Baby Paintdadanta's Birth Story
Jul 6, 2015 19:50:02 GMT -5
Post by paintdadanta on Jul 6, 2015 19:50:02 GMT -5
XP with CAR
Sorry for the long version but things got a lil crazy - hence the lateness . . . .
When 41 weeks rolled around, we were all surprised that LO hadn’t made his appearance yet. OB swore that he’d arrive by the weekend prior, but during the cervical check at my appointment she found scar tissue that was preventing dilation past the 2.5 cm that I had been the last couple weeks. She broke it up which started the contractions but we scheduled an induction for Monday (6/29) just in case.
About 1 AM on Saturday, the contractions started to become more intense and consistent. I timed them for over an hour until they were roughly 3 minutes a part, woke up DH so we could make the half hour drive to the hospital. Once there, they told me that they weren’t painful enough and to continue labor at home until they were worse. Finally by 10 PM, we came back, dilated to 4 cm, bulging waters and admitted. I opted to try the epidural which I didn’t have high hopes for as anesthesiologist consult from months prior had only given me a 67% of it being effective due to a lower lumbar spinal fusion I had done several years ago - but it worked thankfully. A couple hours later, the midwife broke my water and dilated almost immediately to 6 cm. However, few hours later labor stalled at 7 cm and went down from there.
Somehow there was a second sac of water around the baby’s head, so they decided to break it thinking it could be what was slowing dilation. They noted that it had an off smell but weren’t concerned because it was clear. But after 12 hours without change, I started to have issues with my vitals - temperature around 101, blood pressure fluctuating up to 175/99, high pulse, low oxygen levels and swelling causing dilation to go backward. When LO’s heart rate started to fluctuate they had the OB come in and discuss that I had developed chorioamnionitis (infection in uterus). They were concerned about the infection reaching the baby along with my vitals so they started me on heavy antibiotics and began talking about an emergency c-section. They were going to give me another hour to progress after antibiotics in hopes that it would change and because I really did not want a section. But when my temperature went over 102, they pulled the plug and said we had to do the c-section as we shouldn't wait any longer.
They prepped us for the c-section, but I’ve always had an issue with local anesthetics working properly and they couldn’t get my right side to numb up with the epidural and spinal. Because of the concern of infection reaching LO, they decided it was better to put me under general anesthesia than to keep trying to make the epidural work. At 6:00 PM on June 28, Connor Holden was born at 7 lbs, 13 oz and 21.5” long. He was sunny side up and Apgar was excellent. However, due to the chorio they took him straight away to the special care nursery and began IV antibiotics. About 5 hours later, I came out of recovery and they took my bed through the nursery so I could see him but I was not allowed to hold him until the next morning - DH made sure I would be the first regardless.
We both had to have 48 hours of IV antibiotics and constant monitoring. He finally came out of the special care nursery and into our room Tuesday afternoon and given clean bill of health. We were suppose to be discharged Wednesday morning, but my blood pressure was slowly creeping up and I admitted that I just didn’t feel well. They ran my labs and my hemoglobin was dangerously low at a 6 so I was kept an extra night to do two blood transfusions. This got my levels up to 8, which is still low but not dangerous as before so we finally got to go home Thursday morning just with restrictions - no leaving the house aside from appointments, no driving 3 weeks, and few other things. Still run down, but happy to have a happy healthy boy back at home with me.
TLDR: Connor Holden born via emergency c-section on 6/28 at 6 PM weighing 7 lbs. 13 oz. and 21.5” long. Recovery with 48 hrs of IV antibiotics due to chorioamnionitis and blood transfusion for my anemia levels.
Sorry for the long version but things got a lil crazy - hence the lateness . . . .
When 41 weeks rolled around, we were all surprised that LO hadn’t made his appearance yet. OB swore that he’d arrive by the weekend prior, but during the cervical check at my appointment she found scar tissue that was preventing dilation past the 2.5 cm that I had been the last couple weeks. She broke it up which started the contractions but we scheduled an induction for Monday (6/29) just in case.
About 1 AM on Saturday, the contractions started to become more intense and consistent. I timed them for over an hour until they were roughly 3 minutes a part, woke up DH so we could make the half hour drive to the hospital. Once there, they told me that they weren’t painful enough and to continue labor at home until they were worse. Finally by 10 PM, we came back, dilated to 4 cm, bulging waters and admitted. I opted to try the epidural which I didn’t have high hopes for as anesthesiologist consult from months prior had only given me a 67% of it being effective due to a lower lumbar spinal fusion I had done several years ago - but it worked thankfully. A couple hours later, the midwife broke my water and dilated almost immediately to 6 cm. However, few hours later labor stalled at 7 cm and went down from there.
Somehow there was a second sac of water around the baby’s head, so they decided to break it thinking it could be what was slowing dilation. They noted that it had an off smell but weren’t concerned because it was clear. But after 12 hours without change, I started to have issues with my vitals - temperature around 101, blood pressure fluctuating up to 175/99, high pulse, low oxygen levels and swelling causing dilation to go backward. When LO’s heart rate started to fluctuate they had the OB come in and discuss that I had developed chorioamnionitis (infection in uterus). They were concerned about the infection reaching the baby along with my vitals so they started me on heavy antibiotics and began talking about an emergency c-section. They were going to give me another hour to progress after antibiotics in hopes that it would change and because I really did not want a section. But when my temperature went over 102, they pulled the plug and said we had to do the c-section as we shouldn't wait any longer.
They prepped us for the c-section, but I’ve always had an issue with local anesthetics working properly and they couldn’t get my right side to numb up with the epidural and spinal. Because of the concern of infection reaching LO, they decided it was better to put me under general anesthesia than to keep trying to make the epidural work. At 6:00 PM on June 28, Connor Holden was born at 7 lbs, 13 oz and 21.5” long. He was sunny side up and Apgar was excellent. However, due to the chorio they took him straight away to the special care nursery and began IV antibiotics. About 5 hours later, I came out of recovery and they took my bed through the nursery so I could see him but I was not allowed to hold him until the next morning - DH made sure I would be the first regardless.
We both had to have 48 hours of IV antibiotics and constant monitoring. He finally came out of the special care nursery and into our room Tuesday afternoon and given clean bill of health. We were suppose to be discharged Wednesday morning, but my blood pressure was slowly creeping up and I admitted that I just didn’t feel well. They ran my labs and my hemoglobin was dangerously low at a 6 so I was kept an extra night to do two blood transfusions. This got my levels up to 8, which is still low but not dangerous as before so we finally got to go home Thursday morning just with restrictions - no leaving the house aside from appointments, no driving 3 weeks, and few other things. Still run down, but happy to have a happy healthy boy back at home with me.
TLDR: Connor Holden born via emergency c-section on 6/28 at 6 PM weighing 7 lbs. 13 oz. and 21.5” long. Recovery with 48 hrs of IV antibiotics due to chorioamnionitis and blood transfusion for my anemia levels.
