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Born via c section at 12:38pm Sunday May 17th 2009. 7 lbs .4 oz & 19 inches long.
Long drawn out birth story that I've posted all over the internet by now lol.
I feel like I need to start way back at the beginning. I'm still convinced my water did break a little Friday morning at 9am. I wrote about it in the daily chat thread but I lost a chunk of my plug Friday morning and had a huge gush of water come out. I went into the hospital but they couldn't find a rupture and said either it was just very loose plug or I had a high leak that the baby was now blocking. I continued to have mild cramps the rest of the day and lose more of my mucous plug basically felt like I had my period. Friday night I hardly slept at all because around 1am the cramps started coming every 5-7 minutes and getting more uncomfortable. I managed to sleep a little bit and when I called the hospital around lunch Saturday they told me to come in at 7pm to start the induction process. I continued to have contractions regularly all afternoon.
Went into the hospital where they were supposed to give me something to ripen my cervix but when they checked me I was already 3cm dilated and 40% effaced. They monitored Jonas and I for 20 minutes then decided to send me home instead. They gave me ambien to help me sleep and told me to come back at 8 in the morning to start the pitocin. By the time we got home I was hurting worse so I took the ambien under the promise I'd have a decent nights sleep to prepare me for the next day and it'd dull the contractions. Yet I'm sitting there in our bed wide awake an hour after taking the pills feeling totally coherent. I call L&D and they tell me to take a bath to ease the contractions and relax myself, but it doesn't help so back to the hospital. When they checked me I'd jumped to 4cm and 90% effaced so I got admitted. They gave me an epidural and broke my bag of water. For the record the smell was just like what I smelled Friday so I still say I was right about that one.
Things started moving pretty quick after that I went to 5.5cm immediately after my water broke and was 7cm a short while later. Everything seemed to be going really good and the OB thought I'd have him within a few hours. Chris and I were getting pretty excited until Jonas's heartrate suddenly dropped. They came in and flipped me in all these random positions because they thought he was squishing his cord and my contractions were somehow making it worse. They gave me a shot to make my contractions stop and he finally he rightened himself and his heartrate went back up. I guess this is the point where things started heading toward the c section. My contractions started back up and I dilated to 9cm but things suddenly just kind of stopped there. I wasn't dilating the last little bit and part of my cervix still wasn't fully effaced. They started pitocin to try to get the last little bit and got in preparation for me to start pushing soon. Jonas's heart rate went down again and I had to yet again get the shot to stop the contractions and start them back up again. The only position his heartrate would stay up in was me sitting straight up basically squatting. I started feeling so much pressure on my butt but they told me it was good because it meant I'd be pushing him out soon. But my cervix still would not go to 100% and I was still not a full 10cm dilated. This went on for 3 hours, the nurse pumped my pitocin so high and my epidural ran out. That was NOT pleasant. I was getting no break in between the contractions and felt like my guts were going to fall out of my butt lol. I paged the nurse to see if I could change positions to relieve some of the contraction pain and as soon as I moved his heart rate went down AGAIN. After they got it back up the doctor came in and told me they wanted to do the c section. He listed a number of different reasons for it 1) I was totally stalled and not progressing after 3 hours 2) Jonas's heart rate dropping so much 3) They were afraid if I did get to the point of pushing that if I pushed for too long he'd get more stressed 4) He was coming out diagonal and they were afraid he was going to get stuck. After that things moved super fast as far as getting me prepped and into surgery. I felt so disconnected getting the c section. I didn't even know my husband was in the room with me until they'd already started and I couldn't see very good because I had my glasses on at that point. I started crying as soon as I heard Jonas though. The nurse and my hubby went away with him and they finished putting me back together.
That's pretty much it! I got back into the room and was able to see Jonas and breastfeed him. Not much to say about the two days I stayed at the hospital. Just a long stream of nurse and doctors coming in and out at all hours of the night. I mean seriously must you randomly weigh my baby at 2 in the morning when he and I are both asleep?! We came back home late yesterday afternoon and are enjoying our little man. I'm really sore and frustrated with how things ended but at that point I was almost expecting them to suggest the c section and I was too worried about getting Jonas here safely to go against them.
Born via c section at 12:38pm Sunday May 17th 2009. 7 lbs .4 oz & 19 inches long.
Long drawn out birth story that I've posted all over the internet by now lol.
I feel like I need to start way back at the beginning. I'm still convinced my water did break a little Friday morning at 9am. I wrote about it in the daily chat thread but I lost a chunk of my plug Friday morning and had a huge gush of water come out. I went into the hospital but they couldn't find a rupture and said either it was just very loose plug or I had a high leak that the baby was now blocking. I continued to have mild cramps the rest of the day and lose more of my mucous plug basically felt like I had my period. Friday night I hardly slept at all because around 1am the cramps started coming every 5-7 minutes and getting more uncomfortable. I managed to sleep a little bit and when I called the hospital around lunch Saturday they told me to come in at 7pm to start the induction process. I continued to have contractions regularly all afternoon.
Went into the hospital where they were supposed to give me something to ripen my cervix but when they checked me I was already 3cm dilated and 40% effaced. They monitored Jonas and I for 20 minutes then decided to send me home instead. They gave me ambien to help me sleep and told me to come back at 8 in the morning to start the pitocin. By the time we got home I was hurting worse so I took the ambien under the promise I'd have a decent nights sleep to prepare me for the next day and it'd dull the contractions. Yet I'm sitting there in our bed wide awake an hour after taking the pills feeling totally coherent. I call L&D and they tell me to take a bath to ease the contractions and relax myself, but it doesn't help so back to the hospital. When they checked me I'd jumped to 4cm and 90% effaced so I got admitted. They gave me an epidural and broke my bag of water. For the record the smell was just like what I smelled Friday so I still say I was right about that one.
Things started moving pretty quick after that I went to 5.5cm immediately after my water broke and was 7cm a short while later. Everything seemed to be going really good and the OB thought I'd have him within a few hours. Chris and I were getting pretty excited until Jonas's heartrate suddenly dropped. They came in and flipped me in all these random positions because they thought he was squishing his cord and my contractions were somehow making it worse. They gave me a shot to make my contractions stop and he finally he rightened himself and his heartrate went back up. I guess this is the point where things started heading toward the c section. My contractions started back up and I dilated to 9cm but things suddenly just kind of stopped there. I wasn't dilating the last little bit and part of my cervix still wasn't fully effaced. They started pitocin to try to get the last little bit and got in preparation for me to start pushing soon. Jonas's heart rate went down again and I had to yet again get the shot to stop the contractions and start them back up again. The only position his heartrate would stay up in was me sitting straight up basically squatting. I started feeling so much pressure on my butt but they told me it was good because it meant I'd be pushing him out soon. But my cervix still would not go to 100% and I was still not a full 10cm dilated. This went on for 3 hours, the nurse pumped my pitocin so high and my epidural ran out. That was NOT pleasant. I was getting no break in between the contractions and felt like my guts were going to fall out of my butt lol. I paged the nurse to see if I could change positions to relieve some of the contraction pain and as soon as I moved his heart rate went down AGAIN. After they got it back up the doctor came in and told me they wanted to do the c section. He listed a number of different reasons for it 1) I was totally stalled and not progressing after 3 hours 2) Jonas's heart rate dropping so much 3) They were afraid if I did get to the point of pushing that if I pushed for too long he'd get more stressed 4) He was coming out diagonal and they were afraid he was going to get stuck. After that things moved super fast as far as getting me prepped and into surgery. I felt so disconnected getting the c section. I didn't even know my husband was in the room with me until they'd already started and I couldn't see very good because I had my glasses on at that point. I started crying as soon as I heard Jonas though. The nurse and my hubby went away with him and they finished putting me back together.
That's pretty much it! I got back into the room and was able to see Jonas and breastfeed him. Not much to say about the two days I stayed at the hospital. Just a long stream of nurse and doctors coming in and out at all hours of the night. I mean seriously must you randomly weigh my baby at 2 in the morning when he and I are both asleep?! We came back home late yesterday afternoon and are enjoying our little man. I'm really sore and frustrated with how things ended but at that point I was almost expecting them to suggest the c section and I was too worried about getting Jonas here safely to go against them.
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Madalyn! Welcome Jonas and speedy healing to you!
