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December 2016 Moms
SmashJam
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SmashJam Birth Story -UPDATE-** TW LOSS MENTIONED**
SmashJam
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Starting this now so I can focus on some positive happy birth memories in what has been quite the rough day.
Came in Thursday at 4:30 to get induced. Friday at 7:30am I started complaining that I felt nothing and didn't really want to do step 2 and was super sad. Around 7:55 I started getting contractions. Not dialated but soft when checked, super disappointed because I was in pain. Started walking the halls, stopping to breathe through contractions. DH made me use a code word for stopping to deal with the contractions-it was bananas, haha.
Came back in, got in the shower and squated through contractions for a couple hours til I got sick of being hot and wet and dried off, came out to use the foot bar at the end of the bed for squats. At this point t contractions were like my back was on fire so I switched positions. Recheck showed I was at a 6. Midwife and nurse left the room and maybe 10 minutes later I was practically screaming in pain and felt the urge to push. Pushed for 2.5 hours and out she came, born at 1:27 with bag of waters intact, 8lbs 4 oz 21 inches long, lots of dark hair. Did immediate skin to skin, but they took her when they massaged my fundus and dug out clots.
This part is hard. She was having gurgling noises so they suctioned her. Didn't help so they suctioned again. Her oxygen levels were in the 70s but she was moving and wailing so they thought it was just fluid and took her out with pediatricians. Chest x-rays showed fluid in lungs but that doesn't usually cause such an issue so they called an area hospital with a NICU for a transfer. She was airlifted right before 5pm.
At the other hospital, they did an echo and discovered a heart anomaly that was keeping oxygen from circulating the right way. They could fix via surgery in Boston so off she went, and she's there now awaiting surgery tomorrow hooked up to a machine that does what the surgery will do for her, so she's getting full oxygen now. We are going her tomorrow.
This birth was everything I hoped for, except the healthy squish part. I was med free, labor was short, and I was fully present in the pain and letting the contractions do their job-last time I checked out and focused on making it through the pain rather than working with it and I can't even recall certain aspects of the birth. I can't tell you how much the change in mindset contributed positively to my birth experience. Now...To get Lorelai healthy!
Came in Thursday at 4:30 to get induced. Friday at 7:30am I started complaining that I felt nothing and didn't really want to do step 2 and was super sad. Around 7:55 I started getting contractions. Not dialated but soft when checked, super disappointed because I was in pain. Started walking the halls, stopping to breathe through contractions. DH made me use a code word for stopping to deal with the contractions-it was bananas, haha.
Came back in, got in the shower and squated through contractions for a couple hours til I got sick of being hot and wet and dried off, came out to use the foot bar at the end of the bed for squats. At this point t contractions were like my back was on fire so I switched positions. Recheck showed I was at a 6. Midwife and nurse left the room and maybe 10 minutes later I was practically screaming in pain and felt the urge to push. Pushed for 2.5 hours and out she came, born at 1:27 with bag of waters intact, 8lbs 4 oz 21 inches long, lots of dark hair. Did immediate skin to skin, but they took her when they massaged my fundus and dug out clots.
This part is hard. She was having gurgling noises so they suctioned her. Didn't help so they suctioned again. Her oxygen levels were in the 70s but she was moving and wailing so they thought it was just fluid and took her out with pediatricians. Chest x-rays showed fluid in lungs but that doesn't usually cause such an issue so they called an area hospital with a NICU for a transfer. She was airlifted right before 5pm.
At the other hospital, they did an echo and discovered a heart anomaly that was keeping oxygen from circulating the right way. They could fix via surgery in Boston so off she went, and she's there now awaiting surgery tomorrow hooked up to a machine that does what the surgery will do for her, so she's getting full oxygen now. We are going her tomorrow.
This birth was everything I hoped for, except the healthy squish part. I was med free, labor was short, and I was fully present in the pain and letting the contractions do their job-last time I checked out and focused on making it through the pain rather than working with it and I can't even recall certain aspects of the birth. I can't tell you how much the change in mindset contributed positively to my birth experience. Now...To get Lorelai healthy!
Re: SmashJam Birth Story -UPDATE-** TW LOSS MENTIONED**
TTC #1 January 2016
BFP April 18 2016 | EDD December 29, 2016
Welcome baby A! January 9, 2017
TTC#2 March 2018
BFP March 30, 2018 | EDD December 12, 2018
Way to go with your labor, it sounds like everything that I wish my labors could be. It's like a 'labor come true'. I'm so, so sorry that Lorelai needs surgery, at the same time I'm thankful that it is something that can be fixed. And that you were with health care professionals that recognized there was something off. My heart goes out to you and Lorelai, and I'll be sending positive healing vibes your way
DS: 12/20/16
EDD: 11/29/18
Keep us updated on Squish, we are all thinking of her!
DH: 36⎹ Me: 36
Baby #1
Baby #2
~04/19/16 EDD 12/26/16~
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This afternoon our sweet baby girl passed away of multiple organ failure. Turns out a vein going into her heart on the wrong side was also blocked. She was deprived of oxygen to all her organs for such a time that they began to fail today, and the surgery was no longer feasible. We held her as she passed, and I am thankful that I got to be her mom for even the short 4 days that I had her.
I want to thank all of you for your support throughout pregnancy, and wish all of you healthy births and babies. I will occasionally still lurk but will take my leave of the board for now. Creepy internet hugs to you all.
Me:27 H:30
Till death do us part: 7.2.2011
Trying to conceive since 01.2014
Low AFC and azoospermia
IVF #1 03.2016 - BFP 03.28.2016
Due: 12.05.2016
natural pregnancy: 2008
Me: 28 (Hypothyroid), DH: 35
Together since: 2010
Married: 2013
TTC: 2013
Infertility: severe MFI, low AMH (0.5)
Met RE: January 2016
ER: 3/14 (4 follies, 6 eggs retrieved, 2 fertilized)
fresh 3dt of 2 embryos= BFP (1 implanted)
EDD w/ baby boy= 12/6/16
My cousin had a very similar experience a year ago, and although you feel as though you may never heal from this, know that there will always be a place in your heart where she lives and loves you.
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