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Well, mamas, I fought the good fight as long as my body held out, which was until the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Then I got some wicked heartburn that wouldn't go away, so I finally called L&D and went in to have more labs drawn to see what was going on.
My kidneys and liver were not doing well, so I was induced via the full gamut o'interventions -- pitocin, magnesium sulfate, and epidural, plus abx for the group B strep culture I hadn't gotten around to doing yet. Basically, everything I hadn't wanted in my planned HBAC, sigh.
Yet my HBMW was there through the whole thing with me, she was amazing, the induction went very smoothly and he arrived vaginally (so I did get my VBAC at least) in under 5 hrs., quite pink and beautiful!
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Birth stats: Duncan Edmund was 6 lbs. 6 oz., 19 1/2 inches long at 35w. He's a bruiser in the NICU, lol! Very sweet and snuggly, still very sleepy, but we'll get there on bfing; I've been down the preemie bfing road before.
Here's a pic: http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...5/IMG_3223.jpg
Unfortunately for me, I ended up with a pretty severe PPH -- they finally got the bleed stopped literally just short of wheeling me into radiology to surgically close my uterine arteries.
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Ugh. I'm a redhead and I do tend to bleed a lot with my births, but nothing like this has ever happened before. They think it's b/c I developed HELLP this time around, so my blood wasn't clotting properly. My platelets and hematocrit/hemoglobin have just plummeted. So I'm still taking it VERY easy, but tonight they announced they think I'm over the worst of it and I think I've avoided a transfusion, so that's good. I'm taking liquid chlorophyll, Floradix, and have eaten 3 placenta smoothies, a spinach salad, and a steak, all today, lol! My hemoglobin is somewhere around 7 and my hematocrit around 20, I think, so I need to get it back up.
We are so very done having babies, but I'm so grateful that Duncan and I are both here and will ultimately be well. I don't regret having HBMW care AT ALL, even though I didn't get to birth at home. My MW was phenomenal and I received (and continue to receive) incredible care.
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I'll update again when I get released from the hospital (which I suspect will be before Duncan is, although hopefully not too long!)
Guin
My kidneys and liver were not doing well, so I was induced via the full gamut o'interventions -- pitocin, magnesium sulfate, and epidural, plus abx for the group B strep culture I hadn't gotten around to doing yet. Basically, everything I hadn't wanted in my planned HBAC, sigh.
Yet my HBMW was there through the whole thing with me, she was amazing, the induction went very smoothly and he arrived vaginally (so I did get my VBAC at least) in under 5 hrs., quite pink and beautiful!
Birth stats: Duncan Edmund was 6 lbs. 6 oz., 19 1/2 inches long at 35w. He's a bruiser in the NICU, lol! Very sweet and snuggly, still very sleepy, but we'll get there on bfing; I've been down the preemie bfing road before.
Here's a pic: http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...5/IMG_3223.jpg
Unfortunately for me, I ended up with a pretty severe PPH -- they finally got the bleed stopped literally just short of wheeling me into radiology to surgically close my uterine arteries.
We are so very done having babies, but I'm so grateful that Duncan and I are both here and will ultimately be well. I don't regret having HBMW care AT ALL, even though I didn't get to birth at home. My MW was phenomenal and I received (and continue to receive) incredible care.
I'll update again when I get released from the hospital (which I suspect will be before Duncan is, although hopefully not too long!)
Guin
