Pregnancy Comparisons

 While it's fresh in my mind...

Baby	Jack	Cora
Born	Thursday, December 3, 2009 8:38 p.m.	Saturday, June 9, 2012 4:38 a.m.
Due Date	December 11, 2009	June 23-30, 2012
Days Early	8 days	Probably about 16 days
Weight	8 lbs, 10 oz	7 lbs, 11 oz
Length	21 in	20 in
Birthplace	Touro Infirmary in New Orleans	Touro Infirmary in New Orleans
Time at Hospital	7.5 hours	30 minutes
Length of Labor	27 hours	?? (It’s really hard to pinpoint when my labor went from the contractions I’d been having for months to true labor)
Length of Hard Labor	5-6 hours	1.5 hours
Time Pushing	25 minutes	15 minutes
Labor Experience	Very gradual progression, great guidance by Jacob (making me walk, eat, go to sleep, motivating me, etc.), overwhelming because I didn’t believe it would ever end, draining, me flipping out for much of the last several hours	Wasn’t sure I was in labor till hard labor started, great job by Jacob of getting us from home to hospital, scary because it came on so fast and it took time to get to hospital, no time to flip out, much more aware of the birth experience (vs. being wiped and not in my right mind by the end of Jack’s labor)
Labor Team	Jacob, Mom, Dr. Peret, 3 nurses over the day	Jacob, nurse Bill, and midwife Esther (for the last 10 minutes)
Favorite Pregnancy Memory	Taking Bradley classes with Jacob and preparing together for Jack’s arrival	Being so aware of Cora’s position and watching my belly shift when her little butt would pop up
Hard Parts of Pregnancy	This was an easy pregnancy with very mild nausea and only a few days of round ligament pain around 24 weeks.	Rough nausea at the beginning, lots of fatigue, daily contractions from 23 weeks on, bad backache, lots of pelvic pressure
Pregnancy Cravings	Carbonated fruit drinks (Izzies), drank a lot of peanut butter/banana smoothies	Oatmeal daily, drank a LOT of lemonade as well as Izzies

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