Post by cakewench on Dec 20, 2017 9:13:37 GMT -6
I wanted to post yesterday but that wasn’t going to happen...
Meet Neil Thomas, born yesterday afternoon at 3:24pm.
(PDQ)
Things were going really well, until they weren’t lol. I went in Monday afternoon and had Cervidel at 530. By about 1:30am I was dilated to 3cm so they gave me my epi and I slept a lot. Around 6:30 I was at 6cm and was fully dilated by about 10-10:30. He was still a little high so they didn’t have me start pushing until about an hour later.
Four hours of pushing later, we agreed to the vacuum and he was here! Unfortunately while stitching me up my doc found a tear while checking my rectum so they had to take me to the OR to repair it - once she had better lighting it wasn’t as bad as they though but it was scary as shit and I had not planned on being separated from my baby like that. 3rd degree in general, lucky me.
He fed with me twice, but I was pretty wrecked after all that so we sent him to the nursery for the night so H and I could both sleep. Because I haven’t been out of bed they’ve had these massaging sleeves on my legs (to prevent blood clots) - they’ll come off in about half an hour and I’m so happy.
H was a total rockstar during all of it and has been carrying the load with him so far. Such a good dad
Meet Neil Thomas, born yesterday afternoon at 3:24pm.
(PDQ)Things were going really well, until they weren’t lol. I went in Monday afternoon and had Cervidel at 530. By about 1:30am I was dilated to 3cm so they gave me my epi and I slept a lot. Around 6:30 I was at 6cm and was fully dilated by about 10-10:30. He was still a little high so they didn’t have me start pushing until about an hour later.
Four hours of pushing later, we agreed to the vacuum and he was here! Unfortunately while stitching me up my doc found a tear while checking my rectum so they had to take me to the OR to repair it - once she had better lighting it wasn’t as bad as they though but it was scary as shit and I had not planned on being separated from my baby like that. 3rd degree in general, lucky me.
He fed with me twice, but I was pretty wrecked after all that so we sent him to the nursery for the night so H and I could both sleep. Because I haven’t been out of bed they’ve had these massaging sleeves on my legs (to prevent blood clots) - they’ll come off in about half an hour and I’m so happy.
H was a total rockstar during all of it and has been carrying the load with him so far. Such a good dad
