Baby Roo's Birth Story
Jun 24, 2015 23:06:35 GMT -5
Post by roo54 on Jun 24, 2015 23:06:35 GMT -5
I know I'm late to this, sorry! On May 29th, I had my 39.5 week checkup. The dr didn't want me to go much further because of my blood pressure, so we scheduled the induction for Monday June 1st. He checked me and I was only 1-2 centimeters. While I was laying in bed that night after putting kid #1 to bed, my water broke. We got to the hospital around 10pm. The dr wanted me to get an epidural so I could rest, but I explained how it didn't do much with my first, so I wanted to try to get as far as I could without it. Well I made it until about 1am (I think), and requested one. I got it, and it worked great, didn't feel the contraction right after. The guy left, and I started to feel them again. I could feel everything, move my legs, felt like I could stand, etc. They re-dosed me, but that still didn't work. The dr explained that I'm just one of those people who they don't work for, and I'd have to basically have a med-free birth. I could feel EVERYTHING. The dr didn't believe me, and while she was checking me I was telling her what I could feel, and she was astonished. Around 9am, I felt the urge to push. By the time the dr got in and all set up it was 9:20, baby was born 9:31. Sunny side up.
I had a 1st degree tare. However, I was bleeding and a ton of it was clots that wouldn't end but they couldn't figure out where it was coming from. I was in too much pain for them to really search, so around 3pm they took me into the OR where they tried to re-do my epidural so they could look. When that didn't work, they had to put me under. Baby tore an artery in my labia during birth, so they had to cut me open, and stitch that up.
I've been dealing with extremely painful nursing, I was cracked and bleeding. On top of that I'm dealing with thrush. It's been pretty hellish to tell the truth. Baby is having trouble gaining weight, so I have to pump after I nurse and give her a bottle every 2 hours. She's finally starting to gain though, so hopefully we can stop this soon.
I had a 1st degree tare. However, I was bleeding and a ton of it was clots that wouldn't end but they couldn't figure out where it was coming from. I was in too much pain for them to really search, so around 3pm they took me into the OR where they tried to re-do my epidural so they could look. When that didn't work, they had to put me under. Baby tore an artery in my labia during birth, so they had to cut me open, and stitch that up.
I've been dealing with extremely painful nursing, I was cracked and bleeding. On top of that I'm dealing with thrush. It's been pretty hellish to tell the truth. Baby is having trouble gaining weight, so I have to pump after I nurse and give her a bottle every 2 hours. She's finally starting to gain though, so hopefully we can stop this soon.
