Comments on: Quick baby update

By: Amy Scott

Amy Scott — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:14:19 +0000

Thanks for all the prayers, encouragement, and words. I wish I got this kind of attention at home. Seriously… thanks! I have a post already in the cue for when we have some “real” news. My slow posting is just regular fare; nothing to report yet. Except that I’m halfway done with the laundry.

By: Spunky

Spunky — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:53:16 +0000

Praying for you. Hope that baby has turned or will soon. I’ve been there a few times. God is in control. Rest in Him.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:56:07 +0000

The words of that song carry great meaning for me. Thank you for posting them.

By: The Mommy Blawger

The Mommy Blawger — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:10:19 +0000

Just wanted to say that, while labor was much longer with my posterior baby (48 hrs.+), it was much less painful than my quick, 8-hour anterior baby labor. Although he did turn on the way out and was born face down, so they can turn at the last minute, though it is rare. It’s just that “back labor” (a slow, spreading sensation) was much more comfortable to me than the sharp, abdominal pains of my anterior babies.

I’m sure you’ve found http://www.spinningbabies.com?

“Yet Though art He who didst bring me forth from the womb” (Ps. 22:9&10)
“The Lord caused me to come from my mother’s womb” (Ps. 71:6)

By: emily

emily — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:01:04 +0000

I too have had the labor that lasted days, and it’s no fun! I pray for God’s grace and peace to be with you especially now.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:24:55 +0000

You poor dear. I feel your pain. I, too, have been in “labor” (ha!) since Friday with nothing to show for it. I’ve whined and pouted and slept more than ever before, just like a mature Christian woman should do. My due date isn’t even until this Wednesday! I have a “tough” quote from Nancy Wilson which helps me to hopefully rise to the occasion which I will share with you. “Christian women must realize that though childbirth has a blessed result, it is still a fallen and cursed process. It is not man who has made it cursed, but God Himself. We cannot fool ourselves into thinking that we can make it easy or painless. Or course pregnancy is not a disease, but it is difficult…Of course we should prepare for childbirth and do all we can to make it as successful and comfortable as possible but we cannot deny that God has ordained pain in childbirth as a result of the fall.” and “It is the Lord who not only opens the womb, but He brings forth children from the womb…Conception, pregnancy, and delivery are all of the Lord. Christian women must have this biblical truth thoroughly understood as foundational to all their thinking about their calling as mothers. We cannot play God when it comes to planning conception, pregnancy, or delivery. It is all of God’s doing. We must be humble when we consider what he ordains to do in and through our bodies, and we must look to God for His sustaining grace through all aspects of this wonderful and awesome experience.”

I know none of this is new “news” to anyone. Sometimes I find it helps me to simply read it like it is, though. Advice is wonderful, but it will not always go the way we plan. It will not always be a wonderful experience. It will, quite simply, be as God ordains it to be. Sorry to sound like an old sourpuss. I might be different were I not in the same circumstances as Amy is right now. I’m just trying to be realistic ~ and hopeful.

By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:03:21 +0000

Thinking of you

Praying
Janet

By: Shannon Miller

Shannon Miller — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:07:08 +0000

I’m praying for you. It’s Monday morning so maybe things have picked back up. Can’t wait to hear:)

By: molly

molly — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:05:48 +0000

Hmmmm…yo are giving me memories of my last birth…
I was SO ready to have that dang baby…and made myself miserable over it.. I mean, I was miserable anyway, bodily speaking, but my brain made it ten gazillion times worse. Jeff says he’s going to MAKE me pretend that my actual due date is 2 weeks past the real date from now on, just to save me from myself! (I think if he had to waddle around with a bowling ball in his pelvis and the various problems that come with doing that 5 times in 7 years, he MIGHT handle my whining a little better–HAAAAAAAAAAhahaha)… I was SO sick of thinking I was in labor and then having it peter out on me… And so tired of anticipating an END and then being deflated, yet again….

Just to ‘fess up, I eventually went in and had them pop my water. Yeah, Miss “Natural Birth Preacha” cheated.

I walked around for an hour after that, and Walla: LABOR started with a BOOM.

And, just for a [full disclosure] confession, my actual due date wasn’t for two more days.

I. Was. Just. Done.

Just confessing this, if it makes you feel any better, because I am SO feeling your pain right now. Being full of baby with a housefull of little ones is just H A R D. And being ready to give birth but not having a cooperating body is just H A R D.

Lots of Love,
Your Top Blog Stalker and Long-Distance Doula,
Molly

By: Oneof14

Oneof14 — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:04:57 +0000

Wow.. I can’t believe that you posted that song! One of my friend’s wives died of liver cancer in January only four months after diagnosis. Two nights before she died every time I would pray for them, the title to that song came up. Finally, after the Holy Spirit wouldn’t leave me alone, I called his sister and told her to tell them that the Lord had laid that on my heart for them. I looked at the words afterwards and was amazed at how fitting the words are.. especially because they have four children from ages 7 to 13. Isn’t God good?