Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Doug Hodges]

Daddy sleeping with Destiny

My dad

 

[Doug Hodges]

My wife

First outfit

Very alert and very smart

 

[Doug Hodges]

My step mom

My son. Her 18 year old brother

 

[ozexpat]

What a week. My wifes water broke Monday Morning at 4:30. Heres the story. We had a midwife. We started going to her monthly at first. Toward the end she started coming to our house every other week. My wife started leaking (water broke) at 4:30 in the morning. We contacted the mid wife. Around 10ish her labor increased and the midwife came over. We were going for a water birth in our jacuzzi. So I made the water and got it to 100 degrees where we tried to maintain it. Once my wife started hard labor, the pain was intense. No pain meds. She wanted out. We got her out and she wanted to lie on the floor. So she laid back in my arms right on the bathroom floor. We had found that rubbing her lower back eased her hard labor so that's what I did as I held her up. She was in hard labor for about 30 minutes and about the 3rd time she pushed the head appeared. The midwife cleared any obstructions from the babies mouth and removed the umbilical cord from around her neck. One more hard long push and the baby was out and laying on her belly and in our arms. We put heated towels over the top of her and clamped off the cord after it quit pulsing and I cut it. After a bit, we got my wife to the bed and the baby stayed with her and us. We did all the tests with her in our arms. She never left us. Completely different from any hospital and something I will never forget. Our two youngest children(my step children girl 13 boy 11) and my wife's mother and two sisters watched the birth. I saw all of it from my position as well as I craned my head forward to see. We had a nurse/midwife on hand as well who was constantly checking the babies heartbeat with an ultrasound. Everything went great. Since we left the water, the midwife kept hot compresses on my wife to help with any tearing and she had just a very tiny tear of her skin. Nothing that needed stitches. She had our daughter at 12:03 pm.

I was in so much pain Wednesday night from the bulging disc in my back that I couldn't even get out of the chair without rolling out and crawling to the bed. I put an icepack on and yesterday morning I woke up with no pain. I even drove to St Louis and looked at a roof and drove home. Im at work today. I haven't been at work more than 5 days in the last month. Its a miracle. I went from extreme pain to just a distant unpleasantness in my lower back. My prostate infection seems to be gone too. Im hoping my latest PSA test will come back good and this nightmare will be over. Im trusting in God for complete healing.

Sumi sent me a message and I realized I hadn't told anyone on here anything. Sorry for that. Pictures to come.

glad you are well. the back pain could have been referred pain from your prostate too.

congrats on your daughter doug. i am thrilled for you.

 

[TweetyNPetey]

She's beautiful, Doug! So glad to hear your wife and the baby are doing good.

 

[Doug Hodges]

First diaper change

13 year old sister

Shortly after birth

Still on the bathroom floor where she was born.

I took this picture. Bathroom floor

 

[koolkyle08]

Hi I have 3 little bantam Cochin eggs pipping in a little simple incubator day 21 today- all were put in and laid within the same 24 hours...one little fighter is cheeping and coming through ( I can see a little beak...) the other two I can see a hole but ever so tiny and more toward the under side of the eggs. Should I be worried? They don't seem to have any action but I am encouraged that there is a tiny hole in all 3...thoughts?? I'm a first time hatcher!! I'm beyond excited and nervous for my new babies!!!!

 

[koolkyle08]

Oh my this story above is soooo amazing!!! I have goose bumps and tears!! Congratulations on the beautiful baby!!!!!!!!

 

[mstricer]

I cant see well enough to enjoy a book anymore, I have Harmony my kindle, when I need it so large I only have two sentences on the screen I have issues. Too cheap to go get my eyes checked again!

My laptop went from 125% to 150% in a very short time period.

I am making it my place! complete with most of the dogs!!  they want in my area no complaining about my dogs allowed lol

Get you some reading glasses at Wally World

 

[mstricer]

Pretty baby