Birth of Perry - UW Northwest Medical Childbirth Center - Seattle, Wa

Ashley & Ben first started planning for a home birth with the lovely Wildflower Midwifery team. Then, gestational diabetes joined the party, ok ok staying with home birth because it’s being managed well... then preeclampsia joined the party. So the party got moved to UW Northwest. The team there was amazing (as per usual). With a planned induction right around 37 weeks, Ashley had a few bumps in the road, but finally made it to her induction date. We all braced ourselves for a long induction. Ashley is also a fabulous birth doula & birth photographer (Rove Perinatal) and was so prepared! Having all the knowledge can be a blessing and a curse though. Letting yourself be in labor and letting your own labor unfold when you know all the things… is extremely hard!!

Induction began Monday night and by early Tuesday afternoon they had begun pitocin, but Ashley wasn’t feeling very strong contractions. At 4:20 pm OB Anna Panighetti broke Ashley’s water. We all held our breath hoping this would finally kick things up a notch! And boy did it! Perry was born at 9:52 pm!

Welcome to the world Perry!!!!

Time of Birth: 9:52 pm
Weight: 5lbs 14oz
Length: 19 inches

Birth of Piper - Swedish First Hill - Seattle, Wa

A gorgeous little rainbow baby addition to their family… from a few last snuggs with their oldest to fresh first snuggs with their newest baby. While waiting for the pitocin to start contractions they got in one last visit with their son before he officially became big brother. After that, we were ready to get things started! We did all the things, miles circuit, glute scoots, hip dips, and even Walcher’s to get baby positioned and engaged. That and some pitocin are all it took! Labor was off and running fast! After an epidural nap it was time to meet baby girl!

Welcome Piper!! You are finally here! 🌈 🩷

Date of Birth: April 8th
Time of Birth: 4:13am
Weight: 6lbs 8.1oz
Length: 18.75in

Birth Location: Swedish First Hill
OB: Dr. John Eggers
L&D RNs: Brenna, Lisa, and Ellie
Doula & Photos: Me

Birth of Griffin - Home birth in Bothell, Wa

Born at home on the morning of February 19th, baby Griffin joined the Tedrow family. 🩷

Welcome baby Griffin!

Weight: 9lb 9oz
Length: 21.5”
Head Circumference: 36.5cm

Midwives: Wildflower Midwifery & Fertility
Doula & Photos: Me

Birth of Silas - Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, Wa

When it comes to birth, babies are most often in charge. This one was no exception. When it was discovered that he was breech his mother did everything she possibly could to try to get him to turn, including a painful ECV (External Cephalic Version). Even after two providers attempted to turn him, he just would not budge an inch. Amy’s birth plan turned into a planned cesarean. However, even though a time and date were set, baby had his own plans. Amy woke up early Wednesday morning to some cramping which turned into steady and stronger contractions as time went by. What was suppose to be one last calm quiet morning turned into labor that was building quickly. When they pulled up to hospital around 8:30 am and I saw Amy get out of the car and then stop to focus through a contraction it was obvious we were going to be meeting baby pretty soon. Her cesarean was scheduled for 12:30 pm the same day but he wasn’t going to wait for that. She was already 4 cm in triage so after some labs were drawn and a quick ultrasound to just confirm baby hadn’t done an overnight backflip and was in fact still breech, we were off to the OR.

Baby Silas was born at 10:05 am. He was certainly wedged in his mother pretty well. When we asked how exactly he’d been in there (back in the recovery room) the OB did some fun bending positions to describe how he was fully in pike position and had his head turned in such a funky way it really didn’t want to move and was harder than usual to get it released. Immediately after birth Silas was working a little too hard to catch his breath so he went for a ride to the NICU for few hours for observation. Amy sent up colostrum for him and Jeff got to do skin to skin with him while they observed Silas. He was released from NICU in the early afternoon and they were all reunited. Amy finally got to hold him and breastfeed. Silas was so content. Oddly enough Silas’s first few hours were a pretty similar repeat to his older brother’s first few hours even though their births were vastly different.

Welcome to the party little ball of unpredictability!

Silas Cassian Paine
Born on Feb. 4th at 10:05 am
Weight: 6lb 6oz

Birth of Benjamin - Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, Wa

A birth story where you give birth with all your co-workers/friends. You and your baby receive so much love and care the entire department is abuzz. It’s the very best birthday party you and your baby could ask for.
Baby Benjamin is here and has been loved on by so many since his very first seconds.

Benjamin Atlas Stuckey
Born July 7th at 5:48 am
Weight: 7lbs 6oz