SairBear
22-04-2007, 04:30 PM
Birth Story of
CALEB NATHANIEL
18/04/07 10.17pm
3790gm
Length: 52 cms
HC: 36cm
Wed 18/04/07
Full term : 40+9 days overdue
After seeing my EDD of the 9th April 07 come & go I became very anxious and just plain whiney lol . The week leading up to the 18th I had 3 S&S with no sign of bubs. Induction had been scheduled for 20th April. About the 16th I decided induction was happening as bubs just wasnt gonna come on his own. and I was happy just waiting.
Dp , DD and I Spent the day at MILs had a bbq lunch and SIL and BIL came around and we chatted etc. Hadn’t felt any movements but decided to see if anything happened on the way home.
We got home at 5ish and I mentioned to mum I Hadn’t felt any movements today. So she was concerned due to me being 9 days over so we headed off to the hospital for some monitoring. In the meantime DP heads off at 6 to some kenwood training for work and I say ill call him if anything happens. we leave Dd with my brother at home.
1830pm We are at the hosp now. We get hooked up to ctg and everything going ok, no movements but bubs HR is fine. Doc is called to review it and its decided im to be admitted and induced with my waters broken due to being overdue and no movement. I don’t call Dp yet as he is watching a movie at his training and figure I’ll be a while b4 anything happens after my waters are broken. 1920pm So Off we go to birth suites to have waters broken. Doc comes in to break waters and surprise im not dilated and he cant get the hook up to break waters. So its decided we are gonna put some gel up and soften it overnight and break waters in the morning. So mum heads off to get the gel she comes back and says I have to be monitored for 30mins and the gel has to warm up. She’s been asked to go check on a labouring lady as She’s in a bit of trouble so she heads off to do that and says she will be back soon. so I sit in birth suites with ctg strapped to me thinking its gonna be a long nite!
Meanwhile its 8pm ish and Im sitting watching the ctg .. Bubs HR is going good..160.163.159 etc etc.. its all good.. then all of a sudden it goes .. 171.165.154.143.130 etc down to 40.:eek: .. then the alarm on the ctg starts beeping, at this point im freaking out.. pressing buzzer to get mum or a nurse to come... no one comes, the ctg is still beeping... bubs heart rate stayed under 50 for about 15-25secs then it started to go back up again... at this point im beside myself and im scared and im sweating and shaking and start yelling out for someone to come quick....no one comes.. then I hear footsteps and a middie walks in... and hears the beeping and sees the HR drop on the print out and she doesn’t say anything She’s just got this concerned look on her face. She asks if bub moved or I had contractions when this happened I tell her no. She says its not a good sign and is calling the doc. Doc comes back. He seems concerned too. And says we need to get bub out ASAP as he’s in distress . While he is telling me this, bubs HR drop again.. ok not good at all!... He says we are gonna have an emergency C/sect and tells middie to start prepping me etc. Mum runs into the room. She gets the shock of her life when she hears what’s happened and is going to be happening. 830pm She calls mark and tells him to not to worry but to get to hosp as fast as he can. Mark calls me back asking me if I’ve had the baby. I tell him no but insist he drives safely but doesn’t F’ Around getting here!! They get all the bits n pieces attached to me and im sat on a bed to wheel me to theatre. 9pm Mark arrives and is updated on everything, he is shocked but excited all at the same time. Mum takes him to get changed into scrubs for theatre. Im wheeled in. Sat on a narrow bed for spinal block to be put in. The anesthetist starts injecting local in for the spinal... he has trouble putting spinal in as he cant find a space. It starts to hurt and I get injected with more local.. My belly starts to hurt at this point and I start getting worried about the events ahead. After one more attempt b4 I get a general anesthetic they get it in!!!!. I was really begging mum and the surgeon not to have a GA so I was so relieved thanking the anesthetist over and over again for trying so hard... I lay on theater table and the screen is put up. 945pm Mark comes and sits next to my head. I can see in the big light above us the reflection down onto my belly.. Catheter is put in etc and im prepped for surgery etc.***THIS IS WHERE IT GETS FUZZY..But ill try to remember as much as possible***...........so at this point im numb so cant feel anything from my chest down. Im actually finding it hard to breathe so im concentrating on breathing marks helping me by telling me when to breathe and reminding me not to look up at the reflection. At this point its getting scary.. Approx 10pm The incisions start.. I can hear suction thing .... then I feel a lot of tugging and pulling and hard sensations for about 5mins. Dp is giving me a countdown to when bubs will arrive .. 2mins, 1 min, 30 secs.
10.17pm
CALEB NATHANIEL enters the world!
I look up and I see a baby bum in the reflection. Of what body parts I can see The baby isn’t moving. I cant Hear any crying. I start to ask why isn’t he crying? what’s going on?
I hear suction and then the surgeon say "cord wrapped around head once"... Other doc replies "nope its twice round." Surgeon replies back "oh its 3 times"... (OMG!! ) I hear crying finally! the best sound in the world! I Start asking is he ok? is he ok? ...no ones telling me. Mums rushing round with the pediatrician and not saying anything.. There’s so many people in the theater its amazing and they all are so busy! ... Finally Mum calls mark over to the baby table thing to take some photos etc and then he brings bub over to me... ( ah the relief) " he’s beautiful "I tell Dp as tears roll down my face I don’t think I’ve ever been so relieved and so happy in my entire life... then the nausea kicks in.. ( horrible) I get given 2 lots of drugs for the nausea and that seems to settle it. Im stitched up ( it seemed like forever) and I keep accidentally looking in the light reflection and see my insides being stitched and pulled and suctioned etc... 10.50pm all done and moved onto another bed and taken to recovery.. where im meant to be in there for 30mins... Mark and Mum come in with Caleb they had been off weighing him and giving him his jabs et and he gets his first Breast feed in recovery. My spinal is taking a while to wear off and my BP is very low so im sort of going in and out vagueness.. They hook up self admin morphine... (the best invention in the world) and I get checked for bleeding/clotting... im bleeding way too much and am given drugs to help stop it. ... 1 hr later at 11.50pm im still in recovery still bleeding/clotting, the nurses have called the doc twice to come and see me and he is concerned and says if it doesn’t stop within the next 30 min we are gonna have to head back into theater... I ask the nurse why? and what will happen? she doesn’t answer me.. ( im freaking out again) I don’t want to go back to theater!.. luckily im given different drugs at the request of my mum and the bleeding/clotting stops finally. I find out that if I had kept bleeding I might have had to have a hysterectomy!!! ( omg im thinking) ... 1.15am im given the all clear to go back to the ward.. ( im so relieved)..Earlier at 12ish Dp took bub back to room in the ward to meet his Nanna (dps mum) He’s such a proud daddy.. And loves the fact he got to spend the 1st hour of Calebs life cuddling him... Back in the ward I feed Bub again as he’s very unsettled after not being able to get on the boob for a while. 1.30am Dp and Mum leave to go get some sleep at home.. Im monitored through out the nite.. And bleeding isn’t getting worse so nurse is happy... im still quite numb and very sore so the middie helps me feed bub and looks after him. He is quite unsettled the 1st nite so it was good I had some help DD meets her new Lil bro the next day. She is so excited and cant stop kissing his head and touching his hair.
Pic of Caleb (http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l232/Sair_Bear_1980/caleb9.jpg)
Area where spinal was put in (http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l232/Sair_Bear_1980/spinalblockarea.jpg)( after numerous attempts)
Mum and Bub (http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l232/Sair_Bear_1980/Picture016.jpg)
Anyways it wasn’t the birth I had expected but im a believer in things happening for a reason... And I believe that if I had been induced as planned on the Friday things could have ended up very bad because of the cord situation. Even the 2 Obs I talked to said that also. Im just sad I didnt even get a glimpse at labour of ant sort. But having said that we are just happy to have a healthy baby boy and I wouldn’t have changed what happened for anything !
Thanks to anyone who reads this.. :) just wanted to share my unique birth story.
CALEB NATHANIEL
18/04/07 10.17pm
3790gm
Length: 52 cms
HC: 36cm
Wed 18/04/07
Full term : 40+9 days overdue
After seeing my EDD of the 9th April 07 come & go I became very anxious and just plain whiney lol . The week leading up to the 18th I had 3 S&S with no sign of bubs. Induction had been scheduled for 20th April. About the 16th I decided induction was happening as bubs just wasnt gonna come on his own. and I was happy just waiting.
Dp , DD and I Spent the day at MILs had a bbq lunch and SIL and BIL came around and we chatted etc. Hadn’t felt any movements but decided to see if anything happened on the way home.
We got home at 5ish and I mentioned to mum I Hadn’t felt any movements today. So she was concerned due to me being 9 days over so we headed off to the hospital for some monitoring. In the meantime DP heads off at 6 to some kenwood training for work and I say ill call him if anything happens. we leave Dd with my brother at home.
1830pm We are at the hosp now. We get hooked up to ctg and everything going ok, no movements but bubs HR is fine. Doc is called to review it and its decided im to be admitted and induced with my waters broken due to being overdue and no movement. I don’t call Dp yet as he is watching a movie at his training and figure I’ll be a while b4 anything happens after my waters are broken. 1920pm So Off we go to birth suites to have waters broken. Doc comes in to break waters and surprise im not dilated and he cant get the hook up to break waters. So its decided we are gonna put some gel up and soften it overnight and break waters in the morning. So mum heads off to get the gel she comes back and says I have to be monitored for 30mins and the gel has to warm up. She’s been asked to go check on a labouring lady as She’s in a bit of trouble so she heads off to do that and says she will be back soon. so I sit in birth suites with ctg strapped to me thinking its gonna be a long nite!
Meanwhile its 8pm ish and Im sitting watching the ctg .. Bubs HR is going good..160.163.159 etc etc.. its all good.. then all of a sudden it goes .. 171.165.154.143.130 etc down to 40.:eek: .. then the alarm on the ctg starts beeping, at this point im freaking out.. pressing buzzer to get mum or a nurse to come... no one comes, the ctg is still beeping... bubs heart rate stayed under 50 for about 15-25secs then it started to go back up again... at this point im beside myself and im scared and im sweating and shaking and start yelling out for someone to come quick....no one comes.. then I hear footsteps and a middie walks in... and hears the beeping and sees the HR drop on the print out and she doesn’t say anything She’s just got this concerned look on her face. She asks if bub moved or I had contractions when this happened I tell her no. She says its not a good sign and is calling the doc. Doc comes back. He seems concerned too. And says we need to get bub out ASAP as he’s in distress . While he is telling me this, bubs HR drop again.. ok not good at all!... He says we are gonna have an emergency C/sect and tells middie to start prepping me etc. Mum runs into the room. She gets the shock of her life when she hears what’s happened and is going to be happening. 830pm She calls mark and tells him to not to worry but to get to hosp as fast as he can. Mark calls me back asking me if I’ve had the baby. I tell him no but insist he drives safely but doesn’t F’ Around getting here!! They get all the bits n pieces attached to me and im sat on a bed to wheel me to theatre. 9pm Mark arrives and is updated on everything, he is shocked but excited all at the same time. Mum takes him to get changed into scrubs for theatre. Im wheeled in. Sat on a narrow bed for spinal block to be put in. The anesthetist starts injecting local in for the spinal... he has trouble putting spinal in as he cant find a space. It starts to hurt and I get injected with more local.. My belly starts to hurt at this point and I start getting worried about the events ahead. After one more attempt b4 I get a general anesthetic they get it in!!!!. I was really begging mum and the surgeon not to have a GA so I was so relieved thanking the anesthetist over and over again for trying so hard... I lay on theater table and the screen is put up. 945pm Mark comes and sits next to my head. I can see in the big light above us the reflection down onto my belly.. Catheter is put in etc and im prepped for surgery etc.***THIS IS WHERE IT GETS FUZZY..But ill try to remember as much as possible***...........so at this point im numb so cant feel anything from my chest down. Im actually finding it hard to breathe so im concentrating on breathing marks helping me by telling me when to breathe and reminding me not to look up at the reflection. At this point its getting scary.. Approx 10pm The incisions start.. I can hear suction thing .... then I feel a lot of tugging and pulling and hard sensations for about 5mins. Dp is giving me a countdown to when bubs will arrive .. 2mins, 1 min, 30 secs.
10.17pm
CALEB NATHANIEL enters the world!
I look up and I see a baby bum in the reflection. Of what body parts I can see The baby isn’t moving. I cant Hear any crying. I start to ask why isn’t he crying? what’s going on?
I hear suction and then the surgeon say "cord wrapped around head once"... Other doc replies "nope its twice round." Surgeon replies back "oh its 3 times"... (OMG!! ) I hear crying finally! the best sound in the world! I Start asking is he ok? is he ok? ...no ones telling me. Mums rushing round with the pediatrician and not saying anything.. There’s so many people in the theater its amazing and they all are so busy! ... Finally Mum calls mark over to the baby table thing to take some photos etc and then he brings bub over to me... ( ah the relief) " he’s beautiful "I tell Dp as tears roll down my face I don’t think I’ve ever been so relieved and so happy in my entire life... then the nausea kicks in.. ( horrible) I get given 2 lots of drugs for the nausea and that seems to settle it. Im stitched up ( it seemed like forever) and I keep accidentally looking in the light reflection and see my insides being stitched and pulled and suctioned etc... 10.50pm all done and moved onto another bed and taken to recovery.. where im meant to be in there for 30mins... Mark and Mum come in with Caleb they had been off weighing him and giving him his jabs et and he gets his first Breast feed in recovery. My spinal is taking a while to wear off and my BP is very low so im sort of going in and out vagueness.. They hook up self admin morphine... (the best invention in the world) and I get checked for bleeding/clotting... im bleeding way too much and am given drugs to help stop it. ... 1 hr later at 11.50pm im still in recovery still bleeding/clotting, the nurses have called the doc twice to come and see me and he is concerned and says if it doesn’t stop within the next 30 min we are gonna have to head back into theater... I ask the nurse why? and what will happen? she doesn’t answer me.. ( im freaking out again) I don’t want to go back to theater!.. luckily im given different drugs at the request of my mum and the bleeding/clotting stops finally. I find out that if I had kept bleeding I might have had to have a hysterectomy!!! ( omg im thinking) ... 1.15am im given the all clear to go back to the ward.. ( im so relieved)..Earlier at 12ish Dp took bub back to room in the ward to meet his Nanna (dps mum) He’s such a proud daddy.. And loves the fact he got to spend the 1st hour of Calebs life cuddling him... Back in the ward I feed Bub again as he’s very unsettled after not being able to get on the boob for a while. 1.30am Dp and Mum leave to go get some sleep at home.. Im monitored through out the nite.. And bleeding isn’t getting worse so nurse is happy... im still quite numb and very sore so the middie helps me feed bub and looks after him. He is quite unsettled the 1st nite so it was good I had some help DD meets her new Lil bro the next day. She is so excited and cant stop kissing his head and touching his hair.
Pic of Caleb (http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l232/Sair_Bear_1980/caleb9.jpg)
Area where spinal was put in (http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l232/Sair_Bear_1980/spinalblockarea.jpg)( after numerous attempts)
Mum and Bub (http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l232/Sair_Bear_1980/Picture016.jpg)
Anyways it wasn’t the birth I had expected but im a believer in things happening for a reason... And I believe that if I had been induced as planned on the Friday things could have ended up very bad because of the cord situation. Even the 2 Obs I talked to said that also. Im just sad I didnt even get a glimpse at labour of ant sort. But having said that we are just happy to have a healthy baby boy and I wouldn’t have changed what happened for anything !
Thanks to anyone who reads this.. :) just wanted to share my unique birth story.