Baby's First Year

Re: Okay Ladies--we all have them! Share your Labor and Delivery Story!

Brinny — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:04:07 GMT

I think the delivery of my daughter must be prettty standard. I had been having BH contractions since I hit 34 weeks some just a mere tightening of my belly and others would almost make me fall over, however they all had one thing in common... they never lasted. At 36 weeks I was checked and my doctor said that I was dialated to 2 and 70% efffaced. She said that it wasn't uncommon and that it didn't mean I would be going into labor soon; eventhough it was a possibility and I should keep an eye on my contractions. Eventually I made it to my 40 week appointment and eventhough my contractions were still coming there wan't much change. My doctor offered to induce me since I had made it to my due date and my baby and I had been so healthy during my entire pregnancy. That Thursday night when I went into the hospital I was dialated to 3 and 90% effaced. The nurses gave me a pill called cervatil (I think that's what it's called) to start dialating my cervix and finish thinning it out. About an hour in the nurses started asking me if I could feel the contractions I was having since they were apparently really strong and I wasn't complaining. Thank goodness I couldn't!!! About 5 hours into labor my water broke and unfortunately there was maconium in it. Aftrer that I was able to feel the contractions then about 30 minutes later my epidural came and all was good until it was time to deliver. The nurses said that I was progressing so quickly that they didn't think I was going to make it til my doctor got in, and they started taking bets on when I was going to deliver. My doctor came in around 7 and the nurses had to pull her out of a staff meeting to deliver me. Within 10 minutes my room was filled with baby gear galore and what seemed to be 7 or 8 interns. At 7:20 I started pushing and at 8:17 my little Hazel entered this world screaming on the way out. they plopped her up on my belly and my fiance cut her cord then she was whisked away to have her lungs cleared incase the maconium had gotten into them. She was so loud my dad could hear her when he opened the door to the delivery ward. She definately has a gerat set of lungs.

Re: Okay Ladies--we all have them! Share your Labor and Delivery Story!

erigracet — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:08:54 GMT

I definitely had an interesting birth.

From 35 weeks on I was two centimeters dilated but my cervix wouldn't budge.
At my 38 week prenatal appointment on December 19th (If I remember correctly) I was begging my doctor to induce me. I had horrible pressure on my cervix because my waters were bulging and baby was so far down I thought she was going to come any second. I couldn't sleep at night because both my legs would go numb and swell, I had horrible nausea and vomiting fits, and I could barely walk because of the pain from the swelling in my legs.

The doc said he couldn't do anything for me because my cervix was so stubborn. He said an induction would take days and didn't feel it was the right way to proceed.He would regret saying no though, a week later.

By Christmas Day I was completely miserable. I wanted my daughter OUT. So, I sent her an eviction notice and decided to walk until I couldn't walk anymore and then I begged hubby to help me out. (I'm sure you can guess how). It was about 10pm and I had given up. I thought I was going to be pregnant forever! So I hobbled my butt to bed and passed out.

At almost exactly 5:19 AM, I wake up with a strange feeling and I feel a sort of...popping sensation in my cervix. This startled me awake enough for me to jump out of bed and to notice what felt like (tmi) a waterfall coming from between my legs. So I yelled at my husband, "MY WATER BROKE! GET UP NOW!" and off we go to the hospital.

We arrived at labor and delivery at about 5:35am. 30 minutes later I began having regular contractions. No big deal. They were painful but I could breath through them without wanting to crush my husband's hand. At about 7 or 8am my mother and father in law showed up to help out and see how things were going. By 9 am I think there were a total of 8 people in the room, not including nurses. (UGH)

Hours went by and I still never progressed past 3 centimeters, even with a Pitocin dose so high it was causing contractions that I was sure were killing me. 4 o'clock rolled around and by then the contractions were so intense I was straight up bawling my eyes out begging for pain medication.
(I was doing this completely natural). Two hours later, I get a small dose of Fentenil(sp?) and it took the edge off of the contractions.

At 6:30ish the doctor comes in to check my progress and tells me he read my chart and that I should have told him abou my spine issues! He says that the baby is in distress from being in the birth canal so long and that we have to do an emergency c-section. However, because of the cysts in my spine they have to put me completely out. This is definitely not what I wanted.

So after 14 hours of natural labor, my daughter was born via emergency c-section at 7:51pm.
I wasn't able to hold her until an hour later when woke up out of the anesthesia but it was the most amazing moment of my life <3

Re: Okay Ladies--we all have them! Share your Labor and Delivery Story!

scarlettrosesmommy — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:44:52 GMT

I went in for my 40 week check up and my Dr. told me that I wasnt even dialated or softening so he schedualed me a 41 week check up and the same thing... nothing. So my Dr. schedualed me for induction the next morning (a thursday). I was worried because my husband had just got out of the Army and started his new job that monday and I was afraid that I would have our daughter while he was at work and he would not be there, so I begged the Dr. to schedual it for the evening. He said that since I would be starting labor in the hospital then I wouldnt be ready to deliver her until late that night. So at 7am on September 1st my mother in law drove me into the hospital where I had to check in with the front desk wait for the bands to be printed and then went to labor and delivery. At 8 am they started me on pat. and my contrations were few and far between. My Dr. came in at 10:30am and decided to break my water at 10:55am, and at 11am my contrations went from barely ever to full blown 2 minutes apart. For my husbands lunch his company sent him over to check on me and to call them and let them know where I was at no matter if I wasnt doing anything. So at 12noon my husband walked threw my hospital room door and I lost it. I was crying with joy that he was there. He made the call and told his boss I was 2 minutes apart, and his boss told him to stay with me (they paid him for a full day) I was then at 3cm. At about 1pm the nurse check my progress and said that I was about a 7cm. I felt as if my tail bone was shattering, I did not want an ep. for fear of if they were of by the slightest bit what may happen. I was screaming and the nurse litteraly yelled and me and told me that I was not allowed to scream and she did it over and over. My poor husband had a total look of terror on his face, and the nurse did it once again and I screamed at her that she is NOT allowed to tell me that I am not allowed to scream. (She appeard to be early 20s) So after my husband asked what other options I had other then an ep. and she said there was a pain med they could give me but it would make me feel drunk. So I agreed because 1 I was in so much pain and 2 because I felt horrible because my husband look so terrified. However it only lasted a few minutes and the pain was doubled. So my husband talked me into an ep. and the pain relief was instant. That is until the same nurse came in and said that the babys heart rate had dropped. (keep in mind I had been watching the monitor and nothing had changed on the monitor.) So she put me on an oxygen mask and had me turn to my right side. Ep.'s work with gravity and the only thing numb from that moment on was my right leg. At about 2pm she check my progress again and said that I was inbetween 9 and 10cm and her idea was to have me do a few pushes to help it along. So when that "wasnt working" she had me pushing everyother contration and my contrations went from a constant every 2 min to now about once about every 12 min. and at 2:30pm my Dr. came in to check up on me and yelled at the nurse because I was at 10cm and she had not called him and kicked her out of the room. So for 3 more hours I was pushing with the oxygen mask still on (is now the time to mention I am clostrophobic and was having a paniac attack?) so I could not catch my breath it push and I kept begging to take the mask off so the Dr. allowed me to take it off and lay it on my chest faceing me. At 5:30 pm they had to pull out the suction device because my daughter was stuck and at 5:33pm my beautiful daughter Scarlett was born at 6lbs 10oz 21 inches long and a full head of long red hair (her name had been picked out since before we ever learned we were having a girl)

Re: Okay Ladies--we all have them! Share your Labor and Delivery Story!

Siumai — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:55:09 GMT

My baby came exactly one month before my due date. At 5PM the day before he was born, I posted a note on Facebook, "one more month to go". Then I realized that I didn't take any picture of myself during my pregnancy, so I got up to take a few pictures of my big stomach. Two hours later at around 7PM, I was sitting in front of the computer again and drinking soup. All of a sudden, I heard a “pop” sound (my husband and I attended a birthing class just a few days ago where we were told that some women would hear a “pop” when their water breaks) and felt myself started dripping. My sister took me to the hospital with my mom and my mother-in-law in the car. At that time I was feeling pretty calm even though both my mom and my mother-in-law were telling me their horror birthing stories all the way to the hospital. The midwife at the hospital confirmed that my water was broke and suggested giving me pitocin to induce my labor. I told them to wait a little bit to see if my body would start labor on myself (the truth was I was very tire and sleepy at that time, and I knew I would not get any sleep once my baby was born, so I wanted to have a nap before the labor pain start). At around 1AM, I requested the pitocin. The pain started at around 1:30AM, and I started pushing at around 3:15AM. I didn’t use any pain medications or epidural because I was half asleep thorough out the whole labor. My beautiful baby boy was born at 3:33AM, and I became fully awake when the he was placed in my arms right after he came out. It was an amazing experience!

Re: Okay Ladies--we all have them! Share your Labor and Delivery Story!

emiliano2011 — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:55:11 GMT

I will never forget the day I gave birth to my son:) I remember they had to induce me because I was 3 days past my due date. At 12:00pm I was already in my own delivery room, and decided to start my contractions with slow pitocin drip. Nothing happened so by 3:00pm by doctor decided to break my water ! :o after that, I started to get really nervous because I could feel the contractions kicking in. I remember my mom kept reminding me not to take the epidural, to sacrifice the pain for my son, blah blah blah. I agreed with her and remembered that one of my friend's did natural birth and told me it was going to be fine.... two hours later... I couldn't tolerate the pain at all!! I wouldn't let go of my husband's arm and I begged for the epidural...30 min later the doctor comes and gives me the epidural. I had a hot spot on my lower left side of my pelvic bone and so I decided to tell the doctor to give me more epidural liquid :)) by then I slept beautiful and didn't feel pain at all!! :D In the end, I was in labor for 10 hours and pushed for only 8 minutes!! I loved the entire experience, especially when they laid him in my chest and he immediately stopped crying. <3

Re: Okay Ladies--we all have them! Share your Labor and Delivery Story!

Mehgan — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:49:08 GMT

ohh man!! So Nov 4th a week before my due date i just got off of work at 1:30pm, and i had to go to the birthing floor for my weekly non-stress test. I had to do stress test becausI had too much fluid. So when I go in they strap me up to watch the baby for a hour. They came back in and told me that it was non-reactive and they where sending me to ultrasound. A lil nevres I go down there they watch the baby for a half hour to make sure he is alive and well. Once they were done they send me back upstairs to birthing center. The dr then comes in and say that i now dont have enough fluid for the baby. So my dr , my husband and I decide that it would be best if I stay over night to be watched. The next morning on the 5th they check me and I am 2.5cm so they put that cervix softener in me and start me on some patosen to help push labor along. i was on that all day. by 11pm at night they check me again and i was only 3cm now. So they decide that they r gonna take everything off of me to see if my body does anything by itself. Well that night they gave me some nuban to help with the pain and they were suppost to give me something so i could sleep. But they never did so I was up all night. Around 12pm my dr came in to check me and i was 6cm now. She was really happy and decided to break my water. And then 20mins later I got the epidural. At 3ish my dr came back in to check me and I was now 8.5cm and she said that I should try and push. So I pushed for 15mins and took a 10min break then pushed for another 15mins and he was out by 4:08. So i only really pushed for a half hour. And he was my first baby. My dr was really proud of me. When he came out i was sooo tried from not sleeping and pushin him out that i only held him for 10mins and then gave him to his dad. It was something i will never forget.

Re: Okay Ladies--we all have them! Share your Labor and Delivery Story!

Grapesjess — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:56:27 GMT

My story begins at my 40 week checkup. Earlier that week I had started to notice contractions on and off and more intense at night and as time went on. At my 40 week check up which was a Friday and I was due 2 days later that Sunday, I was only 2cm and not sure how effaced I was but probably not much. The doctor asked me if I wanted a membrane sweep so I said yes since she was in that area anyway. Well I left the office and later that day the only thing I noticed was slight spotting so I was sure that was my mucous plug. That night I did have some contractions but didnt think much of it. The next day I continued to have slight contrations that continued all day and later that night started to come on more frequently and and stronger. The next morning which was my due date I noticed the contactions started to become even more frequent and slightly more painful as time went on. This was my first child so I really did not know what to expect. I continued to wait it out to see if they would go away but they didnt. I got a hot bath and tried to relax. Later that afternoon as the contractions became even more closer together and painful so I had my husband call the doctor to ask them when I should go into the hospital. I kept waiting because I did not want to go to the hospital and get sent home due to false labor so I really waited unitl I couldnt handle the contractions anymore. My husbad drove me to the hospital which was about 30 mintues away. The contractions came on stronger and more painful. After we arrived they checked my dialation and it was about 3cm. They made me walk around the hospital for about 2 hours before they actually checked me in. Once they saw how the contrations were consistant and how much pain I was in by then, they checked me in. This was about 7pm. I was checked in and continued to labor without pain meds unitl about 2am until i could not handle the pain any more, then i asked for an epidural. I had hoped to go all natural but by then my contactions were back to back with back labor and I was exausted. My water still had not broke yet. After the epi i was able to get some rest unitl about 3am when my water finally broke. It was the coolest thing. My mother in law, sister in law and husband were all in the room and it was so quiet besides the heart monitor. Then all of the sudden we heard a pop sound and I was like"I think my water broke". The nurse came in and checked me and I was almost 10 cm and 100% effaced and my water had broke. After about an hour I started to feel the need to push, so the nurse called the doc and I started to push about 4:30am. I push for a good 2 hours and my little princess was born. I did have to get an episiotomy and 2nd degree tear and a few stitches and I did loose quite a bit of blood. Makenna Leigh was born October 10th 2011 at 6:30am and a healthy 7 lbs 2oz, 20 inches long. My labor was about 23 hours long and pushing and delivery was 2 hours. Overall I had a wonderful experience and I thank my family and the great staff at the hospital. The only thing I will change for my next baby is get the epi sooner lol :0)

Re: Okay Ladies--we all have them! Share your Labor and Delivery Story!

Bubbies1 — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:02:22 GMT

Well my story begins at my 39 week checkup. I was 2 cm dialated for a week. At 40 weeks I was still 2 cm dialted. Due date was March 7th. March 8th I woke up to lower back pain and slight lower stomach pain. Well as the day went on i went about my normal day then It started getting worse. I woke up my fiance he took me to hosp around 10 or 11am. I was examined i was still at 2 cm. The nurse told me I could go home or try to walk for an hr and be re-checked. Well I decided to walk, the hour came and went and no progress.The nurse said ''there is no way you are having your baby today'' So I called my mom to come pick me up because my fiance had to go to work. Arrived at my parents house around 3 pm..tried to sleep...could not get comfortable at all!! Walked around my parents house for about 2 or 3 hours. I was agony!! alot of pressure in my lower back and no relief at all. Constant pain felt like i had an elephant sitting on my lower back. Left my parents house and went to my best friends house to get into tub. That helped a little. Well finally it got to the point to where i had to get out of tub. Laid down on my friends bed, my lovely friend rubbed my back it felt good but it gave no relief. I called the labor and delivery probably about 5 times that day and the nurse said when i would have a contraction my stomach would get very hard like my forehead. I was in so much pain and with this being my first baby i ddnt know what to expect and i didnt know anything. i had no pain in my stomach. All the pressure and pain was in my lower back bum and vagina area. Consistant pressure, agonizing pain and it just got worse by the minute. So finally i couldnt take it anymore we went to the hospital and i remember saying to my friends ''im not leaving until I get some kind of pain medicine because this is horrible''. Well i was finally rolled into L&D was checked by nurse and i was 7 cm. I said holy s***. My best freinds called my mom, freinds and repeatily tried calling my fiance who works at a coal mine!!! My doctor was called and he was happy to see me but i was not a happy camper because of all my pain!!! When i asked for an epidural i was told 'by the time the anestigologist gets here you will be ready to push.'' I thought omg the pain is just going to get worse!! My mom arrived..and no fiance yet. i was upset because he couldnt be reached, i was in horrible pain, scared of going into labor, scared because i knew the pain was going to get worse. Couldnt believe that i was finally going to have my baby. Some of the pushed didn't last more than 6 or 7 seconds from the pain being unbearable from being severly torn down there. Prob 20 pushes.. no epidural... pushing and screaming constantly from the horrible pain. Even when i wasnt pushing my doc was pulling me open and that hurt too!!!!!! He injected pain medicine through a huge needle but that did not help at all. After all that towards the end my fiance finally made it to the hosp! With about 5 mins to spare i delivered my baby i was never so relieved in my life. I pushed the whole time i felt him come out i did not want him to get stuck!!!! I didn't even cry from happiness to see my baby from being in so much horror. i had no emotion except pain. My baby swallowed fluid while I was in labor i was worried about him his cry sounded like a duck!!!! Meanwhile my doc was trying to stitch me up after my placenta came out. Shoving gauze into me i was bleeding profusly. I thought will this pain ever end?? Squeezing my fiance's hand so hard!! After several attempts to stitch me up i was taken to the operating room and put under to have severe lacerations repaired When i woke up i thought wow this dont hurt that much..until the night when the meds wore off and i couldnt hardly move!!! I tore severely my episiotemy cut. it tore and extended about 5 inches down and to the right side. My other laceration was inside my vagina i tore more that half of my vagina around like a toilet paper roll. It was hell trying to move any way. I needed a blood transfusion from blood loss from labor. After 3 days i was released. I was constipated for a week and went back to er for that. The docs ''helped me'' I swear i lost 20 pounds after that. Was admitted to hosp for 24 hrs with that. Had some problems in that area for about 2 weeks trying to get my body back to normal. After all said and done i am healed. Slowly forgetting the pain and agony of labor and the stressful aftermath. That was the best and worst day of my life. I delivered an amazing boy 7lbs 19 oz and 21 inches long at 8:58pm. My advice to future mothers is don't wait to go to hosp. Not every birth experience is the same, people say mine was 1 in a million. I would never wish that pain & agony on anyone. My doctor and I agree for my next baby it is c-section no doubt!!!

Re: Okay Ladies--we all have them! Share your Labor and Delivery Story!

lpmrwexler2 — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:50:32 GMT

I went over one week and was induced for both of my pregnancies. The first I had an epidural, and it was a very relaxing experience. Sat and watched some tv, ate some jello and when it came time to push..it took me and hour and 15 minutes to push my son out...about 12 hours total. For my second (another induction) I decided to forgo the epidural and do it naturally. This time around...not so relaxing , but amazing! I just kept telling myself after each contraction "you can do this" The nurse kept coming in and asking me if I felt any pressure yet...and I kept telling her no...then all of a sudden 2 seconds later there it was....that pressure she had been asking me about and a very intense pain...I felt like I just wanted to jump off the table. I had to wait a couple minutes for my doctor to run across the parking lot....it felt like forever:) 3 pushes and my daughter was out...total this time was about 7 hours. We don't plan on having more children but if we did...I would definately go natural again.

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sharellew26 — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:39:03 GMT

At about 37 weeks I was dilated 3cms and effaced 25%. I was told to stop working because of my blood pressure but of course I didnt listen and continued working. I was ready to have the baby already, i live in the south and it was hot n i was tired. so i walked everyday and had sex and ate everything spicy and nothing worked!! now my due date was set for may 26th and my doc appt was may 27th. on the 25th i took my 5 yr old to the park and we walked the trail for about 2 hours just talking an having fun. it was great. but myf eet n back were killing me. i woke up at 5 am as usual to get ready for work. i decided to sleep for another hour and wen i laid down it felt like i was peeing on myself! so i jumped to go to bathroom and noticed my water was breaking and it was jus trickling not like a gush that everybody talks about. i got to the hosp around 730am with contactions coming every 10 then 7 then 5 mins apart. i asked for an epidural which i got after they gave the potosin and boy that epidural did nothing but numb my leg. by 1130am my beautiful Bella came into this world. and rite on her due date.

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Kaylafinn43 — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:10:18 GMT

My story all started when i was 24 wks and woke to find my water had already broke! The only problem was i am a young, first time mom so when i called my doctor and spoke to a nurse, she convinced me that i was only peeing on myself and there was nothing they could do to help me. So i went almost 3 days constantly changing pads and wondering why every time i moved or got up, this kept happening. Since i am only 18 on the third day i had class from 10-12 but i called my doctor and the way there and spoke directly to him. I told him that this was not normal and if i were peeing on myself i should have some control on it. He then directed me to go to the hospital after my class and have some testing done, one of which tested for amniotic fluid. The test came back negative and a wave of relief came over me. I went on with my day and met up with some friends for lunch and that night around 9pm my doctor called saying one of my tests for preterm labor came back positive. I went in to his office the next day for an evaluation, and after doing an ultra sound, he told me to go home, grab some things, and go to the hospital because there was very little fluid around the baby. So i did what he said and spent the night in my local hospital. The nurses took many swabs for amniotic fluid but by that point there was very little fluid left. Around 2 am i started contracting but was given a shot in the hope to stop them, which it did. I spent the night strapped to monitors and the nurses there all said there was no reason to believe it was for sure my water. The next morning i felt it again and called my nurse and told her to do a test right then. She did, which came back positive, and they air flighted me to Carmichael to Mercy San Juan Medical Center. From there i was bed ridden for 7 weeks only to get up to shower for 5-10 minutes every other day. I had good and bad days, sometimes i'd be hooked up to 2-3 iv's at once trying to stop contractions that suddenly flared up. Around 29 weeks my placenta began to tear away from the uterus, but not enough to do anything drastic so we monitored it closely but it never became an issue. At 30 weeks and 3 days, i started having contractions which caused the babys heart rate to drop. My nurse by then was a good friend and she later admitted to me that while she told me it was fine, she knew it was all starting. I was woken up about 730 AM the next morning to be put on the monitor and after i had 16 contractions in an hour, the doctor on call came in and told me it was going to be the day. We did an ultra sound to make sure my baby was still in breech position like it was a few days before, and it turned out it had changed overnight and i was going to have a natural labor. They induced me and from there i was in labor 16 hours and only dilated 1cm. At 2 AM they came in and said the baby was too stressed and we were going to do an emergency C section. My daughter was born at 2:33 AM on April 18th and as it turns out the chord was wrapped around her neck. We spent a little over a month in the NICU with small obstacles like jaundice, apnea, and a VSD. My daughter Jaedyn is now 2 months old and is doing wonderful. I thank god time and time again for my miracle and for giving me those extra 7 weeks. I am so happy to read other stories and hear of all the other miracles and know i'm not alone. Please remember to pray for the others going through the same thing we have, it is so tough regardless of the end result!

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mamaSD — Mon, 09 May 2011 05:41:23 GMT

I love to tell my story, and with the arrival of my next one, I'm anticipating this story. With my first I had a lot of preterm labor so I was in and out of the hospital a lot. The last time I went to the hospital, my husband and I got restless and went to climb the stairs at the hospital. After they released me, I went home and almost immediately my water broke. Not sure if it was my water or not (it was just trickling down my legs) I laid down for the night w/ a towel under me. I called the dr. the next day and they told me to come in immediately and get checked out. After dropping my husband off @ work, I went. The dr. checked me and said it was just urine. When I mentioned that I couldn't pee, he checked again, and said it really was my water. So he sent me to the hospital, telling me he'd meet me there. I had to call my husband @ work from the dr's, he said he'd get a ride, and meet me there also. On the way to the hospital, I had to pull over and cry. I was so scared and relieved that this was it!!! When we got there, they put me on the PIT, and gave me an epidural early, cuz the guy had to go to C-section. Everyone kept joking w/ me that I wasn't really going into labor, cuz I wasn't feeling anything (thanks to the epidural!!) I sat in the room for 11 hours asking if I could eat something, or walk around. Everyone kept telling me no!! After everyone decided to walk out of my room for dinner break, I felt like I had to push. Luckily, the nurse was in the room at the time. It was a flurry then, everyone running back into my room and getting excited. After 11 hours, I was in hard labor for only an hour. My daughter arrived with a big wail, and everyone crying. It was a very exciting time!!

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PediNurseJulie — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:36:16 GMT

Gerber_M: What a story!! You've never really had an easy time of it - your attitude is so great and positive. It's amazing what mom's can suffer through for their children. :-)

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gerber_m — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:47:26 GMT

I had my first a year ago...

my labor was induced on April 7th, 3 weeks before my due date. i was diagnosed with preeclampsia. i don't really remember alot of the labor i got an epidural around 5 or 6cm and had my beautiful 6lb 6oz baby girl on april 8th at 5 in the morning. i now have nerve damage from the epidural and can't feel the spot right above my knee. i got pregnant with my second 2 months after my first was born.

i was a day over due and went into labor at 5 in the morning, at about 730 i was at the hospital and to 7cm already, i decided not to have an epidural and risking more nerve damage i labored until about 2 oclock and finally made it to 9cm i was convinced to have a quick spinal tap to make it through the final stages of laboring and delivery. i was in the worst pain of my life and even the doctor thought i was in more pain then most laboring mothers are. once the spinal was in and my body relaxed the babies heart rate dropped to 35 everything happened so fast its still hard to process, the doctor rushed in and announced if the heart rate didn't come back up in 30 seconds i was going in for an emergency c-section, 2 seconds later i was being rushed away to the OR and my mom and husband were left shocked in the delivery room. 3 minutes later my beautiful baby boy was delivered, 9lbs 7oz on March 16th. turned out my placenta had started to seperate from my uterus which is why i was in so much pain and why Jackson's heart rate had dropped.

i've had 2 kids in a year and though the labor and delivery's didn't happen as smoothly as my pregnancies did, i wouldn't change a second of any of it.

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shanae92 — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:32:07 GMT

I was induced on feb 25 2011 at 10:00am and i was happy it was the day my baby girl was going to see her mother. Well my plan of natural childbirth didn't go as planned. They told me i was getting a IV with pitocin. After being on pitocin for 8 hours I asked for an epidural when i was 4cm( mind you It took 8 hours to get to 4cm ). After they put in the epidural i was ok until around 2am and i started feeling pain again and i didnt know why. Im laying in the bed screaming at the top of my lungs in pain(at 6-7 cm now).Finally i told the doc im going to sit up in the bed. When i sat up my mom found out that the epidural had came out so for 2 hrs i was having straight labor pains!!! after they fixed it i was ok again and at 10:01am on feb 26 my daughter was born yay !! That is after 24hrs and 1min of labor! Seeing her for the first time i forgot about all the pain. I feel that being 18 years old and giving birth vaginally has made me a stronger person.