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GD Mama - Induced Delivery - My baby is here! (LONG)

Married2MrWrightMarried2MrWright member
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I was dx with GD at 28 weeks and was insulin dependent after 10 days of trying to just manage it with diet and exercise.  This is my first child and I 35 years old.  Doctor induced me on Monday, January 25th at 39w2d. Elizabeth Joan Wright (Libby) was born at 7:04 p.m. weighing 8 lbs, 4 oz and 19.75 inches long.

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me with Libby this morning, 01-27-10

I had hoped for a pain-med free birth and studied the Bradley Method.  Our instructor was also our doula.  I labored for 12 hours on my own (with a Pit drip and continuous fetal monitoring) but needed the epidural to progress.  Once I got it everything moved along and 1 hour after getting it my baby was born!

Our doula is writing a birth story ...for now, here's what I remember:

01.25.10 5 a.m. - report to hospital

6 a.m. - Pitocin started - 2 cm

7:30 a.m. - Mild contractions start

12:00 p.m. - 3 cm and 80% effaced; contrax were much harder (I was pretty upset that this is all I had progressed)

3:30 p.m. - 4 cm and still not very thinned. Contrax were becoming unbearable because my legs were spasming with each one. So as I was trying to relax and breath my legs were clamping closed and almost "seizing"...I was shaking uncontrollably.

4:30 p.m. - begged for the Epidural; got it and felt like a dream...legs stopped quivering enough for me to sleep for an hour

5:30 p.m. - 7 cm and fully dialated...legs still trembling but no pain! Upper body starts shaking though with each contraction so I still know when they're coming!

6:15 p.m. - Time to push! Worked with the awesome nurse of the day to "practice push" until the doctor arrived. The "practice" ones were easy and she crowned immediately. No pain, just pressure, which I was glad to have the sensation to know what I was doing. Doctor arrived and in 4 pushes (I did 4 sets of breath and push for 4 times each, I wanted her OUT!)

7:04 p.m. - Libby was born! They put her on my chest immediately and within minutes she was latched on a nursing. It was amazing.

From here the details get very blurry for me. I had a very tough 3rd stage and lost a lot of blood. They worked on me for 45 minutes. My placenta came out swiftly but with some was retained (doctor doesn't think so) or a piece of my uterine lining came out with it. Apparently there were buckets of fresh blood being removed as well as being mopped off the floor. I remember none of this (no one was panicked or saying things that sounded urgent). I do remember the look on our doula's face and that my mom and Joseph took Libby to the warmer and were tending to her. Now I know they were distracting themselves from seeing me bleeding. I am fuzzy on these details but there was my doctor and the nurse, both inside of me with tools scraping my lining and massaging my uterus. It was very instense and it made me projectile vomit (imagine the Heimlich from within)! My blood pressure dropped to 84/43. They administered some shot of medicine in my leg and I heard the Doctor say, "800 of Cytotec"...

Anyway, long story short...they got my uterus to finally tighten up. It took about 45 minutes - hour. After that I am not sure what happened. I did have Libby back on my breast. And then I slept, I think. I awoke and the epi was out, etc. I am not sure how long that was...it was around 9 p.m. or so. I did have one fainting spell in the bathroom but other than that, I was stable and pretty much "back to normal" by 11 p.m. I had a grilled cheese sandwich and french fries! They were delicious!

So in the end...I was incredibly grateful to be in hospital. I did have the vaginal birth I wanted and labored without pain meds fror 12 hours. In the end the epidural was the right choice...it allowed Libby to be born quickly and also enabled me to get through that horrible stage three scenario. Had I not had the epi I would have been rushed to the OR and fully sedated. And had they not been able to stop the bleeding my doctor said the only option was to have my uterus removed! Very scary stuff. But all in all...I have no real memory of that and I feel great.

Libby is so wonderful...she's a fantastic nurser and basically has been teaching me what to do. She was tested at birth for low blood sugar and scored a 45.  They like 50 and above, so she was given glucose water (by tube not bottle since they also needed to suck out some fluids from her as well).  All subsequent glucose readings were perfect for her.  They've taken mine too and despite the first one after labor being 209 (they gave me Sprite as well as Apple Juice after I fainted) all of the rest have been perfect! I am noshing on a bagel as I type!

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