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June 2013 Moms
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Post Your Birth Story
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Saw in the FFFC that a lot of us never came in and posted our birth stories. How's about a thread to link up if you blogged it, or post it in the thread? Any takers? I'll start with mine, which is here.
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Our lil' diva: late like her Momma: 40 weeks 5 days!
When we got to the hospital, they gave me a room and I got all changed into a sexy hospital gown. The nurse said that the doctor was doing a csection so was going to do a quick swab test. The text came back negative for my water breaking. I was laying in a puddle at this point, still no contractions and was really confused about all this liquid coming out of me. I asked if I should just go to my appointment and she said she would go ask the doctor. I guess the dr took a quick break and came to so an internal swab test which came back positive! They were going to keep me!
I still wasn't having any contractions and I was barely effaced/dilated so they started to soften my cervix so that they could give me pitocin. Luckily 2 doses of the cervix softener stuff was enough to put me In labor and they didn't have to do the pit.
My contractions started about 9am. Right away when they started, I was having 3 in a row, each 1 minute long, with a 1 minute break in between. I had originally planned on on using the birthing ball and and walking around but once I was actually in labor, all I wanted to do was lay on my back in the bed and stare at the ceiling.
I was progressing really slowly and at 1am on the 25th, they came in to check me. I was only at 5 and caved and got the epidural. I don't regret it all! I took a nap and at 3am I woke up with a stabbing pain in my back. The nurse checked me and I was at 10! We did a few practice pushes but couldn't start actually pushing because my contractions were 6 minutes apart and that point and they had to start some pit. Shortly after that my contractions were close enough together to start pushing.
Kenna came out in 3 pushes and was delivered by the nurse because the doctor didn't make it there in time. She wasn't breathing at first because she was stunned from coming out so fast. After a few seconds she started crying. The nicu nurses came in to check her out and said she was fine so they finally gave her to me. She pooped all over me and it was wonderful! I had a 2nd degree tear.
Kenna Elizabeth was born at 3:49 am on June 25, 2013 at 41w1d. She was 6 lbs 2.5 oz and 19 inches long.
BFP #2: due 6/30/2017, MMC found 12/7/2016
BFP #3: due 10/21/2018
Friday May 17: routine Dr. visit. BP is high. Has me sent to L&D for NST and bloodwork. All ok, sent home w jug for fun 24h pee catch.
Sunday May 19: got the call that I needed to go in on Monday. I had PreE ... Very high protein ... We were going to have a baby soon!
My last non liquid meal was Monday mid morning...
Monday May 20: admitted, unfavorable for delivery given Cervidil
Tuesday May 21: unfavorable for delivery, pit all day, Cervidil again at night
Wednesday May 22: still won't efface or dialate more than 2 at 25% continued pit, lots of fun contractions ... Nothing happening
Thursday May 23: 2 at 25% given a few doses of misoprostol, had water broken in the evening and hooked up again to pit.
**baby hr doing great during all of this, I'm also being monitored regularly for bp ... Higher risk due to my allergies to sulfate drugs (what they would give for serious bp spike) lots of contractions with no progress)**
Friday May 24: holy heck contractions all night, minimal progress 3cm 50% effaced by morning. Finally asked for epi around 9am. They don't do them regularly and I had the unfortunate situation where it never took properly. Only numbed my left leg. Kept waiting for it to work, intense pain... Baby finally got tired of all this mess and took a wee nap which sent the nursing staff into a tizzy. I'm flipped on my side getting oxygen, husband is white as I ghost I'm in lala land from sleep deprivation, hunger, oxygen and lots of pain. I ask them to check because I'm feeling pressure and ta da! Ready to push! Shoulders got stuck fun McSomething technique used where my head was dropped and legs bicyced and ....
Baby J born at 1:01pm on Friday!
Couldn't move my left leg until the next day. Awesome. But ate all the food (gluten free food...damn allergies) I could get my hands on. And fell totally in love with my baby boy (team green turned blue!)
Sorry that got so long...that's the short
version! Thanks for reading!
ETA: gif fail
I was due June 24th, and was getting very overdue and hot when July finally rolled around. I was trying for an unmedicated VBAC hospital birth and my practice was amazing about not scheduling an induction until exactly 42 weeks. So I had gone into the doctor's on July 1st and we scheduled the induction for July 7th at night. Part of me was so upset that I was going to be pregnant a whole week more, but the other part was SUPER excited to have a July 8th baby- it is both my birthday AND my father's birthday! Three generations on one birthday, that had to be some type of record. So I came to terms with being pregnant another week and went back to chiro, accupuncture, sex etc. to try and get things going. I was drinking wine every night. GET OUT BABY! I was team green until July 2nd and then I finally just said to DH, "you can confirm it's a girl now because I know" and he had to tell me that no, actually we are having another boy. I was shocked. And felt like an idiot that I made it as team green until 41 weeks and then caved at the finish line.
Then people started coming in and looking at my vag and saying "I must be a runner." so weird, I guess runners have really crazy muscle tone down there? I got warned several times it wasn't going to be pretty pushing the baby out but that I would "bounce back" better. Why didn't someone tell me earlier to lay off the kegels?
Wednesday June 26th my actual due date around 5pm went for a good long walk with my mom and daughter and started feeling contractions. Around 7pm decided I wanted to go to Target, what I was wanted to be about an hour trip turned into over 2 hours because contractions kept slowing me down. I was still in denial I was actually in labor. Got home and wanted a shower, didn't happen and my mom kept saying she wanted to start timing the contractions but I didn't want her to. Finally around 11pm I let her time them to realize that they were every 4 mins and were lasting about 50s. I called my hubby (who was deployed) and let him know what was going on so that he could make sure he was reachable once it was time to push.
By 1am my contractions were every 2mins lasting for a min so I called the hospital and told them I was on the way. Got to hospital and refused the wheelchair they had waiting for me and walked my happy ass up to L&D. Got checked out to find out I was only 3cm and 70%. I was so disappointed because that was where I was at when I had my DD and her labor was 36.5 hours long. They admitted me and kept me in Triage for a whole because all the (13, yes 13) L&D rooms were full!
Around 3am a room finally opened up and they moved me over there. Labor started getting unbearable so I asked to get into the shower. Stood in the shower for about and hour, which helped a ton but my legs were killing me so I got out and decided to labor on the birthing ball for a while. That ended up being even more uncomfortable for me and found that leaning over te bedside table worked best. At 7 am the nurses changed and my new one came in, introduced herself and told me they needed to monitor me again. She had trouble getting LO to stay on while standing so I had to lay down, laboring on my back for monitoring was horrible! Around 730 I asked for stadol (sp?) and that took the edge off but made me loopy. That wore off and by that time I was literally coming off the bed during my contractions. Stupid things would literally shoot to the top of the page ride across the top for about 75secs then slowly taper off, give me about 45s and start again and I wasn't even on pit!
Around 9am I gave in and asked for the epi. Before it arrived they checked me and I was 6cm and 100%, immediately after my epi was placed around 930 they checked me again and I was 9cm! I wanted to rest and told them to leave me alone and let my body labor down and so they did. My dr came in just before noon to see how I was doing and to check me, found put I was ready to push. She left and went to get ready for delivery while the nurses peeped the room. Dr came back in at 1215 and wanted to me do a practice push while she was setting he last few thing up, she immediately told me to stop. My bag of water was buldging out but still intact. 1225 had a contraction started to push and it caused my water to break then at 1231 my peanut was on my chest
Daddie got to be on the phone the whole time while pushing and after Jameson was born.
Sorry that turned into a novel but that's my story
I was due June 7th. Went in for an appointment that day, and I was at a 1. I've never been anything other than Fort Knox until I was in labor, so a 1 was HUGE to me. Doc wanted to see me on Monday to see if I had made any progress over the weekend and do an NST just to check on little man. Sunday night my H and I headed to bed about 10:30. I was whining about my doc appointment in the morning and he asked what time so that he could leave work and be there. I was dreading the idea of having to be induced again. I was with dd2 and it was the most awful experience of my life. DD2 wakes up at midnight, I go check on her, notice a contraction as I was walking back upstairs. Went back to bed. Woke up at 2:45 to pee. Was so strong walking back up the stairs I had to stop. Laid in bed and waited to see if I'd feel another. 6 minutes later. Another one. I laid in bed timing them for an hour, and headed downstairs at 4am. Sat on my ball and text my mom to let her know that I would need to her watch the girls, it's baby time. I turned on Freaky Friday, guilty pleasure movie, plus it was all that was on. My H came down at 5 when his alarm went off. He wanted to shower and I told him to hurry up because I wanted to take one too. He did not hurry up. Jerk. I took a shower, and my mom got there as I was getting out. We headed to the hospital (we live less than 10 mins away) about 6:45. I was almost at a 6. The admitted me, I was a 7 by the time I got my epidural. I just kept telling my husband how proud of myself I was, and if the other 2 had went this smoothly, I wouldn't have spent the last 9 months freaking out about labor again. They broke my water about 9am. At 11:30 my doc (who was also 9 months pregnant) said it was time to start pushing. Maxwell Paul was born at 11:43am 8lbs 5oz 21 1/2 inches long. Labor is hard obviously, I would never quite say that I enjoyed it. But, it was the best birth experience I could ever imagine having. I feel very blessed with my last time going this way.
Riley Joseph was born on 6/27 at 6:09 PM, weighing 7 lbs 15 oz and 19.5 inches long. I was actually scheduled to be induced that day at 7:30, but the little mister had other plans!
My water broke at 8:45 in the morning while I was peeing. It took me a second to realize what was going on bc I just kept "peeing" without trying. Duh, not pee! I filled the toilet twice with blood, which was so scary. It made my blood pressure drop and I couldn't stand up. I actually called my dr while laying on my hardwood floor.
DH and my brother managed to slide me down the apt stairs and get me into the car, thankfully we missed rush hour traffic and the ride was less than 15 minutes long. I felt better on the ride over but when I went to get into the wheelchair I felt dizzy again. I went through 2 bags of fluids in no time and finally felt better.
I got up to pee a few hours after being there and when I got hooked back up to the monitors the nurses realized that DS's heartrate dropped and wouldn't come back up. For six whole minutes. They moved me a million different ways, jiggled my belly and gave me oxygen and it finally came back to normal. So there I had to stay.
My dr came in and checked me and realized that part of my membrane was still in tact, so he broke that and I swear I lost 10 pounds in fluids right there. I also passed two HUGE clots. He realized later that part of the placenta detached causing all the bleeding. Scary stuff bc I barely saw any blood with DD.
So, after nearly 7 hours of intermitten contractions that barely got me to a 6 and another decel episode, my dr decided to start me on pit around 5:00. Well, that did the trick and after 15 minutes of pushing, DS was born at 6:09, beating my 7:30 scheduled check in time for the induction!
I am so happy that I started to labor on my own. Sad that I couldn't get the job done on my own, but I knew it was best for DS at that point to just get out. He was pink and screaming his little head off.
https://alltheprettythings-cristina.blogspot.com/2013/06/noahs-birth-story.html
1st Misc 11w2d
2nd Misc 6w2d
3rd Preg, Second Month on Clomed
Baby Boy Born June 2013!
4th Preg, Fifth Month on Clomed
Due 8/3/16
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I never posted mine, so I guess I will try to give it a go. It's been seven months, so I apologize if I mess up any of the details or forget anything. (Sorry that it's so long, but it was a long process!)
At the end of April, I was diagnosed with preeclampsia, and my doctor made me stop working. I had to have all kinds of tests (non-stress, bloodwork, 24 hr. urine, etc.) and doctor's appointments each week. The goal was to get to 37 weeks if my blood pressure stayed under control and then start talking about induction. I also had to take my blood pressure daily and call the office immediately if the top number went over 160 or the bottom number went over 100. Luckily, for most of May, we managed to keep everything under control, but when I was 35 weeks, 5 days, my bottom number went over 100. I called the doctor, and she told me to come up to the hospital for monitoring. She told me to bring a bag just in case they decided to admit me. I was hopeful that they wouldn't admit me because I had been in for monitoring several other times, and they had always sent me home.
My husband and I packed a bag, ate an early dinner, and then headed up to the hospital. My blood pressure was still elevated when I went to the hospital. They gave me some medication, but it still wasn't coming down, so my OB (who was luckily the one on rounds that night) said that they felt I should induce now rather than waiting until 37 weeks. They told me to eat some more food because I wouldn't be allowed any food once the induction started. I think they gave me a turkey sandwich. Even though I had just eaten a couple of hours before, I tried to eat a bit more since it might be awhile before I could eat again.
First, I had to be hooked up to a saline drip and magnesium sulfate drip. The magnesium sulfate helps to prevent seizures from the preeclampsia. Since the magnesium sulfate apparently makes your muscles weak, I wasn't allowed out of bed once they started that. They put these annoying compression things on my legs that are supposed to help prevent blood clots since I would be bedridden for the induction. My OB mentioned placing a catheter, but I really didn't want one because of a previous bad experience, so she said I could do a bed pan if I wanted. (Looking back, I wish I had gotten the catheter sooner than I did because the bed pan was super annoying.) I also had to be put on IV antibiotics because I hadn't had my group B strep test yet, so they just treated me as though I had it to be safe.
When they performed a cervical check, I wasn't dilated at all. The OB wanted to place Cytotec first to help me dilate, but since it's not actually FDA-approved for induction, that made me a little nervous. I asked for Cervadil instead, which is what they gave me. They were rather busy that night, so they didn't end up placing my Cervadil until about midnight. They did a cervical check after first round of Cervadil, and at that point, I was only a fingertip dilated, so they placed another round of Cervadil. When they checked after that, I was a centimeter dilated if I remember correctly, so they started me on the Pitocin.
I had been admitted to the hospital on Friday, and by Sunday morning, I was still wasn't very much dilated, even with the Pitocin and Cervadil. The doctor at that point said he didn't think I had a good shot of having the induction work, but he could be wrong. He said I could stop the induction and have a C section or continue with the induction for another day. Despite being very sleep-deprived and sick of being stuck in bed, I chose to continue the induction, hoping it would start to work.
They cranked up the Pitocin higher than what they normally need to for most patients, almost to the highest setting that is considered safe, and I still never dilated past 3 or 4 centimeters. I was having some painful contractions from the Pitocin and had a feeling I might end up with the C section if this didn't work, so I opted for the epidural overnight Sunday into Monday. I also finally got the catheter when I got the epidural.
My OB was the one on duty Monday morning, and after talking with her, we decided the induction wasn't going to work since they couldn't safely turn up the Pitocin much further. We decided at around 8 or 9 am Monday morning that I would have a C section, and around noon, I was wheeled into the OR and had my LO shortly thereafter. Even though he was born at 36 weeks and 1 day, he was perfectly healthy and didn't need any NICU time.
I got to see LO for a little while at first, but then they took him and my husband out while they were stitching me up. I was supposed to have LO in the recovery room to get skin-to-skin and try to breastfeed, but unfortunately, the Labor and Delivery recovery room was full, so they sent me up to some general recovery room where I didn't get to see or hold LO.
They kept me there about an hour, and then I finally got to see and hold LO when they brought me back down to Labor and Delivery. Since I was on the magnesium sulfate, they kept me in Labor and Delivery for another 24 hours, as is standard protocol for magnesium sulfate. I was still not allowed to eat or drink or get out of bed. Tuesday afternoon, they transferred me to the postpartum/maternity ward, where I was finally able to get out of bed and eat and drink for the first time in four days. I was in a lot of pain from the C section, but I still managed to enjoy my precious time with LO, and we ended up being released from the hospital Thursday afternoon.
Other details I forgot to mention above:
-Since I wasn't allowed to eat or drink for four days (other than ice chips), I became nauseous at times and had to get Zofran through my IV.
-After my C-section, I had the worse itching all over my legs. I think it was maybe from the anesthesia, but it could have been from those stupid compression things.
-I got a total of maybe 4 or 5 hours sleep from when I was admitted until when I had LO Monday afternoon. The bed was uncomfortable, and I was rather anxious. When I did manage to get to sleep, it seemed like I was constantly being woken up by nurses, doctors, med students, the machines, etc. It was awful. And of course we all know, after having LO, sleep didn't get that much better with having to wake every couple of hours to breastfeed; however, it was still better than in L&D.
I'm not new. I just hate The Bump.
I started labour at 7am on father's day - 8 days overdue. I'd leaked some fluid that morning but wasn't sure if it was AF or pee...didn't have anymore so laboured at home. At 3pm the contractions were 5 min apart and about 1 min long. They felt strong to me...I think I'd forgotten how bad they would get since I was BTDT.
Anyway, we went into L and D and I was checked at 3cm. They also checked to see if my water had broken, but it had not. They sent me home.
At home I laboured in our big soaker tub with my hubby. At 6pm I wanted to get out and asked DH to call our doula. She arrived at 6:30pm and I was starting to puke between contractions and get back labour at this point. We decided to head back to the hospital which was the worst ride of my life! We made it back to the hospital by 8:30pm where they made me go back into the asessment room (seriously?!?). I was 7cm this time and got to go to a L and D room. It took me forever to get from the car inside then to my room but they never offered a wheelchair...didn't bother me until after! Anyway, got to my room and sat in the chair. Contractions were bad at this point and asked for fentynol (sp?). The nurse gave me an IV and gave me the shot...which helped for all of one contraction. I should have known since it did nothing for me with DS1, but felt like I wanted to try it again. Now I'm feeling the urge to push so I move over to the bed. Get checked and I'm 10cm!! They break my water and 8 minutes and 2 contractions later Cooper Thomas Douglas Charles was born!! 9 lbs and 21.25". Then I turned to DH and said "I never have to do that again!!". After she left the hospital, our doula went to stay with DS1 so my mom could come see the baby. It was a wonderful labour and delivery and I was so happy to have gone into labour on my own after I developed pre-e and had to be induced with DS1.
https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/9058697/my-mary-s-birth-story
I started having preterm contractions at 21 weeks and doctors had to stop me from going into actual labor. I was in L&D 5 times in March and April and had to have my contractions stopped each time. My doctor didn't think I would make it to full term. I started having weekly appointments in April to make sure things were ok. I continued to have contractions but would never dialate so I stopped going to L&D and decided I would go back if my water actually broke. I had my last weekly appt on Wednesday June 19th and they scheduled me for an induction the following Monday on June 23rd but the doctor said she'd see me this weekend and she was right!!!
I had been sleeping on the couch because that's the only place I could get comfortable. I had rolled over and felt a gush of warmness and immediately jumped up and ran to the bathroom. I didn't want to get anything on the brand new couch!!! I figured my water had broke but was in denial about it. I hollered for my mom to let her know what was going on and then I called the doctor who told me to come in. Water broke around 11:30 am and we got to the hospital around 1:00 pm. My SO had just started a new job and was in training so he couldn't leave and we had to wait for him at the hospital. Got checked in and confirmed ONE bag of water had broken and I was already 4 cm. I had been sitting at 1 cm for a couple months. My nurse put in the order for my epi and said they would break my second bag of water after I got my epi. Contractions weren't too bad at this point. They were there but nothing like I had has previously. Got my epi at 3:30, SO showed up right after and doctor broke my water around 4:00 pm. Went from a 5 to 10 in 2 and a half hours. I was ready to push at 6:30 and pushed for an hour and a half. My epi was awesome! I didn't feel any pain but felt pressure so I knew when I needed to push which meant I didn't have to be monitored for contractions. I ended up pushing for so long because contractions slowed down to 5 minutes apart. Grayson was born at 8:02 pm on June 21st, 2013. The Friday before my scheduled induction on Monday
Not being able to push with contractions was awful so they readministered the epi. We waited awhile and I started pushing again. After another hour and half of pushing, he had not changed position at all and was stuck. At this point a csection was decided, I was worn out and my epi had completely failed and I could feel everything.
I was told I had to wait until we got to the OR to get the epi again. Once in the OR they could not get the epidural to work at all and had to take it out and try a spinal. After about 5 pricks to my back they finally got the spinal to work. This immediately made me nauseas and they pushed a ton of nausea meds into me. I felt like I was suffocating from the spinal so they gave me something to calm me down. (They had to place the spinal higher than usual and I was numbed neck down)All the meds knocked me out. I barely remember my Hudson's first cry or meeting him for the first time. He was so stuck that they tore my uterus yanking him out which caused me to start bleeding out so my DH and baby had to leave. The bleeding was stopped and I finally got to go meet my LO around 11:30pm. He had a pretty bad bruise and laceration on his head from getting stuck in my pelvis.
From the amount of damage to my uterus my ob told me vbac in the future is not an option and that she doesn't even want me to go into labore again bc the contractions may be too much on the scar tissue on my uterus. I'm actually looking for a less traumatic birth next time around... Hopefully!