Post by mathistm on Jun 28, 2015 18:39:39 GMT -5
I woke up on Friday feeling general crampiness and what I thought might be contractions every 10-12 minutes. I started timing them around 11am and between 11 and 1 they were averaging around 8 mins apart and lasting 45-60 seconds. I called my Ob since we live 45 mins away from the hospital and he wanted me to come in in the next couple of hours. DH left work and we got to the hospital around 3:30.
In triage I was only 3cm dilated. They had me walk around and around 5 I was 4cm so they admitted me to labor and delivery. Once there things started ramping up pretty quickly. I got checked again around 8 and was having contractions about every 4 mins at 6cm dilated. Between 8 and 9 I was having contractions every 3 minutes sometimes-every other minute and they were super painful.
I opted for the epidural and got that placed around 11 with contractions on top of each other but still at 6cm. Once that was in I got some sleep and slept until around 3 am. At 4 when they checked me I was 10cm. I wasn't feeling a lot of pressure and my epidural was only working really well on my right side. I could feel a bit on the left side of my body and the difference between my legs was crazy. My left I could move and feel touch and my right was so numb I couldn't even feel touch or lift it or wiggle my toes. I opted to let things naturally progress a little as they halved the epidural so I would be able to feel more to push.
Around 5 I was feeling a bit of pressure and decided to try to push. I was showing contractions every 2 mins lasting for a minute each. Then my contractions started only lasting around 20-30 seconds every 2 mins. They had me stop pushing for awhile until things ramped back up. When my nurse wasn't in the room my contractions would turn back into good ones and as soon as she came in they would go back to the shitty 20-30 seconds that did nothing.
My epidural wore down and I could feel everything on the left and quite a bit on the right. They had me pushing again and again the contractions would leave as soon as the nurse was in the room.
Finally, around 7 they decided to start pit. It only took a sniff of the pitocin to start having a lot stronger contractions. Pushing was so weird because I was feeling it unevenly. I was pushing so hard. I popped a lot of blood vessels in my eyes and face. The pitocin was doing its job but baby girl was sunny side up and had a bit of a ridge that kept getting stuck on her forehead. I kept seeing my dr look at the nurses like this lady is not going to be able to push this baby out.
Finally Loren was born at 10:27 after they shut my epidural off completely. One small second degree tear, which was surprising because I felt like my dr legit had his hands inside my vajay pulling her head. 5.5 hrs to push her head out and one push for the rest of her whole body.
7lbs 13oz, 19.5 inches long.
You can see on her forehead where her head was stuck out at for awhile. Poor boo-boo head.
In triage I was only 3cm dilated. They had me walk around and around 5 I was 4cm so they admitted me to labor and delivery. Once there things started ramping up pretty quickly. I got checked again around 8 and was having contractions about every 4 mins at 6cm dilated. Between 8 and 9 I was having contractions every 3 minutes sometimes-every other minute and they were super painful.
I opted for the epidural and got that placed around 11 with contractions on top of each other but still at 6cm. Once that was in I got some sleep and slept until around 3 am. At 4 when they checked me I was 10cm. I wasn't feeling a lot of pressure and my epidural was only working really well on my right side. I could feel a bit on the left side of my body and the difference between my legs was crazy. My left I could move and feel touch and my right was so numb I couldn't even feel touch or lift it or wiggle my toes. I opted to let things naturally progress a little as they halved the epidural so I would be able to feel more to push.
Around 5 I was feeling a bit of pressure and decided to try to push. I was showing contractions every 2 mins lasting for a minute each. Then my contractions started only lasting around 20-30 seconds every 2 mins. They had me stop pushing for awhile until things ramped back up. When my nurse wasn't in the room my contractions would turn back into good ones and as soon as she came in they would go back to the shitty 20-30 seconds that did nothing.
My epidural wore down and I could feel everything on the left and quite a bit on the right. They had me pushing again and again the contractions would leave as soon as the nurse was in the room.
Finally, around 7 they decided to start pit. It only took a sniff of the pitocin to start having a lot stronger contractions. Pushing was so weird because I was feeling it unevenly. I was pushing so hard. I popped a lot of blood vessels in my eyes and face. The pitocin was doing its job but baby girl was sunny side up and had a bit of a ridge that kept getting stuck on her forehead. I kept seeing my dr look at the nurses like this lady is not going to be able to push this baby out.
Finally Loren was born at 10:27 after they shut my epidural off completely. One small second degree tear, which was surprising because I felt like my dr legit had his hands inside my vajay pulling her head. 5.5 hrs to push her head out and one push for the rest of her whole body.
7lbs 13oz, 19.5 inches long.
You can see on her forehead where her head was stuck out at for awhile. Poor boo-boo head.
