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November 2014 Moms
ssstephanie214
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birth story in bullet points
ssstephanie214
member
I don't want to bore everyone with my long typed out story, but I do want to share the following in case anyone can relate to what I went through:
-I had contractions in a pattern of 4-1-1, went to the hospital, was 3 cm dilated with my water intact and they sent me home. I was pissed because my doctors office told me to come in at 5-1-1 OR water breaking.
-I went back an hour later cause the pain was too much. I was a little bitch about the pain, I really didn't handle it half as well as I thought I would have. I forced them to admit me at "nearly 5" cm dilated. At 7, they broke my water. I was at 7 for a really long time with my water broken. I think this is how I developed a fever.
-i got two giant bracelets that really annoy me: one for an allergy (to NEOSPORIN REALLY IS THAT NECESSARY) and the other says "Fall Risk." Seriously like what hospital patient ISN'T a fall risk.
-I can't believe I was on the fence about an epidural. It was amazing, didn't hurt to place, and I think anesthesiologists should be paid in gold.
-I hated my day nurse and she was with us most of the time. She kept feeding me Popsicles and jello which I ended up puking later on. Just a bad call. She had an awful condescending attitude also. I told her I was anxious about pitocin and she just kept upping it without letting me talk to a doctor or making sure anesthesia could compensate the dose. She also let my epidural bag COMPLETELY run out before notifying anesthesia to redose. She sucked.
-I puked. So much. But no poop!
-Pushing: took two hours. I busted pretty much all of the blood vessels in my face and I look like a hell witch. I did figure out, early on, that the secret to a good push is focusing on trying to take a huge poop rather than try to push "from the vagina."
-I was amazed how fast the baby came out when she did. I felt her twitching inside me in the final stages. I thought I was really not gonna make it, crying and my face was on fire and I needed oxygen in between. I thought I was going to die. On my last three pushes, I said to myself "this is my last push." I couldn't have done it one more time.
-my mom helped hold my legs and coach me but she had the worst breath, oh it was so bad, it messed up my push game. I didn't want to embarrass her, but I whispered loudly that she needed gum and she seemed like she already had an idea about how rank her breath was. So I didn't feel bad calling her out.
-once baby's head came out, she just flew across the room!! It was such a relief. I only got a few stitches, a tiny tear. OB didn't even want to call it second degree.
-I asked to see my placenta and it blew my mind. OB was excited to explain it to me haha.
-now, the bad part, since I had a fever of 100.6 right before delivery, they told me they had to take the baby to nicu to start her on antibiotics as a matter of policy. I lost my shit. I held her for maybe a half hour before they took her away (she did latch during that time, remarkably). I felt awful that we didn't get do an hour of skin to skin, because that was a) explained to me as a critical benefit and b) really important to me.
-when your newborn baby has to be sent to nicu right away--omg, the worst fucking feeling in the world.
-I want to be with her all the time. I can't believe she isn't with me right now. I'm getting really upset writing about this. I wanted her to know me and daddy right away.
-she is super beautiful, has a full head of light brown hair, and a dimple. She's really good at feeding. Daddy is so protective of her. I love the way she smells. I sat with her for two hours today while she slept on my chest in the nicu and it was the best time of my whole life.
-hoping her labs come back normal tomorrow so we can take her home early Friday morning. I'll flip out if we can't. Nicu staff is some of the finest people on earth. The end
-I had contractions in a pattern of 4-1-1, went to the hospital, was 3 cm dilated with my water intact and they sent me home. I was pissed because my doctors office told me to come in at 5-1-1 OR water breaking.
-I went back an hour later cause the pain was too much. I was a little bitch about the pain, I really didn't handle it half as well as I thought I would have. I forced them to admit me at "nearly 5" cm dilated. At 7, they broke my water. I was at 7 for a really long time with my water broken. I think this is how I developed a fever.
-i got two giant bracelets that really annoy me: one for an allergy (to NEOSPORIN REALLY IS THAT NECESSARY) and the other says "Fall Risk." Seriously like what hospital patient ISN'T a fall risk.
-I can't believe I was on the fence about an epidural. It was amazing, didn't hurt to place, and I think anesthesiologists should be paid in gold.
-I hated my day nurse and she was with us most of the time. She kept feeding me Popsicles and jello which I ended up puking later on. Just a bad call. She had an awful condescending attitude also. I told her I was anxious about pitocin and she just kept upping it without letting me talk to a doctor or making sure anesthesia could compensate the dose. She also let my epidural bag COMPLETELY run out before notifying anesthesia to redose. She sucked.
-I puked. So much. But no poop!
-Pushing: took two hours. I busted pretty much all of the blood vessels in my face and I look like a hell witch. I did figure out, early on, that the secret to a good push is focusing on trying to take a huge poop rather than try to push "from the vagina."
-I was amazed how fast the baby came out when she did. I felt her twitching inside me in the final stages. I thought I was really not gonna make it, crying and my face was on fire and I needed oxygen in between. I thought I was going to die. On my last three pushes, I said to myself "this is my last push." I couldn't have done it one more time.
-my mom helped hold my legs and coach me but she had the worst breath, oh it was so bad, it messed up my push game. I didn't want to embarrass her, but I whispered loudly that she needed gum and she seemed like she already had an idea about how rank her breath was. So I didn't feel bad calling her out.
-once baby's head came out, she just flew across the room!! It was such a relief. I only got a few stitches, a tiny tear. OB didn't even want to call it second degree.
-I asked to see my placenta and it blew my mind. OB was excited to explain it to me haha.
-now, the bad part, since I had a fever of 100.6 right before delivery, they told me they had to take the baby to nicu to start her on antibiotics as a matter of policy. I lost my shit. I held her for maybe a half hour before they took her away (she did latch during that time, remarkably). I felt awful that we didn't get do an hour of skin to skin, because that was a) explained to me as a critical benefit and b) really important to me.
-when your newborn baby has to be sent to nicu right away--omg, the worst fucking feeling in the world.
-I want to be with her all the time. I can't believe she isn't with me right now. I'm getting really upset writing about this. I wanted her to know me and daddy right away.
-she is super beautiful, has a full head of light brown hair, and a dimple. She's really good at feeding. Daddy is so protective of her. I love the way she smells. I sat with her for two hours today while she slept on my chest in the nicu and it was the best time of my whole life.
-hoping her labs come back normal tomorrow so we can take her home early Friday morning. I'll flip out if we can't. Nicu staff is some of the finest people on earth. The end
BABY GIRL, 11-11-14
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Re: birth story in bullet points
Also I can't believe you had to fight to be admitted at 5 cm dilated, that's crazy to me.
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Married July 14, 2007 ----- TTC # 1 October 1, 2013
BFP March 7, 2014 ----- EDD November 17, 2014 ---- Baby boy born November 16, 2014
@minibean16 hahaha--I had to bring my cell phone, yes. But I did request that the birth certificate be etched into the Rosetta Stone