babbling brook) at about 5 pm, no labor, went to hospital, then since it hadn't started, they I induced me at 7am he next morning. She was out by 5 pm, no talk of c-section. 

#2 my water broke( niagre falls) , but labor started, he was born with no induction by about 14 hrs after water breaking. 

 

I think 24 hrs is the rule...as long as you are very close at that 24th hr (I was pushing at that point with DD)

[SHERA]

8 hours ago, picklepizzas said:

So I was reading back through the duggarfamilyblog post from Sunday night about prepping for the birth, and this was supposedly a quote from jessa on the name:  "We've only had one or two conversations about it, so we need to get on it!" ....if that's really true that's so sad. they weren't excited enough to talk about names? i'm not saying it's weird to not decide but to not talk about it suggests that they either (1) suppppper don't agree on names, (2) aren't excited enough to even talk about names , or (3) so terrified they're avoiding the topic altogether. like seriously, what is up with that? 

I'm going with they had a massive fight over the name and have been avoiding the topic.

[AmericanRose]

9 hours ago, princessmahina said:

I really think they're going to name Son of Seewald "Luther." 500th anniversary of the Reformation and Luther seems the most likely, as much as I thought it was going to be Calvin or Tozer before.

Poor Spurgeon though, if they give the kid a normal name like Luther.

Noooo that's my last name!

[Jiraffe]

Thanks ladies! Sounds like either way, my mom's experience was a bit rushed considering she was in labour for only about 8 hours. But, it does make a lot of sense that they would need to make sure the baby is at least progressing due to the risk of complications.

I'm pretty open to c-section or natural birth, it is what it is, but I know I'll feel better at the time armed with a little of my own knowledge. And no questionable home births or JillyMuffin midwives for this jiraffe!  

[GoddessOfVictory]

A pattern emerges.

Spurgeon was due 11/1 and born four days later on 11/5.

Seewald #2 was due 2/2 and born four days later on 2/6.

So far, Jessa seems to go four days overdue.

[Kittikatz]

@Jiraffe there could also have been some indication of feral distress or infection or an increased risk of infection that caused them to want to hurry you out. Alternately, you could have been caught up in hospital policy for how long they allow stalled labours in mother's with broken amniotic sacks to continue.

When you get pregnant it would be a good idea to talk with your doctor and understand what his/her/the hospital's triggers are for unplanned c-sections or other interventions. That way you'll know what to expect if there are indications of infection, or your labour stalls for more than x hours, or if your water has been broken for more than x hours... It can help you wrap your head around the different scenarios so if something deviates from your birth plan it won't be a shock or something you don't understand the why of.

[Karma]

With #2 my water broke at 6pm Monday, a few days before due date. Since I'd tested positive to group b strep I went straight to the hospital for IV antibiotics. No labour the next morning so they went to insert a cannula to induce me but I passed out (I'm a fainter and I'd heard horror stories about inductions which made me nervous). Anyway, they called the crash cart and the cardiac arrest team since my BP apparently went to 40/0 and pulse 46 (a nurse told me later that I wasn't very alive).  I came to with a dozen doctors and nurses, monitors all over me, and the dreaded cannula inserted (I think they could inject adrenalin if needed?)

So no induction that day. They monitored the baby, he was fine. I got checked out by the blood pressure specialist.  I was on antibiotics, and they wouldn't risk inducing me out of core business hours in case I needed an emergency c section, so they induced the next day, and he was born after a very quick labour 42 hours after waters broke.  Not ideal, but there was no talk of a csection.  

 

[Phoenix]

New Seewald baby boy looks healthy and not to squished. He is cute because well most babies are cute but sadly the first thing I thought when I saw his pic was, "He looks like Jim Bob". Can't any of these son-in-laws make kids who look like them?

 

 

[Iamtheway]

My water broke at 4am and we were told to come in to the hospital at 10. The midwife there did not belive the water had broken and wanted to send me home but when i stood up to leave the rest of the water came out on her feet so she let me stay. 

Miniway is born at 9am two days later. So 53 hours from water braking to baby coming out. I had contractions the whole time but only like 5–7 minutes apart and didn't open up at all. At midnight day two, 44 hours after the water broke I was given an epidural so that I could get a little rest (hadn't slept in that whole time) before they induced me. 

Opened up really, really fast after that and that was the worst part for me. I was so tired and just thought I was going to die. Didn't though.

So long story short: in Sweden the standard is to induce 48 hours after the water breaks. A friend had her baby three weeks after her water broke but he was really premature and since there was still some water in there they keept her on bedrest so he could develop some more. 

[Ursula]

11 minutes ago, Phoenix said:

New Seewald baby boy looks healthy and not to squished. He is cute because well most babies are cute but sadly the first thing I thought when I saw his pic was, "He looks like Jim Bob". Can't any of these son-in-laws make kids who look like them?

 

 

Maybe it's more that JimBoob looks like a squished up gross old man*

 

*Not saying that squished newborns or old men are gross....but JimBoob definitely IS

[Chewing Gum]

Recommendations here (Netherlands) are 24h with broken membranes (your water can't break y'all), but NZ studies have shown it's safe up to 72h. Just no vaginal checks (brings in infection), baths or sex (like you want to at that point). 

And I stand by my Wycliffe guess. There's a rapper named wycliffe too right? Double bonus points for Ben    .

[TuringMachine]

I was born by emergency c-section. It was my mom's second one. My older brother's heart rate was dropping so he was also c-sectioned. What was weird with me though is that they told my mom the reason was because it was taking too long. But according to my mom it had only been like 5 hours.  My dad's theory was that the doctor had a golf game to get to.

As for the Seewald boys: S. Elliot and baby #2 look all Jessa. I actually don't think S. Elliot looks much like Jim Boob at all really. Maybe just around the eyes a bit. Not like Israel who's Boob's spitting image. I've also always thought Jessa greatly favors Mechelle in looks too.

[MotherOfDragons]

I guess ____________ Hank Seewald. I don't know why, but I do. 

[GoldSteps72]

I'm late to the party, but I'm gonna guess Taylor Calvin Seewald or Hudson Tozer Seewald.

[KnittingOwl]

4 hours ago, Jiraffe said:

Okay, I have a question about labour/delivery/c-sections etc. because I don't have anyone else to ask. When my mom was having me, her water broke around 11am or so. They got to the hospital an hour or so later. By 7pm or so (same day) she was several centimeters dilated but her labour was progressing slowly so the doctors said she needed to have an emergency c-section because her water had been broken for too long and I was in danger. I wasn't very big, 7.5lbs, not breech or anything. 

Now I hear of ladies whose water breaks, and they have much longer labours than that. Was this just maybe something that at the time, they thought was normal, but now they know different? My mom to this day says that as soon as the water breaks the baby's got to come out, but I feel like that's not entirely the case.

Sorry to use FJ as my personal sounding board lol...we are going to start trying for a baby later this year and I'm just curious how some of these things work. I'm an only child, my aunt never had children, and my grandma doesn't really remember so I just don't have a clue! Plus our hospital in town is notoriously less than competent, so I feel like I need to be as informed as possible. 

My water broke and I did not spontaneously go into labor. My midwife gave me 24 hours at home before I had to go in for pitocin. I walked a ton, but ended up on pitocin. I delivered my daughter 38 hours after my water broke. If I hadn't delivered within 48 hours, I would have been immediately placed on antibiotics and probably had a c section. 

[jas]

I will not wish a difficult child on this couple, because if the kid is a handful it is not his parents that will come out worse, it is him and his brother.

I hope this little boy is as chilled and easy-going as SES. If Jessa gets overwhelmed with her kids being hard to manage, she does not have to look far to find some examples of extremely harsh, authoritarian parenting techniques. If she finds herself unable to cope I would guess it would not take much for her own upbringing to come to the fore. The same could probably be said for Ben. 

They are going to have a big family one way or the other, so it would be better for all the children involved if she can continue to be a loving parent (as she appears to be now) for as long as possible.

[Pretzel]

2 hours ago, TuringMachine said:

I was born by emergency c-section. It was my mom's second one. My older brother's heart rate was dropping so he was also c-sectioned. What was weird with me though is that they told my mom the reason was because it was taking too long. But according to my mom it had only been like 5 hours.  My dad's theory was that the doctor had a golf game to get to.

As for the Seewald boys: S. Elliot and baby #2 look all Jessa. I actually don't think S. Elliot looks much like Jim Boob at all really. Maybe just around the eyes a bit. Not like Israel who's Boob's spitting image. I've also always thought Jessa greatly favors Mechelle in looks too.

Eeeehrm NO! I think Israel looks like Derick as a baby (they showed a video or pictures once) and toddler 100%. Israel takes after his father completely. I don't see JB in him at all.