Stacy, I see that you wanted some insight on your birth story and I feel that since I wasn't there, it's hard to do this. I'm not sure what you're looking for, so please forgive me if I'm stepping over any boundaries of what you're wanting to know or discuss.
First, it sounds to me like you had an intense, precipitous (fast) labor. I know that many women think that others who go fast are "lucky", but in my experience, many women feel anything but. It's intense and it takes alot out of you - there's no gradual build up of contractions and no real rest between. Your labor sounded very intense.
It sounds like his heart tones were great during pushing, so at some point was his heart rate NOT good? Meconium is not an issue in my practice - unless it's combined with fetal distress, and even then I'm looking at the distress (not the mec) for all the reasons the women here have talked about mec.
For a baby to be born with such low Apgars (and 1/1 is really, really bad), there had to have been some pretty serious low heart tones right before the birth. It sounds like she was really wanting him to be born quickly, so I'm thinking he probably was having some serious heart rate issues.
The heart rate problems could have been due to the epidural, positioning or just the unknown for that baby.
Either way, the whole thing about them not letting you nurse him is horrible. I'm so sorry.
Do you have specific questions about the birth? I'm feeling really sad that you didn't get the UC birth you wanted and wanting to really honor the birth you did have. I don't want to pick apart your birth without knowing what you'd like to know. I don't think I have any right to play armchair quarterback right off the bat.
First, it sounds to me like you had an intense, precipitous (fast) labor. I know that many women think that others who go fast are "lucky", but in my experience, many women feel anything but. It's intense and it takes alot out of you - there's no gradual build up of contractions and no real rest between. Your labor sounded very intense.
It sounds like his heart tones were great during pushing, so at some point was his heart rate NOT good? Meconium is not an issue in my practice - unless it's combined with fetal distress, and even then I'm looking at the distress (not the mec) for all the reasons the women here have talked about mec.
For a baby to be born with such low Apgars (and 1/1 is really, really bad), there had to have been some pretty serious low heart tones right before the birth. It sounds like she was really wanting him to be born quickly, so I'm thinking he probably was having some serious heart rate issues.
The heart rate problems could have been due to the epidural, positioning or just the unknown for that baby.
Either way, the whole thing about them not letting you nurse him is horrible. I'm so sorry.Do you have specific questions about the birth? I'm feeling really sad that you didn't get the UC birth you wanted and wanting to really honor the birth you did have. I don't want to pick apart your birth without knowing what you'd like to know. I don't think I have any right to play armchair quarterback right off the bat.
