piratetwinkie
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Val was born on September 19th (Pirate's Day
)
I started out the 19th by going to my weekly perinatal appt for gestational diabetes where they monitor the tummy for half an hour and do a quick scan. Id been having little contractions for a week but hadnt felt any pain.
Then after that i went to my appt with my ob/gyn and he said i was 1cm dilated and could have him any day.
After my doctors appts i had lunch and went to take a nap around 2pm because i started having a little bit of pain from the contrations. I woke up around 5pm with very painful contractions about 3 to 5 minutes apart so i woke up "daddy" and took a quick shower before we left to the hospital.
Since id already pre registered we went straight into a room and a nurse checked me and said i was still 1cm dilated and had us lay around for an hour. The nurse then told us she would be giving me a pain med shot and send me home. She checked me one more time and this broke my waters. Nurse called my ob/gyn to get everything ready and we found out he was on a plane to a convention
.
After six hours of contractions my doctor sent in his backup and i finaly got some pain meds to relieve the contraction pains and help me sleep a little. About eight hours in i was around 3cm dilated and baby's heartbeat was getting slower. They put me on oxygen and turned me over on the side which seemed to help. The nurses started discussing a c section which made me very upset and scared.
A few hours later i was 7cm and recieved my epidural which to me felt alot like getting a cavity filled but in your spine, the medicine itself feels like a cup of cold water going down.
When i was 10cm i started pushing. After a few pushes the doc tried to use the vacumn but to no avail. The doc then cut me up a little and pulled the baby out with some metal forcep looking things. The umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck twice. After a few panicky moments a could hear him cry and knew he would be alright. Im very grateful.
Thanks to the epidural, the delivery for me was painless.
)I started out the 19th by going to my weekly perinatal appt for gestational diabetes where they monitor the tummy for half an hour and do a quick scan. Id been having little contractions for a week but hadnt felt any pain.
Then after that i went to my appt with my ob/gyn and he said i was 1cm dilated and could have him any day.
After my doctors appts i had lunch and went to take a nap around 2pm because i started having a little bit of pain from the contrations. I woke up around 5pm with very painful contractions about 3 to 5 minutes apart so i woke up "daddy" and took a quick shower before we left to the hospital.
Since id already pre registered we went straight into a room and a nurse checked me and said i was still 1cm dilated and had us lay around for an hour. The nurse then told us she would be giving me a pain med shot and send me home. She checked me one more time and this broke my waters. Nurse called my ob/gyn to get everything ready and we found out he was on a plane to a convention
. After six hours of contractions my doctor sent in his backup and i finaly got some pain meds to relieve the contraction pains and help me sleep a little. About eight hours in i was around 3cm dilated and baby's heartbeat was getting slower. They put me on oxygen and turned me over on the side which seemed to help. The nurses started discussing a c section which made me very upset and scared.
A few hours later i was 7cm and recieved my epidural which to me felt alot like getting a cavity filled but in your spine, the medicine itself feels like a cup of cold water going down.
When i was 10cm i started pushing. After a few pushes the doc tried to use the vacumn but to no avail. The doc then cut me up a little and pulled the baby out with some metal forcep looking things. The umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck twice. After a few panicky moments a could hear him cry and knew he would be alright. Im very grateful.
Thanks to the epidural, the delivery for me was painless.
