Grady's (Unplanned!) C-Section

Grady's Mom

So my DS was due September 1st, 2009. I went to my 40 week doc appt. on the 2nd and we scheduled induction for the following Monday the 7th (it was Labor Day weekend so they told me I had to wait that long). But apparently Grady didn't agree with them & I started going into labor around midnight on the 4th with contractions being around 6 minutes apart. We went to the hospital around 2am and within 2 hours, my contractions were 2 minutes apart. I got my (awesome!) epidural around 5ish and from there I was feeling pretty good - that was until around 11am. I was almost 9cm dialated & I started to feel ALOT of very uncomfortable pressure. Something just didn't seem right so I asked the nurse to come in and check me again. When she did, she made a very concerned face and ran out of the room without saying a word. She came back a few minutes later with the doctor and a portable sonogram machine. That's when we found out Little Mr. Grady Matthew was breech! They thought he was head down the whole time because they were feeling his little round bum. When the nurse checked me the last time, she felt his little butt crack and that's when she realized it. Apparently he had been that way for quite sometime but they never realized it because the way he was bent - his butt was right where his head was supposed to be and since he was bent in half, his heart tones were still where they should have been. So after being in labor for 12 hours, 9cm dialted, and ready to vaginally deliver, I was rushed off to the operating room and had an emergency c-section.

Everything went great and my LO is perfect, but it still irritates me that I had to have a section. I asked my doc almost every week to do another sonogram (last one was at 18 weeks) because I had GD and I just wanted to make sure everything was ok. He told me they only do another one after the 18 weeks if you're measuring 2 weeks big or 2 weeks small. If they would have given me one, we could have realized he was breech and saved everyone a lot of time/energy. (The nurses told me he had to have been breech for quite sometime because of the way he was bent. There was no way he could have turned like that).

But like I said, everything went well and we're all healthy and happy! I'm glad that my little man turned out as perfect as he is even if he had an unexpected welcome to the world!

TELK83

If only drs would listen to mommys once in a while! I'm sorry you had to go through all of that, but it sounds like you would be a good VBAC candidate if you plan to have more babies!

Congrats!!!

disbride061103

Glad that everything turned out OK and that you and your LO are healthy.  Just wanted to let you know that the nurses are not necessarily correct about how long your LO was breech.  My DS turned breech 5 days before my due date.  He turned while I was at my 39 week appointment.  One second he was head down and the next he was frank breech. 

Wings40

Congrats and thank you for sharing your story. Also, love the name Grady, that was our name for a boy, but we are having a girl. Good luck with everything.

mclaugaa

Congrats on your baby boy!