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Our Baby has arrived..birth story inside...long...

Jennie9879Jennie9879
in Success after IF

Our IVF Miracle entered the world on 10/25/08 at 9:16 am...We were scheduled for induction on Friday 10/24. I woke up at 6:20, called the L&D unit at our hospital and they told us to arrive anytime after 7am. We got showered, and ready, and as we were leaving at 715 I felt a huge gush....It was my water. We got to the hospital, and the fluid was tested, and came back as positive, we were joking that of course this would happen to us..meaning my water breaking the morning of the induction.

I was hooked up to my IV, and Pitocin was started. I started feeling some good cramping about an hour into it. My contractions were manageable, and I thought so far so good. My Dr came in to ck me that morning and I was between 1-2 cm. Pitocin was given all day, and my Dr came back at about 6pm to recheck me. No change, and he found my water had to be ruptured completely again. Apparently, the fluid keeps replenishing it's self, so he finished the rupture, to try and get things moving.Said it was my forwaters that had broken earlier in the day.. At this point I told DH to go ahead with his mom, and our best friends to grab a bite to eat, b/c it was going to be a long night. My sister, and my aunt stayed with me, and no sooner did DH leave I had my first strong intolerable painful contraction....they kept coming stronger and harder. I had my Sister call DH and asked for him to get back to the hospital I needed him, and the contractions were extremely painful. By 745 I asked for my epidural. We were told b/c it was Friday night there is only one on call, and the sooner the better to get it. The Dr. on call arrived to give the epidural, by this time I was in tears, and couldn't focus on anything but breathing thru, and answering the questions in between. He then gets a page on his beeper and has to rush to the ER, he returned 20 mins later. We get things started..he washes my back, numbs it or so I thought, puts the Epidural needle in ( I just about jumped off the table b/c you can feel the needle not piercing your skin but very unplesant pressure in your back) and then he gets ANOTHER page. He returns it, and says " I am sorry I have to get to the OR, I'm taking the needle out" He pulls out the needle, and he is off....I am beyond consoable at this point. The contractions were every 2 mins, and STRONG. My nurse was very apologetic, and said in all her years working, she has never seen this happen. About 20 mins later he still had not returned, so she called downstairs to OR to get the status, and I hear her say "I want to be able to tell my patient something, b/c she's laying here in agony, he got halfway thru, and had to leave" I was then given Stadol b/c of the time I had been waiting... Apparently, they had to call another Dr in, and it would be about 30 mins for him to arrive..an HOUR and 15 mins later hearrives. We have to restart the whole epidural process AGAIN.....He gets the epidural in, (Not a pleasant experience at all) and my BP drops, so now they are giving me medicine in my IV to stablize my BP, I am very sick to my stomach at this point as well, which the Dr said was caused by my low BP. Finally some 45 mins later I am stabalized, and my nurse gives me Nubain to help me sleep, and relax. At 10 pm she comes back to ck me....no dialation change, and she can feel "molding" of the head. She explains that she is going to call my Dr. and advise him b/c apparently molding tells them at that point, that the baby may be too big to fit thru the pelvis, and rather put me, and baby thru a long labor it would be best to just go right to a C-Section. My Dr. tells her to up my pitocin, and recheck me in an hour, and we'd go from there. 11pm comes she rechecks, and I am now 3-4 cm's and the molding is getting less apparent, and her head is coming down nice. My Dr. at this point says ok lets let her go and see what happens.

I labor overnight, at about 400am I start feeling my contractions again...not so much in the tummy but down low, and the pressure is so painful I have to breathe thru them, and I am in tears yet again. They recheck me and I am just at 4 maybe 5 cm's., so they decide to change my anasthesia, to a different dose etc.. That works up 6:00 am. I start feeling pressure again, and am now at 7 cm's. My dr was called and he said he'd be in at 730. He was technically done being on call at 730 but the Dr coming on I didn't feel comfortable with, so my Dr said he was going to see this thru, and come in to deliver me. Dr comes at 730 cks me I am now about 9cm, but there is a lip of the cervix that is stopping her from coming down more. He said I'll be back in 20 mins and I'd probably be pushing, 15 mins later I had that strong urge to push, and he came right back and I did a couple practice pushes. I started pushing at about 8:15 or so...it was by far the hardest thing I have ever had to do. My MIL, my Aunt, DH, my nurses, and my Dr. were all very encouraging. I started to feel tons of pain and after laboring all night long and pushing for 40 mins I was beginning to get exhausted, and I was just saying over and over please just get her out. I gave another 2 or 3 pushes, and all of the sudden I remember my Dr saying,  Jen...don't push her heart rate is at 190 so I am gonna have to get the forceps set up, we have to get her out now. I was relieved, but so SCARED I knew this was gonna hurt worse than pushing, and it was urgent we get her out. They got set up, and I pushed with the forceps, at this point everything is a blur. DH told me after the fact her heart rate jumped to the 200's, and all I remember is the Dr saying come on Jen push sweetie...and the searing pain...which stalled for what seemed like FOREVER. Next thing I know my dr has two nurses take my legs, change postion, and has one pressing on my stomach, apparently her shoulders got stuck!! I found this out after the fact, b/c I was so out of it and in so much pain. At 9:16 am I felt her come out, and she was placed on my stomach, and the room errupted in cheers. I looked at DH and naturally a wave of emotion came over us. My MIL was in tears, my Aunt, my self and DH, and my Dr. came around to my side while the resident worked on me, and said "You did awesome,. and I am so proud of you, she's beautiful,,,and your're miracle baby is finally here you did it Congrats"

I did end up with a 3rd degree tear...b/c of the delivery....

Let me just say despite how much pain I felt and still feel no words can explain our love and amazement of this little girl. She has a full head of dark hair, MH's eyes, my lips and pout, MH's nose, and when she sleeps she looks just like him. I can see just how much in love he his with his daughter, it brings me to tears everytime I see him holding her b/c he's just in awe and amazement with her. The love we feel for her is just beyond words, and we just look at her and say over and over she was worth everystep of this journey.....

We were finally released from the Hospital on Wed b/c she has jaundice, and it was SO hard not being able to hold our baby girl b/c of she had to be in the billy blanket. I also suffered a bad bout of baby blues while in the hospital. My MIL stayed with us up until today, and is coming back sunday and suddenly the anxiety is flooding back....I am up at every sound she makes, checking on her constantly, and am so NERVOUS. Is she still breathing, is she warm enough all of these constant questions go thru my head NON stop..it iwll get easier I konw, but the hormones are not fun!

Well that is about it for now..sorry it took me so long to post but we've been so busy I just haven't had a chance to post much this last week.  =0)

 

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