Moms Who P.L.A.Y.: 2013

Recently Emily started a great chain of group members posting about their pregnancies. Each person was given a number and had to list facts about their pregnancies. So many of us revealed amazing things about our personal lives. Even though the facts were all pregnancy related, overall it seemed to provide an opportunity for us to share intimate and interesting details about ourselves, and in turn, get to know one another better. Here is what each lady chose to reveal about herself:

Emily Neville

1. I walked 2 miles a day throughout my whole pregnancy with Davy.

2. I've never had any specific cravings. But I did have a love affair with any and all food during my 2nd trimester. Food never tasted so good!

3. For the last week and a half of my pregnancy we lived in an empty house and had to rely on the kindness of friends and gift cards for food.

4. I never had any morning sickness during my first pregnancy... but this pregnancy, I puke if I drink water too fast.

5. Everyone predicted I was having a girl. Seriously, not a single person guessed a boy. But Davy is all boy, for sure!

6. I never had any Braxton Hicks contractions.

7. I labored for 5 and a half hours and pushed for an hour and a half.

8. I was super hoping to have Davy on my birthday (July 2) but ended up having him on my grandfather's birthday... so he shares a birthday and a name with his great grandfather.

Katie Sullivan Harmon

1.) We struggled with "unexplained infertility" & worked with 2 fertility clinics in NYC before finally conceiving Clare. Things were much easier this 2nd time around!!

2.) I was named after my gramma Kate, and Clare is named after the county in Ireland she was born in. We're trying to come up with something meaningful like that for this next baby, but so far no luck:/

3.) I stopped gaining weight & my fundal height stopped growing around 35 wks with Clare, so we had to go for weekly NST to check for IUGR. Everything was always fine, and Clare was born just under 7 lbs the day after my due date

4.) I labored for about 28 hr at home with contractions around 4 min apart and finally went in when the spotting I'd been having all day turned to bleeding all over our (light beige, of course) couch. Due to the bleeding I risked out of my planned birth center delivery & was already 9 cm when they checked me at the hospital

5.) I danced around 9 cm for another 10 hrs meaning I was in transition for a VERY VERY LONG TIME but still managed the natural birth we planned on:)

6.) Because I was in transition for so long, my OB broke my water to help things move along then left to do a csection assuming I'd take another hour at a minimum. Clare descended immediately, so hubby had to scramble to find someone to catch the baby, and ended up dragging in a med student who got grossed out when I pooped on the table (yes, I pooped). Clare was born about 20 min after my OB walked out.

7.) I'm planning a home birth for this pregnancy, but found out I have marginal previa, so I'll need to go back for another scan at 36 wks to make sure my placenta has moved far enough away

8.) I went through my 1st pregnancy with the girl I sat next to at work, and we delivered the same day 4 hrs apart! I'm going through this 2nd pregnancy with another girl in our group, and we're due the same day!

Brittany Lee

1) Even though we had been trying since we got married, I had NO idea I was pregnant. I thought the violent throwing up was a stomach bug (the kids I was nannying for had it), the lower backache was because my sister had jumped on my back, and my sore boobs were because my period was on its way. A few at home pregnancy tests came back negative, so it was a real DUH moment when we were in the ER because I couldn't keep a sip of water down for 2 days...and they told us we were pregnant! We left the ER with huge smiles and our first ultrasound pictures of our sweet girl! I was about 7 weeks already! Oh yea, and I felt completely better!

2) Aside from the initial throwing up, my pregnancy was the easiest, most beautiful, and enjoyable thing I've ever done! I would've gladly stayed pregnant another year...can't wait for my next pregnancies!

3) We decided not to find out her sex until she was born. Best surprise ever! I knew she was a girl, everyone else thought boy..especially Tino who still says he didn't believe the doctor and triple checked between the baby's legs.

5) We also didn't tell friends or family our name choices. I decided when I was 12 that my first daughter would be named Penelope. I thought it was such a beautiful and unique name. Imagine how pissed off I was when a few weeks before mine was born, Kourtney Kardashian had a baby girl Penelope. Do you know how many people have asked me if that's where I got her name?! I did write it in her baby books months before Penelope Disick was born, so there's proof! Oh yea and her middle name is Jayne, which was my Mommy's middle name.

4) I didn't have any cravings except for milk..which normally grosses me out. I drank a huge glass every single night, I guess we needed the calcium? Penelope must have strong bones!

5) The day my labor began, I had just gotten a fresh mani/pedi (I used OPI's "Kiss the Bride", which is the color I wore on our wedding day) it's a very pale pink, which family later thought I chose because I knew she was a girl. I just chose it because it was pretty and had special meaning!

7) After my mani/pedi, Tino and I interviewed our now pediatrician, both were showered, packed and we ate between contractions "Thanksgiving dinner" leftovers from earlier in the week (in August lol). Ironically, we conceived Penelope either the day of or day after Thanksgiving. Tino always gives turkey a lot of credit

My labor went from 0-60 in a few hours! I went from hm, I'm not feeling so great, I think this is it..my contractions are really close....to....delivering my precious girl with my doctor in normal clothes sitting at the end of my bed. In our birth video my ob says "Well that was fast, I didn't even have time to suit up!"

Wendy Prandstatter

1. I love being pregnant

2. Logan was breech until 35.5 weeks. then had an internal version- he flipped. It didn't hurt like people said it would and I had so much more room to breath!

3. I practiced yoga through my whole pregnancy and did my last restorative class 3 days before it all happened.

4. My water broke at 11pm on Tuesday night

5. I started a homeopathic remedy Wednesday night that wasn't happening like it should have. Got a good nights sleep... Then started it up again at 5am Thursday. My contractions started at 11am.

6. Logan was born in his room at 3:30am on Friday morning!

7. I first heard the name Logan at a Yankee game Guy and I went to, then Guy told me his mother was born in Logan West Virginia. The name was set.

8. 10 days prior to my water breaking Guy had come down with pneumonia only feeling better about 24 hours before it all started. I had to take complete care of him and me. Hopefully this time around I can relax and Guy will be taking care of me.

Jenn Pereira

1) Silas was totally unplanned and I actually had my period when he was conceived during major partying for 3 days of Phish concerts in Atlantic City.

2) I thankfully totally quit partying right after that weekend on my own like some divine miracle.

3) Rob moved out 2 or 3 times in the beginning of my pregnancy because my hormones were making me a raving freakin lunatic!

4) I bartended full time at a country club for 7 months of my pregnancy until they moved my huge prego ass into a security gate house position for my last weeks of employment. (My last night bartending I worked 14.5 hrs straight with no break!) I also ended up taking my maternity leave an extra week early which was great cuz Silas came a week early as well.

5) I went to 13 Phish concerts while prego including one on the 4th of July 23 days before going into labor. That night Rob drove home afterwards but it was too foggy to see through the crazy mountains of NY so I ended up sleeping in the back of our Saturn. Man that sucked!

6) I was probably in the best shape of my life while pregnant since I was so determined to have a home birth I walked everyday, did yoga, meditated, and hiked to various swimming holes to cool off during the intense summer heat. (I even walked late at night the nights I was bartending.)

7) My legs which are normally like chicken legs looked like sausages and my feet hurt so bad even with compression socks.

We pretty much knew all along we we were having a boy and didn't even pick out a girls name till 7.5 months in but had Silas picked out almost from the get go.

Marie Pasquariello Reedell

1. I switched doctors/midwives 3x while pregnant with Axel. First, I was with a regular OB-GYN. Then, I was with a midwife planning to deliver in a hospital. Finally, I switched to Jessica Lawlor around 7 months and had a home-birth. With this birth, I've been with Jessica since the beginning.

2. At 38 weeks, I gained a birth tub and doula (in training) for free. I ended not using either very much (although setting up the birth tub was a great early labor distraction for my husband).

3. In the 3rd trimester, I was swollen all over, especially my feet. I exchanged wearing my wedding ring for not-so-fashionable compression stockings. Whenever possible, I would sit on the couch with my feet up. I don't think I'll have that luxury this time!

4. I labored for about 10 hours and pushed for about 4. My water did not break until minutes before birthing Axel.

5. Axel is named after his great Swedish grandfather, who only met his son (Axel's grandpa) once and then died in Italy in WWI. My husband and I have an affinity for bicycles. So, Axel is also named after the part of the bicycle that is at the center of every wheel and enables everything to spin and move.

6. I rode my bicycle for commuting and fun throughout my entire pregnancy and have so far during this one, too.

7. It took about 8 months to conceive Axel and about 8 days to conceive baby #2.

8. My husband loves being pregnant (maybe more than me). He jumps at the chance to make nourishment tea and take absurdly long baths.

Andrea Riley Goring

1) my husband I tried to conceive for about 5 months, then decided we should wait then bang! Chayton was a Christmas lovin baby, and my husband swears he knows the exact moment of conception lol.

2) I took an early pregnancy test on New Year's Eve just to see before we went out partying. After staring at the stick for a minute I threw it in the garbage and for whatever reason checked it again a few hours later to see a faint pink second line. It was a boring New Years that year, but the anniversary of our first date so very special

3) I had a very easy pregnancy, no morning sickness or swelled feet, although real bad Charlie horses in my calves. Only craving was grapefruit.

4) I knew before I was even pregnant that my first would be a boy and we had our name picked out before we found out at the 20 week ultrasound

5) at first I was very active in my pregnancy walking four miles twice a day which turned into me not even being able to make it to the end of my driveway (in my defense was a 1/4 mile along)

6) it was the hottest summer in the north country part of New York, where we lived, in over a hundred years and we had no ac.

7) chayton was frank breached and suppose to be a scheduled c section, so we did our paperwork and blood work at the hospital to prepare and had a dr apt the same day where I had mentioned I had some cramping but dr never checked my cervix, I realized I was in labor around 3am that night, the same night hubby chose to take 2 Tylenol pm at 12am. It was also a blue moon the following day.

I hated having a c section and being poked and prodded at in a rush and had a melt down, but in the end worth it. Being franked breached, chayton couldn't put his legs down for about a week and was stuck in a v shape. They couldn't get an accurate length bc everytime they tried to put his feet down his upper body would pop forward and he teeter tottered the whole time.

Amy Gupta

1.) I became a mom for the first time at age 40!

2.) Because of my age, I didn't think it would be as easy to get pregnant. I missed my period. I thought," You've been under so much stress because of the move." While out for a run one day, I had to run into the woods to throw up. "You're pushing yourself too hard in the heat," I told myself. A few days later I nearly fainted in the elevator. "Low blood sugar," I thought. While getting dressed one day I thought to myself, "Hmmm, why are my normally pink nipples looking so dark?" A few days later I got into the shower and the water felt like razors on my boobies!!! I walked to the drug store to buy a test with wet hair. Ha ha ha!

3.)Growing up Catholic in a very strict home and trying to avoid pregnancy for so long, it felt a litte "naughty" when I first peed on the stick and got a positive.

4.)I travelled to India for 5 weeks during my first Trimester. I had morning sickness terribly and could not tolerate Indian food! I lived on homemade chicken soup and corn flakes.

5.) All my life I have struggled with body image and in fact struggled in my early 20's with anorexia. I gained 47lbs with my pregnancy and have never felt more beautiful in my life!

6.) My husband was the so doting and loving while I was pregnant. I loved the extra attention and knew I would miss it after the baby came.

7.) I had a completely med free all natural birth using the Hypnobirthing technique. It was highly effective! I labored at home and arrived at the hospital 10 cm!

8.) I knew I wanted to have an all natural birth with delayed cord cutting. I chose an OB practice based on a referral of someone in my building since I had just moved and had no idea where to go. The practice had 5 doctors and I saw each of them going over my birth plan in detail. Most just nodded their head and smiled and in my gut I knew they weren't the right fit but I just didn't know where else to go! Even with all my plans, preparations and discussion, I had a very traumatic birth where I was abused by my OB. She was actually yelling and argued every point of my birth plan even though my labor and delivery were perfectly normal and healthy. It left a deep and lasting scar on me. So much so that I did not see a doctor AT ALL after delivering until my son was almost 5 months old!! I still cry that my son was caught by someone so nasty and cold.

9.) My son's name is Armaan which in Hindi means "Wish or Desire."

Suzanne Sichting-Mohan

1. I KNEW in my heart the night Alisha was conceived.

2. Emilie was a TOTAL *surprise*! We were 6 weeks away from going to India to consider adoption.

3. Our confirmation of pregnancy with Alisha came from a test while I was in the hospital passing a kidney stone....we got the "there is an abnormality - a "cyst" on your ovary, please follow - up with your obgyn" talk!

4. No ice cream n pickles cravings for me with A...only pickles...5 bulk jars total!!!

5. I HAD to have a grapefruit every night pregnant w A.

6. I took a picture of a jar of PREGO sauce and posted it to tell FAMILY AND FRIENDS we were pregnant with Emilie.

7. Both of my angels preferred to be breech in utero until the very end! And then they flipped!

8. Alisha and I encountered medical problems during her birth (dangerously low heart rates) & they advised us to do an emergency c - section EIGHT minutes later from the time we made the decision we heard the time announcement followed by her cries!

9. My first wave of morning sickness ended up as night sickness!...we had just finished a posh Chinese dinner and I was in the car with Sachin's aunt and she had to order the driver to pull over. I tossed my entire meal on the side of the road in Delhi India while his aunt held my hair and passed me tissues. Apparently my body knew it was morning time in the USA!!

10. Emilie had the perfect latch for nursing...but she had such an amazingly strong suction that she made me cry from how sore my nipples got...until the nurse introduced me to soothies. B.E.S.T. invention ever!! I seriously might have caved if it weren't for those miraculous things!!!

BONUS #11: 9 months pregnant with Em I caught my flip flops on an uneven sidewalk, tripped and fell...As I was falling belly first, all I could think was "try to turn to your backside to protect the baby." ..made it to my left side only and bruised my leg, thigh, butt n hip!

Lorna Fencik

1. I started trying to conceive at the same time as two friends. Both of them were pregnant quickly and had baby girls named Emily in March, the month I got pregnant.

2. The day the test said positive, for an hour I walked around beaming and I couldn't feel my body from the waist down. Dave was in his office then but at breakfast he said,"did you take a test?" I said yes then he said "was it negative?" And I said no. He shed a little tear. We were so happy and relieved.

3. I loved being pregnant! I loved watching my belly grow and I felt very beautiful and grateful to be experiencing building life. I was an avid birth story & pregnancy researcher.

4. Owen was head down throughout his time which made me think he was ready to go, he was not and hung on to 42 weeks cancelling my planned home birth and coming on my birthday.

5. I lost all concept of time during labor and it didn't return for months. I feel like I labored for a few hours and pushed for one. It was actually 24. Practicing prenatal yoga and meditation kept me in a nice calm place and I never noticed any of the drama.

6. My mom was here for an entire month before Owen was born and only 2 weeks after because he was so late. She and Dave played words with friends relentlessly and bonded which was great because during my labor they needed each other.

7. I had taken castor oil and every homeopathic trick to start labor and wretched my guts out so once Owen was born it was very difficult to get nursing going as it took my body a couple days to get functioning again.

8. I pushed in a labor pool and that was the best. Dave was so into my contractions at one point he almost fell in. At the last minute I was told to get out if the pool with Owen's head already out. Owen was stuck and was delivered with me on all fours and whisked away to a near by table for resuscitation etc. I was yelling to them, "is it a boy? I think I saw a penis."

9. My obsession with nutrition started during pregnancy and resulted in huge healthy placenta that got Owen through what was a difficult labor for him.

Julie HR

1. Even though getting pregnant was a total surprise...no, shock, I knew I was pregnant within 3 days. They say some women can feel when the fertilized egg implants itself and it turns out I'm one of those women.

2. I was 8 weeks pregnant when Morgan and I eloped in Las Vegas, and 16 weeks pregnant on my honeymoon.

3. On our honeymoon I started feeling Addie move a lot, especially the night we went to see an Elton John impersonator. I tell her that Bennie and the Jets was the first song she ever danced to.

4. I was involved in 2 car accidents when I was in my 3rd trimester. My belly hit the steering wheel in the second accident and I was rushed to the hospital. The paramedic begged me to not give birth in his ambulance.

5. My ob accidentally broke my water 2 weeks before my due date. I had to be induced with Cervidil which I had a horrific allergic reaction to, and which made Addie's heart rate become scarily abnormal right before birth.

6. My husband put acupuncture needles in my face to help ease the pain of contractions.

7. Addie was born so quickly after I received my dose of Cervidil that the nurses didn't believe me that she was coming. They had even offered me an ambien not 15 minutes before. I kept saying I think she is coming and when the finally looked her head was crowning! We didn't even have time to turn the tv off so South Park, my least favorite show ever, was on TV during birth.

And one more for good luck: my OB was 8 months pregnant with her daughter when she delivered Addie. Addie and her daughter now have playdates together!

Jennifer Callie

1. I tried like a crazy person to get pregnant the first time... keeping a calendar, taking temperatures, using fertility test strips, sitting with my entire lower body in the air after every time we had sex for 20+ minutes. This lasted for about 7 months before I decided I had to stop being like that. The first month I stopped "trying" like that I got pregnant! It's amazing what releasing stress will do!

2. I would consider my pregnancy pretty "normal." Sick and tired in the first trimester (never threw up). Energetic and glowing in the second trimester. Uncomfortable and ready to "get this child out" by the end of the third.

3. I am insanely hormonal when pregnant. I have an opinion about EVERYTHING and I must let it be known to all who have ears. I mean I'm somewhat like this normally but while pregnant any emotion I experience is multiplied by 10. It's really quite exhausting.

4. With Anikan I got terrible rash called PUPPS in the middle of my 8th month. Towards the end I was unable to sleep at all. I showered 5+ times every night (and several times throughout the day) because Grandpas Pine Tar soap would relieve the symptoms for up to 10 minutes. It was so unbearable I induced two days before I was due. The rash stopped itching as soon as labor started and I had a beautiful natural birth! (I delivered Maverick after the point at which my rash started with Anikan so I'm guessing I wouldn't have gotten it.)

5. With Anikan I had no real cravings but a serious meat aversion. I couldn't look at a burger on TV or be near the smell without nearly throwing up. I couldn't even handle other people eating meat around me.

6. I didn't have many cravings but one day while pregnant with Maverick I suddenly decided I NEEDED Oreos so badly I started crying from the extreme emotion associated with the feeling. It was a really weird, intense experience. Steve ran out and bought two packages. I ate the entire first package between that night and the next day. The second sat on the shelf for months because I wanted no part of Oreos anymore.... I couldn't have forced them down.

7. I enjoyed most of my labor with Anikan. I was not nearly as prepared as I think I should have been but somehow I was able to really become aware of my body and the feeling of control over what was happening with me and my baby was thrilling. I actually embraced the feeling of every contraction seeing it more like an "experience" than "pain." .... Until transition, when I lost my mind and started screaming "GET RACHEL, GET RACHEL! I CAN'T DO THIS!" (Rachel was my midwife). She was able to calm me down by putting me in the shower and I "got through" the rest of my labor. I'm hoping that next time I can keep the mindset I was in for the first 5 hours and not lose it like I did for the last 2.

8. With Maverick (still born just before 9 months gestation) my family bombarded my room (as you can imagine). I was heavily heavily medicated and almost felt like I wasn't really there. Although it was very much a tragedy there is still a part of me that holds on to the memories of the experience because my pregnancy with him and the delivery is really all I have.

9. I absolutely love being pregnant even though I'm not one of the lucky few that have it easy. I get huge, I swell, everything hurts, I can't sleep, I feel sick, I'm exhausted, and insanely moody but it doesn't stop me from wanting to do it again and again and again!

Meredith Eileen

1. I was on annual training for the Coast Guard when I started not feeling well. EVERYONE knew this was not normal for me. I continued working out, running, tactical and weapons training and even getting shot with simunitions.

2. I went to my Grandma's doctor because I only had been seeing military doctors. He prepared me for a catscan for appendicitis and he told me OH NO YOU HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS! I was pregnant.

3. I went to my mom's gynecologist. I had a Subchorionic hemorrhage, got a early amniocentesis and the ultrasound test for fetal nuchal translucency was abnormal.

4. I was taking 18 credits at NJCU in Jersey City, working at a bakery, dog sitting and in the Coast Guard Reserve. I never planned on having kids or at least yet.

5. I worked at the bakery, went to school and still went to drill for the CG but had to do desk work there till the week before Amelia was born. I told my doctor do not induce me I have finals to finish

6. My micro programming professor was freaked out that I was in his and told me, "Do not come to school, me don't want no baby in my classroom!" In his thick Indian accent. He was a great guy and I got an A. Two of my other professors in my major had delivered babies and were excited to see what was going to happen. I did not want to get to know them that well.

I already could not fit in the desk with the attached chair. At least I was not the only one, the big guys couldn't either so I felt a little better.

7. I went in for an appointment two days before my due date and my doctor sent me to the hospital because I was 1 cm dilated. When I got there they said he just wants her out before christmas.

8. I was given pitocin for 2 days in the hospital because I was not dilating, was having contractions regularly and finally after being in the hospital from Wednesday at 2pm, Amelia was born healthy on Friday at 10:14pm We came home Christmas morning.

Sara Navarro

1. We had moved to a new apartment from a 3rd floor to another 3rd floor and did the move ourselves.. we were exhausted when we were done but apparently not exhausted enough to not do the deed lol I guess exercise and tiredness helps conceive? I sort of knew we had conceived Liara when we did.. I just knew it in my heart. 5 weeks later, no period and a positive pregnancy test told me I was right!

2. I didn't have any pregnancy symptoms in the first trimester except for being tired and I absolutely couldn't stand my then fiance's breath! YUCK! We barely kissed my whole pregnancy lol

3. I got to see our first major ultrasound on my 25th birthday!! YAY! What an amazing birthday present that was. My little blip looked like skeletor lol and then I got to share the pics at my birthday dinner that night with friends. It was a very special day!!

4. We had to move again the weekend of my wedding because the current location didn't want to have a baby in the house and I just didn't want to deal with them anymore. What a freaking wreck that was because I could barely help this time! It's hard to give up control..

5. I got married in my 6th month. We were going to do it in town hall but the mayor had the town's parade scheduled after the ceremony and we were running 15 minutes late. When I got there.. my mom said he left. He apparently couldn't wait 15 minutes to perform our marriage. I was sooooo pissed. Luckily, my friend Dan had always bragged about getting ordained online and that he could legally perform marriage ceremonies. In the middle of the parking lot, in my wedding dress, I called and asked if he would come meet us at the local park to perform our wedding. We split up our parties (men vs women) so the groom couldn't see the bride and went to get breakfast while we waited for Dan. I couldn't have asked for a better ceremony. It was absolutely gorgeous outside, the pictures came out so beautiful and love was just floating all around me in the sun shiny air. It will for sure be a day I will never forget!

6. I had sooo much energy in my 2nd trimester that I wanted to try to exercise again. You really couldn't tell I was even pregnant the entire time if you looked at me from behind. It started raining out and my windows were open in the car so I went to go run like a kid in the rain to my car.. got there fine.. closed the windows. When I went to run back, my leg literally just stopped in it's tracks and it felt like my hip froze and just wouldn't move my leg forward at all but my body kept going forward in motion and as if I was going in slow motion my brain registered that I was going down... I threw my hands out in front of me and landed on my hands and knees and tumbled to my left side. I sat there for a second completely shaken and then started balling. I crawled up the front step to my house and sat on the stairs and started screaming for Brian. He took me upstairs and bandaged me up like a little kid. I was just crying my eyes out and he was taking care of my skinned knees and hands. Everything was fine with me and the baby but it was suuuuch a scare that I didn't exercise for the rest of my pregnancy and was careful walking everywhere I went.

7. I didn't have air conditioning in my car and I had an hour+ drive to/from work everyday up until a week before my due date in 100+ degree heat during the summer. *sigh* I'm hot just thinking about it.

8. 1 week past my due date everyone was telling me to keep having sex and walk around a whole lot to induce.. I walked every minute of every damn day and all I got was exhausted and swollen. And when we had sex, it broke my water somehow so I had to be induced 24 hours later. I wanted so badly to wait for my contractions to start on their own but they just wouldn't. So 1.5 weeks past due I was induced at 10am.. had regular contractions until 8pm where I just couldn't take it anymore and asked them to check me because I just had to know that there was light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately for me, there wasn't because I hadn't dilated past 2cm but had effaced 100% so to me that was a death sentence lol I had to have the epidural. They came and gave it to me and I was able to sleep until 4am when I started feeling the pain again. They wouldn't give me anymore meds for it and said the doc had to check me. He checked and I was 9.5cm's and he just wanted me to go a little longer before pushing. I waited an hour and started pushing.. pushed harder than I ever thought I could and not in the position I wanted to.. I was on my back but I was so exhausted that I couldn't say anything about it and just went with it.. I had an oxygen mask on because I felt faint and at 5:19am Liara was born! She had meconium so they took her from me for 2 minutes while they suctioned her airway. She was cutest little ball of muck I ever saw. Haha I couldn't believe she was mine.. it felt unreal. She was so beautiful.