brittany12
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any 2nd or more time mommas feel like telling their previous labor stories while we wait out third tri?
Here’s mine:
BABY 1:
Induction at 39w 3d due to preeclampsia. Planned to start with cervadil to soften cervix.
Went into hospital at 6am. Got set up and monitored and was actually having contractions on my own but nothing I even could realize. I was 2cm and 50% which was up from not even 1cm and barely effaced at all! Believe the nurse did a sweep when she checked as it was rough and right after I lost my mucous plug. Labored forever it seemed and they broke my waters around 12:00pm to speed things up as I was only 3cm. Not too long after that I got the epidural because the IV pain meds did nothing but make me so loopy I couldn’t focus. Things at this point were a blur.. the epidural was probably around 3-4pm. I was only maybe 6cm around 7-8pm. And only made it to 7cm by midnight. They kept turning my pitocin off due to long contractions or something. Had back labor around 3-4am for over an hour. Finally got to get some sleep around 6am (24 hours after getting to hospital) around 7am we started pitocin again and cranked it up. I was getting to the point where infections were at risk. By 10am I was 10cm. Dr checked me was super rude and basically said I wasn’t ready. 11:15am the nurse had me set up to start pushing and my actual dr came in to say I’m not even sure what he said but he walked back out and said he’d be back in a minute. 11:20 something we started pushing. 11:45 the nurse is calling all kind of people over the headphone to hurry up. Everyone including doctor runs in and she was born at 11:56am! Perfect, healthy and no tearing!
Baby 2:
Monday 1/15/18 was check at dr office everything was perfect and only 1cm and 50% I was 39 weeks and we did a membrane strip. Wednesday 1/17/19 I cleaned and danced with DD all day. That evening after dinner I made myself a milkshake. Around 8pm I started to feel nauseous and thought it was the shake. We all went to bed around 9pm and I joked about how I haven’t had any contractions. 10pm I really started to feel sick and went to lay in my living room on the couch so I didn’t wake dh. 11pm I started to vomit. This of course brought on contractions. I laid on the couch watching tv, feeling nauseous and taking note of contractions. They were all over the place. Around 3am I called hospital and they said drink some water and lay down and see if they ease up or spread out, if not then come in. None of them were painful and they did spread out. Finally around 5am I fell asleep. Husband woke at 6am and I told him he couldn’t go to work. He laid on the couch and let me have the bed for the next hour. I called my dr office when they opened and they said my doc was in surgery and to go to hospital and he could see me there. We got ready and bags packed and DD to my in laws. Finally got to the hospital around 9:30-10am. Got checked in and set up to be monitored. Blood pressure was high and protein in my urine and the nurse asked me about my history with preeclampsia. Some Dr came in said “are you feeling better” I said I haven’t thrown up in awhile and she said “ok” and discharged me. I demanded they call my doctor. They discharged me but said I could wait in waiting room for him. He saw my in the ball and had me come to his office to be checked at 3 that afternoon. It was lunch time so we ate and walked the mall until appointment. Once in his office my blood pressure was still high, +2 for protein in urine and I was 4cm dilated. He admitted me to start a slow drip of pitocin through the night and have baby in morning. We finally got back over to hospital and settled around 5pm 1/18/18 and they had DH get us dinner. We got to see DD for a few around 7pm and then we got IV and pitocin going around 8pm. His heart rate was fluctuating pretty bad so we had the dose really low. Eventually had to turn it off and labor on my own. Contractions were 5min apart and never got closer. I did this til 4am when I finally got to 6cm and could get epidural. Tried pitocin again at this point and he couldn’t handle it so turned back off to labor on my own and could not get my epidural meds because they didn’t want to slow down anything. 6-am my water broke on it’s own. 7am I was checked and still only 6-7cm. They had my on oxygen as well which they started around the time they turned off the pitocin after epidural. 8am nurse had me prepped in case I needed an emergency csection to get him out because of distress. But let me stay in one position that kept his heart rate up and me breathing oxygen. Finally 9am I was checked and completed. Tried a push and his heart stopped. She flipped me and pushed on me and got his heart back up and called OR to get me ready called my dr to rush in. He came in at 9:05 probably. Talked to me for a couple minutes while other people came in. Say on the bed beside me and told the nurse how to position my bed (head down butt up) he said next contraction push hard, I did. They all were yelling at me to breathe deep breaths and push with next contraction. I did and he was born at 9:37am perfectly healthy, ALIVE but totally tangled in his cord. I cried for a solid 5-10 minutes in dis belief that he was ok! No tearing and we went home the next day!
Mine were so long and hoping this last one is super easy, quick, safe and all the good things!!
Here’s mine:
BABY 1:
Induction at 39w 3d due to preeclampsia. Planned to start with cervadil to soften cervix.
Went into hospital at 6am. Got set up and monitored and was actually having contractions on my own but nothing I even could realize. I was 2cm and 50% which was up from not even 1cm and barely effaced at all! Believe the nurse did a sweep when she checked as it was rough and right after I lost my mucous plug. Labored forever it seemed and they broke my waters around 12:00pm to speed things up as I was only 3cm. Not too long after that I got the epidural because the IV pain meds did nothing but make me so loopy I couldn’t focus. Things at this point were a blur.. the epidural was probably around 3-4pm. I was only maybe 6cm around 7-8pm. And only made it to 7cm by midnight. They kept turning my pitocin off due to long contractions or something. Had back labor around 3-4am for over an hour. Finally got to get some sleep around 6am (24 hours after getting to hospital) around 7am we started pitocin again and cranked it up. I was getting to the point where infections were at risk. By 10am I was 10cm. Dr checked me was super rude and basically said I wasn’t ready. 11:15am the nurse had me set up to start pushing and my actual dr came in to say I’m not even sure what he said but he walked back out and said he’d be back in a minute. 11:20 something we started pushing. 11:45 the nurse is calling all kind of people over the headphone to hurry up. Everyone including doctor runs in and she was born at 11:56am! Perfect, healthy and no tearing!
Baby 2:
Monday 1/15/18 was check at dr office everything was perfect and only 1cm and 50% I was 39 weeks and we did a membrane strip. Wednesday 1/17/19 I cleaned and danced with DD all day. That evening after dinner I made myself a milkshake. Around 8pm I started to feel nauseous and thought it was the shake. We all went to bed around 9pm and I joked about how I haven’t had any contractions. 10pm I really started to feel sick and went to lay in my living room on the couch so I didn’t wake dh. 11pm I started to vomit. This of course brought on contractions. I laid on the couch watching tv, feeling nauseous and taking note of contractions. They were all over the place. Around 3am I called hospital and they said drink some water and lay down and see if they ease up or spread out, if not then come in. None of them were painful and they did spread out. Finally around 5am I fell asleep. Husband woke at 6am and I told him he couldn’t go to work. He laid on the couch and let me have the bed for the next hour. I called my dr office when they opened and they said my doc was in surgery and to go to hospital and he could see me there. We got ready and bags packed and DD to my in laws. Finally got to the hospital around 9:30-10am. Got checked in and set up to be monitored. Blood pressure was high and protein in my urine and the nurse asked me about my history with preeclampsia. Some Dr came in said “are you feeling better” I said I haven’t thrown up in awhile and she said “ok” and discharged me. I demanded they call my doctor. They discharged me but said I could wait in waiting room for him. He saw my in the ball and had me come to his office to be checked at 3 that afternoon. It was lunch time so we ate and walked the mall until appointment. Once in his office my blood pressure was still high, +2 for protein in urine and I was 4cm dilated. He admitted me to start a slow drip of pitocin through the night and have baby in morning. We finally got back over to hospital and settled around 5pm 1/18/18 and they had DH get us dinner. We got to see DD for a few around 7pm and then we got IV and pitocin going around 8pm. His heart rate was fluctuating pretty bad so we had the dose really low. Eventually had to turn it off and labor on my own. Contractions were 5min apart and never got closer. I did this til 4am when I finally got to 6cm and could get epidural. Tried pitocin again at this point and he couldn’t handle it so turned back off to labor on my own and could not get my epidural meds because they didn’t want to slow down anything. 6-am my water broke on it’s own. 7am I was checked and still only 6-7cm. They had my on oxygen as well which they started around the time they turned off the pitocin after epidural. 8am nurse had me prepped in case I needed an emergency csection to get him out because of distress. But let me stay in one position that kept his heart rate up and me breathing oxygen. Finally 9am I was checked and completed. Tried a push and his heart stopped. She flipped me and pushed on me and got his heart back up and called OR to get me ready called my dr to rush in. He came in at 9:05 probably. Talked to me for a couple minutes while other people came in. Say on the bed beside me and told the nurse how to position my bed (head down butt up) he said next contraction push hard, I did. They all were yelling at me to breathe deep breaths and push with next contraction. I did and he was born at 9:37am perfectly healthy, ALIVE but totally tangled in his cord. I cried for a solid 5-10 minutes in dis belief that he was ok! No tearing and we went home the next day!
Mine were so long and hoping this last one is super easy, quick, safe and all the good things!!
