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January 2014 Moms
Winnieella
member
Since Jeffrey is sleeping, and I have about 15 minutes before I should pump, I am going to write this out as fast as I can.
My Birthstory (PIP)
Winnieella
member
(I'm starting with I know i haven't been on much, there was some family things going on before I had my baby)
New Years eve I wasn't feeling well and went to bed early. I didn't stay up to midnight and didn't care. At 3:30 AM (Jan 1st), I woke up to go to the bathroom. When I was done, I went to grab an apple to eat and I sneezed. With that sneeze a gush of fluid came out. Having been in L and D before and knowing i make extra fluid, i didn't think anything of it, and thought that I just peed myself. I had my apple and went back to bed. I woke up at 5am and noticed when I went to the bathroom I was bleeding a little bit. I called and was told to come in. H and I went in to L and D thinking it was a bladder infection or something on that lines. They ran tests and it turned out my water broke with that one sneeze.
They hooked me up to an IV of antibiotics since I hadn't had my group B test done (That was suppose to be at my next appointment on Thursday) and let me labor as un-medicated as possible. around 11 a cause for concern came up. During the monitoring it turned out I wasn't feeling all the contractions. I only felt them every 10 to 15 minutes, but I was having them every 3 minutes. They checked me and I was dilated to 1 cm and that was it. At that point I was hooked up to the monitor and given fluids. I labored through the night getting checked every 2 hours, and given a round of antibiotics in my IV every 6.
So now we are onto Thursday Jan 2nd. I was checked again, and still only 1 cm. My Dr decided to try to let my body do what is it suppose to in labor, but they gave me some help with pitocen. Even with the pitocen I wasn't feeling all the contractions, so they upped the amount given. In the afternoon, I was having contractions at 2 minutes apart and they hurt, but I was only 50% effaced and still at 1 cm. As evening came, I asked for an epi. They thought that was a good idea since I hadn't slept since Tuesday. They gave me the epi and i was able to get some sleep. I guess around Midnight things started going south, my BP began to drop and Jeffrey began to have de-cells. They stop the pitocen and things looked better.
At 6 am on Friday I still wasn't dilated, off the pitocen and my blood pressure kept dropping dangerously low. They were getting my ready for a C, but I ended up getting pushed back because another women needed a crash C-section. I went in for my C at around 8 am. This is where things went south, They gave my the spinal and my BP tanked so low they had to give my oxygen. They get my into the OR and begin. Just as the cut my open I ended up having a placental abruption and started losing a lot of blood. I remember feeling a ton of pain and telling them, "I'm in a lot of sharp pain" They rushed to get Jeffrey out. The last thing i remember is being told "We have a little boy" from H and then asking, "why isn't he crying?" Jeffrey was born at 9:45 in the morning.
They had to put me to sleep. I don't know what happened, but H said it was the hardest day of his life to see his wife's life in danger and to see his baby born blue and not breathing. H went with the baby (Like we talked about). I later learned that the placental abruption caused me to lose too much blood for what is considered safe.
I wasn't able to see Jeffrey until 3 or 4 hours after the surgery. I got to see him and was told "We need to send him to a bigger hospital, the transport team is on it's way" My little boy wasn't breathing well. He didn't have any surfraction in his lungs, his respiratory and oxygen rates were very low. They diagnosed him with RSD on the spot. They told me I couldn't go with him at first, but then I guess with my complications I ended up getting sent to the same hospital just with a different transport team. I wasn't able to see my baby until 10:30 Friday Night.
We spent the next few days in the NICU, just waiting for his respiratory rate to even out, his temperature to regulate and his oxygen levels to rise. I began pumping and they feed him the milk through a tube. On Monday, he needed to use the Bili blanket. H was mainly in charge of his care seeing how I, my self was unstable util Monday afternoon. Tuesday night they discharged us and H went back to work on Wednesday. We did take the Bili blanket with us. Our Dr.here tested his level and the rose , so we were told to be more aggressive with his feedings and to not take him off the blanket for anything. (Before he could be off for a diaper change) Which leads to Friday, where we tested his levels again, and they went down, but he is still on the blanket.
It was not the labor I had wanted at all. I wasn't allowed to eat from the time we got there and I labored for 54 hours before the c-section. Although it has been a difficult week, I did get my little snuggle boy.
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Re: My Birthstory (PIP)
Married October 2009. Me 29 H 28.
After 1 year of infertility, our little miracle was conceived via our 3rd IUI on May 5, 2013.
Holland Sophia was born Jan 24, 2014.
My cat can read EKGs, can your human do that?
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So so glad all turned out ok and you and little one are on the mend.
Congrats on your birth.
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