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November 2014 Moms
sparklingwhit
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Cameron's Birth Story
sparklingwhit
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I have a beautiful baby boy and I love him SOOOOOO much!!!
Now that I got the gooey squishy stuff out, let me tell you the yucky birth story:
***warning: do not read this for a good happy labor story***
I started labor Friday (10/24) at about 9:30 pm in my back. I had never heard of back labor and thought I was getting shooting pains due to a pinched nerve or something like that. They were coming and going every 7 min so I got suspicious that something else was going on and asked Dr. Google who informed me about back labor. Let me tell you, I would not wish back labor on my worst enemy.
The labor went on all night Friday, but wasn't consistent, varying from 5 min apart to 7 min. I finally received a couple hour break the next day and thought that maybe they were gone for good.
I was wrong. They started again and slowly got closer together. DH and I watched the ASU football game Saturday night and as the Devils scored their final touchdown (they won, WOOHOO) I started bleeding. I called my midwife who told me to get to the hospital asap because it could be my amniotic sack leaking.
11:30 pm: at the hospital my contractions (still all back) picked up big time. They checked and the blood was from my water breaking. I was only dilated to 1cm at this point, but my contractions were 1 min at least and only 4 min apart so they admitted me. The contractions quickly escalated to about 3-5 min long and only 30 seconds between, and absolutely the most excruciating back pain I have ever had. Actually the worst pain I've ever had. At about 4am I stopped talking and did not speak again until about 6pm when I was finally given an epidural.
I was not dilating, I could not move, they gave me a drug that was supposed to relax me so I could sleep, but it just made me pee myself and felt like I could not move. So that was awful. I had to get to 4 cm to get an epidural, but every time they checked I was ONE FREAKING CENTIMETER!
When they told me I was 4 cm at 6pm I was the happiest I have ever been. I didn't even feel the needle going in because I was in so much back pain already. It was instant relief! Oh the happy! Mike called his mom immediately and was like "she is talking to me again!" With a big ol grin on his face.
Everything seemed to go pretty quickly from there. I didn't feel a single contraction after that and at 9:10 pm my midwife asked me is I felt like pushing because I was 9 1/2 cm and I said sure. Pushing was really easy and I never felt the ring of fire.
Cam was born at 10:12 pm. It was such relief! He was placed on my chest for about 10 minutes and then turned blue. Which was followed by chaos. A doctor grabbed him off of my chest and about 6 nurses rushed into the room and they started running tests. Then they rushed out of the room. I was trying to find out what was going on but no one would tell me. I commanded DH to follow him and he left as well.
That's when I realized that my midwife was in a panic and on the phone with my doctor talking about my placenta not coming out and that I was heavily hemmoraging and that I had a 102 fever. My epidural stopped working at about that point.
Doc got their about ten min later and did some EXTREMELY uncomfortable and painful procedure to remove my placenta and gave me drugs to help with clotting and the fever. All this time all I was thinking was how DH would survive if Cam and I didn't make it. I was pretty loopy and scared and I thought we were both dying. It was the craziest experience.
11:45 pm: They stabilized me and everyone left my room. I was just sitting there dazed, confused, alone. I called DH and he let me know that Cam had ingested meconium in the womb and that it had caused an infection and that he was having trouble breathing, but he was going to be okay.
1 am Monday: my fever was finally gone and they were able to move me. I went directly to the NICU nursery and watched my baby boy sleep for a couple of hours before passing out in my wheelchair. It was scary seeing him with so many tubes and wires, but I was just so happy that he was okay. A perfect, squishy, pink boy
We're still at the hospital a week later (I blame any spelling errors or spacing problems on mobile bumping) but I've had a really easy recovery and Cam is getting stronger every day. He's off his IV, finished his antibiotics for the diagnosed pneumonia, and is only on 25% oxygen (room air is 21%), so we should be going home this week.
I am so grateful for his amazing doctors and nurses and my amazing midwife and doctor. I can't wait to bring my baby home!
Now that I got the gooey squishy stuff out, let me tell you the yucky birth story:
***warning: do not read this for a good happy labor story***
I started labor Friday (10/24) at about 9:30 pm in my back. I had never heard of back labor and thought I was getting shooting pains due to a pinched nerve or something like that. They were coming and going every 7 min so I got suspicious that something else was going on and asked Dr. Google who informed me about back labor. Let me tell you, I would not wish back labor on my worst enemy.
The labor went on all night Friday, but wasn't consistent, varying from 5 min apart to 7 min. I finally received a couple hour break the next day and thought that maybe they were gone for good.
I was wrong. They started again and slowly got closer together. DH and I watched the ASU football game Saturday night and as the Devils scored their final touchdown (they won, WOOHOO) I started bleeding. I called my midwife who told me to get to the hospital asap because it could be my amniotic sack leaking.
11:30 pm: at the hospital my contractions (still all back) picked up big time. They checked and the blood was from my water breaking. I was only dilated to 1cm at this point, but my contractions were 1 min at least and only 4 min apart so they admitted me. The contractions quickly escalated to about 3-5 min long and only 30 seconds between, and absolutely the most excruciating back pain I have ever had. Actually the worst pain I've ever had. At about 4am I stopped talking and did not speak again until about 6pm when I was finally given an epidural.
I was not dilating, I could not move, they gave me a drug that was supposed to relax me so I could sleep, but it just made me pee myself and felt like I could not move. So that was awful. I had to get to 4 cm to get an epidural, but every time they checked I was ONE FREAKING CENTIMETER!
When they told me I was 4 cm at 6pm I was the happiest I have ever been. I didn't even feel the needle going in because I was in so much back pain already. It was instant relief! Oh the happy! Mike called his mom immediately and was like "she is talking to me again!" With a big ol grin on his face.
Everything seemed to go pretty quickly from there. I didn't feel a single contraction after that and at 9:10 pm my midwife asked me is I felt like pushing because I was 9 1/2 cm and I said sure. Pushing was really easy and I never felt the ring of fire.
Cam was born at 10:12 pm. It was such relief! He was placed on my chest for about 10 minutes and then turned blue. Which was followed by chaos. A doctor grabbed him off of my chest and about 6 nurses rushed into the room and they started running tests. Then they rushed out of the room. I was trying to find out what was going on but no one would tell me. I commanded DH to follow him and he left as well.
That's when I realized that my midwife was in a panic and on the phone with my doctor talking about my placenta not coming out and that I was heavily hemmoraging and that I had a 102 fever. My epidural stopped working at about that point.
Doc got their about ten min later and did some EXTREMELY uncomfortable and painful procedure to remove my placenta and gave me drugs to help with clotting and the fever. All this time all I was thinking was how DH would survive if Cam and I didn't make it. I was pretty loopy and scared and I thought we were both dying. It was the craziest experience.
11:45 pm: They stabilized me and everyone left my room. I was just sitting there dazed, confused, alone. I called DH and he let me know that Cam had ingested meconium in the womb and that it had caused an infection and that he was having trouble breathing, but he was going to be okay.
1 am Monday: my fever was finally gone and they were able to move me. I went directly to the NICU nursery and watched my baby boy sleep for a couple of hours before passing out in my wheelchair. It was scary seeing him with so many tubes and wires, but I was just so happy that he was okay. A perfect, squishy, pink boy
We're still at the hospital a week later (I blame any spelling errors or spacing problems on mobile bumping) but I've had a really easy recovery and Cam is getting stronger every day. He's off his IV, finished his antibiotics for the diagnosed pneumonia, and is only on 25% oxygen (room air is 21%), so we should be going home this week.
I am so grateful for his amazing doctors and nurses and my amazing midwife and doctor. I can't wait to bring my baby home!
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Re: Cameron's Birth Story
BFP#4 3/17/14 - rainbow Baby BOY arrived 11/10/14 !!
DX: Uterine Septum - Resection 9/5/13 || MTHFR Hetero A1298C || My Chart
I'm happy you and baby are ok now. Congratulations!
N14 Nov. Siggy: CELEBRATION!
TTC since Sept 2011, Unexplained IF
Oct 12 - Jan 14: 3 clomid/TI cycles, 2 hysteroscopies, 2 IUIs, 1 BFP (MMC @ 12w), 2 more IUIs
Feb 14: Gonal-f + IUI #5 = BFP! (EDD 11/4/14)
Baby boy arrived 11/13/14!
Thanks GOD you both are doing well, wishing you speedy recovery. Hope you'll take your bundle of joy home soooooooon.
Prayers for your family's well being
Glad to hear everyone is doing ok now. Hopefully you all get to come home this week!
Nov. '14 January Siggy : Work Sucks!
Me 32-DH 38
Married July 14, 2007 ----- TTC # 1 October 1, 2013
BFP March 7, 2014 ----- EDD November 17, 2014 ---- Baby boy born November 16, 2014