Post by periwinkledaydreams on Jun 26, 2015 15:40:37 GMT -5
It is one week later and I'm going to attempt to recount this, but so much of it was such a whirlwind! Many of you know I was struggling for most of my pregnancy with chronic severe and debilitating migraines that led to MFM suggesting I go in for an induction at 37 weeks. After much review with my OB we reached 37 weeks and played it by ear for the 2 weeks in between but ended up inducing last Wednesday at 39 weeks. I was hesitant as I really wanted to go into labor on my own but we decided together that it was what needed to happen in order to best treat me and baby. So we scheduled a 7PM induction at the hospital where they would start cervidil and go from there.
The floor was extremely busy and they didnt insert the cervidil until around 1130PM Wednesday. I was at 1cm and long. I had some contractions throughout the night but nothing timeable, and when my OB showed up at around 8AM Thursday she checked and I was still 1 and long.. great. She suggested we give the cervidil a few more hours and then try a cook catheter, which we did and that brought me to a 4 and she started the pitocin. I labored all day pretty much, rocking and swaying, keeping the mood light, bouncing on my ball. The contractions got real. A nurse showed SO how to apply counter pressure and this was amazing. At 5cm she broke my water. It was about 6PM. Things start to get fuzzy here because this is when it started to take FOR-EV-ER, things started to go awry, and one by one I watched my cards fall.
I was stuck at 6cm for a really long time. The nurse told me my cervix was very swollen and that was why I wasnt progressing, and she really thought an epidural would help me relax and the swelling would stop and that would help me progress. We had the first episode of babys heart rate fluctuating and them bringing in oxygen and attaching hearrate monitor internally to babys head. They said if I didn't make progress within an hour they would have to do a section. I reluctantly agreed to the epidural. Then, things DID progress! I went quite quickly from a 6 to a 9 and everyone was feeling good!
In that time I got alittle rest. It was Friday morning and I was freakin wiped! When I got checked and they told me I was almost a 10 and I was going to practice pushing I had never been more excited or relieved, but there was still a lip of the cervix, the "almost" 10, and something about baby's position being posterior being why I had slow progress. My OB checked and sure enough baby was posterior and during practice pushes she would try to manually reposition her. We did this for about an hour. It was the hardest work of my life and I was so tired. She did not turn. My doctor told me we would have to have a section. I cried. My support people hugged me. We went to the OR. Things got ugly. I won't go into detail but I have anesthesia tolerance issues and there was screaming and morphine involved. It also turned out that the umbilical cord was tied completely in a knot, most likely the reason for all the pressure issues and also very likely to have caused an emergency C had I waited and gone into labor on my own or had I kept pushing any longer that day! Things really have a way of working out!
At 9:08 am on Friday June 19th I heard my baby girl crying and she changed my world forever. Everything was suddenly worth it! Soon I held her and now I can't let her go! Here is Jasmine Rosemarie in all her healthy happy glory!
(POOF!)
Tl;dr 36 hours of induced labor, heartrate and positioning complications led to C-section delivery, all led to silly amazing cutie pie babygirl!
The floor was extremely busy and they didnt insert the cervidil until around 1130PM Wednesday. I was at 1cm and long. I had some contractions throughout the night but nothing timeable, and when my OB showed up at around 8AM Thursday she checked and I was still 1 and long.. great. She suggested we give the cervidil a few more hours and then try a cook catheter, which we did and that brought me to a 4 and she started the pitocin. I labored all day pretty much, rocking and swaying, keeping the mood light, bouncing on my ball. The contractions got real. A nurse showed SO how to apply counter pressure and this was amazing. At 5cm she broke my water. It was about 6PM. Things start to get fuzzy here because this is when it started to take FOR-EV-ER, things started to go awry, and one by one I watched my cards fall.
I was stuck at 6cm for a really long time. The nurse told me my cervix was very swollen and that was why I wasnt progressing, and she really thought an epidural would help me relax and the swelling would stop and that would help me progress. We had the first episode of babys heart rate fluctuating and them bringing in oxygen and attaching hearrate monitor internally to babys head. They said if I didn't make progress within an hour they would have to do a section. I reluctantly agreed to the epidural. Then, things DID progress! I went quite quickly from a 6 to a 9 and everyone was feeling good!
In that time I got alittle rest. It was Friday morning and I was freakin wiped! When I got checked and they told me I was almost a 10 and I was going to practice pushing I had never been more excited or relieved, but there was still a lip of the cervix, the "almost" 10, and something about baby's position being posterior being why I had slow progress. My OB checked and sure enough baby was posterior and during practice pushes she would try to manually reposition her. We did this for about an hour. It was the hardest work of my life and I was so tired. She did not turn. My doctor told me we would have to have a section. I cried. My support people hugged me. We went to the OR. Things got ugly. I won't go into detail but I have anesthesia tolerance issues and there was screaming and morphine involved. It also turned out that the umbilical cord was tied completely in a knot, most likely the reason for all the pressure issues and also very likely to have caused an emergency C had I waited and gone into labor on my own or had I kept pushing any longer that day! Things really have a way of working out!
At 9:08 am on Friday June 19th I heard my baby girl crying and she changed my world forever. Everything was suddenly worth it! Soon I held her and now I can't let her go! Here is Jasmine Rosemarie in all her healthy happy glory!
(POOF!)
Tl;dr 36 hours of induced labor, heartrate and positioning complications led to C-section delivery, all led to silly amazing cutie pie babygirl!
