Hi everyone Finally getting 10min to catch up !
So hope ye don't mind sharing my birth story , ill keep it brief cause I could be here for days. So was 10 days over and brought in at 7am for scheduled induction . On the labour ward by 7.45 and examined by midwife . Was 1cm still and " favourable " they also discover that my back waters had broken oops I completely didn't notice when so had to get IV anit biotics four hourly up to delivery to treat / prevent any infection . Plan of action was one round of prolactin gel to get things going , wait 6 hours and then as waters gone straight to oxytocin drip . Ok due to emergency s gel not administered till 12am . Then lots n lots of walking in circles around the hospital lol......... At this point tracing of baby shows Sean is in great form and doing very well . Me I'm having very mild cramps , kinda like a period pain you would take a hot water bottle to bed for . I constantly felt a need to wee . 6pm re-examined I was now 2cm after 5 hours ! Gel not so successful but my waters had broken so none left ! Not sure where they went as I had no gush or leakage . Can only guess it was to do with all the weeing that they came out at the same time ? Its a bit of a mystery !
Anyway midwife decided to move me to the delivery suite to start drip this was at 7pm ...........at 9pm still waiting on room to become free I had decided to get epidural at same time as drip so also waiting on anitiasthist . 10pm room available but no anitiasthist as one had gone home sick and the other was in surgery . This stage I'm still having bad period pains but very manageable and am 3cm . Baby still happy out . At 11pm I decided to let the oxytocin drip be started without epidural with the promise that they would be there in the next hour . Well you can guess what happened next !!
I went from NO pain to SERIOUS UNRELENTING contractions , OMG they were horrific how quickly they came on . I had a midwife that was less than sympathetic shall we say ! Due to the awful heartburn I'd had I was vomiting acid in buckets too ! Tried gas n air and that too made me sick , nothing for it but to breath !! My poor OH got an awful fright how quickly it all happened .
So after 2 hours of contractions I was 6cm ....... Baby tolerating drip and doing ok . No sign of my epidural eventually after 2.30 hours he arrived and boy was I happy to see him . So Epidural in and OH steps out of the room for air ( to recover ) for 10 mins . He leaves me sitting up happy out smiling and comes back to a very different scene .
When he was gone they increased the strength of the drip to speed things along , all of a sudden alarms go off , I'm told to move onto my left , onto my right , 10 people come running into the room . No-one telling me what's going on ! Eventually they tell me baby heart rate had dropped from consistant 140 to below 70 and was not recovering . They called at catagory 1 c section and began prepping me for theater , poor oh walked in to the room with 20 people in it , me flat out in a gown , alarms going , he got an awful fright . I was rushed off out the door on the trolley by him , they did not wait for him to change before begining the section but he got there just as baby came out . There was no crying .. It was the loudest silence I've every or will ever experience . Two paediatricians took baby immediately to resus . No one in the room was saying anything , the only sound was me sobbing . After what seemed like forever I heard the most precious sound , SEAN cried
He had gone into fetal distress , either from the drip , not tolerating the epidural and also had pooed and swallowed the macomium . The ped took him off for a head to toe and to see if he had inhaled the poo to his lungs . I went into shock my bp dropped , I was in and out of consciousness , freezing cold and uncontrollable shaking alongside vomiting . Thankfully the OH have gone with Sean so didn't see this I'd say it was scary to see , it was scary to feel lol .
After what felt like an age ( prob 30-60 mins) I was wheeled to recovery swaddled in an electric blanket and daddy brought Sean in to me .He was perfect from head to toe , apart from a little shocked like his mum and very hungry overall the experience was not what I had hoped for but I would do it all again and more in a heartbeat for the amazing gift from God I've been given
but for now take it easy and recover and spoil both yourself and Sean as much as you can!
to everyone!
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