XP:My repeat CS-went into labor first

kdg31684

My repeat CS was scheduled for Nov. 12th, which would have been 39 weeks 2 days.  Sunday the 4th DH and I ran a bunch of errands and I was having a hard time keeping up and overall I just felt bad.  DH got the car seat bases in, and we put up PNP and did a few more things to get ready for baby.

At some point during the night, around 11 or 12am I started having contractions, although I wasn't sure that's what they were since I had a scheduled CS with DS!  They were coming every 10-20minutes and I just kept timing them till DH got up for work at 5a.  In the meantime I was packing my bag because I hadn't done that yet.  So I tell DH to go to work and I'll call dr office when they open at 8a.  I call and they tell me to go to L&D and I'm sad because my dr isn't on call and I'm also afraid they are just going to send me home and I didn't want to look stupid, but at this point the pain is getting worse.

DH meets me at the hospital around 9am. I get hooked up and they take a urine sample and it shows high ketone levels so they are thinking I'm dehydrated so they give me a liter of fluid, check my urine again and it still shows ketones.  So they give me another liter.  Do a cervical check and I'm 80% effaced but closed.  Contractions are even stronger, and they were hoping they'd subside after fluids.  So they start a 3rd liter.  Dr comes into see me and explains they don't like to do CS before 39 weeks (at this point I'm 38 and 2 days), but wants to check me again to see if I've progessed.  If I have, she wants to do CS.  So she says, "I feel baby's head" lets go ahead with CS.

I get to OR pretty quickly, overall I was in triage for about 4 hrs.  CS went great, had a beautiful baby girl. 7 lb 1oz, 20 3/4in.  I can't get over how tiny she is, DS was 9lb 6oz.   Entire hospital experience was pretty great overall.  I can't believe I actually went into labor tho, I thought I would avoid that since my CS was scheduled.  You never know!

 

jllmb79

Thank you for sharing.  

RedCherry1109

Thanks for sharing! That is my worst fear, that I'll go into labor before my RCS. With DS2 I started to have contraction while I was waiting to have him.

thehauffamily

Thanks for sharing and Congratulations!!!  I think it's crazy your dr wouldn't do it unless you progressed more.  My dr said even if I was "miserable" at 38 weeks he would do my c/s.  

thehauffamily

? tho, if you dr could feel babies head, did you not want to try for a VBAC?  My dr said If I was dialated to a 7 or more I could try for a VBAC2

kpearse99

thehauffamily:

? tho, if you dr could feel babies head, did you not want to try for a VBAC?  My dr said If I was dialated to a 7 or more I could try for a VBAC2

I was wondering the same thing!