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bearinabeesuit
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My pain-med free, GD, group b +, pitcocin enhanced hospital birth!
bearinabeesuit
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Last night at 10 pm my sweet baby boy was born! Despite it seeming like the odds were against to achieve the natural, pain med free birth we wanted, we did it! I couldn't be prouder of myself, my husband, and our birth experience.
At 4am Thursday morning, I rolled over in bed and felt a tiny gush of fluid. Ran to bathroom and discovered my water had broken. Spent the next few hours taking and shower and trying to rest with a huge towel betwee nmy legs. No contrax yet. I called my ob gyn office where I was seeing the midwives around 8 am, told on call nurse my water had broken, no contrax yet, what do I do? She looked at my chart and saw that I had tested positive for group b. she said to spend the morning walking, trying to jump start labor, and not resting. I hopped up, and quickly started cleaning the house! Three bathrooms, a vacuumed floor, and two bedrooms later, I figured I should check in with doc office, I still wasn't having contrax. This was around noon.
So I talked to same nurse, and she said shed call my midwife on call that day and give me a call back. She calls back in a huge panic ten minutes later. Turns out with the group b positive results, I needed to be at the hospital NOW recieving drugs. Um, this was different than what my mw had told me, or in the excitement I had forgotten, so we rushed up, packed my son up, andheaded out the door. By the time we dropped my boy off at friends, made thirty minute drive to hospital, we were an hour later than they wanted us to be there. My mw was not happy with me. I told her I was just following nurses orders, and knew I needed to be at the hospital soon. Turns out nurse wasin trouble for giving me the wrong info! Um, oops. Felt like an idiot.
Within an hour of arriving at the hospital, I was hooked up to Iv for antibiotics,band had a pit drip to get contrax started. All I could see were scenes from BOBB in my head. I was very much in the middle of my own cascade of interventions. Sh@t.
I asked if I could be hooked up to wireless monitors so I could labor out of bed. These weren't even cooperating so I was momentarily stuck, with pit drip, in bed. Nightmare scenario if you want a pain med free birth. In a moment alone, I turned to dh and started bawling. Wtf had happened? He was amazing, tod me we could do this,we were going to do this, and we couldn't let anything stand in our way. After that we found a nurse who properly hooked us up to wireless monitors, helped me amble around with my huge iv pole, and got to work. I listened to my rainbow relaxation, walked the halls, bounced the ball, dh did acupressure etc. justntriednto put the huge monitors on my belly and effin Iv sticking out of my hand out of my head completely. When we had arrived at hospital, I was 4centimeters dilated. There weren't any checks after that for hours on accountof my waters being broken and chance of infection, so just kept laboring and hoping things were moving along for about five hours. During that time the nurse kept upping my pit drip like a medieval torture device. I went from pit drip at 1 alllll the way to 11 when,y mw was finally happy with mt labor pattern, by then the contrax were so intense I cant describe the pain shooting through me. Good news is I got a brak in between byatt in them I was hanging on for dear life. This was probably eight pm. I got in the tub but wasn't relaxing enough so I got out got back on the ball and just had dh apply counter pressure on my back while I vocalized through my contrax .
It was a damn good thing dh had done research and read Birth partner, nc he was my only support. My mw was so disappointing, she would chat with dh through my contrax, didn't offer suggestions, and made jokes at times when I was in the most pain,um wtf lady? I know she was with an ob office, but this was a huge disappointment. I justnkeptmsaying through my contrax, in my head,vyou know whatneffnyou people, no matter how much you have effed up my birth plan, I am going to do this.
Finally I felt like the contrax were giving me a pushing sensation and checked me. I was at a blessed nine centimeters. I burst into tears. Dh did too, and I said we can do this. We are going to do this.vthe nurses in the room even got teary eyed and had to step out.
So I let my body take over. It was primal. Really pushing on its own through the contrax. I was just in another world. Looking into Dh eyes as my body took hold and pushed out our baby. I decided I needed to squat, they got out the squat bar and gravity helped. I felt his whole body slip lower with each contrax, I started to push along with my body. It wasn't long before I felt the ring of fire and said to my self, get this done woman and pushed out hushed. All the while screaming "I can't do it"
I did it. We didn't know if he was a boy or girl, but. I picked up my boy as he was delivered from my body and announced he was a boy! One of the most amazing moments of my life. The nurses were pretty amazed. I guess as much as this hospital touts itself as natural birth friendly, situations like mine don't end up in one very often. Even my mw was pretty speechless. I felt like a rockstar. Take that effin pitocin.
I did end up with a second degree tear, but my recovery has been soooo much easier than with my first son ,who I had an epidural and episiotomy with.
My little guy has been breastfeeding like a champ and today we have been falling in love with him and basking in the afterglow. Sorry for all the typing errors I am on an iPad! 
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Re: My pain-med free, GD, group b +, pitcocin enhanced hospital birth!
I would love to hear it! Yes I am feeling like I can do anything right now. Thanks to everyone who read it, suffered through the confusing typos and language haha. Reading it back I am thinking, yep-sounds like a woman who hasn't slept in a few days!