…and we’re off to Sierra Vista. Safarik is twisting our arms and refuses to go to French with Jeannett’s pre-e…and because SV has a NICU. I pushed it, but didn’t win, he suggested somebody else if we want French.
Still better than Marian, however.
Hopefully this kid will be out soon as I don’t want to be stuck in that hospital too long, and if they make Jeannett stay overnight without any complications, I’ll slug somebody.
The next post will probably introduce the kid.
Later.
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it will all be okay once you hold that cute little boy!!!
and the next one can be a home birth… :)
Can’t wait for an update and for pictures of your little man! Hang in there… and Andy, Jason had to spend 6 nights in the hospital with me, so compared to that, one night wouldn’t be too bad :)
sierra vista’s a great hospital, i’m telling you once you’re in the lovely pain of labor you won’t care WHERE you are! I think they usually make you spend the night, especially if it’s your first.
and AGAIN with marian! why the hospital snobbery? :) (French Hospital is owned/operated by the same people now FYI…)
so where’s that baby?????
oh and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! how crazy that the baby will most likely share his birthday with our anniversaries!
SOOOOOO exciting!!!!! and remember no matter what the hospita people say … you can leave whenever you want to unless there are complications. It is way easier to rest at home than in a hospital.
not when you have three toddlers it’s not! :)
okay, we’re rooting for you both. have an amazing time!
GIBSON UPDATE: Just heard from Andy that after 15 hours of labor so far, they are just now starting Jeannett on pitocin.
Let’s all keep praying!!!!!!!!!
did he say anything about how far along she was….any details? i’m such a dork, i keep checking this blog about every half hour…
I’m with you kate, I keep walking by my computer and hitting the refresh button, hoping for news! You are right Brianna, coming home to three is tough .. but I was happier at home with my husband, kids, mother-in-law and baby than at the hospital (and by home I mean RV). Everyone is different I guess … :)
kate, i’m checking constantly too!
Come on baby Gibson! I’m so sorry you ended up in the hospital. We’re praying. Love you.
okay, i just think its funny that everyone is against hospitals. i just have to add my 2 cents and say that i love giving birth at a hospital. i feel safe and taken care of and i don’t have to do anything for myself…pampered (in a medical sense). maybe though, my sense of security with hospitals is that i grew up with a dad who works at one. i guess i’m just used to the feeling in there. doesn’t remind me of death or anything, just my dad’s work…
GIBSON UPDATE: as of 8:20 p.m. andy texted us saying, “slow, 3-4 cm for last 3 hours, shes getting frustrated and peeved. No drugs so far except pitocin. Pray for results, patience, strength.”
oh, poor girl! we’re praying, jeannett!
kate, i love hospitals!
hey kate i got that update too! i was about to post it and saw your comment.
also–kate i am so with you! i TOTALLY feel pampered in the hospital. because even if someone is there at home to help with my kids, i still feel that responsibility/burden.
i felt so safe in the hospital during both of my births–my miscarriage also. great nurses, nice doctors, and i loved how the pediatrician would come to check on the baby.
to each his own i guess!
Still praying. Sorry labor has been such a been a rough deal. But I’m already so happy for you… the end is in sight :)
Thanks Andrew for not sending me a textupddate… and if you say it’s because of the time difference I’ll smack you with my crutch. Even as severely drugged as I was last night (2 percoset and 1 soma) I still tossed and turned and woke a lot worried about Netters. The two of you are my oldest frinds…. Don’t forget About me just because I’m 1400 miles away!!!!
Kate – I’m not anti-hospital at all, I just know that Jeannett is. That’s why I’m sorry she’s in the hostpital. Because that’s not where she wanted to be.
Gibsons – we are still praying and anxiously waiting!
thats right, lara. i am sorry that andy and jeanett had to go to the hospital after all, as well. i can only hope that they having as good of a stay there as possible.
The Gibson baby was born at 1 am this morning. I don’t want to announce the name or anything b/c I’m guessing they would like to do that!!!
yea!!!! congrats, gibsons!!!!
(thanks, brianna and kate, for your updates from andy. i’ve checking this post like crazy!)
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brianna – Is everyone healthy and safe?
Welcome to the world little Gibson boy! We love you already!
brianna,
since you are the only one who has heard anything, and I tried getting ahold of them today with no luck…. was/is everythinhg okay? The silence from Netters really makes me wonder if things may have gone astray (besides the home birth being blown to smitherines). Especially since Master Gibson has arrived ahead of time (although in a “safe” zone, early doesn’t always mean safe).
Thanks :)
just thought i’d let you know what i know…travis and andy have talked and everything was going pretty well at that time (around 4:00). they were trying to get out this morning they were discharged, but were waiting to have the pediatrician stop by and see Henry. I don’t know what he said, but I do know that he wanted Henry to stay another night at the hospital…whatever that means. we were going to stop by around 4:30 but andy said that jeanett was going to take a nap, so we’ll have to wait till tomorrow to see them. brianna do you know anything more?
praying for you guys and your little sweetie!
Sorry you have to take the brunt of the Marian cracks, Brianna. But for the record and consideration in the future, Safarik said he won’t birth at Marion becase of their practices and their C-section rate is highest on the coast. Information to ponder.
actually andy i DID ponder each of our options BOTH times i gave birth. the health and well being of myself and my children matters immensely to me. (i have also researched the midwifery model of childbirth, as well as had a casual conversation about it with brenda at your home.)
if you take the birth classes at marian the nurses spend a full class explaining how they DON’T want you to have a csection and how to prevent it. if you are your own advocate, try to stay away from epidurals and make your wishes known to your doctor, no one can force a c section on you.
every single nurse and doctor i encountered there was helpful, kind, patient and accomodating, both when i was giving birth the two times and when i was miscarrying. if that wasn’t someone else’s experience i’m sorry. i don’t know what your doctor meant by “practices”, but no one tried to do anything weird to me, and i DO know they don’t perform abortions, so i’m happy for my money to go there.
marian is crowded, and nearly all women giving birth there are Medi-Cal spanish speakers, which i think has everything to do with the way the hospital is viewed. csection rates are high everywhere–perhaps the higher rate of them at marian has something to do with the high number of spanish-speakers who can’t be their own advocates? or maybe the higher number of poor women who deliver there who didn’t have access to proper pre-natal care. the infant/mother mortality rates are as low at marian as anywhere else–i’ve checked. marian is close to my home and closer to kevin’s job, a consideration for us considering i have quick labors.
i don’t like how there is so much hostility between people adhering to the midwifery model and the hospital model. each person can do what they want, but all too often i find that either side judges or belittles the other for what they do. Simply because someone utilizes a hospital to deliver a baby, or specifically their local community hospital, doesn’t make them ignorant, just as someone using a midwife doesn’t make them ignorant.
just my two cents, which is totally random to be talking about in a post about your precious new baby, but i wanted to respond to your comments and advice.
I hope you don’t feel I think you are ignorant, and I hope my post didn’t sound that way. I didn’t even mean it to sound like I was giving advice because you didn’t know what you are doing. I know you researched, and I know you have access to Brenda. I was just passing on information, because I was surprised that Safarik said that about Marion unsolicited and I didn’t want you to feel like it was directed at you since you are the resident Marion birther in the commentors. When he said “practices”, I wasn’t in his mind, but I would imagine that he means: the point in time and frequency that medication is offered, the level of involvement the doctors and nurses allow the mother, the consideration and care for the mothers specific wants, pulling on the baby’s head when it is showing rather than letting it come naturally, cutting the cord right away versus waiting for it to stop pulsing, taking the baby away to quickly to be weighed, and not involving or asking the mother or father when it is time for “routine maintenance” on the baby like Vitamin K, Enthromycin (sp?), hearing tests, etc. That would be my guess.
And Jeannett and I aren’t comfortable with that and that is our opinion on the matter based on our research, and I already know that you opinion differs. Actually, Jeannett and I had a conversation about this this morning before we came home. We were talking about how some of the commentors were saying that they like the comfort of the hospital because the doctors/equipment are there, etc, and we are just a 180 from that. Our opinion was that all of that stuff wasn’t needed in the dark ages, so why is it needed now (maybe a bad analogy, but only one sentence!) Different opinion, that’s all, either way, the focus is on the health of the baby and mother, and here in the US (central coast), we are lucky that we can get that whether we are at home, at Sierra Vista, French, or Marian, etc.
So again, I hope there is no hostility, because I don’t think there is, just the clean sharing of opinions. Thanks for calling me out, though, if you feel differently.
So when are you going to get over your fever and come visit us? :) I hope you feel better quickstyle.
thank you for the response andy. (just for the record my reasons behind having a hospital birth are not that i think you NEED someone with an MD to deliver your baby, or to be within the walls of a hospital for things to go okay.) i certainly don’t feel hostile towards midwife-users at all, however the way your post was worded, it sounded to me like you’d have to be a lunatic that doesn’t care about your kid to have a baby in a hospital, much less at marian. (as an aside i think some doctors don’t want to work in santa maria, period, because they don’t want to have to deal with medi-cal or the language barrier issues).
childbirth and labor is such a special and magical time for people, myself included, and i look back on both experiences with immense fondness and joy. just like you probably get really tired of people questioning your use of a midwife or desire for a homebirth, i get tired of the “i can’t believe you gave birth at that horrible place with all the spanish speakers and the high csection rates”. (i’d like to think kevin and i are both educated enough to advocate for or against something if it came to that. i can be pretty skeptical! not to mention when i miscarried my doctor was EXTREMELY supportive of my decision to wait out the miscarriage naturally. i told him i didn’t want a d&c; and he totally was patient, then afterwards it was taking a long time for the hcg levels to go down but instead of pushing the procedure on me he monitored it and let me wait it out and i didn’t need it afterall. i’d say overall he’s very supportive of doing things the natural way, for a doctor.)
and oh my goodness, i could not BELIEVE i got sick on saturday! we were so excited to come see henry and you and jeannett. the night before i couldn’t get warm, and saturday i woke up feeling kind of blah and grumpy, and just wanting to relax. then i got a headache which i attributed to allergies. but THEN i got off the couch to get something and about fell over, i realized i felt just awful! took my temperature and sure enough, i had a fever–i never get fevers!
of all the times to get one, i am tortured by the fact that sweet little henry is just a few minutes from my home and i can’t see him. but we wouldn’t want him to catch a fever and risk your having to return to the hospital…:)
Sorry, I really didn’t mean my post to sound that way. I was tired, probaby didn’t read it again and check for tone. My bad if it was picked up that way.
Get well quickly.
Brianna-for the record, my hospital snobbery extends equally to ALL hospitals. Marion, French, Sierra Vista, Cedar Sinais…they are all poopy in my book. :)
Some people see hospitals as the safest, comfortable, best place. I see it as germy and icky. No different I suppose than folks who think that camping is relaxing and fun, and others who think it is the most awful way to spend a weekend. Isn’t it amazing how Andy can take ANY subject and make it controversial? :)
HA! well in andy’s defense i suppose the midwife vs doctor issue is controversial on its own. but he does know how to rachet things up a few notches. :)
hospitals ARE germy. on the other hand if any of your bodily fluids get on the ground, it’s THEIR floor. :)
so glad you’re home safe and sound, can’t wait to actually talk and see this new family of 3!
Hey, I didn’t mean to kick it up a few notches. Tone can’t be read in text easily.