Hope everyone is ok.
A week ago today I went into triage as I wasn't feeling her move quite as much as normal, I've had a few episodes of reduced movement where everything was ok but I wanted to check and had a feeling something was not right, I'd had a couple of nights where I didn't feel her much at all during the night.
Little Blue's heartrate kept temporarily dropping to 100/90 on the CTG, then going back up to normal. The hospital decided to start induction that evening as the front of the cervix started opening and they were concerned about the reduced movements, things moved really fast. They thought it would take a couple of days but the first stage worked too quickly and I was getting more than 3 contractions in 10 mins, her heartrate kept dipping more often when they put me on the CTG. They decided to send me to delivery to break my waters as I was 2/3cm dilated after a couple of hours. When I got to delivery they decided to do a emergency c-section, she then had a prolonged decelleration of heartrate and the alarm started going off, they gave me a spinal block but it didn't work quickly enough so they did a general as they couldn't wait another minute. She had the cord around her neck and as she dropped down it had been putting her into distress.
Little Blue made it, she's on the mend now after several days in the neo natal unit and we are all home. She's so tiny she is pretty confused about feeding, only 5lbs but she's so beautiful and I feel like the luckiest woman in the world. I really think she wouldn't have made it if I hadn't had gone in that day. Tasha, I cannot thank you enough for sharing your story about Orion, I really think that without that and the sticky post about the importance of checking for reduced movement where the OP went in for reduced movement and ended up with a crash section as her LO's heartrate was 60, I wouldn't have been so vigilant and she wouldn't be here today. I read my notes today and it says section due to immediate threat to life of woman or fetus, it really makes me realise how serious things got.
Thank you so much for all of your support ladies, I couldn't have got through PARL without you!
NDH - congratulations! Lovely family photos
Hope - Oscar is a lovely name. we got the angelcare 701 in the end.
Loeylo - hope everything is good with you
A week ago today I went into triage as I wasn't feeling her move quite as much as normal, I've had a few episodes of reduced movement where everything was ok but I wanted to check and had a feeling something was not right, I'd had a couple of nights where I didn't feel her much at all during the night.
Little Blue's heartrate kept temporarily dropping to 100/90 on the CTG, then going back up to normal. The hospital decided to start induction that evening as the front of the cervix started opening and they were concerned about the reduced movements, things moved really fast. They thought it would take a couple of days but the first stage worked too quickly and I was getting more than 3 contractions in 10 mins, her heartrate kept dipping more often when they put me on the CTG. They decided to send me to delivery to break my waters as I was 2/3cm dilated after a couple of hours. When I got to delivery they decided to do a emergency c-section, she then had a prolonged decelleration of heartrate and the alarm started going off, they gave me a spinal block but it didn't work quickly enough so they did a general as they couldn't wait another minute. She had the cord around her neck and as she dropped down it had been putting her into distress.
Little Blue made it, she's on the mend now after several days in the neo natal unit and we are all home. She's so tiny she is pretty confused about feeding, only 5lbs but she's so beautiful and I feel like the luckiest woman in the world. I really think she wouldn't have made it if I hadn't had gone in that day. Tasha, I cannot thank you enough for sharing your story about Orion, I really think that without that and the sticky post about the importance of checking for reduced movement where the OP went in for reduced movement and ended up with a crash section as her LO's heartrate was 60, I wouldn't have been so vigilant and she wouldn't be here today. I read my notes today and it says section due to immediate threat to life of woman or fetus, it really makes me realise how serious things got.
Thank you so much for all of your support ladies, I couldn't have got through PARL without you!
NDH - congratulations! Lovely family photos
Hope - Oscar is a lovely name
. we got the angelcare 701 in the end.Loeylo - hope everything is good with you
