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Baby William's Difficult Birth
I'm sorry everyone, not so great at posting pictures on here, but I will share our story. It isn't the birth I envisioned but at least I ended up with a healthy baby. Don't read this if you get anxiety about your birth.I was scheduled for induction on Saturday morning so I was supposed to go in Friday night ( I would have been 40w3d). Thursday night at midnight I suddenly started having contractions with no warning that were 6 minutes apart. They got down to 5 minutes apart and I called my doctor to go into L&D at 3 am.When I went in I was 2 cm and they had me walk for about 2 hours to make sure I was in a labor pattern and I was dilating.I was admitted and when my doctor came to check me I was 2 and 1/2. They decided that my labor pattern wasn't going to become active so they broke my water, put in an internal contraction monitor (a little painful with no epidural) and started some pitocin. Once all of that happened, my contractions got really intense and I labored until about 12:30 with no epidural because I was still too scared to get it. I have an intense fear of needles. I ended up getting it and it wasn't bad, but they kept hitting the nerve endings in my right legs so it took a few minutes to get it positioned correctly. Overall it wasn't as horrible as I thought. I fell asleep after that because I had been laboring with no epidural for 12 hours at that point and my husband who is a physician stayed up to watch the monitors. He and the doctor realized that the baby was not tolerating the pitocin so they had to back it down to zero again because he was decelerating with each contraction. It was still happening without the pitocin so they did an amnioinfusion, which is infusing water back into the sack through the internal monitor to try to float the umbilical cord if it is compressed. That didn't work but the doctor thought we were still safe for awhile as long as the baby's heart rate kept coming back up at the end of each contraction. I was on oxygen to help the baby.At about 1:15 I saw my husband run out of the room and all of the sudden about 10 people ran in. I didn't know what was going on and they told me to get up on all fours, which was very difficult because I couldn't feel my legs. Of course my nightgown fell off so I was completely naked. So much for my modesty. I thought they were just assessing the situation but all of the sudden my doctor ran into the room in scrubs and yelled that we were having a csection right now. Before I knew it they were shaving me and having me sign forms. My poor husband was standing in the corner petrified and they ran me down the hallway on the stretcher.They got me onto the table in the OR and put in a catheter and then prepped me. The nurse anesthestist poked me with a syringe and asked if I felt pain. I didn't on the right side but I did on the left. I told her and she said that I would feel pressure not pain. I did feel pain and I knew what the pressure was like because I only felt pressure on the right side. They continued to get out calipers and do it again and I said the exact same thing and she continued to patronize me and told the OB to go ahead that she was sure I was fine. My DH was allowed into the room then and he said he knew something was wrong because my heart rate was 150. I was ok for a little bit but once they got past my skin and down into the muscle I could feel everything. I told them and they once again said I was fine. When she started cutting my uterus I felt the entire cut on the left side and I started screaming and hyperventilating. They finally put me under completely, which they should have done from the very start.When I woke up my husband said the first thing I said was "is the baby ok?" and he was so relieved. He was holding the baby in a chair beside me and he was sobbing because he was so worried for both of us. They allowed him in the room because he is a physician at the hospital and my oxygen saturation got really low and the baby came out very blue so the poor guy's nerves were shot.Luckily after all of that we have a happy perfectly healthy baby. I am going to have a hard time giving birth again though because it was so scary for me. I hope that all of you have perfect labor and deliveries!See you on the 0-6 month board!
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Re: Baby William's Difficult Birth
"This ribbon has been reported." - lovesnina
I am so sorry people wouldn't listen to you. Some people, I swear.
I am thankful you and your son are fine. I, like you, tried to have my DS vaginally and my body had other plans. I felt cheated out of my birthing experience by having a c-section and Connor was so sick when he was born. I still wonder if I had been able to deliver him vaginally, would he have been healthier. Who knows.
Congratulations with your son and I am thankful you're both ok.