miel
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my birth story ....sorry if none make sens ...it's hard for me to write a long story in english 
I closed my shop like every other night on Thursday December 3rd (38 weeks 4 days pregnant )...
December 4th Friday morning 3:15 AM i wake up with some mild types periods cramps ...i wake up my husband telling him probably the cauliflowers i ate for lunch disturbed me a little
.He take a quick look at me and said .."are you nuts laetitia ! it's not your lunch ..you are probably in labor..."
For some weird reasons i thought it could not be it ...so funny how you cant wait to be in labor and once the signs are there you kind of refuse to believe it can be it !!!...anyway by 6 AM we decided to time my "cramps" to see if they were actually contractions .
They were pretty irregular some strong ones and mild ones ...but Daniel decided to call Wikimedia (work)to let them know he was not coming so he could go to the flower market for me.
i stayed at home all morning we even went for a walk and took our dog to the park and by noon my contractions were about every 10 minutes or so ...by 2:30 pm every 5 minutes and regular .
We decide to go ahead and go to the hospital my mum from France and my husband . ...i got check in around 3 pm to be told i was only 1.5 cm dilated...grrr...all this pain and just 1.5 cm ?!!! lucky my own OBGYN was on labor &delivery floor so she cameand gave me some options ...i could go back home or i could stay and go to the cafeteria and see what will happen...but she thought i was not going to be back until well probably in the middle of the night
...every nurses and docs told us" you have time it's going to take a while...it's your first baby etc..."
I was so in pain and kind of felt embarrass that i had rush to the hospital and to be told i was only 1.5 cm dilated i thought well maybe i would go back home and come back...but my husband said to me ...listen i dont feel it i think we should stay wait and see ...so we all end up at the cafeteria ...after a hour and me on my four on the floor and moaning and cursing both in english and french the all time , we decided to go back to labor and delivery....We were received not so well ..the nurse were laughing at us !! they probably thought we were crazy and we did not know nothing about being in labor since it was our first time ...anyway once you there they have to check you anyhow...well we find out i was already 5 cm dilated !!! wow in 1 hour i had progress so much ...in the cafeteria all by myself !!! the nurse was like "well done you did a great job !!! but really i wanted to punch her in her face ...instead of being in a nice little room i was on a dirty cafeteria floor !
by then it was around 5 or 6 pm also cant remember exactly the hour ...i went along for couples more hours without pain medication but for some reason i had a very bad pain on my right side ( and i had this nagging soreness for the past couples of weeks and i think the baby was positioned in a way that he press something there for a while ) anyway i could not take it any more they gave me the option of taking Fentenol...this was great but only for short relief ...still this pain on my right side ...anyway after a hour i said the magic word (so i thought at the time ) give me the EPIDURAL now !!! i dont know how long it took for the guy that give them to come around i was so much in pain (specially on my right side ) i stop looking at the clock ..forgot to said by the time i got readmitted my own obgyn had gone home but to my surprise the attending obgyn was the same lady that confirm Daniel and i pregnancy with our first scan ( we all recognize each other in the bedroom).
they all told me with the epidural you going to feel GREAT!! everyone with a smile on theirs faces ...i did not feel a thing with the epi..i guess you looking to get some relief with it so you kind of forget about the big needle !!...the anesthesia guy keep telling me ..in next couples minutes you going to feel so good!!!
he leaves the room and with in minutes i cant feel my left side body and a horrible horrible pain on my right side ...my left body was so numb i experienced what they call "phantoms pains " by that they mean you body is not in pain but your brain register the pain still like someone have their leg amputated and they can still feel their leg in their mind ...after a hour of agony and me screaming after Daniel telling him to move my left leg or my body ..poor guy he was bending my leg up to my head and me i kept telling him ...no you are not you not doing anything ! it's still hurt ! Daniel do something !..i think he even bite my toes at one point
by then the medical staff realize something was obviously wrong and decide to call back the anesthesia doc...he come in again...and believe for some weird reason the epi did not work and my body took all the meds from it from once side (the left ) and my right side did not get any ...so they make me roll over to my right side to see if the meds will pass on that side...nope not working so he said i am going to add more medecine....i think we feel so bad we agree on anything they tell us to do...so he goes he add more ... i felt so sick ...i am now puking all over and still in really bad pains ...so he decided he was going to remove my epi and do a other one...still the same words coming from his mouth "you will see ...you going to feel so great !!! "...so here we go again...he removed the epi and do a other one...i immiadly puke all over (at this point daniel could not take it anymore and since we only require to have one person during the epidural process he left my mom being here ...she is here holding my hairs as i am puking ...made feel like a 5years old little girl again ... with in minutes i start to feel itchy all over my body ...so i told the anesthesia guy ...and you know what he said to me ? better itching than being in pain ! no? ...gosh i was going to kill him ...but i am just itching and itching my face my boobs everything ..and i am thinking i am so tired i could not even have the energy to reach and slap him if i could i will but better save my energy...with in 5 minutes daniel come back in the room and the pains start again...nobody knows why the epidurals just did not take on me... then we hear all the machines in the room go on and beeping all over...5 or 6 doctors/nurses rush in ...put a oxygen mask on me and tell me we cant find the baby heart beats we going to clamp a fetal scalp monitor on his head so we can see how he is doing...i am crying the all time ...i looked at my mom and tell her something must be wrong ...she is trying to confort me and tell me ...no ! dont worry they do that for everybody !! so i looked at Daniel and tell him...Daniel something must be wrong ? and he doesnt have the courage to lie to me so he said...yes i think we having a hard time to find the baby heart beat...
by then they found Trystan heart beats but it was really slow they decided it's time to push...i must said i pushed Trystan in 20 minutes and i think those were the best 20 minutes of the past nine months since my pregnancy was with a lots of up an downs and many scare i hated my pregnancy ...but man those twenty minutes were the best ...i was in pains the all time but on the same time it was a such relieve that i was almost there ...i got very close to a emergency c section as Trystan was doing badly the last couples minutes and my OBGYN gave me two more pushes and if he was not out she was going to take him out ...so i pushed so so hard that he CAME!!!
He came with the cord wrapped around his neck twice so i saw the OBGYN she unwrapped it really fast (he was all blue and not making a sound ) and handed him to the nurses ...i dont remember what they did to him as i was so tired ...i just ask daniel to go and see him and within couples minutes i heard him cries ....He was born on saturday December 5th 4:09 AM just a little over 5 pounds...
it took almost two hours to stitch me back and 3 peoples ...i was bleeding so much and my skin was just keep tearing everytime they tried to put a stitch so they did a vaginal pack basically they stuff a all bunch of gauze to make a pressure to stop the bleeding...i kept that the all day and night ...i was discharge on the sunday ...to be readmitted on a wednesday in the emergency room with a open wound infection and a fever of 103.6 F ...got IV antibiotic for two days ...it was really emotional to go back to the hospital leaving the baby home...but anyway this over now and we have still more obstacle to past...Trystan may have a condition call "Teethered cord syndrome " basically mean his spinal cord maybe still attach to his back bone that may require surgery if it is confirm...we are meeting with a specialist on monday so we do a MRI and see what it's going on...
Took us over 18 months to conceive and we did it with clomid...i had a blood clot behind the placenta lots of bleeding...bad 20 weeks scans not a easy childbirth, a infection etc... but we got here with a beautiful little man ...
i would like to thanks everyone that followed my journey ...the Lttc friends and the mums to be and the new mums and the already mums !!
thank you ...we are strong as women already but we are even stronger a all bunch together
xoxo,
Miel.
I closed my shop like every other night on Thursday December 3rd (38 weeks 4 days pregnant )...
December 4th Friday morning 3:15 AM i wake up with some mild types periods cramps ...i wake up my husband telling him probably the cauliflowers i ate for lunch disturbed me a little
.He take a quick look at me and said .."are you nuts laetitia ! it's not your lunch ..you are probably in labor..."For some weird reasons i thought it could not be it ...so funny how you cant wait to be in labor and once the signs are there you kind of refuse to believe it can be it !!!
...anyway by 6 AM we decided to time my "cramps" to see if they were actually contractions .They were pretty irregular some strong ones and mild ones ...but Daniel decided to call Wikimedia (work)to let them know he was not coming so he could go to the flower market for me
.i stayed at home all morning we even went for a walk and took our dog to the park and by noon my contractions were about every 10 minutes or so ...by 2:30 pm every 5 minutes and regular .
We decide to go ahead and go to the hospital my mum from France and my husband . ...i got check in around 3 pm to be told i was only 1.5 cm dilated...grrr...all this pain and just 1.5 cm ?!!! lucky my own OBGYN was on labor &delivery floor so she cameand gave me some options ...i could go back home or i could stay and go to the cafeteria and see what will happen...but she thought i was not going to be back until well probably in the middle of the night
...every nurses and docs told us" you have time it's going to take a while...it's your first baby etc..."I was so in pain and kind of felt embarrass that i had rush to the hospital and to be told i was only 1.5 cm dilated
i thought well maybe i would go back home and come back...but my husband said to me ...listen i dont feel it i think we should stay wait and see ...so we all end up at the cafeteria ...after a hour and me on my four on the floor and moaning and cursing both in english and french the all time , we decided to go back to labor and delivery....We were received not so well ..the nurse were laughing at us !! they probably thought we were crazy and we did not know nothing about being in labor since it was our first time ...anyway once you there they have to check you anyhow...well we find out i was already 5 cm dilated !!! wow in 1 hour i had progress so much ...in the cafeteria all by myself !!! the nurse was like "well done you did a great job !!! but really i wanted to punch her in her face ...instead of being in a nice little room i was on a dirty cafeteria floor !by then it was around 5 or 6 pm also cant remember exactly the hour ...i went along for couples more hours without pain medication but for some reason i had a very bad pain on my right side ( and i had this nagging soreness for the past couples of weeks and i think the baby was positioned in a way that he press something there for a while ) anyway i could not take it any more they gave me the option of taking Fentenol...this was great but only for short relief ...still this pain on my right side ...anyway after a hour i said the magic word (so i thought at the time ) give me the EPIDURAL now !!! i dont know how long it took for the guy that give them to come around i was so much in pain (specially on my right side ) i stop looking at the clock ..forgot to said by the time i got readmitted my own obgyn had gone home but to my surprise the attending obgyn was the same lady that confirm Daniel and i pregnancy with our first scan ( we all recognize each other in the bedroom
).they all told me with the epidural you going to feel GREAT!! everyone with a smile on theirs faces ...i did not feel a thing with the epi..i guess you looking to get some relief with it so you kind of forget about the big needle !!
...the anesthesia guy keep telling me ..in next couples minutes you going to feel so good!!!he leaves the room and with in minutes i cant feel my left side body and a horrible horrible pain on my right side ...my left body was so numb i experienced what they call "phantoms pains " by that they mean you body is not in pain but your brain register the pain still like someone have their leg amputated and they can still feel their leg in their mind ...after a hour of agony and me screaming after Daniel telling him to move my left leg or my body ..poor guy he was bending my leg up to my head and me i kept telling him ...no you are not you not doing anything ! it's still hurt ! Daniel do something !..i think he even bite my toes at one point
by then the medical staff realize something was obviously wrong and decide to call back the anesthesia doc...he come in again...and believe for some weird reason the epi did not work and my body took all the meds from it from once side (the left ) and my right side did not get any ...so they make me roll over to my right side to see if the meds will pass on that side...nope not working so he said i am going to add more medecine....i think we feel so bad we agree on anything they tell us to do...so he goes he add more ... i felt so sick ...i am now puking all over and still in really bad pains ...so he decided he was going to remove my epi and do a other one...still the same words coming from his mouth "you will see ...you going to feel so great !!! "...so here we go again...he removed the epi and do a other one...i immiadly puke all over (at this point daniel could not take it anymore and since we only require to have one person during the epidural process he left my mom being here ...she is here holding my hairs as i am puking ...made feel like a 5years old little girl again ... with in minutes i start to feel itchy all over my body ...so i told the anesthesia guy ...and you know what he said to me ? better itching than being in pain ! no? ...gosh i was going to kill him ...but i am just itching and itching my face my boobs everything ..and i am thinking i am so tired i could not even have the energy to reach and slap him if i could i will but better save my energy...with in 5 minutes daniel come back in the room and the pains start again...nobody knows why the epidurals just did not take on me... then we hear all the machines in the room go on and beeping all over...5 or 6 doctors/nurses rush in ...put a oxygen mask on me and tell me we cant find the baby heart beats we going to clamp a fetal scalp monitor on his head so we can see how he is doing...i am crying the all time ...i looked at my mom and tell her something must be wrong ...she is trying to confort me and tell me ...no ! dont worry they do that for everybody !! so i looked at Daniel and tell him...Daniel something must be wrong ? and he doesnt have the courage to lie to me so he said...yes i think we having a hard time to find the baby heart beat...by then they found Trystan heart beats but it was really slow they decided it's time to push...i must said i pushed Trystan in 20 minutes and i think those were the best 20 minutes of the past nine months since my pregnancy was with a lots of up an downs and many scare i hated my pregnancy ...but man those twenty minutes were the best ...i was in pains the all time but on the same time it was a such relieve that i was almost there ...i got very close to a emergency c section as Trystan was doing badly the last couples minutes and my OBGYN gave me two more pushes and if he was not out she was going to take him out ...so i pushed so so hard that he CAME!!!
He came with the cord wrapped around his neck twice so i saw the OBGYN she unwrapped it really fast (he was all blue and not making a sound ) and handed him to the nurses ...i dont remember what they did to him as i was so tired ...i just ask daniel to go and see him and within couples minutes i heard him cries ....He was born on saturday December 5th 4:09 AM just a little over 5 pounds...
it took almost two hours to stitch me back and 3 peoples ...i was bleeding so much and my skin was just keep tearing everytime they tried to put a stitch so they did a vaginal pack basically they stuff a all bunch of gauze to make a pressure to stop the bleeding...i kept that the all day and night ...i was discharge on the sunday ...to be readmitted on a wednesday in the emergency room with a open wound infection and a fever of 103.6 F ...got IV antibiotic for two days ...it was really emotional to go back to the hospital leaving the baby home...but anyway this over now and we have still more obstacle to past...Trystan may have a condition call "Teethered cord syndrome " basically mean his spinal cord maybe still attach to his back bone that may require surgery if it is confirm...we are meeting with a specialist on monday so we do a MRI and see what it's going on...
Took us over 18 months to conceive and we did it with clomid...i had a blood clot behind the placenta lots of bleeding...bad 20 weeks scans not a easy childbirth, a infection etc... but we got here with a beautiful little man ...
i would like to thanks everyone that followed my journey ...the Lttc friends and the mums to be and the new mums and the already mums !!
thank you ...we are strong as women already but we are even stronger a all bunch together
xoxo,
Miel.
