Re: 's Birth Story (LOOONG, baby ment)

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Congrats!! I am happy that he is healthy! You must be a proud mom!

EDD 10/6/04

1mc

Partial SU

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>

>Reply-To: MullerianAnomalies

>To: MullerianAnomalies

>Subject: 's Birth Story (LOOONG, baby ment)

>Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 22:35:24 -0000

>

>

>It has been a pretty rough first week, but I want to get this down

>while it is still pretty fresh in my mind. Note that I did not have

>an easy delivery, so brace yourselves and skip ahead if you don't

>want to read about a lot of intervention - I'll put a cliff's notes

>version at the end if you want to skip to that.

>

>We headed into the hospital last Thursday afternoon for a scheduled

>induction at 41 weeks 6 days. By 5:30 I was on a low dose of

>pitocen and reasonably comfortable at 2cm as I had been for the past

>3 days. We spent the evening watching the season premiers on CBS

>while the nurses periodically came in to up the dose.

>

>At 10pm we turned off the lights to get some sleep – I still wasn't

>having strong contractions or any real change. At 11:30pm my water

>broke and contractions started in earnest. I was able to breathe

>through them for a while, but lost control sometime between 1 and 2

>am and gave in to a morphine dose which provided some help for about

>another hour and a half.

>

>When they checked me at 3:30 am I was only at 2.5cm and was really

>not coping well with the contractions. By 4am they agreed and

>placed an epidural even though I was still only 2.5cm – I think they

>decided that this was the only way to get me off the toilet so that

>they could monitor the baby– the toilet was the only place I was

>even moderately comfortable through contractions. The epidural was

>effective and we settled back into sleep.

>

>At 6am when the nurse was checking the monitor, I mentioned that I

>was getting a lot of rectal pressure and she said she'd go get

>someone to check on the epidural. A few minutes later the OB was in

>to check my progress and I was at 9cm. We did a bolus on the

>epidural with the hope that it would get me comfortable enough to

>let the uterine contractions bring the baby down further before I

>started to push, but by 8:30am I HAD to push and we got started. I

>pushed for 4 hours before I was too exhausted to continue and told

>them I didn't care how they did it but I needed them to get the baby

>out. We decided to attempt forceps assistance, and ended up moving

>to the OR after the first placement was unsuccessful. In the OR

>they were able to place the forceps and was delivered at

>12:49pm.

>

>It turned out that his head was turned slightly and he had a HUGE

>bruise on the left rear quadrant of the top of his head. I probably

>wouldn't have been able to fit him out in that position without the

>help even if I had had more energy. I had a lot of repair work done

>for tearing and a lateral episiotomy so Nate came back to comfort me

>as soon as he had had a chance to see his son. Before long we were

>being wheeled back out to my room with my in my arms.

>

>Nursing has been a struggle, had quite a headache for the

>first 2 days and we did not get off to a good start. Then after

>less than 48 hours of nursing him after getting home my nipples were

>so sore that I couldn't keep it up. Brought in a lactation

>consultant and have had some improvement, but I'm mostly pumping

>still until the initial damage is healed. Add to that a return trip

>to triage yesterday because I pulled out some of my stitches and I

>am sore, frustrated and exhausted.

>

>The good news is that is a very good baby only up twice each

>night to feed and helping me to get lots of rest during the day.

>I'll post some pictures (if I can, haven't been successful in this

>for several months) when I get logged into our desktop machine next.

>

>Summary: arrived vaginally with forceps assistance after

>pitocen induction and 4 hours of pushing. Left cervix completely

>dominated and the right one presented no issues. is doing

>much better than mommy at this point.

>

>- (30, SU bicollis resected, 1 wk. old little boy is the joy

>of my life)

>

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Congratulations on ! I'm sorry it was so tough - sounds like

you were very strong! I had a similar delivery 12 weeks ago today -

after four hours of pushing they had to do a vaccuum delivery with

episiotomy. Zoya also had a bad headache, trouble with breast

feeding - she didn't latch until she was 5 weeks old! I became an

expert pumper! We're doing fine now, but like you, baby was doing

better than I was for the first 2-3 weeks. It does get better (but I

know that it little comfort right now, hold on - you'll get through

it!). Accept and ask for all the help you can and enjoy your

wonderful son!

Take care and congratulations again.

a

35

Complete SU, unresected

DD Zoya 12 weeks today

[Guest guest]

,

Many congratulations on the birth of your son! I'm so sorry that this week has

been so difficult. It sounds like you have had an unusually rough time of it.

I hope things keep getting better for you every day. Thank you so much for

taking time to share your story!

Best wishes to you and your family,

Mikell, 32

t-shaped

[Guest guest]

Hi

I know this is a little off subject. But you said you were having

problems with breastfeeding. Have you found a La Leche League group

in your area? You can find them at www.lalecheleague.org its a great

reasource that's greatly helped me along the way.

I wish you luck on your journey of new mommy hood!!!

>

> It has been a pretty rough first week, but I want to get this down

> while it is still pretty fresh in my mind. Note that I did not

have

> an easy delivery, so brace yourselves and skip ahead if you don't

> want to read about a lot of intervention - I'll put a cliff's

notes

> version at the end if you want to skip to that.

>

> We headed into the hospital last Thursday afternoon for a

scheduled

> induction at 41 weeks 6 days. By 5:30 I was on a low dose of

> pitocen and reasonably comfortable at 2cm as I had been for the

past

> 3 days. We spent the evening watching the season premiers on CBS

> while the nurses periodically came in to up the dose.

>

> At 10pm we turned off the lights to get some sleep – I still

wasn't

> having strong contractions or any real change. At 11:30pm my

water

> broke and contractions started in earnest. I was able to breathe

> through them for a while, but lost control sometime between 1 and

2

> am and gave in to a morphine dose which provided some help for

about

> another hour and a half.

>

> When they checked me at 3:30 am I was only at 2.5cm and was really

> not coping well with the contractions. By 4am they agreed and

> placed an epidural even though I was still only 2.5cm – I think

they

> decided that this was the only way to get me off the toilet so

that

> they could monitor the baby– the toilet was the only place I was

> even moderately comfortable through contractions. The epidural

was

> effective and we settled back into sleep.

>

> At 6am when the nurse was checking the monitor, I mentioned that I

> was getting a lot of rectal pressure and she said she'd go get

> someone to check on the epidural. A few minutes later the OB was

in

> to check my progress and I was at 9cm. We did a bolus on the

> epidural with the hope that it would get me comfortable enough to

> let the uterine contractions bring the baby down further before I

> started to push, but by 8:30am I HAD to push and we got started.

I

> pushed for 4 hours before I was too exhausted to continue and told

> them I didn't care how they did it but I needed them to get the

baby

> out. We decided to attempt forceps assistance, and ended up

moving

> to the OR after the first placement was unsuccessful. In the OR

> they were able to place the forceps and was delivered at

> 12:49pm.

>

> It turned out that his head was turned slightly and he had a HUGE

> bruise on the left rear quadrant of the top of his head. I

probably

> wouldn't have been able to fit him out in that position without

the

> help even if I had had more energy. I had a lot of repair work

done

> for tearing and a lateral episiotomy so Nate came back to comfort

me

> as soon as he had had a chance to see his son. Before long we

were

> being wheeled back out to my room with my in my arms.

>

> Nursing has been a struggle, had quite a headache for the

> first 2 days and we did not get off to a good start. Then after

> less than 48 hours of nursing him after getting home my nipples

were

> so sore that I couldn't keep it up. Brought in a lactation

> consultant and have had some improvement, but I'm mostly pumping

> still until the initial damage is healed. Add to that a return

trip

> to triage yesterday because I pulled out some of my stitches and I

> am sore, frustrated and exhausted.

>

> The good news is that is a very good baby only up twice

each

> night to feed and helping me to get lots of rest during the day.

> I'll post some pictures (if I can, haven't been successful in this

> for several months) when I get logged into our desktop machine

next.

>

> Summary: arrived vaginally with forceps assistance after

> pitocen induction and 4 hours of pushing. Left cervix completely

> dominated and the right one presented no issues. is doing

> much better than mommy at this point.

>

> - (30, SU bicollis resected, 1 wk. old little boy is the joy

> of my life)