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Labor story

posted 11th Jul

Alright, so personally I didn't see a point in posting a labor story, since my son was a csection baby. But people have been asking about it..so here goes.

Oh and don't expect anything as lovely as maras birthing story I don't have that way with words.

Alright, 730 on tuesday morning I went in to be induced, they put me in a room. Not a birthing room, just regular SMALL ASS room. My doctor had forgotten about my scheduled induction, so finally the nurses paged him and he showed up at about 930 lol. He said we would start me on pitocin and that by doing so there was a high chance of csection because my cervix was tight and long and they could not use cervidil or anything else on me because of my asthma. So, around 1030 they started the pitocin, upping it every 30 minutes. They checked me a couple of times in between, and nothing. My cervix was very high up, so getting checked hurt like a bitch. The pitocin was causing me to have REAL, and painful contractions about every 2-3 minutes, but my cervix just wouldn't open. So they gave me the choice to leave the pitocin on over night, or shut it off and get some food and some rest. I opted to shut it off. So I did, and I ordered some food and the night shift came in. My mom was good friends with one of the nurses, so she talked her into letting me into the birthing room with the jacuzzi tub so that I could relax a little bit, and so if I DID go into labor I would have the tub to use. So I get transferred to the other room and I get some rest that night, not much at all, but a couple of hours of sleep. I get woken up by the doc at like 6 am and he asks me what I want to do. He said at this point after being on pitocin for over 12 hours he didnt think that I was going to labor on my own and gave me the choice of a csection. I was alone at this point, my husband was sleeping and my mom was at home, and I didn't know what to do..So I just told my doctor we could do the pitocin until 12pm and then if it didn't work I would opt for a csection. WELL my mom finally came in around 9ish and we got to talking and at this point I was emotional and sick of waiting for the baby and having contractions for nothing. So me and my mom talked and decided it would be best to just shut the pitocin off and schedule the csection. So We did and my csection got scheduled for 1230. BOY from 930 to 1230, you would not believe all of the horrible thoughts running through my head. I thought I was going to die and I was just scared shitless. Around 11 my mom and husband left to go to the house and pick up some last minute stuff, so I was a lone and a nurse came in to give me a catheter, she did and it wasn't too bad going in, but the sensation of having to pee just set me off, I HATED the feelling and it just opened up the flood gates and I started bawling and hyperventilating and freaking out about my csection, I was calling my husband every two seconds asking him when he was going to be back. Finally they got back and tried to calm me down a little bit and had some nurses come in and explain the procedure to me, that helped and I calmed down, once I had finally calmed down they came in to wheel me into the OR! I was a little nervous but just kept thinking that if I got through it I would have my beautiful son to hold! So I get into the OR and i have to get the spinal block, which I was super afraid of, but I had a nurse talk me through it and it was not bad AT ALL. I didn't even feel the shot, just the numbing shot. So I started feeling all tingly and they laid me down and I was freaking out because they had told me I wouldn't be able to feel anything, but I would get a tingly sensation when someone touched me, they said this was normal. So they brought my mom and husband in and things got started, i couldn't feel them doing anything and I was just talking to my husband trying to stay calm and not think about what was going on. Well all of a sudden I couldn't breath, I wanted to start crying beacause one of my main fears would be that id forget to breath and die [lol] so I started freaking out telling everyone how hard it was to breath, well it turns out my doctor had to push down with all his might on my ribs because my son was stuck up there. lol. So finally they got him out and I started crying. I hadn't seen him yet, just heard his cry. They started stiching me up and I got REALLY nauseous, so my husband and the anestesiologist were fanning me with paper so I wouldn't puke everywhere. They brought Parker over and my husband held him first. and then they gave him to me and I got to hold him as we left the operating room. I didn't put him down for hours after that

Oh, he was 9lb11oz and 22 inches long
Born on July 2nd, at 12:53 pm

No one knew he was going to be that big, a week before I had an ultrasound and they estimated his weight at 7lb8oz. Doctor said its good I opted for the csec because if I would have went into labor on my own it would have ended in an emergancy one.
Heres right after he was born

Here he is 5 days old

and here he is 6 days old

and at his one week appt.

hes now 9 days old!

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