Post by megd893 on Jun 25, 2015 5:36:23 GMT -5
Ladies and gents,
It's with extreme love and pride that I announce my son Le0 Gilb3rt arrived in to the world yesterday at 2:59pm via unplanned c section.
This bundle of all that is good in the world was 8lbs10oz and 22 inches long with dimples and long hair.
I'm on mobile so I can't post a pic, but the short story goes like this:
Tuesday morning, Cervidil inserted to attempt to ripen Cervix (due to previously diagnosed fetal macrosomia). They monitored for an hour and sent me home (approx 10 am). FF to 3pm and I feel like I've started back labour. Took it to the shower, on my hands and knees running the hot directly on my low back. best. Idea.
Ever.
Around 3:30 contractions were 1.5 min apart and 30 seconds long. Could even have ripened and done it's job. We didn't know so we headed to the hospital.
In hospital triage at 7:30pm my water ruptured on its on when I was 1cm (all over the floor - like a movie!) They gave me a morphene/gravol shot in my ass to help settle me while I progressed.
11pm morphene had worn off and I was 3cm in full blown labour/contractions. I asked for an epidural and was told he was coming. Took 3 hours... so, I laboured from 1130-3, and from 3-5cm.
Mr Man's heart started dipping, I was starting a fever and bleed a lot so they put me on some oxygen and called in 3 docs to talk about options (wait and see vs section now).
I opted to just have the epi, and let myself get some rest. Reassess in the morning. Slept from 4-6 and was 6cm when I woke up.
Epidural was half working, so we worked through that (awesome nurse) and picked a cut off of 12:30. If there was no progress, we needed him to come out. Sure enough I was still 6cm at 1215 so OB and anesthesia were called in.
K had to wait while they wheeled me into the OR and by 2:59 Leo was here in all his glory.
He's not interested in working/sucking to eat, but luckily I have LOTS of colostrum I'm able to hand express for both K and I to feed
It's been another long night, but with this little guy on my chest... I'm not even tired.
If you made it, congrats! I can't post pics from mobile but I sent wittyandwaiting one if she's okay with putting it up for me
Yay babies! Thanks for being there for me everyone - it's so wonderful... Xo -Meg
It's with extreme love and pride that I announce my son Le0 Gilb3rt arrived in to the world yesterday at 2:59pm via unplanned c section.
This bundle of all that is good in the world was 8lbs10oz and 22 inches long with dimples and long hair.
I'm on mobile so I can't post a pic, but the short story goes like this:
Tuesday morning, Cervidil inserted to attempt to ripen Cervix (due to previously diagnosed fetal macrosomia). They monitored for an hour and sent me home (approx 10 am). FF to 3pm and I feel like I've started back labour. Took it to the shower, on my hands and knees running the hot directly on my low back. best. Idea.
Ever.
Around 3:30 contractions were 1.5 min apart and 30 seconds long. Could even have ripened and done it's job. We didn't know so we headed to the hospital.
In hospital triage at 7:30pm my water ruptured on its on when I was 1cm (all over the floor - like a movie!) They gave me a morphene/gravol shot in my ass to help settle me while I progressed.
11pm morphene had worn off and I was 3cm in full blown labour/contractions. I asked for an epidural and was told he was coming. Took 3 hours... so, I laboured from 1130-3, and from 3-5cm.
Mr Man's heart started dipping, I was starting a fever and bleed a lot so they put me on some oxygen and called in 3 docs to talk about options (wait and see vs section now).
I opted to just have the epi, and let myself get some rest. Reassess in the morning. Slept from 4-6 and was 6cm when I woke up.
Epidural was half working, so we worked through that (awesome nurse) and picked a cut off of 12:30. If there was no progress, we needed him to come out. Sure enough I was still 6cm at 1215 so OB and anesthesia were called in.
K had to wait while they wheeled me into the OR and by 2:59 Leo was here in all his glory.
He's not interested in working/sucking to eat, but luckily I have LOTS of colostrum I'm able to hand express for both K and I to feed
It's been another long night, but with this little guy on my chest... I'm not even tired.
If you made it, congrats! I can't post pics from mobile but I sent wittyandwaiting one if she's okay with putting it up for me
Yay babies! Thanks for being there for me everyone - it's so wonderful... Xo -Meg