Francesca Zoe is here, as of 7:29 PM on 5/21!<br><br>
My urine came back with protein at Monday's midwife visit, and my blood pressure was high. After a few days of self-monitoring BP, it kept rising and I had to go to the backup OB on Thursday, who put me in the hospital around 2:00 PM to be induced, with a completely closed cervix. Four rounds of Cytotec later, I was finally up to 2 cm dilation at noon on Friday. At 3:50, the OB ruptured my membranes, and fortunately both baby and I responded well to that. At 6:00, I was up to 4 cm. And a bit after 7:00, I started pushing, the nurse checked me, and I had gone up to 10 cm. There was a quick scramble around me which I was barely aware of, and at 7:29 I had a baby girl <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/joy.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="joy"><br><br>
I am still disappointed that my planned simple, intervention-free homebirth turned into a hospital induction. But I am grateful, not only for my precious, healthy baby girl, but also for my midwife, who came to the hospital and acted as my doula (I'm in a state where HB is not legal, so her role had to change in the hospital), and for a respectful OB who kept the interventions as minimal as possible and made it possible for me to still deliver vaginally, with no pain meds, AND consented to me being released early from the hospital back into my midwife's care.
My urine came back with protein at Monday's midwife visit, and my blood pressure was high. After a few days of self-monitoring BP, it kept rising and I had to go to the backup OB on Thursday, who put me in the hospital around 2:00 PM to be induced, with a completely closed cervix. Four rounds of Cytotec later, I was finally up to 2 cm dilation at noon on Friday. At 3:50, the OB ruptured my membranes, and fortunately both baby and I responded well to that. At 6:00, I was up to 4 cm. And a bit after 7:00, I started pushing, the nurse checked me, and I had gone up to 10 cm. There was a quick scramble around me which I was barely aware of, and at 7:29 I had a baby girl <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/joy.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="joy"><br><br>
I am still disappointed that my planned simple, intervention-free homebirth turned into a hospital induction. But I am grateful, not only for my precious, healthy baby girl, but also for my midwife, who came to the hospital and acted as my doula (I'm in a state where HB is not legal, so her role had to change in the hospital), and for a respectful OB who kept the interventions as minimal as possible and made it possible for me to still deliver vaginally, with no pain meds, AND consented to me being released early from the hospital back into my midwife's care.
