Two nights before Mila made her big arrival I started to feel tired. Dead to the bone tired and flu like. I took a good long nap after work (it was awesome). I woke up the next morning at 3:30 am to find that my water had broken. Dan and I took quick showers, finished packing our bags, and left this note for Emma:
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We left our house around 5am, stopped to get gas, and headed to the hospital. The nice thing about my labors is that they usually start with my water breaking long before any contractions. We checked into the hospital at 5:30 and got comfortable in a labor room that I was sure we wouldn't be in after 4pm.
After a couple of hours it was determined that my contractions weren't strong enough, so they started me on pitocin. The clock was also ticking as my water was broke and baby was no longer in a sterile environment. When I was checked I was still only dilated to 1cm. The best part of having your water break before your labor starts is that you have to stay in bed for fear of compression of the cord (we are talking bed pans here) Over the course of 25 hours, changing position every 30 minutes, I never dilated more than 3cm. It seems that the progesterone shots may have worked even better than they should have (a.k.a turning my cervix into stone).
We experience two episodes of a team of nurses and doctors come running into the room flipping me over changing position and frantically searching for baby's heart beat that was there just a minute ago. After all that time and those two nervous breakdowns I was practically begging my doctor to perform a c section. At the time, we didn't know why Mila wasn't dropping (she was still in my ribs). It could have been she was crooked in there, maybe she had a short cord that wasn't allowing her to drop, or something else....
After a couple of hours it was determined that my contractions weren't strong enough, so they started me on pitocin. The clock was also ticking as my water was broke and baby was no longer in a sterile environment. When I was checked I was still only dilated to 1cm. The best part of having your water break before your labor starts is that you have to stay in bed for fear of compression of the cord (we are talking bed pans here) Over the course of 25 hours, changing position every 30 minutes, I never dilated more than 3cm. It seems that the progesterone shots may have worked even better than they should have (a.k.a turning my cervix into stone).
We experience two episodes of a team of nurses and doctors come running into the room flipping me over changing position and frantically searching for baby's heart beat that was there just a minute ago. After all that time and those two nervous breakdowns I was practically begging my doctor to perform a c section. At the time, we didn't know why Mila wasn't dropping (she was still in my ribs). It could have been she was crooked in there, maybe she had a short cord that wasn't allowing her to drop, or something else....
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