Baby Teddy is here!
Feb 5, 2018 18:25:53 GMT -6
Post by Queen Mamadala on Feb 5, 2018 18:25:53 GMT -6
Theodore Edward Corgiat was born at 38+1 via induction for “chronic hypertension” on 2/4 at 2:04pm. He’s 7 lbs., 6 oz and 20.5”.
The vast majority of the two day induction process was spent waiting, resting, hanging out, and just being overall impatient. It stalled a few times because he was ROP (posterior position). It ended up taking pitocin to get him low enough in my pelvis. I made it to 7 cm/100%/-1 after a few hours of pitocin evening of 2/3 before they shut it off to let me rest for the night. The last round of pitocin did it, but it was started on the lower end of 1 milliunit around 9ish Sunday morning and bumped up slowly and got to 9 milliunits at 12pm. Transition really kicked in around 1pm. I needed to be upright and moving around, though being connected to so many damn wires really sucked. My dd1 was hanging out with me while H was at home checking on the other kids. He made it back maybe 15 minutes before his birth. The contractions had been coming every two minutes and I was getting warm and quiet. I knew it was close when I started feeling perineal pressure and had the sudden need to sit on the toilet. OMG!!!
Due to his presentation/position, it was so much more intense than any of my others, including my super speedy homebirths, and pitocin contractions actually produced a regular pattern to my contractions. My H called the nurse in when he could tell I was feeling a ton of pressure, but I didn’t want to leave the bathroom. It hurt to move. My nurse helped me waddle back to the bed, and though it was quick, it felt like an eternity. I just couldn’t climb into bed. I can do the contractions. I LOATHE this part, especially with my first OP baby. I stopped at the side of the bed as the nurse stood behind me and I caught him in my arms. He was born face up, of course, and cried immediately. I was shaking so much from how quickly it happened. No hemorrhage this time. Thank bob. Baby Teddy is amazing. It wasn’t quite a homebirth, but I had a fantastic team of nurses, a wonderful midwife and my OB who was on call all weekend and did my active management for the third stage of labor to prevent another hemorrhage. He looks a lot like dd3. She's completely smitten and adores her baby brother. <3
The vast majority of the two day induction process was spent waiting, resting, hanging out, and just being overall impatient. It stalled a few times because he was ROP (posterior position). It ended up taking pitocin to get him low enough in my pelvis. I made it to 7 cm/100%/-1 after a few hours of pitocin evening of 2/3 before they shut it off to let me rest for the night. The last round of pitocin did it, but it was started on the lower end of 1 milliunit around 9ish Sunday morning and bumped up slowly and got to 9 milliunits at 12pm. Transition really kicked in around 1pm. I needed to be upright and moving around, though being connected to so many damn wires really sucked. My dd1 was hanging out with me while H was at home checking on the other kids. He made it back maybe 15 minutes before his birth. The contractions had been coming every two minutes and I was getting warm and quiet. I knew it was close when I started feeling perineal pressure and had the sudden need to sit on the toilet. OMG!!!
Due to his presentation/position, it was so much more intense than any of my others, including my super speedy homebirths, and pitocin contractions actually produced a regular pattern to my contractions. My H called the nurse in when he could tell I was feeling a ton of pressure, but I didn’t want to leave the bathroom. It hurt to move. My nurse helped me waddle back to the bed, and though it was quick, it felt like an eternity. I just couldn’t climb into bed. I can do the contractions. I LOATHE this part, especially with my first OP baby. I stopped at the side of the bed as the nurse stood behind me and I caught him in my arms. He was born face up, of course, and cried immediately. I was shaking so much from how quickly it happened. No hemorrhage this time. Thank bob. Baby Teddy is amazing. It wasn’t quite a homebirth, but I had a fantastic team of nurses, a wonderful midwife and my OB who was on call all weekend and did my active management for the third stage of labor to prevent another hemorrhage. He looks a lot like dd3. She's completely smitten and adores her baby brother. <3
