The short: we were going through a mid-wife, I had my 1st contraction (which was 15 minutes long at a 2 day birthing conference. She wasnt due for another 5 weeks! My midwife told me to sit in the Jacuzzi, in which the contractions eased allot but they were every 2-4 minutes. Rushed to the hospital which was an hour and a half away. Praying that the contractions would stop. She was breech, and her feet were already in the birthing canal which meant there was no way to turn her.... I went from 4cm. To almost 6 in the hour they were ultrasounding. She was coming Ready or Not! They apparently do not deliver breech babies anymore. So she was c-section. Not what we were planning. I know I am not alone in this. It seems they are pushing c-sections really hard these days.
My husband and I went from spending the last day thinking of nothing else but the pregnancy about how we wanted the atmosphere while I was in labor and how everything was to be done, to Nothing like we had wanted it to be at all. I should remind you that my c-section was not a normal one, So do not let any of this scare you knew moms. I had forgotten allot about right after the c-section. I was in labor for 9 hours and I hemorrhaged. I remember i could feel allot of the tugging and pulling and pushing during the surgery. My friends have said they couldnt feel anything. A friend reminded me that I was shaking ALLOT when I came out. Which I remember I kept saying "I don't know why? I'm not cold" I also forgot up till now that I had these things on my legs to keep the blood going So my legs didn't swell. I also had what they called a ...pronounced "ba-chee" balloon, which goes in the uterus and a catheter, (which you probably know what that is....)
It was around 5:30 pm when she was born, and I did not get to hold her till almost midnight that night I had only seen her for the 5 seconds it took for the nurse to take the picture on the surgery table. This is my biggest regret about the c-section. Even though now I feel very close to my daughter I feel I missed out on a very important time. They also gave her a bottle Of formula right away, another thing that upset me later. She was in the NICU for almost 3 days. Though she was doing great! She just wasn't holding her temperature. I wound up being the reason we were in there the 4th night.
There is So many other details and things I learned from this that I would love to pass on to new moms! Please ask! This is a big reason why I made this thread.
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