My kids are no longer babies, but I've wondered off and on for years about my eldest son's birth, and can't really find any satisfactory answers just by doing online searches and reading, so I thought someone here might know something.
Long story short: I was induced at 42 weeks gestation (my dates were absolutely correct). My cervix was long and closed, and they treated me with a prostaglandin gel for about six hours before starting the Pitocin, which ran into me for about 24 more hours. The labor didn't progress....I never got past 4 cm. Baby showed no signs of distress, but I was 100% wiped out after all that Pitocin and caved in to a c-section. His APGAR was 8 and 9.
After a time (I was foggy from excessive blood loss and medication), I was informed that baby was running a fever and had not passed his meconium. I don't remember when it finally passed....possibly his second day of life? But when he finally passed his meconium, it was a plug. His fever immediately dropped and he was interested in nursing. There was a big scare about the plug....they wanted to do a sweat test of some sort to rule out cystic fibrosis, but ultimately decided that he was fine and did no further testing.
This was almost 18 years ago, but to this day I wonder what caused that plug and the fever. Any ideas? Oddly, I also had a huge amount of amniotic fluid for being post-dates. Dunno if there's any correlation there.
Long story short: I was induced at 42 weeks gestation (my dates were absolutely correct). My cervix was long and closed, and they treated me with a prostaglandin gel for about six hours before starting the Pitocin, which ran into me for about 24 more hours. The labor didn't progress....I never got past 4 cm. Baby showed no signs of distress, but I was 100% wiped out after all that Pitocin and caved in to a c-section. His APGAR was 8 and 9.
After a time (I was foggy from excessive blood loss and medication), I was informed that baby was running a fever and had not passed his meconium. I don't remember when it finally passed....possibly his second day of life? But when he finally passed his meconium, it was a plug. His fever immediately dropped and he was interested in nursing. There was a big scare about the plug....they wanted to do a sweat test of some sort to rule out cystic fibrosis, but ultimately decided that he was fine and did no further testing.
This was almost 18 years ago, but to this day I wonder what caused that plug and the fever. Any ideas? Oddly, I also had a huge amount of amniotic fluid for being post-dates. Dunno if there's any correlation there.
. Not sure why his temp was so high but yeah for another boy with his foreskin!!!
