{"id":1349,"date":"2013-03-01T16:56:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T00:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2013-04-16T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:20:00","slug":"tabitha-mercy-cerveny-02282013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/01\/tabitha-mercy-cerveny-02282013\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabitha Mercy Cerveny &#8211; 02\/28\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, 02\/28\/2013, Victoria, Gideon, Esther &amp; I welcomed Tabitha Mercy to our family with a planned homebirth. Tabitha was born at 7:49pm weighing 8lbs and was 21 inches long.<\/p>\n<p>This birth was much different than our two previous experiences with <a href=\"http:\/\/rmcphoto.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/gideon-randall-cerveny-arrival.html\">Gideon<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/06\/it-happened-during-naptime-esther-jubilee-cerveny\/\">Esther<\/a>. Our previous birth experiences have been pretty fast and labor started soon after Victoria&#8217;s water breaking. This time Victoria labored all day at home for more hours than her two previous births combined.<\/p>\n<p>For most of the day her labor was easy enough that Victoria was able to wrap some things up for work while working from home. I even heard her call into a conference call for work at one point. She also took Esther on a long walk around the neighborhood and started baking a birthday cake. By late afternoon things started getting serious and we let the midwives know that we needed them soon. Once again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beachcitiesbirthservice.com\/\">Mary Lou O&#8217;Brien<\/a> was our midwife, and helped us through the birth.\u00a0 We are really happy she has\u00a0attneded the births of all three of our children!<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a03 hours of hard labor and with\u00a0Victoria&#8217;s water still intact, the midwife noticed Tabitha&#8217;s heart rate was dropping during contractions and became concerned.\u00a0 Mary Lou O&#8217;Brien said the baby needs to come out very soon, although Victoria had no urge to push.\u00a0 Mary Lou advised breaking the water bag artificially.\u00a0 Victoria&#8217;s water was broken at 7:45pm and she was a\u00a0champ pushing Tabitha out in 2 contractions!\u00a0 Tabitha was born 4 minutes after her water broke, WOW!!!<\/p>\n<p>Tabitha was in great health! Her heart rate was good and color great!\u00a0The midwives pointed out though the umbilical cord had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whattoexpect.com\/pregnancy\/pregnancy-health\/complications\/cord-knots.aspx\">true knot<\/a>, which was likely the cause of her heart decelerations.\u00a0 We are so thankful that the midwives knew what to do to\u00a0help the baby out quickly.\u00a0 We are also\u00a0counting our blessings that\u00a0Tabitha made it through the whole pregnancy with no cord accidents.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a photo of Victoria trying to relax in between contractions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just moments after Tabitha was born<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the true knot in the umbilical cord.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tabitha was very alert and looking around from the moment she was born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Love this photo of Gideon cutting the cord.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Love this photo of everyone watch during Tabitha&#8217;s examination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gideon is in love with his new little sister<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tabitha resting after\u00a0her big day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next morning with Gideon and Esther holding Tabitha for the first time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog_photos\/2013\/0228\/tabitha-mercy-13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pp-fb-like-btn-wrap\">\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/01\/tabitha-mercy-cerveny-02282013\/\" data-share=\"true\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"like\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, 02\/28\/2013, Victoria, Gideon, Esther &amp; I welcomed Tabitha Mercy to our family with a planned homebirth. Tabitha was born at 7:49pm weighing 8lbs and was 21 inches long. This birth was much different than our two previous experiences with Gideon &amp; Esther. Our previous birth experiences have been pretty fast and labor started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rustinmichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}