BabyDee's Birth Story
Jun 3, 2015 21:06:42 GMT -5
Post by mrsdee1982 on Jun 3, 2015 21:06:42 GMT -5
Since my BP has been up and down and up and down for 2 weeks, the OB had me monitoring at home. On Friday morning, the top number was fine, but the bottom number was high. It stayed like this all day long. I also had a horrible headache all day too. At 8 PM my DH had me call my OB just to ask her about it. I wasn't concerned because my top number was still holding steady in the normal range. My OB on the other hand was concerned and had us go to L&D.
At 1 am Saturday morning, she came in and said "Ok, we're done playing this game. Let's have a baby". So at 1 am they started my induction. I was only fingertip dilated and 50% effaced at this point, so they started me on a cervix softener first. I started having contractions almost immediately, but they were manageable. We did 4 rounds of this medication. Then, at 6 PM on Saturday they started me on the pitocin. Wowza! That drove the contractions way up. I was now having strong contractions 3-4 minutes apart.
Around 2:30 AM on Sunday I told my husband it was time to call the Doula. She came right on down. They checked me at 3:30 AM and I was at 2 centimeters dilated. I labored all night with contractions getting stronger and much more intensw and staying 3-4 minutes apart. At 11 AM on Sunday the OB came in and checked me. I was 3 centimeters. She decided to break my water.
Holy cow. Within 3 minutes of breaking my water, my contractions became insane, lasting 90 seconds apart and spaced out about 1 minute apart. Thank god for our Doula.
3 hours after that, they came in and checked me again. At this point I had been laboring for 37 hours. I was still only at a 3. I started crying. I had no idea how I was going to keep it up. At this point, our Doula suggested an epidural. I was just exhausted and having transition like contractions, but not making any progress. I needed to rest.
So, after 37 hours of labor, I got the epidural and was able to sleep for 3 hours. When I woke up they checked me again and I was at a 6. Yay! Progress! They said probably 5 more hours until I was completely dilated. 45 minutes later, I felt crazy pressure and I asked to be checked again. I was complete! But baby wasn't quite low enough to start pushing yet.
I labored, completely effaced and dilated for another 3 hours. Then I told them, ready or not, I am pushing. But all of the sudden baby wasn't tolerating things well. Each time I would push, her heart rate would drop. They made me switch to my left side and push. That seemed to help baby out a lot.
I pushed for 2 hours. It was so hard. I was so tired and had very left to give, but I gave each push everything I had. I ended up having to have an episiotomy. 2 pushes after that and she was here!
Her cord was wrapped once around her neck, which is probably why she didn't like it when I was pushing on my back. But she was perfect and beautiful. I then delivered the placenta and felt a huge gush. I asked repeatedly "what was that gush?" but nobody said anything. Turns out I stated to bleed a lot. I actually ended up having my blood pressure drop petty low and I passed out for a few minutes, but the DR got everything under control and all turned out well. Oh, and baby was on my chest this whole time.
She latched on to nursing right away, and she's pretty much been camped out at my boob since then. I'm healing up well and Charlotte is doing amazing. My husband is taking great care of us both.
TL;DR - induced because of high BP. Labored for 47 hours. Pushed for 2. Small complication with bleeding at the end, but all is well now.
Here are some pics:
Contracting with my husbands support
Sweet Baby Charlotte:
First Family Photo:
Coming home!
Edited to fix broken pictures
At 1 am Saturday morning, she came in and said "Ok, we're done playing this game. Let's have a baby". So at 1 am they started my induction. I was only fingertip dilated and 50% effaced at this point, so they started me on a cervix softener first. I started having contractions almost immediately, but they were manageable. We did 4 rounds of this medication. Then, at 6 PM on Saturday they started me on the pitocin. Wowza! That drove the contractions way up. I was now having strong contractions 3-4 minutes apart.
Around 2:30 AM on Sunday I told my husband it was time to call the Doula. She came right on down. They checked me at 3:30 AM and I was at 2 centimeters dilated. I labored all night with contractions getting stronger and much more intensw and staying 3-4 minutes apart. At 11 AM on Sunday the OB came in and checked me. I was 3 centimeters. She decided to break my water.
Holy cow. Within 3 minutes of breaking my water, my contractions became insane, lasting 90 seconds apart and spaced out about 1 minute apart. Thank god for our Doula.
3 hours after that, they came in and checked me again. At this point I had been laboring for 37 hours. I was still only at a 3. I started crying. I had no idea how I was going to keep it up. At this point, our Doula suggested an epidural. I was just exhausted and having transition like contractions, but not making any progress. I needed to rest.
So, after 37 hours of labor, I got the epidural and was able to sleep for 3 hours. When I woke up they checked me again and I was at a 6. Yay! Progress! They said probably 5 more hours until I was completely dilated. 45 minutes later, I felt crazy pressure and I asked to be checked again. I was complete! But baby wasn't quite low enough to start pushing yet.
I labored, completely effaced and dilated for another 3 hours. Then I told them, ready or not, I am pushing. But all of the sudden baby wasn't tolerating things well. Each time I would push, her heart rate would drop. They made me switch to my left side and push. That seemed to help baby out a lot.
I pushed for 2 hours. It was so hard. I was so tired and had very left to give, but I gave each push everything I had. I ended up having to have an episiotomy. 2 pushes after that and she was here!
Her cord was wrapped once around her neck, which is probably why she didn't like it when I was pushing on my back. But she was perfect and beautiful. I then delivered the placenta and felt a huge gush. I asked repeatedly "what was that gush?" but nobody said anything. Turns out I stated to bleed a lot. I actually ended up having my blood pressure drop petty low and I passed out for a few minutes, but the DR got everything under control and all turned out well. Oh, and baby was on my chest this whole time.
She latched on to nursing right away, and she's pretty much been camped out at my boob since then. I'm healing up well and Charlotte is doing amazing. My husband is taking great care of us both.
TL;DR - induced because of high BP. Labored for 47 hours. Pushed for 2. Small complication with bleeding at the end, but all is well now.
Here are some pics:
Contracting with my husbands support
Sweet Baby Charlotte:
First Family Photo:
Coming home!
Edited to fix broken pictures
