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We arrived at the hospital at 6am, and by the time I got situated, my IV and my fluids and Dr. Etman checked me it was about 730- 8 ish. My nurse when I got there was young and you can just tell she doesn’t have a ton of experience. Well she was doing my IV and she blew two of my veins then went to get someone else to do it. She was freakin’ me out especially when she was trying to do the IV the second time. The nurse that achieved the IV did it so fast and painless. I have no mark on my arm from it, and usually a person does after it is removed. Dr. Etman removed the Laminaria sticks that were placed around my cervix from the previous day and checked me. I was a 2.5 and about 60%, so it helped, since I was only 50% and pretty much closed. Then pitocin was started and the waiting game began. They increased the pitocin slowly so really by the time I felt any thing it was late morning. They increased the pitocin very slowly every 20 minutes increasing it by 4-6 Units/minute and then maxed me at 20 unit/minute. At around 12:30 Etman came back to check me. He asked if I thought I had progressed and I told him I didn’t think I had, I mean I really wasn’t having pain. But I had progressed I was at a 3 1/2. It was slow moving but he broke my water which also put me to a 4 right when he did that. After Etman broke my water he said okay so I will be back at 5 to have this baby. I laughed and I said oh no I don’t think so. They gradually increased my pitocin from 20 to 36mUn/min. Things really picked up and I was having contractions about every 2 minutes apart. Once I had reached 36 mUn/min they turned the pitocin completely off and let my body rest from it and my body pretty much kept up the labor pattern it had while on pitocin. After 30-45 minutes off the pitocin they turned it back on and started back at like 8mUn/min and would slowly work its way back up until my body was back at a very consistent labor pattern of 2 minutes apart. It didn’t take much for that to happen I only got to 18 mUn/min to achieve that. The nurse showed Daryl a trick to do that would help with my hip and back pain and it worked wonders. The hospital here has these cool beds where the top half can stay put and then the leg area can drop so it is like you are sitting on a very large chair with a foot rest attached to it. It was so ideal and I loved it, especially since I couldn’t leave the bed accept to pee, since they needed continuous monitoring of the baby. That is one reason I was so sure I wouldn’t achieve my goal of a vaginal birth, since I had to be in a bed for a large portion of it. It was finally getting to the point where no one should talk and I had to moan my way through the contractions. I was trying to make it to at least a 6 or 7 so then I knew if I got an epidural hopefully my labor wouldn’t stop. I had told my nurse my story with Paiglee and why I was so scared and nervous about attempting this vaginal birth. She was very understanding and was continually reassuring me through it all. There was a girl next door getting an epidural and my nurse (who is an amazing nurse I have to say) said that I could get one after he was done next door. I decided to wait 30 minutes then she checked me I was 6 and 80 effaced at 230ish. I had kept asking my nurse you are sure it won’t stop my labor, and she told me she believed it wouldn’t since I was maintaining a good labor pattern without the pitocin. Then by the time the anesthesiologist got to me it was almost an hour later and I was really ready to have relief. I really had to dig deep to stay still through my contractions for the anesthesia. It was rough to say the least, the epidural slowly made the contractions bearable and I wasn’t moaning as loud through them so I knew it was working slowly. Daryl said he thought I was going to rip his shirt off I was gripping so hard while the epidural was being placed. After the epidural was placed I still felt contractions and I felt pressure and a little pain in my pelvic area but it was so tolerable after what I had experienced, I was fine with having to deal with it. After just an hour of the epidural I was 100 effaced and a 0 station so things were moving along. At 5:02pm exactly I was checked and I only had a tiny lip on my left side so pretty much fully dilated. When my nurse checked me she told me there is just a tiny lip and I asked so how far dilated am I, she looked at me, “fully except for the lip”. To be honest when she told me I was fully dilated I seriously almost cried, I couldn’t believe I had really progressed all the way and that my hope to deliver Vaginally was that close. Dr. Etman was right, at 5pm I would be ready to have a baby. So we just sat and waited a bit longer since I didn’t have a huge urge to push or a ton of pressure. I knew I was progressing because I got the shakes like most women get in the transition phase. But I had the shakes even after my water was broken and things had picked up. I still didn’t want to get my hopes up though because she could have problems descending into the canal. So we just waited and let the contractions do the work for me. Dr. Etman showed up a little before 6pm he checked me and said the baby’s head was about three inches up. So we got ready to have a baby, my amazing nurse coached me on how to push since it was my first time ever having to do such things. They got the whole room prepped and it was just me, Daryl (who sat in the corner in a chair far from view, he gets queasy), Dr. Etman, my nurse Karla and another nurse to help hold my leg. It was so laid back they were talking about all sorts of things. Dr Etman stayed the whole time for pushing. I started about 6:08pm and she arrived at 6:38pm so I only pushed for about 30 minutes. I was able to watch in a mirror but really I only looked in-between contractions as I was pushing with my eyes closed and with all I had. Dr. Etman was playing with her hair since she had a ton of black hair and it was so long, in-between my contractions. I have to say though I am so glad I had an epidural the pressure and pain I felt through the epidural was good enough for me. When she was crowning my pubic bone felt like it was going to spilt, crazy feeling all I have to say, it was motivation to push her out though. I was able to help pull her out and put her on my stomach and I just began to cry. I just remember saying “oh my gosh” over and over again. It was amazing, it was the best experience I have ever had in my life. She wasn’t much of a crier but pinked right up she was adorable and my thought was she is gorgeous she had tons of black hair and I helped wipe her off. She was amazing looking for a vaginal birth. It was an unreal experience and one I would live over and over again one hundred times. She was cleaned while I was being tended to and I was able to see her the whole time. I couldn’t stop crying, I guess I had a tear inside that was small that Etman had to stitch up. I asked before the birth to be able to see the placenta. I never saw Paiglee’s and I have always been curious as to what it looked like. It is pretty amazing and although Daryl wanted no part in it, it was very memorable for me. I was able to breast feed her right away. Right after I pulled Emery out my attending nurse leaned into me and said “see you did it, you did amazing she is gorgeous you did a great job”. My nurse mad the experience so memorable for us, even Daryl said she was great, we bought her a card and a gift card and delivered it yesterday, that is how amazing she was. Right after delivering Emery I asked my nurse if she would be back the next day and she said she wouldn’t be working. But she came back in my room even with my new nurse to check on me and say bye. I seriously loved my nurse. I told her she was so great and that she made the experience great for me and she said that she was glad that she was able to be my nurse and that she enjoyed being a part of this time in my life, that it was a great experience for her.
Paiglee was able to come to my room and have a moment with Daryl and I and introduce her to her new sister. I remember feeling like crying right when I saw Paiglee walk in the room. I am not sure from happiness or what. She was shy and everything but she was interested and understood that it was Emery and that she came out of my belly. I was in a state of euphoria because of what I had just done and been through, I couldn’t stop smiling and I was emotional happy that I had just had this beautiful baby and experience. That I had achieved my goal , of course not on my own, non of it would have happened if it weren’t for My Father in Heaven watching over me and Emery and sending an amazing nurse my way, for a competent doctor and of course Daryl’s support. Daryl did amazing helping me work through this labor, he was hands on this round. I feel so lucky and blessed to have had such an amazing experience. And the fact that this one was my last was like the cherry on top for me. Right after Emery came out though I automatically thought I could totally do this again. I am so glad that I was able to experience it and that is was so memorable for me and special. It was pretty much how I had always thought and dreamed it to be. I am glad that I was able to have this experience in life that I had always wanted. To know that my previous c-section didn’t take that away from me was beyond emotional for me to deal with. I honestly would relive that day over and over. Daryl even really enjoyed it, and said he was expecting it to be stressful since Paiglee’s was and he said he was pleasantly surprised. All around it was a great experience for both Daryl and I to share together. I still can’t believe how amazing it all was, it was like I need to pinch myself to wake up. I just feel really blessed beyond words, for that whole day, and to have an amazing beautiful baby come from it is very unreal for me.
We arrived at the hospital at 6am, and by the time I got situated, my IV and my fluids and Dr. Etman checked me it was about 730- 8 ish. My nurse when I got there was young and you can just tell she doesn’t have a ton of experience. Well she was doing my IV and she blew two of my veins then went to get someone else to do it. She was freakin’ me out especially when she was trying to do the IV the second time. The nurse that achieved the IV did it so fast and painless. I have no mark on my arm from it, and usually a person does after it is removed. Dr. Etman removed the Laminaria sticks that were placed around my cervix from the previous day and checked me. I was a 2.5 and about 60%, so it helped, since I was only 50% and pretty much closed. Then pitocin was started and the waiting game began. They increased the pitocin slowly so really by the time I felt any thing it was late morning. They increased the pitocin very slowly every 20 minutes increasing it by 4-6 Units/minute and then maxed me at 20 unit/minute. At around 12:30 Etman came back to check me. He asked if I thought I had progressed and I told him I didn’t think I had, I mean I really wasn’t having pain. But I had progressed I was at a 3 1/2. It was slow moving but he broke my water which also put me to a 4 right when he did that. After Etman broke my water he said okay so I will be back at 5 to have this baby. I laughed and I said oh no I don’t think so. They gradually increased my pitocin from 20 to 36mUn/min. Things really picked up and I was having contractions about every 2 minutes apart. Once I had reached 36 mUn/min they turned the pitocin completely off and let my body rest from it and my body pretty much kept up the labor pattern it had while on pitocin. After 30-45 minutes off the pitocin they turned it back on and started back at like 8mUn/min and would slowly work its way back up until my body was back at a very consistent labor pattern of 2 minutes apart. It didn’t take much for that to happen I only got to 18 mUn/min to achieve that. The nurse showed Daryl a trick to do that would help with my hip and back pain and it worked wonders. The hospital here has these cool beds where the top half can stay put and then the leg area can drop so it is like you are sitting on a very large chair with a foot rest attached to it. It was so ideal and I loved it, especially since I couldn’t leave the bed accept to pee, since they needed continuous monitoring of the baby. That is one reason I was so sure I wouldn’t achieve my goal of a vaginal birth, since I had to be in a bed for a large portion of it. It was finally getting to the point where no one should talk and I had to moan my way through the contractions. I was trying to make it to at least a 6 or 7 so then I knew if I got an epidural hopefully my labor wouldn’t stop. I had told my nurse my story with Paiglee and why I was so scared and nervous about attempting this vaginal birth. She was very understanding and was continually reassuring me through it all. There was a girl next door getting an epidural and my nurse (who is an amazing nurse I have to say) said that I could get one after he was done next door. I decided to wait 30 minutes then she checked me I was 6 and 80 effaced at 230ish. I had kept asking my nurse you are sure it won’t stop my labor, and she told me she believed it wouldn’t since I was maintaining a good labor pattern without the pitocin. Then by the time the anesthesiologist got to me it was almost an hour later and I was really ready to have relief. I really had to dig deep to stay still through my contractions for the anesthesia. It was rough to say the least, the epidural slowly made the contractions bearable and I wasn’t moaning as loud through them so I knew it was working slowly. Daryl said he thought I was going to rip his shirt off I was gripping so hard while the epidural was being placed. After the epidural was placed I still felt contractions and I felt pressure and a little pain in my pelvic area but it was so tolerable after what I had experienced, I was fine with having to deal with it. After just an hour of the epidural I was 100 effaced and a 0 station so things were moving along. At 5:02pm exactly I was checked and I only had a tiny lip on my left side so pretty much fully dilated. When my nurse checked me she told me there is just a tiny lip and I asked so how far dilated am I, she looked at me, “fully except for the lip”. To be honest when she told me I was fully dilated I seriously almost cried, I couldn’t believe I had really progressed all the way and that my hope to deliver Vaginally was that close. Dr. Etman was right, at 5pm I would be ready to have a baby. So we just sat and waited a bit longer since I didn’t have a huge urge to push or a ton of pressure. I knew I was progressing because I got the shakes like most women get in the transition phase. But I had the shakes even after my water was broken and things had picked up. I still didn’t want to get my hopes up though because she could have problems descending into the canal. So we just waited and let the contractions do the work for me. Dr. Etman showed up a little before 6pm he checked me and said the baby’s head was about three inches up. So we got ready to have a baby, my amazing nurse coached me on how to push since it was my first time ever having to do such things. They got the whole room prepped and it was just me, Daryl (who sat in the corner in a chair far from view, he gets queasy), Dr. Etman, my nurse Karla and another nurse to help hold my leg. It was so laid back they were talking about all sorts of things. Dr Etman stayed the whole time for pushing. I started about 6:08pm and she arrived at 6:38pm so I only pushed for about 30 minutes. I was able to watch in a mirror but really I only looked in-between contractions as I was pushing with my eyes closed and with all I had. Dr. Etman was playing with her hair since she had a ton of black hair and it was so long, in-between my contractions. I have to say though I am so glad I had an epidural the pressure and pain I felt through the epidural was good enough for me. When she was crowning my pubic bone felt like it was going to spilt, crazy feeling all I have to say, it was motivation to push her out though. I was able to help pull her out and put her on my stomach and I just began to cry. I just remember saying “oh my gosh” over and over again. It was amazing, it was the best experience I have ever had in my life. She wasn’t much of a crier but pinked right up she was adorable and my thought was she is gorgeous she had tons of black hair and I helped wipe her off. She was amazing looking for a vaginal birth. It was an unreal experience and one I would live over and over again one hundred times. She was cleaned while I was being tended to and I was able to see her the whole time. I couldn’t stop crying, I guess I had a tear inside that was small that Etman had to stitch up. I asked before the birth to be able to see the placenta. I never saw Paiglee’s and I have always been curious as to what it looked like. It is pretty amazing and although Daryl wanted no part in it, it was very memorable for me. I was able to breast feed her right away. Right after I pulled Emery out my attending nurse leaned into me and said “see you did it, you did amazing she is gorgeous you did a great job”. My nurse mad the experience so memorable for us, even Daryl said she was great, we bought her a card and a gift card and delivered it yesterday, that is how amazing she was. Right after delivering Emery I asked my nurse if she would be back the next day and she said she wouldn’t be working. But she came back in my room even with my new nurse to check on me and say bye. I seriously loved my nurse. I told her she was so great and that she made the experience great for me and she said that she was glad that she was able to be my nurse and that she enjoyed being a part of this time in my life, that it was a great experience for her.
Paiglee was able to come to my room and have a moment with Daryl and I and introduce her to her new sister. I remember feeling like crying right when I saw Paiglee walk in the room. I am not sure from happiness or what. She was shy and everything but she was interested and understood that it was Emery and that she came out of my belly. I was in a state of euphoria because of what I had just done and been through, I couldn’t stop smiling and I was emotional happy that I had just had this beautiful baby and experience. That I had achieved my goal , of course not on my own, non of it would have happened if it weren’t for My Father in Heaven watching over me and Emery and sending an amazing nurse my way, for a competent doctor and of course Daryl’s support. Daryl did amazing helping me work through this labor, he was hands on this round. I feel so lucky and blessed to have had such an amazing experience. And the fact that this one was my last was like the cherry on top for me. Right after Emery came out though I automatically thought I could totally do this again. I am so glad that I was able to experience it and that is was so memorable for me and special. It was pretty much how I had always thought and dreamed it to be. I am glad that I was able to have this experience in life that I had always wanted. To know that my previous c-section didn’t take that away from me was beyond emotional for me to deal with. I honestly would relive that day over and over. Daryl even really enjoyed it, and said he was expecting it to be stressful since Paiglee’s was and he said he was pleasantly surprised. All around it was a great experience for both Daryl and I to share together. I still can’t believe how amazing it all was, it was like I need to pinch myself to wake up. I just feel really blessed beyond words, for that whole day, and to have an amazing beautiful baby come from it is very unreal for me.
7 comments:
Thanks so much for sharing Emily!
Love it! So admire that lovely experience! Beautiful.
I'm so glad everything went well! She is so CUTE!
Thanks for sharing your story; it was really fun to read and full of emotion. Nothing's better than a great supportive nurse. Also, it sounds like from this post and previous ones that your doctor was awesome so I'm glad you shared his name. Always nice to know.
she is adorable!
So happy it all went well. Plus they do have the best nurse ever.She is so cute..
She's adorable Emily. So glad she is a good baby for you and how great everything went. Such a better experience than a c-section!
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