Benjamin is here!!!!
Oh boy...where to begin!
I went into the hospital on Thursday night for a cervadil induction. We went in around 8pm, had the requisite blood drawn and baby monitoring done. I was having some irregular BH contractions and baby was moving all over the place. The nurse put the Cervadil in just before 9pm and we watched TV while I had to lay there. Of course, I had to pee...couldn't get up...bedpans are so icky!!! Finally, I am allowed to get up, go potty again, and take an Ambien so I can sleep.
I woke up around 2:30am with crampy contractions and I asked to get in the jacuzzi tub. The tub helped for awhile, but the contractions got a bit more intense. I asked the nurse if she could go ahead and start my IV so I could have the epidural. She did. The contractions were really hurting in my back, so when she said I was only 1cm and 80% effaced and that I needed tp be at 2cm to get my epidural, the Stadol she offered started to sound good. DH was rubbing my lower back, but it still was pretty painful. At 5:30am, the nurse injected Stadol with Phenergan in my IV line. She pushed it slowly when I was contracting so it would go to me and not the baby. It was right after that when my head suddenly felt very heavy and I just flopped back.
From here on is where it got a bit fuzzy...I remember feeling intense pain in my lower back, bad enough to make me cry out. No matter how hard DH rubbed, it barely touched the pain at all. Then I remember feeling an intense pressure down below, like I had to poop, but on some level I knew it was the baby's head pushing on my cervix. I felt a pop and my water broke. I had to bear down - it was the only thought that made any sense to me. I couldn't tell what else was going on around me, but I know someone was telling me not to bear down. I ignored her b/c I HAD TO push. At some point, the nurse put her hand down to check my cervix, saw my water had broken, and realized I was completely dilated.
At this point it was just after 6:30am...I went from 1 and 80% to complete in an hour. The nurses were freaking and called my doctor. They were trying to get me to stop pushing, but no luck...all I could do was push. The urge was overwhelming. I pushed out his head and (OMG did it hurt!!!) DH was flipping out, running around trying to help the nurses. One of them tried to pull the cord over Benjamin's head b/c it was around his neck once. He also had a true knot in the cord. She could get it off, so she clamped the cord in two places, cut it, and then had DH jam my knee into my ear and yelled at me to push (no problem). Benjamin came shooting out at 6:56am along with a huge spray of fluid that splashed a good 4 feet across the room. I muttered something to DH about taking pictures and then collapsed back on the bed.
My doctor arrived at this point, in time to get the placenta (took me awhile to deliver that) and then inspected the damage. I had a third degree tear that was pretty much a re-opening of my original childbirth injury with my first baby. She sewed me up, but I was barely aware of what was going on. I ended up sleeping 3-4 hours in the delivery room after Benjamin's birth. I tried to nurse him at some point, but I was still pretty out of it.
Benjamin had meconium inside me and came out with a slightly bruised face thanks to his rapid descent through the birth canal. His Apgars were a 7 and an 8. I was unaware of most of this til later in the day.
Basically, I spent Friday in a total fog, Saturday in a lot of pain. Sunday was a bit better thanks to Vicodin and a nice soak in a jacuzzi tub. We came home today and I am feeling significantly more human. My milk is in, baby is nursing well. I will post some pictures soon.
There are still parts of Benjamin's birth story that I am trying to piece together...yikes...if I have another, I will not touch Stadol with a ten foot pole (and I will definitely need to do an induction since this was so darn fast).
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Sandi! You did it all by yourself! 
Benjamin! Can't wait to see you! 
Colleen 
What a story! 
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