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My baby is here! (iris427)

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Gabriel was born 7/3/14 at 5:02 am, 7lbs 6 oz and 20 inches long.  

The delivery was fast, intense and scary.  You know the crazy woman screaming and scaring everyone else on the L&D floor?  

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Yeah that was me.

 I had my membranes swept the morning of July 2nd and was 2-3 cm dilated and somewhat effaced.  I started to have lots of BH, but I'd been having them for weeks so I didn't think it necessarily meant anything.  By night they were getting a bit stronger and I started to think it might be the start of something--but then when I went to bed at 11 they seemed to fizzle out a bit now that I was lying down, and I fell asleep.

I woke up around 1:45 with more ctx.  They were mild enough that I stayed in bed for another hour resting through them, not sure if this was labor or not.  At 2:45 I got up to go to the bathroom and felt a small warm gush down my leg--my water breaking.  

Things got crazy intense from there.  Suddenly I was having ctx that were only 2 minutes apart and very real and painful--I could no longer stand or talk through them.  We scrambled to get out the door to the hospital.  By the time we got to the hospital, only 5 minutes away, I was pushing involuntarily and I couldn't even make it down the hall to the elevators.  The front desk guard had to bring me a wheelchair and call someone to escort us up to L&D.

I was complete when they checked me upstairs.  I had been hoping to get a room with a tub but they were all full and there wasn't really time to fill the tub anyway.  Things were happening so fast I had no pain relief options and I couldn't really wrap my mind around what was happening or relax enough to cope with the ctx.  It was so so much more painful than my last med-free delivery and I couldn't understand why.  It was just excruciating and I was hanging onto my husband yelling and crying.  When baby crowned it was the most painful moment in my life and I just totally lost it.  

Then I felt that his body wasn't sliding out after the head and someone told me I had to flip over (I was on my knees on the bed until then).  I knew baby had a shoulder dystocia and that this was a serious, potentially life-threatening emergency for him so I was terrified.  Babies can suffer permanent birth injuries or even death from SD.  They helped me flip on my back and did McRoberts manuever--thankfully this did the trick fast and my doctor got him out.  They rushed him over to the warmer but he let out a good cry almost right away--he was just fine!  So they brought him back over and we were able to hold him.  He is doing great and does not have any injuries from the SD.  I'm still a bit unsettled by it all though. 

On the plus side, I had zero tearing at all, even with everything that happened (everyone seemed impressed by my vag of steel!).  My recovery has been 100X better than it was after my other two births and I'm feeling pretty good overall.  The worst part hands down has been the postpartum cramping--it is no joke with the third baby apparently. My older 2 are completely in love with their new brother.  Now I just have to figure out how to maintain my sanity with 3 children. :)


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Big sister {September 2008} Sweet boy {April 2011} Fuzzy Bundle {ETA July 2014}

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