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Ahem, a Formal Introduction/Mini Birth Story
So, I've finally "come over" to this board, so I figure that I'll introduce myself.
I'm DW, and I don't think I ever really caused much sh!t on the 3 tri boards, so let's see what I can do here.
How I got here - since everyone else posts them at some point: Uneventful pregnancy, aside from super mild GD, until 37/38 weeks when diagnosed with mild pre-e and put on modified bedrest. The next week the OB didn't want to "d!ck around" anymore, and I agreed, feeling like crap with a megafoot, and my cervix was closing up - reversing the progress of the previous week - and so I went in to be induced right before midnight of September 2nd.
Got hooked up to magnesium - which prevents seizures/stroke in pre-e moms, but is THE DEVIL otherwise, cause you are STUCK in a bed the whole time - started cytotec at 2 am, got to 3 cm, 90% effaced (up from 1 cm 50% effaced) by 12 pm and I was having STRONG, monitor rating of 90-100, contractions, but they never fell into a pattern. I only took tylenol for my headache and had some drug for the heartburn - I slept through most of it, actually (got that from my dad).
My water broke right as I was getting hooked up to pitocin at 2 pm. The contractions became more erratic, more spaced out, longer (seriously, I had some 10 minute long ones - not 10 minutes in between, but 10 minutes of continuous contraction) and started rating as only a 40 or less - yet I was in worse pain than before. My OB checked me at 2 am on the 3rd - 4-5 cm, 100% effaced. WTF? So he gave me the options of continuing the pitocin at 2x for the next 4 hours and then see what happens, carrying on at this pace and have the next OB on-call from the practice deliver, and of course plan C - for C-Section. My u/s that previous day gave a weight estimate of 7 lbs 12 oz - and he was afraid that maybe it was a pound OVER that or more.
DH and I decided to up the pitocin and we talked about what to do next. I knew inside that something wasn't going right - and he did, too. Although he and I have dreamed of having up to 4 kids - and knew that electing for a C would probably diminish how many we have - we knew that it was going to be the right choice. I couldn't take the pain any longer - especially since the contractions were getting weaker. DH was freaking out, mainly b/c he was afraid of me having a reaction to the anesthesia (I don't do so well with general, but I wasn't concerned with a spinal) or that the OB would open me up and the endometriosis would be back with a vengence.
So, at 2:30 am when my nurse came in to turn up the pit, I told her to call the Dr for a C-section. Within 5 minutes DH was in scrubs, I was getting the monitors taken off of me, and the nurse-anesthesist was explaining the spinal.
Allie was born at 3:13 am, 19" and 7 lbs 5 oz!
And it was a good thing I trusted my gut instinct - my pelvic bones never separated, and during labor, she turned her head and ended up sunny side up, with one of her feet in her face (I'm only 5'2", with a short torso, so I knew from the rib kicks and the u/s that she was cramped in there!). Doc said that when he cut me open, her head popped out and she was wide awake! I saw her for a moment, and then once they determined she wasn't going to need the NICU, DH went over to take pics. He walked back over with her in his arms. *melt*
I stayed on the magnesium for 24 hours afterwards - which sucked. But at least I was on the mend and my little girl was perfect! And the best part? No endometriosis or ovarian cysts (I have PCOS) - Doc said I looked perfect down there. He felt bad for me, though, seeing as how I was in labor for 28 hours or so and ended up getting cut open - but that's part of what makes him a great Doc in my book.
OK, I'm done being an AW for now. Carry on.
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Re: Ahem, a Formal Introduction/Mini Birth Story
Baking Blog
COngrats! I was on mag and pitocin also... I ended up delivering vaginally 3 min away from a c section 24 hours in to it. I also hated being hooked up to the IVs for so long...
Congrats again!
Glad you're here...I loved you on the tri boards, and we have a very similar birth story. I labored on Pit for 9 1/2 hours and never got past 1cm. J had turned face up as well, and b/c of the constant monitoring I couldn't do anything about it, and we had a c-s. Crazy how fast everything happens once you say go...less than an hour from when doc checked me I had my boy! And DH bringing him to me from the nursery was absolutely the best part.
So welcome!