Post by cake on Jan 20, 2018 16:50:44 GMT -6
Thank you everyone for your well wishes from the other day!
I went in around 5pm on Thursday for pre induction due to low amniotic fluid. Before starting, the OB did a cervical check (I hadn’t had one before) and said I was 3cm dialated (can’t remember how much effaced). She debated even doing the cervidil but went ahead anyways. Contractions started right away. It was taken out half an hour later because I was in so much pain. They kept me on the monitors until 7pm and was told things had slowed down enough to go home for the night. I was told to be back at 8am to be fully induced unless things started up.
Once at home, I really had no idea of what was normal and started timing contractions around 8pm. Right away they were 45 seconds long and 3 minutes apart. I called at 8:30 and was told that that needed to happen for at least an hour before coming back in. Quickly it turned into 2 minutes apart and I had a brief moment of thinking I would have the baby at home lol.
Signed back into triage at 9:30 and was then 4cm. Moved to the birthing room at 10:30 and the nurse summoned the anesthesiologist pretty much right away because of how much pain I was in (it was probably the first thing I asked for when I walked in the door lol). I didn’t think I was going to make it through, I clearly don’t deal with pain well. Epidural was administered around 11:30, kicked in around midnight. At first it only worked on one side so they increased it. I eventually couldn’t feel anything, no pressure, nothing.
At this point I was at 9cm but my water hadn’t broken. So they had me rest for an hour. At 1am, I was checked again and the nurse and OB were surprised see what I think was the amniotic sac sticking out when they pulled back my covers. They moved one of my legs and it broke right then and I was clearly ready to go. They debated waiting just a bit to see if the epidural would wear off a bit so I could feel what I was doing. But decided to see if I could push anyways. There seemed to be surprise when I made progress on the first push. 20 minutes later and baby Harry was here! I didn’t feel a single thing. Mad props to everyone that does this med free.
We spent a day and a half at the hospital and everything went really well. Harry nursed great, I was able to get a few hours of sleep and even with stitches, the pain afterwards is not as bad as I was expecting. I really hyped myself up for the worst.
Tl;dr labour was pretty quick, epidural is amazing, team green is blue, everything is going well post birth. Thanks to everyone that made it through this novel!
I went in around 5pm on Thursday for pre induction due to low amniotic fluid. Before starting, the OB did a cervical check (I hadn’t had one before) and said I was 3cm dialated (can’t remember how much effaced). She debated even doing the cervidil but went ahead anyways. Contractions started right away. It was taken out half an hour later because I was in so much pain. They kept me on the monitors until 7pm and was told things had slowed down enough to go home for the night. I was told to be back at 8am to be fully induced unless things started up.
Once at home, I really had no idea of what was normal and started timing contractions around 8pm. Right away they were 45 seconds long and 3 minutes apart. I called at 8:30 and was told that that needed to happen for at least an hour before coming back in. Quickly it turned into 2 minutes apart and I had a brief moment of thinking I would have the baby at home lol.
Signed back into triage at 9:30 and was then 4cm. Moved to the birthing room at 10:30 and the nurse summoned the anesthesiologist pretty much right away because of how much pain I was in (it was probably the first thing I asked for when I walked in the door lol). I didn’t think I was going to make it through, I clearly don’t deal with pain well. Epidural was administered around 11:30, kicked in around midnight. At first it only worked on one side so they increased it. I eventually couldn’t feel anything, no pressure, nothing.
At this point I was at 9cm but my water hadn’t broken. So they had me rest for an hour. At 1am, I was checked again and the nurse and OB were surprised see what I think was the amniotic sac sticking out when they pulled back my covers. They moved one of my legs and it broke right then and I was clearly ready to go. They debated waiting just a bit to see if the epidural would wear off a bit so I could feel what I was doing. But decided to see if I could push anyways. There seemed to be surprise when I made progress on the first push. 20 minutes later and baby Harry was here! I didn’t feel a single thing. Mad props to everyone that does this med free.
We spent a day and a half at the hospital and everything went really well. Harry nursed great, I was able to get a few hours of sleep and even with stitches, the pain afterwards is not as bad as I was expecting. I really hyped myself up for the worst.
Tl;dr labour was pretty quick, epidural is amazing, team green is blue, everything is going well post birth. Thanks to everyone that made it through this novel!