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3rd Trimester
Birth Story (LONG)
It was a long and very tiring journey over the last week or so but we are making it. Last Thursday, October 9th DH and I had just got home from school when the nurse called to see why I didn't go in to have my labs done at the hospital. I didn't know I was supposed to go in as on Monday at my appointment the doctor was worried about my blood pressure but didn't seem to concerned. He asked the nurse to take my blood pressure again, so she waited 5 minutes then took it again. She asked me to wait until she told the doctor what it was. Well I waited about 10 minutes and had heard them talking in the hallway, he went in to another patients room so I stepped into the hallway and looked for the nurse, who was nowhere to be found...so I left. Probably the wrong thing to do but I figured they would call me if there was something wrong. Well they did call but not for 3 days...Thursday when I got the phone call she said they wanted me to go to the Hospital to have some tests and labs done. So we arrived at 5:00 and I was hooked up to the machines, they drew blood, etc. The doctor came in and they checked me...still 1 cm and 30 % effaced like the last week. So he asked me to wait and be checked again in an hour or so. Well I was having contractions and over the few hours they were getting stronger and closer together. So...when he came back around 9:15 he decided he would feel more comfortable if they just kept me and started me on Pitocin. So they admitted me into a room and we started Pitocin around 10:30. We called our families to let them know we would be staying, they drove over as soon as they go the calls.
So I labored all night and then all day on Friday, October 10th. The doctor came in Friday morning and checked me...I was still 1 cm, 30 % effaced. He told me that he would be back that evening to check me and see how things were going. He told me that we would have some options to consider depending on what were to happen throughout the day. So I labored all day and then he came back around 5:30 and checked me again. He said I had made NO progress. So he told me we could shut the Pitocin off so I could eat (I hadn't ate anything since 11:00 the day before) and get a good night's rest so we could restart the Pitocin the next morning; we could just keep going with the Pitocin and see what happened; or we could stop everything and do an "elective" c-section. He said that he didn't know that anything would come of labor and that we may be doing a c-section the next day anyway. So DH and I discussed all of our options and we decided that since I was in labor all day and had made no progress and since the doctor said she may never drop due to size or other complications we decided to go with the c-section.
We felt really good about our decision. They started prepping me for the c-section, doing paperwork and gathering our stuff to be moved to the mother/baby room for afterwards. They told DH that he would wait outside the surgery room until he was allowed to come back. So they wheeled me down the hallway in my bed and into the surgery room where I had to move onto the surgery bed. The anesthesiologist started giving me the spinal, which hurt but not too bad. Not like I had anticipated. Then my legs started to go numb...or what I though was numb. The doctors came in and started marking on my stomach where my incision would be with a pen. I asked them if I should be able to feel them marking on my stomach. They told me, "Yes, you will feel pressure and touch but nothing will hurt." Well I could feel the pen point but figured it was just the "touch." So then they started the surgery. Well much to everyone's surprise I could feel everything with the surgery. I was in SO MUCH pain that they gave me more medicine in the spinal, which didn't work. I guess they showed Kallie to me when they got her out but I don't remember seeing her. Once they got her out c-section with the vacuum and then forceps (as she was so high and up in my back) they knocked me out with more medicine because I was in so much pain. I don't remember much of that night. Bits and pieces but I was out of it for the most part. I would dose off and on throughout the night.
The anesthesiologist came in several times after that to apologize and said that they were checking into the meds to see why they didn't work. He came in our last day at the hospital to tell us how bad he felt and that some of his co-workers have had the same problem recently with the spinals.
Kallie was born at 7:21 pm on October 10th, 2008. She weighed 7 lb 11 oz and was 20 inches long. She dropped down to 7 lb 1 oz before we left so we'll see tomorrow what she's up to (hopefully up, not down). She's been pretty good so far. She sleeps pretty well. She's starting to eat better and things are going well. We came home on Monday around 1:00 and we are glad to be home in our own house. No more waking up to nurses in the middle of the night...just to Kallie!
So I labored all night and then all day on Friday, October 10th. The doctor came in Friday morning and checked me...I was still 1 cm, 30 % effaced. He told me that he would be back that evening to check me and see how things were going. He told me that we would have some options to consider depending on what were to happen throughout the day. So I labored all day and then he came back around 5:30 and checked me again. He said I had made NO progress. So he told me we could shut the Pitocin off so I could eat (I hadn't ate anything since 11:00 the day before) and get a good night's rest so we could restart the Pitocin the next morning; we could just keep going with the Pitocin and see what happened; or we could stop everything and do an "elective" c-section. He said that he didn't know that anything would come of labor and that we may be doing a c-section the next day anyway. So DH and I discussed all of our options and we decided that since I was in labor all day and had made no progress and since the doctor said she may never drop due to size or other complications we decided to go with the c-section.
We felt really good about our decision. They started prepping me for the c-section, doing paperwork and gathering our stuff to be moved to the mother/baby room for afterwards. They told DH that he would wait outside the surgery room until he was allowed to come back. So they wheeled me down the hallway in my bed and into the surgery room where I had to move onto the surgery bed. The anesthesiologist started giving me the spinal, which hurt but not too bad. Not like I had anticipated. Then my legs started to go numb...or what I though was numb. The doctors came in and started marking on my stomach where my incision would be with a pen. I asked them if I should be able to feel them marking on my stomach. They told me, "Yes, you will feel pressure and touch but nothing will hurt." Well I could feel the pen point but figured it was just the "touch." So then they started the surgery. Well much to everyone's surprise I could feel everything with the surgery. I was in SO MUCH pain that they gave me more medicine in the spinal, which didn't work. I guess they showed Kallie to me when they got her out but I don't remember seeing her. Once they got her out c-section with the vacuum and then forceps (as she was so high and up in my back) they knocked me out with more medicine because I was in so much pain. I don't remember much of that night. Bits and pieces but I was out of it for the most part. I would dose off and on throughout the night.
The anesthesiologist came in several times after that to apologize and said that they were checking into the meds to see why they didn't work. He came in our last day at the hospital to tell us how bad he felt and that some of his co-workers have had the same problem recently with the spinals.
Kallie was born at 7:21 pm on October 10th, 2008. She weighed 7 lb 11 oz and was 20 inches long. She dropped down to 7 lb 1 oz before we left so we'll see tomorrow what she's up to (hopefully up, not down). She's been pretty good so far. She sleeps pretty well. She's starting to eat better and things are going well. We came home on Monday around 1:00 and we are glad to be home in our own house. No more waking up to nurses in the middle of the night...just to Kallie!
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Re: Birth Story (LONG)
Congrats on your baby girl!! I'm sorry your labor experienced was bad, and how awful about the c/s! You must be exhausted from the whole experience...I would be so glad to be home too!
Good luck on your recovery!
holy shit, they had the same problem with spinals?!?!?!?!?!?!? UHM.... i really hope you follow up on that, that is UNACCEPTABLE!! Seriously, do NOT just brush that off. You need to contact someone in administration about that ASAP.
ok, now that that is out of my system, congrats! I'm sorry you had to go through so much, but am glad Kallie's do ing well
Congratulations on Kallie being born! I'm sorry that your c-section went so badly, though.?I hope the anesthesiologists can find out the problem quickly.
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