Jake's birth story and some PsIP

[christidee]

Attachment Deleted

The short story is that my labor was 25 hours long and I was an hour and a half away from a c section, however the epi made me relax and my body fully progressed in 4.5 hours once I finally got it.

Last year at 9:30 pm on April 8 DH and I were getting ready for bed. I mean, I was literally lifting my leg up to get into bed when I heard and felt a small pop. Immediately after there was a small trickle. I thought it was my water, but there definitely wasn't a gush. I went to the bathroom and wiggles around and sure enough I was leaking, so we headed off to the hospital. 

Once I was admitted to the hospital the nurses noticed that he had a "low base line." She came in the middle of the night and smelled of smoke. I had some sort of ultrasound stress test and everything turned out okay, but he just had a lower than usual heart rate.

I labored on my own all night. Finally at 6 am on the 9th they checked me. I made no progress. I was given cytotek and then later pitocin to help things along. 

At 4pm I still did not make much progress. I was less than 2 cm dilated, so they upped the pitocin, but I did not meet the 4 cm rule for the epi. 

Finally at 6 pm,  almost 21 hours after my water broke, I was still less than 2 hours my OB gave the okay to give me the epi just to see. I was immediately relaxed and was able to sleep for the first time since the night before. 

Two hours since the epi, I was about 5 cm.   At 9:30 pm, 24 hours after my water broke, my OB made the call to do a c section at midnight if I hadn't given birth by then. The nurse checked me and I was at 8. Then at 10 she checked again and I was fully ready. The OB was at the hospital by 10:30 and I started pushing shortly after that. After about 3 minutes of pushing Jake was born at 10:41 pm.

He was 18 inches long and weighed 7 lbs and 6 oz. 

[shevacc]

Good work, mama! Thanks for sharing your story!

[Deleted]

Great story! I am so insanely jealous of only pushing for 3 minutes. Great job!

[mrsjaymay]

Aww, happy birthday Jake!

[Dorothy Zbornak]

He is so adorable! Happy birthday!

[The Foozzler]

Happy birthday Jake!

[bebeetmoi]

Happy birthday little one!
PS- 3 minutes of pushing!!?!? Go you!

[kdrake8]

Wow! So NOT jealous of your labor length, yet super jealous of your pushing. Thanks for sharing!

[melis74]

He is such a cutie! Thank you for sharing and you deserved only 3 min of pushing after over 24 hours of laboring!

[lauranicole91]

A 4cm epi rule? Wtf? I had the same issue you did. I just would not progress at all until I got an epi. I was at 1cm for 15 fucking hours. I finally gave in and had them give me the epi and I finally starting progressing a got to 10cm in 3 hours.

[rxbeth]

Happy birthday, Jake.

[shmoo]

Happy Birthday Jake!

[helicase]

Great story. Lucky you, with 3 min of pushing! Thanks for sharing.

[formerlyllizzyb]

Love the NB pic

[TrudyCampbell]

3 minutes of pushing!? Surely you meant 3 HOURS of pushing.

[kandrze1]

Happy Birthday Jake! Thanks for sharing your story.

[thedahliharpa]

Apr 9, 2013 19:46:17 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

3 minutes of pushing!? Surely you meant 3 HOURS of pushing.

Yeah I cent comprehend this :-). Is Jake's middle name Torpedo?

[bean47]

Wow, that's a long time to be in labor but I am so jealous of your 3 min of pushing!

[christidee]

I pushed for three minutes.....not three hours. I read all of these longer push times here and thought that it was odd. Now I see I am the odd one. Before the OB arrived, the nurse told me to do some practic pushes. I did. She then said to stop because the baby was going to arrive before the doc. 

[ashleydl83]

3 minutes?! I thought I was quick with 15 minutes! Way to go mama.