Hello everyone!
Well, my little girl is a week old already! She was born on May 13th at 7:56 am. She weighed 7 lbs 6 oz and was 20 in long. I can hardly believe it's been a week already! Here is the story of her arrival...
Well this was the plan: Come in at 1 am on the 13th to start the induction. At 2 am get cervadil pill to slowly start the cervix to soften/dilate, at 6 am get another pill, at 10 am start pitocin and let the labor go from there. This was designed to let us rest for the night and several hrs in the am before hard labor started.
Here's what actually happened: We got to the hospital at 1 and they gave me my 1st dose at 2 am as planned (after poking me multiple times to start the IV- I'm a hard stick and I ended up with an uncomfy IV in the top of my hand- ugh). At 5:30 am I feel/hear a huge gush- my water broke on it's own! The contx were already coming pretty steady with the cervadil but the water being broken brought them closer together and made them stronger. They gave me the 6 am dose as planned but were already questioning if I was going to need the pitocin since I was contracting so well on my own. I was dilated to 3 cm.
The nurses changed shift at this time and we were excited to see that we were given the same nurse that had attended Sam's labor with us ALL DAY but her shift ended just an hr before he was born.
Once my water broke the baby had a couple of decels in her heart rate so they turned me to my left side (didn't help) and then my right side- and this seemed to make her happy. At 7:30 I told them I was feeling some pressure. It was not unbearable, need to push now pressure but it was definitely there so they checked me. I was at 6 cm. I knew I was at least that far because I was starting to wish I could stop it all and go home
and was questioning my reasoning for going without the epi.
Right after I was checked I started to feel like I was going to be sick and the contx started to piggy back- some of them were so close that one would end, I'd take a breath or two and I'd start to feel the next one coming on. I was actually relieved when I started to get sick because I knew that it was almost over! At this time though they were having trouble keeping her heart rate on the monitor and it was dropping when they were picking it up so they put the internal monitor on her head. The contx and the urge to push were so unbearable during this time but the nurse told me not to push because I was 9 but there was cervix all around her head. I had to blow through a couple of contx while they broke down the bed and got everything set up. I was complete and started pushing at 7:45.
Then in walks a doctor I had never met. Yes, even though it was a scheduled induction with the plan for my doc to be there- and he should have been on call at 7 am-he was not yet at the hospital and she was still delivered by someone else!
After a couple of pushes everyone was suddenly (or maybe suddenly to me...) VERY concerned, put oxygen on me and started telling me that the baby needed to be born NOW. I was given a local block down below, given an episiotomy and they brought out the vacuum- which broke when he started to pump it. My nurse did an awesome job of getting me to focus and really push- everyone was telling me to push harder and longer. A couple of those good, long, hard pushes brought her head out and with the next push she was born. It was 7:56 am. And to think that I laughed when my friend told me that I would have her before noon and my aunt figured my Mom would be back home in time for dinner!
It turns out that her heart rate was only in the 50's and 60's and it was not recovering. That's what the worry and rush to have her be born was about. I had no idea and nobody told me- they just said she needed to be born. It was probably better that was anyways- I couldn't focus on anything but the pain at that point so I don't know that it would have registered with me even if they did tell me. They had even called in the resuscitation team...they got there just as she was born but the nurse told them the weren't needed- thank God! She cried as soon as she was out.
Her apgars were 9 and 9...not bad for the distress she was in just minutes before!
So, I never made it to the 10 am pitocin stage of the induction and my doc came walking in sometime after 8 am- he missed all the fun!
I had a little trouble delivering the placenta and still got the pitocin after the delivery to help with the clamping down of my uterus. I also had to be repaired- and it took quite some time. But the important thing is that our little girl was born safe and sound and all turned out to be fine with us both.
The boys are doing great with her. She's fitting into our family like she's always been here.
I love having a little girl. A couple of times I have called her "him" when I talk- old habits I guess!
Here is one of the pics I took when we came home for now...DH and my brother and online also and me uploading pics makes their game skip...
Introducing Little Miss Allison :)
Re: Introducing Little Miss Allison :)
CONGRATZ!!!! She is a cutie pie!!
8/24/07
iPregnant
