Armywife
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After an awful, traumatic birth with my first dd my consultant and i decided a section would be best for me this time around. My story this time is very positive, even though it wasn't free from complications.
My section was booked for 14th March but on friday 11th i started having contractions every 7 - 10 minutes. To cut a long story short i made it through the weekend in slow labour and managed my scheduled date.
I arrived on the ward at 7am, i was so nervous i couldn't stop shaking and bursting into tears (partly due to leaving Poppy). I was very happy to find there was just me and one other woman in for sections that day so i wouldn't be in for too long a wait. The nurse appeared and started through my paperwork and i had a visit from the anesthesiologist and from the consultant who was to perform my section, they were both wonderful, so reassuring and sympathetic. I was expecting to be the one to wait as i arrived after the other lady but to my shock they called me almost straight away, never had jelly legs like it in my life!
When we got down to theatre they took hubby away to get scrubbed up and i was taken into theatre for my spinal. This was the bit i'd been dreading, i'd had an epidural with Poppy but was in so much pain i didn't feel it, this time i would be fully aware! It wasn't half as bad as i thought though, the cannula in my hand hurt much more than the spinal did. I leaned over a cushion and cried whilst the anesthesiologist got started, all i felt were a few sharp scratches as they say and then my legs started to go numb. It was actually a lovely feeling, my feet had been freezing all day and now they were nice and warm! I was a little concerned as i'd been expecting the big sheet in front of me as it is on One Born Every Minute but all they did was drape my gown over a bar ! It did obscure my view but it was a bit of a shock.
When they were all ready they got hubby in and said they were ready to begin, at which point i had a major panic as i could feel baby moving so was convinced that the spinal wasn't working! Then i caught sight of my stomach in the consultants glasses and realised that infact they were well under way and i hadn't felt a thing! After lots of pulling and tugging (at one poing one of the consultants had her leg on the side of the operating table for support whilst she pulled my tummy open!) they asked my hubby if he wanted to see her come out so he stood up and saw Imogen being born! He just kept saying 'She's so beautiful!'. She cried almost straight away which set me off, it was such an amazing feeling, i can't remember Poppy being born so this part was very special to me. They let me have a few seconds of skin to skin before rushing her off to be warmed up and for daddy to cut the cord.
This is where things went a little pear shaped. Imogen had been dressed and was with her daddy by my side when i suddenly felt awful pain in the top of my tummy. It was so bad i couldn't even speak i just sort of squealed at them. Turns out my spinal hadn't gone high enough so whilst they were working in my upper abdomen i felt everything. The anesthesiologist was amazing though and put lots of extra pain relief into my cannula and gave me gas and air. It didn't take the pain away but it did make things bearable.
They told me they were going to start stitching me up and had finished work high up so i wouldn't feel anything more. A few minutes later there was a huge spurt of blood which went all over the consultants faces and suddenly everyone was whispering and hubby was being rushed out. It was all very discreet and i wasn't really aware at this point that anything was wrong, i just thought it was procedure. It turns out i was having a massive bleed, hubby said my tummy just filled with blood and it was gushing off the table. Everything seemed to go so slowly and in a huge blurr after that, i felt really sick and dizzy and just wanted it all over.
All in all i was in theatre for 2 hours 40 minutes and i lost 2500mls of blood which meant i had to have blood transfusions and i still feel very weak and drained. I was allowed out of hospital yesterday 3 days after her birth and apart from looking dreadful and feeling very weak i'm doing very well.
The most amazing thing for me is that although there were problems i still feel like i had an amazing, positive experience, i'm glad i chose to go with a c section and i'd be happy to do it again. I'm so happy that i got to enjoy the birth and that i can remember holding Imogen for the first time, all the little things i missed out on with Poppy.
So here she is, our newest little bundle, Imogen Rose Clementine, born 14th March 2011 at 10.21 am weighing 6lbs 15.5 oz
Imogen
With mummy just after first blood transfusion
With Daddy and Poppy
My section was booked for 14th March but on friday 11th i started having contractions every 7 - 10 minutes. To cut a long story short i made it through the weekend in slow labour and managed my scheduled date.
I arrived on the ward at 7am, i was so nervous i couldn't stop shaking and bursting into tears (partly due to leaving Poppy). I was very happy to find there was just me and one other woman in for sections that day so i wouldn't be in for too long a wait. The nurse appeared and started through my paperwork and i had a visit from the anesthesiologist and from the consultant who was to perform my section, they were both wonderful, so reassuring and sympathetic. I was expecting to be the one to wait as i arrived after the other lady but to my shock they called me almost straight away, never had jelly legs like it in my life!
When we got down to theatre they took hubby away to get scrubbed up and i was taken into theatre for my spinal. This was the bit i'd been dreading, i'd had an epidural with Poppy but was in so much pain i didn't feel it, this time i would be fully aware! It wasn't half as bad as i thought though, the cannula in my hand hurt much more than the spinal did. I leaned over a cushion and cried whilst the anesthesiologist got started, all i felt were a few sharp scratches as they say and then my legs started to go numb. It was actually a lovely feeling, my feet had been freezing all day and now they were nice and warm! I was a little concerned as i'd been expecting the big sheet in front of me as it is on One Born Every Minute but all they did was drape my gown over a bar ! It did obscure my view but it was a bit of a shock.
When they were all ready they got hubby in and said they were ready to begin, at which point i had a major panic as i could feel baby moving so was convinced that the spinal wasn't working! Then i caught sight of my stomach in the consultants glasses and realised that infact they were well under way and i hadn't felt a thing! After lots of pulling and tugging (at one poing one of the consultants had her leg on the side of the operating table for support whilst she pulled my tummy open!) they asked my hubby if he wanted to see her come out so he stood up and saw Imogen being born! He just kept saying 'She's so beautiful!'. She cried almost straight away which set me off, it was such an amazing feeling, i can't remember Poppy being born so this part was very special to me. They let me have a few seconds of skin to skin before rushing her off to be warmed up and for daddy to cut the cord.
This is where things went a little pear shaped. Imogen had been dressed and was with her daddy by my side when i suddenly felt awful pain in the top of my tummy. It was so bad i couldn't even speak i just sort of squealed at them. Turns out my spinal hadn't gone high enough so whilst they were working in my upper abdomen i felt everything. The anesthesiologist was amazing though and put lots of extra pain relief into my cannula and gave me gas and air. It didn't take the pain away but it did make things bearable.
They told me they were going to start stitching me up and had finished work high up so i wouldn't feel anything more. A few minutes later there was a huge spurt of blood which went all over the consultants faces and suddenly everyone was whispering and hubby was being rushed out. It was all very discreet and i wasn't really aware at this point that anything was wrong, i just thought it was procedure. It turns out i was having a massive bleed, hubby said my tummy just filled with blood and it was gushing off the table. Everything seemed to go so slowly and in a huge blurr after that, i felt really sick and dizzy and just wanted it all over.
All in all i was in theatre for 2 hours 40 minutes and i lost 2500mls of blood which meant i had to have blood transfusions and i still feel very weak and drained. I was allowed out of hospital yesterday 3 days after her birth and apart from looking dreadful and feeling very weak i'm doing very well.
The most amazing thing for me is that although there were problems i still feel like i had an amazing, positive experience, i'm glad i chose to go with a c section and i'd be happy to do it again. I'm so happy that i got to enjoy the birth and that i can remember holding Imogen for the first time, all the little things i missed out on with Poppy.
So here she is, our newest little bundle, Imogen Rose Clementine, born 14th March 2011 at 10.21 am weighing 6lbs 15.5 oz
Imogen
With mummy just after first blood transfusion
With Daddy and Poppy
love the name too!
