February 2014 Moms

Olive Dorothy (sandranddrew)

Well baby girl is here! Short story- went in for induction this morning for blood pressure issues. Induction started at 9am, Olive was born at 11:37am unintentionally med free with 3 minutes of pushing. 8lbs 1.3 oz ad 21.5 inches long.

Long story-

Have been having bloo pressure issues constantly since 33 weeks. Was induced with DS for the same reason so at my appt Thursday my OB decided it was time to induce. I'd been having contractions for 2 weeks on and off. Arrived at the hospital at 8am Friday morning. Pitocin was started at 9am and OB broke my water right away. I started at 1-2cm dilated.
Within 45 min contractions were getting intense and on top of each other so I asked for my epidural. (I have a medical condition where I cannot have anaesthesia so epidural is a requirement in case of emerg c-section). Dr was paged to place it. He arrived at 11:05am. Started trying to place it but I couldn't stop moving no matter how hard I tried to sit still. He finally got the needle placed and was starting to do the cath for the epi when I felt the baby's head crowning. I yelled to the nurse that the baby was coming.
They very quickly threw me down on my side and pulled the epi needle out. Sure enough I was fully dilated and baby girl was crowning on her own. The nurse had to hold her in while they paged my OB. He arrived within 2 minutes but didn't even have time to put his scrubs on. I pushed for 3 min and Olive Dorothy was born. 8lbs 1oz and 21.5 inches.
She latched on within 25 minutes of being born and has barely stopped breast feeding since. DS came to meet her already and is completely in love as are DH and I.
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