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December 2012 Moms
LadyNikon
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Ok STMs or more..
LadyNikon
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What was the freakiest thing that happened to you after delivery?
I think it was about 12 hrs after I had DD. I had to use the restroom and still needed a nurses assistance. Some new nurse came in and helped me to the bathroom. All of a sudden I felt weird and wham.. I had a blot clot the size of a duck pin bowling ball fell out of me and hit the floor. She shrieked! told me to sit down and not to move.. DH at the time was holding DD and was like WHATS WRONG! and comes rushing over after putting her back down. It looked someone had gotten murdered. The more seasoned nurse rushed in.. looked at me.. picked it up with a wet towel and put it in a basin. She asked how I was feeling. I was surprisingly feeling much better than before.. and she wisked it away. She came back 10mins later showered me up and got me into bed. She said " well I guess that is why your uterus never contracted.. smiled.. and walked away. That new nurse NEVER came back. LOL.
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Re: Ok STMs or more..
I'm also thinking that I shouldn't come back to this thread, lol.
Now I'm freaked out, but I have to know...
What WAS it???
First Child born
5/5/14 and 6/5/14
11/14
Chemical Pregnancy
9/5/15
Second after severe bleeding for 18 weeks due to subchorionic hematoma
Expecting Number 3 due 10/31/2020
Same thoughts here!
maybe she needs to rename it... not for FTM...lol
so typically after birth of the baby and the placenta you start to clot quickly. The body knows that if we don't stop the bleeding she will die. So typically as a pregnant woman maternal blood has a natural clotting agent. While the uterus starts to expel all of the extra tissue and blood it had built up for the baby to relax in the uterus starts to shrink. Mine never shrank. Well I wasn't bleed out like I should have been at all. The nurse thinks that it was just tissue and stuff that collected together and kinda fell out all at once instead acting like a period.
I am not trying to scare you first time moms. It is more of a " a lot of stuff can happen so don't freak out over everything"..lol It didn't hurt which was the funny part.
When they decided I needed to have an emergency c/s I was super over drugged. I had no idea I even received a catheter until hours later. When they went to remove it, it made the most ungodly horrid popping noise. I was for sure they had detached some organ - but I felt nothing. The nurse just said, 'Suction does weird things.'
With dd2, I had a cesarean. I delivered at like 4 and was in my room (shared and an awful, awful experience since our roommates stunk of cigarette smoke, were ghetto, had baby daddy drama the whole time and were why we left super early) by about 6. It was a full moon and the hospital was crazy busy. They ended up having to open the old trauma unit in the basement to handle all the new moms.
Well, my nurse got confused and thought I had delivered the day prior and that I was close to my 24 hour pp mark. So, she made me get up and use the bathroom. I had to walk. It was so painful. At the time I was pissed and complained to her supervisor, she apologized for the mix-up, and in the end it worked out because then I got started faster and discharged sooner.
BFP#1 Kaitlyn 11-17-04
BFP #2 Matthew pPROM 23w5d 06-03-07, b/33 weeks 8-6-07, d/10-15-07 SIDS,
BFP #3 m/c 8 weeks 2/20/09, BFP #4 m/c no hb 6w4d, m/c 9w4d, D&C 11w2d, BFP #5 C/P 12/18/09 after BFP- 9dpo
BFP #6 Samantha- 11-9-10
BFP #7 4/20/12 21 DPO beta: 2382 29 DPO beta: 23000! HB 6w2d 116 bpm due Christmas day!
This Momma's Journey
~Today I am pregnant and I love my baby~
I am going to put this out there for anyone who will go through what I did. I was induced at 41 weeks. Well, they allowed me to eat after they pulled the cervidil since we would be starting the pit soon. After almost 20 hours on pit I only made it to 4.5 cm. So they said I should go for a C section. I am hypoglycemic. So I was shaking uncontrollably and light headed by this point. After the section they wouldn't let me eat until I passed gas. My room smelled like bad taco bell and they still wouldn't let me eat almost 24 hours after the section. Just crackers and "cocktail" (aka sprite and cranberry juice). I didn't eat a real meal for 48 hours from the start of induction, till after they deemed me able to pass gas. It was terrible!
Also, those leg compression things they put on you after surgery feels effing weird as your coming off of the spinal.
Ew.
I am LOLing at some of the FTM reactions! Haha! Man, I was so naive with my first...
I had a crazy birth story, very traumatic. The epi didn't work but no one believed me so I started screaming at people like a crazy person, they couldn't find my daughter's heartbeat, cord was wrapped around her neck, staff all changed over while I was 10cm dialated, yada yada. After birth, I had all kinds of weird annoying things after. For example, some idiot nurse kept thinking I had a csection and kept waking me up all night to check my incision. I think my dh finally yelled at her and told her off. Ha. Umm... I kept passing out b/c I lost so much blood and was too weak. I couldn't hold my urine for 2 weeks (so sexy). They stitched me wrong and I had a prolapse, which caused me to not heal for 5 months....
On and on and on and on.... Oh, I wish I was naive again!!!!
EDD: 06/25/2006 M/C: 11/03/2005
EDD: 04/08/2012 M/C: 09/03/2011
EDD: 12/27/2012 Born Sleeping: 07/19/2012
EDD: 12/07/2013 M/C 05/30/2013 & 05/31/2013
EDD: 07/01/2016 Born sleeping: 03/02/2016
I am kegaling as we speak now because of you!
DH's mom brought me some tucks pads or something. She said for the next two weeks these will be your friend. She is an awesome woman. She looked at me one day when I was trying to dress myself and said " look I am a woman.. you are a woman.. modesty will only get you in pain" and helped me get dressed one and helped me with nursing DD. I didn't have a mom growing up so she made it all so special.
My clots didn't really start to get big until after a week or so...
For me it was the ungodly hemmorhoids. I was so swollen from hemmies and stitches, they had me - after sitting on a diaper filled with ice for a half an hour or so - take two Tucks pads and lay them on my hand slightly overlapping (looked like the outline of an "8", spray a solid line of Epifoam down the center, then place it on the hemmorhoids and TUCK IN THE SIDES. I am not kidding it was like I had a thumb in my damned ass crack for a couple of days. LOL.
I delivered DD1 & 2 at a teaching hospital. They ask if it's okay for medical students to come in. Since my sister is a pediatrician, I thought it was my duty to provide others like her an experience.
So with DD1, I'm in the L&D room, I've gotten my epi and I'm waiting for a doc to come in and examine me. The med student comes in with the attending and she breaks my water. Unfortunately, there's meconium in the fluid so the attending mentions this and says we'll have to keep an eye on the baby. As the med student enters the hallway, I hear her talking to another med student, "That was so cool! My first time breaking a water and I get meconium!"
It only gets better, as my DD was a bit sluggish during contractions. The doctors had to manually reach inside to wiggle her around ensure her HB would increase. MH loves to tell everyone that every doctor, medical student, and nurse had their arms all the way up my va-jayjay to stimulate my daughter.
Let's just say, all modesty goes out the window with childbirth!
OK, now that I have finally stopped laughing from reading some of these...
the worst for me was heavy bleeding. For 4 days PP it was crazy heavy (but no real clots). At the hospital if I didn't get up and go to the bathroom every 2 hours to 'change me gear' (as H called it), when I did finally get up I would just bleed all over the floor. Picture pouring out a good 6 oz glass or red wine on the floor... it was like that
I tore and was bleeding pretty badly, so they gave me some med (I have no idea what, exactly) to stop the bleeding. Side effect? Near instant diarrhea. I was still somewhat numb from the epi, and was unable to get up, but I had the vague sensation that there was "stuff" coming out of more than one opening down there... I was right... I $hit all over the table. Not while pushing or during delivery, mind you, but about 1/2 an hour after. When they got me up and to the bathroom, I pretty much poured out of both orafices for 10-15 minutes... Ugh... And then a few days later, I was trying to do some work on the floor, moved wrong, and tore a stitch... Not good times.
Can't wait to do it all again
BFP#1 on 02/14/09 BIRTH to Mason 6lb9oz on 10/12/09
BFP#2 on 5/28/11 EDD 2/1/12 Natural M/C on 6/13/11
BFP#3 on 1/20/12 EDD 9/30/12 Natural m/c on 1/27/12
BFP#4 on 4/23/12 BIRTH to Isabella 7lb1oz on 12/19/12
i didnt have a choice, it was transfusion or die. i dont even remember any of this happening.
With DS, I had an epi, and was feeling pressure to push. They checked me and I was 9.5cm, so they told me to wait 1/2 an hour to an hour and they would come back to check again...they didn't come back forever - like 2-3 hours, and it was pretty uncomfortable, so I kept giving myself boluses from the epidural. By the time I was allowed to push and DS was delivered, I was super numb. It took forever for it to wear off. Overnight, I thought I was better, and had to use the bathroom. The nurse took me, but whenI went to sit on the toilet, apparently my knees were still numb so I fell right down onto the toilet. I scared the nurse to death! I was fine though...although it did take almost 24 hours for one of my knees to fully regain feeling!
With DD, I got my epidural, and shortly after I felt totally wet. I called the nurse and told her I thought my water broke, but she said "No, you just peed yourself." Slightly embarassing, but oh well. Shortly after, I started feeling like I was going to pee every time I had a contraction. I called the nurse again, and a different one came in since the original one was at dinner. She came in, checked me, and realized that I was 10cm, and ready to push. That idiot first nurse was totally wrong and my water had broken. DD was born within 20 minutes after I called the second nurse in!
OK all you vaginal birth mamas are making me seriously want a RCS......
The day after DS was born, he was sleeping in his bassinet, I was eating lunch and chatting with SO. These two 'young boys' (looking at them I would have guessed they were in their late teens, but I have to believe they were a bit older than that) arrived in my room unannounced (and didn't introduce themselves) and just started looking at DS in his bassinet. I was like "Um... Hello? Can I help you with something?" And one said something like "oh yeah we're with XYZ university...." and went on to explain very briefly what they were there for. And honestly even after all was said and done I still have no clue why they were there.
I had politely said that as soon as I was done eating lunch DS needed to eat, they were totally clueless and just stood there Finally I said "It's time for you to leave so my son can eat!!" They said "Oh yeah no problem we'll just come back when you are done"
Nothing like making a new nursing mom feel rushed while she's nursing. When my nurse happened to come in I asked her what they were there for and she gave me a vague answer. I told her I didn't want them back in my room or near DS at all. She handled it and I never saw them again.
Looking back I wish I would have kicked them out sooner. The hospital I delivered at is a teaching hospital (and there were interns present during my c/s) so I'm sure that's probably why they were there, but the complete lack of realization that they were in front of a patient was inexcusable IMO.
I had an unexpected c-section early. Two things stick out in my mind. I had no idea that after a c-section, you bleed just like if you have a vaginal. I thought something was wrong! Nope- you bleed jsut like everyone else. Then because DD was born at 37 with no labor, she had some trouble breathing regularly- she was gasping for air. They whisked her away after the recovery room. I didn't see her for hours and no one would tell me anything. DH finally said that he had told no one to say anything because he didn't want me to freak out. Seriously? Not knowing the status of my new born isn't going to freak me out MORE??? Finally after a several hours, the pedi decided to try skin to skin contact with the mother. I whipped that gown down before she was even out of the bassinet. Five minutes after she lay on my chest, she was fine.
DH knows better this time. Had I been aware of the situation, we maybe could have avoided several tense hours and soothed Emmy earlier.
Yeah, that happened to me too, but I had to reach down and pinch it off. It's really no big deal.
not freaky, but I was very concerned about my vagina and asked the doctor if it would ever again be the same and he laughed at me, lol
BUT I WAS REALLY CONCERNED AT THE TIME because a body part should never look like that. ever.
Labor Buddy to Blowfish11
oh here too. I peed myself constantly the first few days.
Labor Buddy to Blowfish11