Our little man is one week old now! Last Sunday night I developed HELLP syndrome very suddenly and went to the local hospital at the advice of my MW to have labs drawn to check my liver panel and platelets. I was having extreme upper back pain between my shoulder blades and upper band pain in the front. It was unbearable pain that was constant. The lab results came back with my liver panel tripled from a week before when my MW had me do baseline labs ( I had pre-e/possible HELLP w/ 1st pregnancy). My platelets had dropped by 100 points in that time and while in triage I developed extreme nausea and vomiting, headache and my usual perfect BP started skyrocketing.
The hospital OB's who were in charge of managing "no doc" patients were pretty useless... my MW knew more about HELLP then any of them did. Even with all my symptoms/labs they said it was up to me if I wanted to be admitted. Um... DUH!!
I had the OB rupture my bag of water because historically I go pretty quickly once my water has been broken. I was dilated to 2cm and 85% when they admitted me. I did have an epidural only because the anestethiologist said it would be able to take care of my upper back pain/band pain which is the only thing I really wanted it for. And thank God he was right... I had been in constant worsening pain for 5+ hours before they admitted me with no relief at all until that epidural.
My MW arrived at the hopsital and was a great advocate for me, even though the 2nd on call OB totally blew her off and dismissed her in front of me " You are just a guest here today, I am in charge here". He was a horribly snobby Dr and I was pissed that such a jerk was going to deliver my son. Ugh.
My water was broken at 730 am and at 9am we started a low dose pitocin (never going higher than 8) and by 1115am I was complete. Around 1045 I noticed my epidural was wearing off, as I could feel myself contracting thru transition... by the time I started pushing at 11:35 I could feel EVERYTHING. Of course being in the hospital I was nearly flat on my back, with oxygen mask on, with that jerk Dr trying to tell me how to push ( I totally ignored him and just listened to my MW and DH)... but only 16 minutes later William James emerged (OUCH!).
He was our biggest baby (which isnt saying much) at 6lb 6oz and 18 3/4in.
Oh... gotta run, DH just made dinner!
The hospital OB's who were in charge of managing "no doc" patients were pretty useless... my MW knew more about HELLP then any of them did. Even with all my symptoms/labs they said it was up to me if I wanted to be admitted. Um... DUH!!
I had the OB rupture my bag of water because historically I go pretty quickly once my water has been broken. I was dilated to 2cm and 85% when they admitted me. I did have an epidural only because the anestethiologist said it would be able to take care of my upper back pain/band pain which is the only thing I really wanted it for. And thank God he was right... I had been in constant worsening pain for 5+ hours before they admitted me with no relief at all until that epidural.
My MW arrived at the hopsital and was a great advocate for me, even though the 2nd on call OB totally blew her off and dismissed her in front of me " You are just a guest here today, I am in charge here". He was a horribly snobby Dr and I was pissed that such a jerk was going to deliver my son. Ugh.
My water was broken at 730 am and at 9am we started a low dose pitocin (never going higher than 8) and by 1115am I was complete. Around 1045 I noticed my epidural was wearing off, as I could feel myself contracting thru transition... by the time I started pushing at 11:35 I could feel EVERYTHING. Of course being in the hospital I was nearly flat on my back, with oxygen mask on, with that jerk Dr trying to tell me how to push ( I totally ignored him and just listened to my MW and DH)... but only 16 minutes later William James emerged (OUCH!).
He was our biggest baby (which isnt saying much) at 6lb 6oz and 18 3/4in.
Oh... gotta run, DH just made dinner!
