My home-birth / transfer / C-Section birth story (long)

[Heidi]

thanks for sharing your birth story

 

[foxyroxie]

congrats hun xx

 

[Celesse]

Thank you for sharing your story, you are a brave lady who remained calm throughout. I think I would have also avoided an instrumental delivery at that point, can I ask if they found out why your daughters heart rate accelerated so much? xx

They didn't find out for certain. Both of us had a high temperature for about 6 hours after delivery and during labour. I had intravenous paracetamol in labour which failed to bring down her pulse. They suspected it was some kind of infection (I guess uterus infection) which was able to resolve itself after labour. At the rate I was dilating it could have been another 4 hours until I reached fully dilated, and because of the epidural I would have needed to wait an hour to push and maybe take an hour to push her out. That would have meant a possible 6 additional hours exposed to an infection which could have been very dangerous for her as a newborn.