Post by ajetter on Jan 13, 2018 17:58:25 GMT -6
We got to the hospital at 6:50am for a 39 week elective induction. By 7:30 my water was broken and by 8:15am the pitocin was flowing and contractions were 5 min apart.
Everything was manageable for a while. I was annoyed because I needed to poop but had to unhook all the monitors every time I wanted to go to the bathroom. I labored between the bathroom and the bed for a bit before I tried just walking around the room. In hindsight I should have tried a labor ball to attempt to go epi free. We had to do a lot of positional changes to try and keep baby happy on the monitors. By 10:30 I was 4cm. At 11:30 I started getting really nauseous and hot and I just wanted to lay down, so I requested the epi. More hindsight, I should have made them check me first.
The epi felt weird when she put it in. Not pain, but I didn’t think something was quite right. But then my blood pressure ranked and I started feeling really sick and they had to push some other meds. My right side went numb but I wasn’t getting any relief on the left. She checked to see if maybe I was complete, but just 7cm. (12:30pm) They laid me on my left side to try and get the epi to take on that side but I felt like I was dying. It was like you could have drawn a line down the middle of my body. I felt nothing on the right. But everything on the left.
All the sudden I could feel the (half) ring of fire. Started yelling at my nurse, they checked me and I was 10cm (12:45pm) and her head was right there. My OBs office is connected to the hospital so they called her over. It felt like an eternity and everyone was telling me not to push. It just sucked because I was in so much pain but could t really move because my entire right side was completely numb. I started saying I can’t do this I can’t do this and I felt like they thought I was saying I couldn’t push the kid out. No my friends I couldn’t not push. She started coming down more as my doc came in. The nurses had to turn me to my back and put my legs in the stirrups and basically just move me around because I couldn’t function. It was such a weird out of body experience. One push later at 1:04pm I delivered Miss Ar.den R.ae, sunny side up with her hand stuck up by her head. Woof. Miraculously no tears.
After delivery I couldn’t stop shaking. And my right side remained numb. They hadn’t gotten a catheter in between me getting the epi and being miserable (they were waiting for it to work) so they needed me to get up to pee. But my right side was completely useless still an hour after delivery. It was a weird feeling. So I got to ride some new contraption the hospital had gotten to the bathroom. The nurse was excited to use it. Lol.
My right side remained numb for like four hours. Never experienced that before. It wasn’t at all how I imagined my last birth would go, but she’s here, healthy, and I’m in love.
7lbs2oz and 20in
Everything was manageable for a while. I was annoyed because I needed to poop but had to unhook all the monitors every time I wanted to go to the bathroom. I labored between the bathroom and the bed for a bit before I tried just walking around the room. In hindsight I should have tried a labor ball to attempt to go epi free. We had to do a lot of positional changes to try and keep baby happy on the monitors. By 10:30 I was 4cm. At 11:30 I started getting really nauseous and hot and I just wanted to lay down, so I requested the epi. More hindsight, I should have made them check me first.
The epi felt weird when she put it in. Not pain, but I didn’t think something was quite right. But then my blood pressure ranked and I started feeling really sick and they had to push some other meds. My right side went numb but I wasn’t getting any relief on the left. She checked to see if maybe I was complete, but just 7cm. (12:30pm) They laid me on my left side to try and get the epi to take on that side but I felt like I was dying. It was like you could have drawn a line down the middle of my body. I felt nothing on the right. But everything on the left.
All the sudden I could feel the (half) ring of fire. Started yelling at my nurse, they checked me and I was 10cm (12:45pm) and her head was right there. My OBs office is connected to the hospital so they called her over. It felt like an eternity and everyone was telling me not to push. It just sucked because I was in so much pain but could t really move because my entire right side was completely numb. I started saying I can’t do this I can’t do this and I felt like they thought I was saying I couldn’t push the kid out. No my friends I couldn’t not push. She started coming down more as my doc came in. The nurses had to turn me to my back and put my legs in the stirrups and basically just move me around because I couldn’t function. It was such a weird out of body experience. One push later at 1:04pm I delivered Miss Ar.den R.ae, sunny side up with her hand stuck up by her head. Woof. Miraculously no tears.
After delivery I couldn’t stop shaking. And my right side remained numb. They hadn’t gotten a catheter in between me getting the epi and being miserable (they were waiting for it to work) so they needed me to get up to pee. But my right side was completely useless still an hour after delivery. It was a weird feeling. So I got to ride some new contraption the hospital had gotten to the bathroom. The nurse was excited to use it. Lol.
My right side remained numb for like four hours. Never experienced that before. It wasn’t at all how I imagined my last birth would go, but she’s here, healthy, and I’m in love.
7lbs2oz and 20in 
