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February 3, 2003
2/3/03
I was bad this week and did not jot down notes to remind myself of what I needed to write about this week, so I just have to wing it this week. Consider yourself warned and try to bare with me. LOL
Alec is growing like a weed and is now in a size 2T and some 3T clothes. I can’t believe how much this child has grown over the winter months. He eats non-stop now if I let him and our grocery bill has gone up a lot in the last couple of months. I try my best to keep healthy snacks on hand all the time like apples, oranges, crackers, yogurt etc..but he is my little junk food guy and loves his chips and MnM’s. I limit these treats. Although; he has gotten tricky and has learned where my hiding places are for these items. He will take my hand and lead me over to the spot and say “Mommy Pleeeeeease treat pleeeease treat??” How can I resist? Ha
We have pretty much written off potty training for now. Two weeks ago I decided to use some other diary writers potty training methods and we kept ourselves trapped in the house for an entire weekend and put underwear on Alec. I put him on the potty every 20 minutes and tried my best to be as excited about it as possible. We clapped, danced, sung songs, read books. Basically, we acted as if going potty was like a party! (Yes, we looked like GOOFS!) It worked a couple times but for the most part he was not interested AT ALL. He did get mad and aggravated if he peed his underwear but then he would just take them off and run around naked. We tried to let him run around naked to see if that worked and he thought it was hilarious to pee on the wood floors. Ugh. So we gave it 4 days ( fri-mon) and then decided we will wait for another month and try again. In the meantime, I have put him back into his cloth diapers and we will still ask him if he wants to go potty a couple of times everyday.
I found the trick with Autumn and our combing hair battle. Every single morning she would SCREAM and just carry on when I was trying to do her hair. I tried the conditioner sprays and they never worked. This week I had a talk with her and explained that if she wanted to grow her hair long she was going to have to cooperate with me or we were going to get it cut. I decided to try and put regular conditioner in her hair when we washed it. I told her it was mommies very special shampoo and I was going to let her use it. It worked like a charm and so far she has not complained once when we brush her hair. It is funny what little things like that do for a child. Autumn continues to do well with her school work at home and catches onto things very quickly. I am very happy that we pulled her out of preschool. I believe she is learning more at home then she was there. We continue to work on her reading skills and this week we will learn about money and how to tell time. :o)
Jt is doing WONDERFUL in school and keeps brining home the good report notes. His report card was great and he got all 1’s and 2 +’s and not one single grade went down. :o) Oh wait, he did get a 3 in music and he had a 2 last semester. He was very upset about this grade and plans to talk to his music teacher about it. LOL . Jt had another Hockey game over the weekend. I was unable to attend because of a Birthday party but I was told he did great. He got another assist and is skating very well. He did get one penalty though…. I guess he cross checked(?) another kid? I think he has been watching to much hockey on Tv. Speaking of watching sports…...Joe and I are convinced that Jt is officially obsessed with football. He will watch anything having anything to do with football. All he checks out of the library are books on different football teams and players. He wants to listen to Sports radio all the time. This weekend we watched a movie called “Hometown Legend” ( VERY GOOD movie by the way) and Jt was talking about all the different plays and what he would have done LOL . Am I raising a future football star? When he was a baby Joe and other people told me that JT B***** sounded like a football name?? LOL
I wrote Jt’s birth story in my last entry and promised to write Autumns in this one… So I better do it huh? LOL
Autumns Birth Story
If you read Jt’s birth story then you know and understand why for most of my pregnancy with Autumn I was scared of childbirth. However, as scared as I was I was determined to have a better birthing experience. I went to Dr L very early in the pregnancy and told him that I did not want a c-section and opened up to him about my fears. I had worked a brief time in his office as a nurses asst. between the time I had Jt and got pregnant with Autumn so I knew him on a more personal basis so I felt comfortable talking with him. ( I had once felt very intimidated by Dr’s). He made me feel very secure and told me we would do our best to get a succesful v-bac. I immediately started to eat amazingly healthy and was happy all my body craved was salads and fruits. When I was about 3 months pregnant a co-worker of mine who was also pregnant at the time talked to me about home birthing. I felt excited about this and read a little more information on it. I made a couple appointments with midwives in the area and made some other phone calls. My happy cheery thoughts of a homebirth were quickly stomped on as soon as I told people I had a previous c-section with a few complications. Everyone (not the midwives, but family members, and friends who were in the medical profession) said there was no way I could have a homebirth and it would be such a HUGE chance to take. I was told that I could die, or something terrible could happen to the baby. I was young and naive so I pushed the idea of a homebirth aside and focused on having a v-bac. I was DETERMINED to have this v-bac. I can not say enough good things about my Dr and if I had to have a hospital birth.. he was the best to go with. Every visit he cheered me on and said how well I was doing and how he was going to get me my v-bac. :o) He knew how I had suffered through the birth of Jt and was my coach the entire pregnancy. I had a couple ultrasounds with Autumn and everything looked great. She was head down, healthy and perfect in every way. I had only gained 20 pounds with this pregnancy and exercised regularly because I had read this increased your chances of having an easier birth. I was on my way…..
My due date was for the end of February and for some silly reason I wanted a Valentines Day baby SO bad. On February 14, 1998 I dragged my husband, Jt, my parents and Aunt and Uncle all downtown to the Auto show. I was going to walk until this baby decided to come. LOL 4 hours later I had enough and said “Lets just go eat.” . For some reason I remember that dinner so clearly! We went to some little hamburger place that had the BEST burgers and onions rings. I treated myself to greasy bad food as a pay off for not having the baby on Valentines day! LOL
On the 16th my sister called and said she was going to pick me up and take me to the Spa she works at for a day of beauty the following day! I was so excited I was actually going to get a pedicure and my hair done..Aaahhh I was going to be all pampered for the baby. I’m sure you can tell where this is going right????
On the 17th she came over and we were sitting on the couch waiting for my mom to come over to baby-sit J.T.. All the sudden I felt a little dampness. I ran I mean waddled to the bathroom and told my sister something was different. I felt like I had to pee constantly. It felt the same as it did when I was going into labor with J.T. when I was unsure if my water was broke or I was just loosing bladder control. I was not taking chances this time. I looked at my sister and told her that it looked like I was not going to get to go to the Spa. I called Joe and told him he should come home so we could go to the hospital and have things checked out. I called the Dr and he said to head over as soon as I could. We got to the hospital and all gowned up. The Dr said he did not think it was my water and just a case of weak bladder muscles. They used the strips they can put on the amniotic fluid and it came back neg. He had me walk around to see if he could get more fluid to test the strip again. He was just about to send me home when he said he coupld test the fluid under a microscope and if there was fernning then it was amniotic fluid. I told him I already knew it was. He came back 10 minutes later and told me to get comfortable. I was hooked up to an Iv right away and pitocin was started. I did not hold off on the pitocin because I was under the impression (told by the nurse) that if I wanted my v-bac I should get started on it soon. They put the internal monitor on Autumns head and I was pretty much confined to bed. I did well with breathing and staying on top of the contractions. I did not loose control and feel like I was in a dream (something that happened to me when I was in labor with Jt). At 5 cm I started to feel a lot more pain and wanted something… The Dr kindly suggested nuiban (sp) first and see if that worked. All that drug did was make me sleepy and I would drift off then be awaken by the pain of a contraction and loose all control. At 6 cm I requested the epidural and at 7cm it was given to me. I fell asleep after getting the epidural and woke up about an hour later when the Dr came to check me. I was 10 and it was time to get ready to push. I remember being very floppy and giggling about my legs going every which way. We had been watching a Few Good men and Dr. L and Joe talked a little about the movie and then watched the very end court scene…. Both quoting “ You can’t handle the truth~~~” Then Dr L told me “Congratulations you are on your way to a v-bac!” I pushed for about 45 min and then the Dr. said something about the baby not coming down. He then talked to us about our options and then brought out the vacuum suction tool. Let me tell you that is one scary looking contraption and as out of it I was from the Nubain(sp) I remember thinking I was little scared by it. The Dr. used it during two contractions with me pushing. Finally Dr. L said “ Tanya look down at your baby.” I remember looking down and seeing a bright PURPLE head. I was scared to death and started to ask why she was purple. Dr. assured me she was okay. The Dr. then had to play around with her shoulders to get the rest of her out and finally I had my baby girl. She was placed on my stomach and rubbed until she let out a howl and started to pink up. I started to cry as did my husband and we just kept saying over and over how beautiful she was and I did it… I had my v-back. Her apgars were 8 and then 9. I got to hold my baby right after I had her. This was something that was very special to me and something I never got with J.T. They took her away to put in eye drops and do a check over. I fell asleep. The nubain just kicked my butt and made me so groggy. A few minutes later Dr. L was laughing and saying… “Tanya, you have to wake up and deliver the placenta.” I pushed out the placenta easily and then held Autumn for a little while longer. They took her to the nursery and I was moved to my private room. I went back to sleep for a short while and then they brought Autumn in to nurse. She did not want anything to do with it and I pleaded with her to please nurse. It was late in the evening so there were no lactation nurses to help me and the nurse I had, tried to help me but ended up getting frustrated as well.
The next morning I woke up early and sprang up , took a shower, did my hair and got dressed in a new fresh lovely hospital gown . Joe walked in the door and I greeted him with a smile and said “ I can walk AROUND!” I was so happy I was not confined in a bed. I wanted to go home that day but they wanted me to stay another night. I held my baby all day and just admired her. We had guests come and everyone said how beautiful she was. She looked like an Autumn. Dark hair, her complexion was darker and she was so gorgeous. I tried to nurse her a couple of times and the lactation consultant even tried to help. She just screamed every time she looked at my boob. By the late evening I prematurely gave up hope on nursing her. I was scared I was doing something wrong and gave in to the bottle. All in all Autumns birth was much better. However, I still felt that I had missed out on something because I had been so doped up on that Nubain(sp) during the delivery. I was happy I got my v-bac though and she was born only after 12 hours. She was never in the Ped ICU like Jt. The only concern was the nerves in her neck/shoulder area having some damage because of the way the Dr had to handle her shoulders during the delivery. All checked out perfect though. Autumn Mackenzie 7 pounds 9 oz 20 inches long.
Two down and One to go… Alecs birth story is next :o)
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