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Post by kaeguri on Apr 17, 2018 12:52:38 GMT -6
For anyone who wants to share previous birth stories
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Post by kaeguri on Apr 17, 2018 13:09:09 GMT -6
With DD, I made a recipe for eggplant parmesan that was supposed to induce labor loll and my water broke that night. Although it may have been because that recipe took 3 years to make, and I was on my feet all day making it, but I digress. Midnight I started leaking, but it was a super slow leak, so I thought I was peeing myself. But it didn't stop, so after some googling, I read that if you laid down for a bit, then stood up and there was a sudden woosh from the collected amniotic fluid, it was your water. Sure enough, I got the woosh, so I woke up H and we called the nurse line and went in around 5am. Got checked in, but by 10am, my contractions still hadn't started. Since I only had 14 hours left before concerns of infection set in and a cs would be necessary, they started me on pitocin and ramped it all the way up. Cue the most painful contractions and back labor ever.
Got the most amazing epidural ever shortly after, and by 1pm I was fully dilated and effaced, so they had me start pushing around 1:30. But because I dilated so fast (like 2 hours from completely closed to ready), baby hadn't dropped into position yet. Then she was slightly off center, so her shoulder/head got stuck on my pelvis. Pushed from 1:30-4 with no progress, so they had me rest and I napped on and off for an hour. Started pushing again around 5, and baby was finally born at 5:53pm. 8lb 15oz, 21.75" long. Second degree tear and fractured tailbone. But overall, nothing traumatic. The epi was perfect and I felt nothing except the urge to push and exhaustion. I had wanted to labor as much as possible without meds, but oh well. The pitocin was too much all at once. I think, without that, I could have gone longer.
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Post by vvvvvfee on Apr 17, 2018 13:36:24 GMT -6
DS1's is pretty boring. skip ahead to DS2's unless you're a birth story addict-- his is the entertaining one! DS1's birth story ------------------- i woke up at about 1:30 AM on august 14th (DS1's due date), sat up in bed and felt this little trickle, then i stood up and more liquid came out. i was like uh oh, this couldn't be my water breaking, could it? of course i turned on the light in the bathroom and it was obvious that was what had happened. then i started to get nervous that they would want to induce me because i was group b strep positive and my water had broken, and then i'd have to get an epidural, even though i had wanted an unmedicated birth, etc. etc. so i was kind of in denial. then i started to bleed a little bit, but i still wasn't having any contractions, so i decided to just get back in bed for a while. then one of the cats got into the bedroom and woke up DH. i started to tell him i thought something was happening but i wasn't having any contractions yet and i wasn't sure if i wanted to call the doctor immediately. basically as i was telling him this i started having a contraction. he called and talked to the on-call OB (who luckily we really liked), and she said, don't rush in since it's your first and you're not really having intense contractions, maybe you want to take a shower and have something to eat, etc. so i took a shower and then had a couple more contractions about 5 minutes apart. we got dressed and tried to throw some last-minute things into our bag for the hospital. we got to the hospital at about 2:45 AM. just walking into the maternity wing i had to stop 2 times for contractions. DH helped me get changed into a hospital gown in the bathroom. i was bleeding more and having contractions and DH was getting panicky and telling the nurse, who i think was skeptical that everything was progressing so quickly. then they got me onto the bed and checked my cervix and i was already 9 cm dilated. they hooked me up with the monitors and the IV for the group b strep. it was getting really intense and i felt like running away and i felt like there must be some position i could get into that would be more comfortable but i couldn't figure out what it was. the nurse we had was sort of like a football coach with a bit of a tough love approach. but i guess it all worked out. it was kind of all a blur, but i did a lot of grunting and screeching. i didn't do so well with the hypnobirthing relaxation and breathing techniques while actually in the moment. :S i got on my hands and knees for a while, which helped until my arms got tired. by this time the on-call doctor had gotten to the hospital. she checked me at maybe 4:30 and told me i could start pushing when i was ready. i felt like the pushing part was actually less painful because i could channel the pain into something. by this time i was able to relax pretty well in between contractions, to the point where i almost felt like i could fall asleep. at 5 or so he was down far enough that they could see his hair. at one point the nurse asked if i wanted to reach down and touch his head and i was like "NO!" (DH thinks that part is funny). DS1 was born at 5:17 AM. DH said he was a boy, which didn't surprise me (i'd actually had a dream a couple of weeks earlier that he was born and was a boy with dark hair and dark eyebrows). DH cut the cord and they put him on me for a while. i had such a funny feeling after was born-- like it was just all so surreal. the first thing i said when they put him on my chest was "oh my god, this is so weird." they left him there for a while but i had the shakes so i sort of felt better when they took him off for DH to hold him so they could check him. i had a 2nd degree tear which didn't feel so bad at first but was kind of painful to recover from. then unfortunately they took him and put him in a warmer for a while because his body temperature was low. i was kind of bummed i couldn't just hold him to warm him up, but i also felt like i needed a little while to get my head together. it all happened so fast, in retrospect-- i woke up and then suddenly i was in labor. i didn't quite have time to process everything! {ha ha, i wrote this in 2012-- future me says LOL wait until the next one!} DS2's birth story --------------------------- DS2 was due on july 22nd. on saturday, july 11th, I started really feeling exhausted and my legs, feet, and hands swelled up a little. On Sunday the 12th, DH and I went to a hypnobirthing refresher class. I was prepared for the second baby to come even faster than DS (my labor with him was 4 hours start to finish), and I was nervous about inadvertently having the baby at home, but the teacher reminded us that every birth is different, and the second may not come faster than the first. On Monday the 13th I went to work, but I felt crampy and off all day. I woke up early in the morning of Tuesday the 14th, around 4 AM, and started feeling some cramping really low in my pelvis. The cramping didn't seem that regular at first and I wondered if it was all just going to fizzle out. Eventually the contractions moved up higher in my abdomen, and picked up in intensity and regularity. At some point I went to the bathroom and there was some bloody show, and I realized that the baby was going to be coming today. I started timing contractions with a contraction timer website, just to make sure that they were long and regular enough to go in to the hospital. I woke DH up at about 6 AM, and just around then the contractions started getting super strong, and I was moaning during them. I started having that wanting-to-run-away/crawl-out-of-my-skin feeling. As DH was getting ready, it was dawning on me that I was probably already in transition, and that we really had to hurry up. DH called the OB office and called my mom to come over and watch DS1 (who had slept through the whole thing) so we could go. I was feeling SO much pressure that I was almost wanting to push during contractions. I was pacing and moaning and wondering why my mom was taking forever and a day to get to our house. Finally she arrived, and I managed to get out to the car in between contractions. We made it to the hospital (luckily only a five minute drive from our house) at about 6:45 AM. I got out of the car and had another contraction. By this point I was shamelessly grabbing my crotch in public, literally feeling like I had to hold the baby in. The security guard at the maternity wing was trying to call in my last name on the phone but kept spelling it wrong and it seemed like it took FOREVER. He offered to get a wheelchair for me, but when I went to sit down I felt like the baby was going to fall out so I gave up and started to walk. A nurse met us in the hall. I said, "I feel like the baby is coming now." DH warned the nurse, "She gives birth really quick." The nurse hustled us into a room. as DH and the nurse helped me onto the bed, I had another contraction. I was moaning/screaming and said, "IT'S THERE, IT'S COMING NOW!" The nurse and DH scrambled to get my pants off. DH pulled my pants and underwear down off my hips, and-- surprise! the baby's head was already out! DH was still struggling with my pants when I had another contraction, and I felt the shoulders/body slipping out, my water breaking and fluids bursting all over everything. DH said he threw his hips back to avoid getting splattered but I still got birth stuff all over him. My underwear/pants were still around one ankle and I still had one sandal on. I couldn't believe it was over so fast! I did not do any active pushing- the whole time I was trying to hold the baby IN. Time of birth- 6:53 AM, about 8 minutes after we'd arrived at the hospital. A bunch of other nurses rushed in to help. I asked DH if it was a boy or a girl, and the nurse answered that they hadn't had a chance to see yet. Finally DH said, "It's a boy," and I just couldn't believe it after all my girl premonitions! They cut the cord and give me the baby- a dark-haired boy like DS1, and he looked a little beat up- his face and forehead were bruised from the fast labor. He was super-strong and started nursing right away. They grabbed a random passing OB in the hallway who came in to help deliver the placenta and stitch me up (I had a small first degree tear). They had to give me pitocin and then methergine because I kept bleeding, but I felt okay through the whole thing. Just in shock that he was a boy! The nurse had to ask me all the admitting questions as I was lying in the recovery room. And they forgot to have me sign the consent to treat form until the next day. The random OB and the nurses were all super-nice. I was so happy to get the skin-to-skin time with DS2 and initiate nursing- he is doing great and BFing has been so much easier than it was with DS1. {i loved my birth with DS2! it was so empowering basically doing the whole thing on my own. i felt great afterwards, the recovery was nothing compared to with DS1. DH and i laughed so much in the days afterwards when recalling the whole sequence of events. i actually wrote down the birth story from DH's POV bc it was so hilarious... i have to try to find it on my computer at home.}
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Post by PennyCandy on Apr 17, 2018 14:13:00 GMT -6
I don't remember timing of everything. I was induced just shy of 40w because a blizzard was coming and we lived over an hour away from the hospital. I went in at 6pm to get checked in a settled. I got Cytotec at 8pm to ripen my cervix. I was only 1cm dilated so I figured we would be in it for the long haul. Pitocin was started sometime in the middle of the night. I'm so short that DS's feet were still up in my ribs and it felt like my ribs were breaking. I made it through the night without pain medication. Contractions didn't really begin to pick up until the morning sometime. I tried different positions, breathing, and a birthing ball, but I could not get comfortable. I got the epidural around 10am. It was perfect. I didn't have any pain. We tried to rest and just kind of hung out most of the day. My water was broken sometime after lunch. They put an internal monitor on DS and had to replace some of the fluid because he had some decels. Things calmed down again though. Around 3pm maybe, I started feeling some pressure and DS was having more decels, but I just needed to be repositioned for him to be happy. I was in transition at that point. At 4pm I was complete and ready to push. I pushed with just a nurse for a little bit before they called my OB in. J was born at 4:52pm. We did skin to skin immediately and he nursed. I didn't tear at all. I just had some mild abrasions so I got really lucky! He was 6lbs 12oz and 20in long. Recovery was really easy. I was up and walking right away. I never needed more than Tylenol or Ibuprofen. We went home two days later with 3ft of snow on the ground.
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Post by catladymeow on Apr 17, 2018 15:10:43 GMT -6
vvvvvfee I remember that story from J15! My dd was 3.5 hours from start to finish and was almost born in a cab so I am really nervous about this one!
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Post by potatocakes on Apr 17, 2018 15:33:26 GMT -6
Edited from my very long version (which made me cry to read…hormones): We went to our 41 week check-up, and doctor didn't think there was enough fluid, so she had me plan to come back to the hospital later in the evening for induction. Got there about 8pm, got settled, IV in, and I was at 2 and 80% effaced. They started Cervadil around 9pm, and we napped a bit, but I woke up with contractions around 11:30, and woke H up to hold my hand around midnight. I called the nurse in to talk pain management a while after that, but I was already at 7cm, so she removed the Cervadil, and gave me some saline to slow things down a bit, since we all felt like the end was near and I could do it. Transition was the very worst part, when I had the urge to push but was not fully dilated yet. A bit later, she checked me again, I was at 9.5, and she broke my water as she checked me (on accident). That was all my body needed to make things happen, and I pushed for an hour or so. DD was born at 6:42am. H said her body literally flew out once her head was through. Ended up with a 2nd degree tear, and I got Pitocin after to help shrink things down quickly. DD was on my chest and nursed immediately. Very much hoping to get induced again this round, it was a really great experience, and would be a lot easier in terms of dealing with the big kid.
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Post by vvvvvfee on Apr 17, 2018 15:40:43 GMT -6
catladymeow, yes, go to the hospital the second you feel a twinge, seriously! the OB who delivered DS1, who i see frequently for checkups, said 3rd babies aren't usually quite as speedy as 2nd babies. but she did caution me to try not to have this baby in my pants.
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Post by goldenbird on Apr 17, 2018 16:00:53 GMT -6
vvvvvfee holy shit!! That is quite a birth story for your DS2!!
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Post by kam3100 on Apr 17, 2018 22:06:07 GMT -6
Thanks for sharing your stories! I’ve never written mine down. I will try to when I’m on a computer and not at work
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Post by kaeguri on Apr 17, 2018 23:40:26 GMT -6
catladymeow , yes, go to the hospital the second you feel a twinge, seriously! the OB who delivered DS1, who i see frequently for checkups, said 3rd babies aren't usually quite as speedy as 2nd babies. but she did caution me to try not to have this baby in my pants. I usually hear 3rd babies are faster? My mom said my labor was her shortest (i'm the third kid), less than an hour. I have a friend who just gave birth 2 weeks ago to her fourth. Contractions started around 6 am, she called her mom, then her husband walked the older kids to the bus stop, and when he came back 15 min later, she was crowning. Baby was born at home. I'm terrified my water won't break this time, and I'll have to time contractions and I'll mess it up and give birth in a car. I need my water to break first again, even though I know it's not common.
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Post by catladymeow on Apr 18, 2018 6:35:47 GMT -6
It took some digging but I found my birth story! -----
I had a dr appointment on 7/29 at 40+1. She did a check and told me that I was 2cm and 70% effaced. She did a sweep and stretch and was hopeful that I'd go into labor soon. I knew they were going to start forcing the issue of induction so I hoped that she was right.
The next morning I woke up and had minimal cramping. I went for a 3 mile walk and bounced on the yoga ball but nothing seemed to be happening. I was bummed and ate chocolate and watched Netflix while sulking.
I started getting crampy at 5pm but there was nothing time-able. Then at 5:30 my water broke. I immediately started having contractions 3 min apart. Within an hour they were really intense and I was having trouble breathing through them and they were really close together. The doula arrived around 7pm and helped me but it quickly got to the point where the contractions were on top of one another and I wasn't getting a break. I didn't know any better and figured I was still in early labor and I was just being a wimp. I wondered how the heck I was going to get through another 8 hours or so of this pain.
Luckily the doula knew better and said we should call a cab. By the time I got into the cab I was feeling like I had to push and getting freaked out. Somehow I got up to triage at the hospital and the doctor said I was fully dilated. They rushed me to a delivery room on a gurney and out DD came 20 minutes later. So from the time labor started it was 3.5 hours! It was intense but I'm glad it happened that way, it seemed relatively easy compared to what a lot of other women go through.
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Post by catspajamas2 on Apr 18, 2018 8:10:27 GMT -6
I love these stories!!!!
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Post by cornflakegirl on Apr 18, 2018 9:21:33 GMT -6
I love reading through these birth stories. I think I'm starting to panic a little though, 3 more months to go😬
Here's my story, slightly edited because it is long.
I began to feel cramps on Sunday morning at 9:00 am. At first I didn't know what to make of them but within a couple hours they were 45-30 min apart. By the afternoon I was also having bad upper leg pain that was not easing up between the contractions. DH starts to get worried and calls my OB office. The dr on call calls back and says this could be the start of early labor.
By 9:00 pm the contractions get intense, 20-30 min apart and by 2:00 am I get in the bathtub and they are 15 min apart. What's making this so uncomfortable is that my legs are in so much pain I am not getting any breaks in between. By 3:00 am they are 6-7 min apart and the hospital is 45 min away so we decide to go . In the car ride the worst part is that DH is not able to rub my back or put pressure on my legs, and my contractions jump to 3-4 minutes apart.
We arrive in L&D at 4:30 am and I am told that I'm 4 cm dilated. The staff say if I'm to get an epidural do it soon since I have to sit still through that 20 min process and my contractions will get more severe. By now I'm in a lot of pain and I still am not getting any leg relief. At 7:30 I decide to get it. Within 20 min I start to get relief, at 8:30 I am 5 cm dilated. They break my water at 9:00 am and I dilate to 6 cm. Then as quickly as that happens I quickly begin to feel pain. My epidural had originally left barely any numbness in my legs but now I'm feeling those contractions again, not only that but they start coming every 2 minutes apart at about 90 seconds long, no relief or breaks. The pain gets so intense my whole body starts shaking terribly as I try to breath through each one . DH is having such a hard time watching me suffer but does not leave my side. When the OB comes in she checks me and I had very rapidly jumped to 9 cm dilated within half an hour. They increase my epidural and I get some relief, it's not complete but the contractions are manageable. I jump to 9.5 cm and by 11:30 the pain starts to come back, again very quickly so the team decides to give me a much stronger epidural, I feel relief quickly and can finally rest a bit. My cervix is still 9.5 and not moving. The nurse checks me again at 2:30 and it looks like I'm 10, but the baby is posterior, part of why I was having much stronger contractions. We begin to push at 3:00 pm, while the nurse tries to turn him. At this point I'm very tired, I haven't slept in 40 hours and again the contractions are every 2 min, 90 sec long. The team is surprised that I'm reacting this way with no induction, again the epidural had mostly worn off by now. As I push the nurses are great, cheering me on, and can see the head with each push, DH too is right there with me. After 3 hours of pushing, still no baby and very slow progress. The baby turns but is only side ways. I'm exhausted by now and there is talk with the team of using pitocin, and or vacuum, but I said no way. After almost 3.5 hours of pushing the dr gets concerned, worried the baby is too big for the birth canal. They prep me for a c section.
Jacob Michael is born at 7 pm, weighing 7lbs 10 oz and 20.5 in long. They do some skin to skin with me and we are in the recovery room by 8:30 pm Monday night. Jacob latches on right away and nurses for the first time by 9:00 pm.
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Post by bananas22 on Apr 19, 2018 21:24:21 GMT -6
vvvvvfee, my MIL was similar to you. My H was born in a Pizza Hut parking lot so when she said their second was about to be born and the nurses didn't believe her, my FIL was like, no, we need a doctor now. My SIL was born very shortly afterwards.
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Post by bananas22 on Apr 19, 2018 21:40:18 GMT -6
I love reading everyone's stories and seeing how different many of them are.
My labor with DS was super drawn out. I had a pre term labor scare at about 33 weeks and they didn't think I would make it to 36 weeks so I had to get the shots for his lungs. However, things calmed down until I was 37 weeks. I had painful, timeable contractions so I was admitted to the hospital and they were all convinced I was having a baby that day. However my contractions fizzled out and we decided to go home rather than them breaking my water. That was on a Friday and we found ourselves back in the hospital again on Monday after more contractions. By this point, I was 5cm dilated but my contractions fizzled out again. So, again, we decided to wait it out. He was sunny side up so I was hoping he'd flip. I taught for a week at 5cm so all my coworkers were very concerned that I'd go into labor with a room full of middle schoolers.
Finally, on Sunday night, I woke up with the worst back labor. We drove the 45 minutes to the hospital and I got an epidural right away because I couldn't even think through the pain. After the epidural, it calmed down and I was able to nap for awhile. At some point on Monday morning, they decided I had made some progress, so they broke my water and soon I was complete. I pushed for about 3 hours but he wasn't coming out because he got himself stuck. We tried the vacuum, twice, which failed. One try with the vacuum failed rather spectacularly when it flew off and hit my H. At this point, they gave me the choice of forceps or a c-section. I was more than ready to be done by this point so we went with the c-section. The hardest part was not pushing while waiting for an OR to open up. The pressure was crazy. Finally DS was born via c-section at 39 weeks exactly.
I'm likely having a RCS this time due to complications from my second birth but hoping that I might get another VBAC. And that got really long.
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Post by frecklesnbrains on Apr 20, 2018 8:18:13 GMT -6
vvvvvfee, your second birth story scares me because I had a very rapid delivery with my first. I'm starting to get anxious about the timing of #2 because we have the added stress of having to deal with DS1 before heading to the hospital. I dug up DS1's birth story. Now I'm crying after reading it for the first time in a while. tl;dr After psyching myself up for a possible induction due to gestational hypertension I had a spontaneous rupture of membranes followed by rapidly progressive labor and delivery in about 4 hours on one of the busiest nights of the year on the L&D floor. I almost ended up with an unintended "natural" delivery, had last-minute spinal anesthesia, and the OB barely made it to the bedside in time. Background: The last 2-3 weeks of the pregnancy I had been diagnosed with gestational hypertension, and three days before delivery had an ultrasound that was concerning for growth restriction, with baby's estimated weight at about the 10th percentile. Everything else was looking good though, and all the tests for pre-eclampsia were negative. All that being said, my OB and I had started a conversation considering induction the following week. I was incredibly upset but had started to come around to the idea of a potential induction. DH and I spent the weekend preparing everything we could. But this baby had his own plans. He did not wait for an induction, and arrived spontaneously at 37w3d. Whirlwind delivery: At about 10pm on Sunday night just after I climbed into bed I had a single, mild contraction and felt a "pop". I went to the bathroom and there was a small amount of bright red blood. I waited for a bit, not making too much of it, thinking maybe it was mucous plug, but kept going back to the bathroom to check. The bleeding continued, so eventually I called the OB on-call line. The answering service took a message, paged the on-call, and said to call back if I didn't hear from them in 30 min. I didn't hear anything for an hour but I waited because the bleeding had slowed. Then I had a second contraction, so I called back. Again, I didn't hear back for half an hour. The third time I called the answering service forwarded me directly to the on-call OB (who happened to be my own! Amazing coincidence considering that there are over 30 MDs in the practice). I described what was going on and she said "it doesn't sound like you're in labor but we should try to understand the source of the bleeding so why don't you come into L&D". We arrived in L&D at about 1am. En route I had two or three more contractions, one associated with a gush of fluid. In L&D I was triaged as "rule out rupture of membranes" - low priority, in other words. It was a very busy night. The L&D floor was full. I lost track of time but I know it was a while before anyone saw me in triage. Meanwhile, I started having contractions and they built very rapidly, both in frequency and intensity. By the time I was assessed I was having them every 1-2 min, and was doubled over in pain. The test for fluid was positive, and I was 4cm dilated and 100% effaced. I would be admitted. I asked for an epidural at this time. When I was walking to my room I heard them call for the anesthesiologist in the room a few doors down from me. I was told I would be next in line. In the room the contractions built even more rapidly. They were back-to-back. I could feel an enormous amount of pelvic pressure and had an overwhelming urge to push. They told me not to push, but I knew this baby was coming - FAST. Sure enough, on re-check I was 10cm dilated. The anesthesiologist was still not available. I was terrified of having an unmedicated birth and started screaming bloody murder, cursing everyone out. Someone said "put some more pressure on them" but still no one came. So they called the back-up anesthesiologist. She arrived and attempted the epidural twice but my contractions were nearly continuous at this time and she could not position me appropriately, so she ended up doing a spinal anesthesia. Spinal anesthesia was beautiful and VERY strange. Instantaneously I went from the worst pain in my life to being totally numb and paralyzed. My legs were dead weights. I couldn't even feel my breasts. Even my fingers were tingly. I could not push because I felt nothing. The problem was that we were now battling the clock. We had to wait for it to wear off enough so I could push but knowing that it would completely wear off in 1-2 hours. Timing was critical. So I waited until I regained awareness of my contractions and then started pushing. I pushed for about 40 min and they called in the doctor. There was a bit of a delay because the OB was finishing another delivery but wanted to be there for mine (it's very unusual to be able to deliver your own patients!). At some point I was told "DON'T PUSH!" and there was a frantic call out to get my OB in the room. I tried not to push but baby delivered himself at 5:21am with the next contraction, just as my OB entered the room. She didn't have time to put on gloves, but caught him. He cried right away and was placed on my chest. I had two small tears that required repair, and she finished these up just as the spinal anesthesia started to wear off completely. Really, the timing was perfect. As was my tiny baby boy, who weighed in at a mere 2505g (5lb 8oz). I later found out that there had been an unprecedented number of deliveries happening that night and the few days prior. This explains why no one got back to me after I called the answering service earlier in the evening, why there was a wait in triage, and why there was a delay in anesthesia. Due to lack of rooms, they had to double up patients on the post-partum floor too, so my poor DH had to sleep in an upright chair the first night.
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Post by vvvvvfee on Apr 20, 2018 8:29:07 GMT -6
frecklesnbrains, just head right over to the hospital the minute you start to feel anything! i am going to be racing over as soon as i feel a twinge this time.
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Post by frecklesnbrains on Apr 20, 2018 10:17:34 GMT -6
frecklesnbrains , just head right over to the hospital the minute you start to feel anything! i am going to be racing over as soon as i feel a twinge this time. I think I'll have to! I worry about DH not being there for the delivery though. I don't envy those who have really long, drawn-out labors but if I just knew I had like 6-8 hours then it would be so nice.
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Post by vvvvvfee on Apr 20, 2018 10:48:49 GMT -6
frecklesnbrains, anecdotally, it seems like many women go into labor at night. evolutionarily that would make sense. more spontaneous births actually happen during daylight hours, but i would think that since most people's labors are generally longer than just a couple of hours, that would mean they're actually beginning the labor process during the night. but yes, i worry about having the baby, say, in the bathroom at work, lol.
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Post by tarheelmom on Apr 20, 2018 13:15:47 GMT -6
You ladies are making ME nervous with these quick birth stories and I was in labor for ~18hrs both times!
DD: After a month of being dilated 1cm and a bp that didn’t want to stay in a reasonable range, we had an induction scheduled for my due date. A week before the scheduled induction, I woke up at 4:30am to pee and felt a gush as I was getting out of bed and ran to the bathroom. Liquid continued to leak out so I woke DH and called the on-call dr. She said to take my time, shower, eat and come to the hospital when I was ready, so that’s what I did, wattling around with a towel between my legs and sitting on a garbage bag in the car, lol. I was getting regular, every 30 seconds contractions, but they weren’t painful. Got to the hospital around 6:30 and checked in, got to a room. I was 4cm, starting to get a little bloody show, but still not in much pain, so DH and I walked around for awhile, visited my friend who had her baby the day before. I was thinking, this is a nothing so far! Turned out my water only broke at the top, so DD may have not been quite ready to come out, just was a really strong kicker.
Around 11am, the contractions started to get much more painful so I asked them to check my progress, still only a 4 :/ So then I had to get hooked up to pitocin (which is awful), lasted a couple more hours before asking for an epidural, then another hour+ as the older nurse pretended she didn’t hear me and didn’t order one. That’s when DH got upset with her (she was pretty worthless). I was nauseous, throwing up, and had blurred vision so I couldn’t even read to distract myself. Instant relief after the epi, I could suddenly carry on a conversation with DH again. Started to progress gradually, had some chicken broth for dinner, an awesome young nurse came on duty who may be the only reason DD was actually born. She helped hold my legs and move me around the whole time I was pushing. I started pushing just before 9pm and DD was born 2 long hours later at 7lb 9.5oz. In my breaks between pushing, I gave DH updates on our fantasy football league players - it was a nice distraction from the pain. Technically I was over the acceptable 18hr window after my water broke, but was close enough for the records. I had extensive 3rd degree tearing which was a b!tch to recover from, but I didn’t feel it at the time. ———————————-
DS: After an ultrasound at 37.5 weeks where baby measured a whopping 8lbs 12.5oz, I was in for a checkup a week later and my bp was too high for them to be comfortable and I was showing no sign of going into labor on my own (0 dilation). So we agreed to schedule an induction for 39w (3 days later). The very next night, around 11pm, my Braxton Hicks suddenly changed, more painful, frequent and making me catch my breath. DH and DD were already asleep, so I decided to wait until they got worse....I thought they might fizzle out. They continued to get more painful and I spent all night awake and in the bathroom (tmi, they really got my bowels moving!). At 5am, I woke DH up and told him he should call into work. Called the on-call dr....she didn’t believe I was in labor because I was talking through my contractions. Yeah lady, been there, done that, these are the real deal, I’m just not a screamer. Contractions were about 90 seconds apart.
We got got the dogs and DD ready and dropped them off at boarding (6:30am) and preschool (7am) as soon as they opened. Headed to the hospital where they again questioned if I was in enough pain to actually be in labor. Decided to admit me since I was already scheduled to come in that night to prep for the next day induction. Got into our room and promptly ran to the bathroom to throw up. Got checked and was already at a 4cm. Asked for the epidural right away instead of messing around waiting. Had a small bp scare after the epidural, it dropped to something with a 40 in the number, super low. Water broke on it’s own around 1pm, then I started progressing pretty quickly. Once baby dropped into position where they were almost ready for me to start pushing, his heart rate started to drop every contraction. The dr told us that we needed to get him out and a c-section was the quickest route. He gave me the option to try with a vacuum extraction and we could try to get him out before the OR was prepped. I was terrified of either option, but decided to try the vacuum. DS was out after less than a minute of pushing at 8lb 12.5oz, around 4:30pm. I had very minor 2nd degree tearing which was a breeze to recover from. DS had such a huge hard head, it wasn’t even misshapenned from the vacuum. I thought it was funny that he was exactly the weight they had estimated him to be 10 days earlier - shows how off those predictions can be!
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Post by westiemom on Apr 26, 2018 16:24:21 GMT -6
Here’s mine!
We were scheduled for an induction beginning on April 19 at night. April 18 brought record flooding to our city making all the highways unreachable and blocking out path to the hospital. We had an OB appt April 18 and a BPP which were canceled. I was freaked out because she hasn't done well on BPP's in the past and I wanted her to have one last one to make sure she was ready to try a vaginal delivery! We didn't get a BPP though so we had to go in blind.
We waited on a call Tuesday to tell us if we got to go in to be induced. They called us at 3:15 and we checked in at 5:00. I was 2cm and 50% effaced and baby was at station 0. Cervadil was placed and I got some ambien and dimerol and passed out.
The cervadil was removed at 6:30 am and I took a shower and got ready for pitocin. Baby had a small decel so we had to wait an hour for pitocin to monitor her. The cervadil didn't seem to do much for me.
I made it an hour and a half with pitocin contractions and begged for an epidural which I got! It helped so much but never truly took the pain away. I tried to nap but woke up each contraction which was every 3 mins.
The OB checked me at 2:00 and I was 5cm and 90% effaced. She said she would check again at 4:00.
My mom and sister stopped by to visit and while chatting with them around 2:50, I started feeling an intense desire to poop. I told my nurse who checked me and realized I was a 9:00. My sister and mom ran for my DH who was with my dad in the waiting room. I was a 10 about 15 mins later and ready to go.
However, my OB was delivering someone else so I had to wait over an hour and labor down. Even with the epidural, this was brutal. The pressure was ungodly! My DH was the best coach ever! The nurse had me practice and her head came partially out so she made me stop and assembled a team in case my doctor didn't make it.
My doctor finally arrived and DD was born 2 pushes later! I am amazed everything went so quickly! The placenta was a bit tougher which earned me my OB reaching all the way in there and cutting it out, some antibiotics and some discomfort but no biggie overall! I have a 1st degree tear of my perineum with stitches and I tore the right side of my clit which had to also be stitched. Seriously, I didn't know you could tear your clit! She is a perfect 6 lbs 5oz and 19.5 inches long!
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Post by goldenbird on Apr 27, 2018 13:53:47 GMT -6
westiemom tearing of the clit has me feeling physical pain for you. I hope it healed completely!!
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Post by westiemom on Apr 27, 2018 20:25:20 GMT -6
westiemom tearing of the clit has me feeling physical pain for you. I hope it healed completely!! Honestly, that was the most shocking part of the whole birth! It’s healed up fine now thankfully! 😂
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