Amsan
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Now that I'm *somewhat* less drugged, I'll see how much of my birth story I can remember lol.
I started having some pretty inconsistent contractions Friday afternoon around lunch time. I didn't think anything of it because, well, it had been pretty normal and I wasn't 100% sure I was having actual contractions as they weren't terribly painful. Work was letting me off early anyway, so I wasn't too worried but I still started to time them. They were pretty inconsistent, usually between 5-10 minutes apart. I thought it was nothing, so mom and I went and had dinner. At dinner, the contractions finally were starting to hurt. I figured after dinner, I'd go home and shower and see if they were the real deal. By the time we had gotten home and I had showered, they REALLY hurt and there was NO denying it!
Got to the hospital around 5:30-6:00 pm. The doctor was telling me that the machine wasn't picking up my contractions, and he couldn't feel my stomach tightening up either with his own hands. When we got there, I was only dilated to a 1 still. After he told me this, I had just lost it. I knew there was no way I could handle "real" labor, if that in fact wasn't it!
Another nurse came in and suggested I sit up and see if the contractions would be picked up then. And wouldn't you know it, they started to register on the monitor! An hour after getting to the hospital, I was already dilated to a 3 so they finally admitted me and gave me a shot of synthetic morphine to take the edge off until I get the epidural.
Sent me upstairs, by the time I got the epidural I was at 4 cm dilated. Then it just stalled out. Finally at 5 cm they broke my water to help speed things up.
After I got the epidural I wasn't feeling ANYTHING. I could move my legs, etc but I wasn't feeling ANY contractions. At all. And I was NOT complaining.
During this time, they started to notice that Lucas' heart beat was dropping significantly low to about 60 bpm during my contractions, but would also jump right back up to his normal rate. They put me on oxygen and did an amnioinfusion to see if that would help things out. It didn't. They didn't want it to turn into an emergency scenario so they had discussed doing a c section. At this point I believe I was at a 5 or 7 cm dilated and they were waiting on my regular OB to come in and make the decision. While they were waiting, they decided to go ahead and prep me for a c section, meaning they gave me ANOTHER dose of an epidural, as well as a shot to stop my contractions to give the baby a break.
As soon as my doctor got there, he decided we would try a vacuum assist instead of a c section as I was already at 9 cm dilated. By this point, with the second epidural, I felt absolutely NOTHING. I couldn't move my legs. I couldn't feel anyone touching my legs. I couldn't feel ANYTHING from the waist down. I was terrified I wouldn't have been able to push because I couldn't feel anything to push! My doctor decided to do a few practice runs to see how well I would do with pushing since I couldn't feel anything. He started saying anything and everything to piss me off to get me to actually push. I finally told them to shut the epidural off so I could feel something in order TO push. This was done at 2:30am on 10/12/13. By 3:19, I had finally managed to feel enough to push this little guy out! And I didn't feel ANYTHING. I felt the pressure from him coming out, and that was it. I didn't feel the crowning. Nadda.
And he is so far perfectly content and happy and healthy!!!!
Just wanted to update on a separate thread so it wouldn't be hard to go through 50+ pages just for the birth story and pictures!
Can't wait to hear from the rest of you ladies and I will see you in the baby club!
I started having some pretty inconsistent contractions Friday afternoon around lunch time. I didn't think anything of it because, well, it had been pretty normal and I wasn't 100% sure I was having actual contractions as they weren't terribly painful. Work was letting me off early anyway, so I wasn't too worried but I still started to time them. They were pretty inconsistent, usually between 5-10 minutes apart. I thought it was nothing, so mom and I went and had dinner. At dinner, the contractions finally were starting to hurt. I figured after dinner, I'd go home and shower and see if they were the real deal. By the time we had gotten home and I had showered, they REALLY hurt and there was NO denying it!
Got to the hospital around 5:30-6:00 pm. The doctor was telling me that the machine wasn't picking up my contractions, and he couldn't feel my stomach tightening up either with his own hands. When we got there, I was only dilated to a 1 still. After he told me this, I had just lost it. I knew there was no way I could handle "real" labor, if that in fact wasn't it!
Another nurse came in and suggested I sit up and see if the contractions would be picked up then. And wouldn't you know it, they started to register on the monitor! An hour after getting to the hospital, I was already dilated to a 3 so they finally admitted me and gave me a shot of synthetic morphine to take the edge off until I get the epidural.
Sent me upstairs, by the time I got the epidural I was at 4 cm dilated. Then it just stalled out. Finally at 5 cm they broke my water to help speed things up.
After I got the epidural I wasn't feeling ANYTHING. I could move my legs, etc but I wasn't feeling ANY contractions. At all. And I was NOT complaining.
During this time, they started to notice that Lucas' heart beat was dropping significantly low to about 60 bpm during my contractions, but would also jump right back up to his normal rate. They put me on oxygen and did an amnioinfusion to see if that would help things out. It didn't. They didn't want it to turn into an emergency scenario so they had discussed doing a c section. At this point I believe I was at a 5 or 7 cm dilated and they were waiting on my regular OB to come in and make the decision. While they were waiting, they decided to go ahead and prep me for a c section, meaning they gave me ANOTHER dose of an epidural, as well as a shot to stop my contractions to give the baby a break.
As soon as my doctor got there, he decided we would try a vacuum assist instead of a c section as I was already at 9 cm dilated. By this point, with the second epidural, I felt absolutely NOTHING. I couldn't move my legs. I couldn't feel anyone touching my legs. I couldn't feel ANYTHING from the waist down. I was terrified I wouldn't have been able to push because I couldn't feel anything to push! My doctor decided to do a few practice runs to see how well I would do with pushing since I couldn't feel anything. He started saying anything and everything to piss me off to get me to actually push. I finally told them to shut the epidural off so I could feel something in order TO push. This was done at 2:30am on 10/12/13. By 3:19, I had finally managed to feel enough to push this little guy out! And I didn't feel ANYTHING. I felt the pressure from him coming out, and that was it. I didn't feel the crowning. Nadda.
And he is so far perfectly content and happy and healthy!!!!
Just wanted to update on a separate thread so it wouldn't be hard to go through 50+ pages just for the birth story and pictures!
Can't wait to hear from the rest of you ladies and I will see you in the baby club!
But he definitely looks like a Lucas to me! I am so absolutely smitten with him.
