Sawyer's Birth Story (long) PIP

Ernie52408 · April 2011

I started having pre-labor Friday night. I was having lots of contractions, but nothing regular or timeable. This continued all day Saturday. I was monitoring my BP at home due to hypertension and by the afternoon I noticed my BP was starting to get really high. By 10:00 it had reached 145/105. I called the OB exchange and luckily my dr was on call. He had me head to L&D for lab tests.

We arrived at L&D fully expecting to pee in a cup, have some bloodwork run, and be sent home. The nurses even had my discharge papers ready to go because -of course- my BP started dropping as soon as I arrived. My doctor decided that we'd done this enough times and it was time to take the baby.

I was having contractions every 2-3 minutes but was still not dilated. They gave me a suppository (can't remember) the name that was supposed to soften and dilate my cervix. The resident that inserted it was horrible. It took him forever and it was extremely painful. And 3 hours later the nurse discovered he didn't insert it correctly and we had to take it out and start over again.

I ended up overreacting to the medication. I basically had one solid contraction for 2 hours straight. With no pain medication. I have never experienced that level of pain in my life. They removed the suppository and gave me medicine to stop the contractions. A few hours later I started contracting on my own again, 2-3 minutes apart.

After 14 hours of labor, and one awesome epidural, I still had not dilated. My doctor gave me the option of trying for 6 more hours or a c-section. I was done at that point and opted for the c-section. Within minutes i was wheeled to the OR and Sawyer was my outside baby.

Honestly, it was not as bad as expected. The worst part was all the medicine made me so drowsy that I had a hard time staying awake while they cleaned him up and weighed him. Born at 37 weeks 5 days he weighed in at a healthy 7 pounds 8 ounces.

We are so in love with our little man. And so grateful he is healthy.

allybaby85 · April 2011

Awwwww he is so cute! Sorry the labor was such a rough road. I hope you have a speedy recovery. Enjoy time with you LO

goalieamy24 · April 2011

Wow! What a labor story. Glad that you and Sawyer made it through well! Welcome to the world to little Sawyer!

itsmegin · April 2011

You poor thing! I can't imagine that 2 hour contraction, that must have been awful!! I am so sorry you went through that!!

I'm so glad it's all over and you have your beautiful little boy outside, he is adorable. Congrats!

MrsAtch · April 2011

He's perfect! Congratulations and thank goodness your labor is over!

jr63_2020 · April 2011

He is BEAUTIFUL! Great job Momma!

spincat9 · April 2011

Oh my goodness he's so beautiful! Congratulations and I hope you recover quickly!

jody512 · April 2011

I love babies! What a CUTIE!! Congrats!

JuJuBe3 · April 2011

Aw, he is so cute! Congratulations!

I hope your recovery goes smoothly!

RizziB · April 2011

Congrats on your beautiful, healthy baby boy!!

martinimomma · April 2011

Wow! That's some labor story. You can hold that solid contraction over Sawyer's head later in life ("do you know what you did to Mommy?"). But for now, he is beautiful! Congratulations!!!