Baby Liz's Dramatic Entrance

Posted On Friday, January 20, 2012  by Lauren

 

On Feb. 24 (my birthday) I stayed up all night getting things together because I knew in my heart that something was happening the next day. I finally made it to bed around 5:30 the next morning.

On Feb. 25 I was awoken at 10:00 to my midwife telling me I only had a few hours to get things together I was being induced that day due to my high BP and high protein levels (over a 4000). I called my husband at work and he came home as soon as he could (well after he found his keys that the guy at work thought would be funny to hide).

We arrived at the hospital and they hooked me up to half a dozen monitors and began round 1 of Cervadil. The first round of cervadil started labor but after 6 hours I still was not dilated. So they began round 2 for another 6 hours, and still nothing! So then they began to Pitocin (oh that evil stuff), which also meant I had to go on magnesium (even worse)! The magnesium made me hot, I've never been so hot in all my life. The air was down in the 30s in our room and I was still hot! Not long after they started the pit my BP jumped way high. At that point they told me that I needed to get an epidural to bring down my BP. I had wanted to go natural so bad, so this was hard for me. They came in and broke my water. 6 hours later I was a tight 2. So I continued to labor until around 5. At that point it had been 30 hours and the midwife suggested a c-section because she believed that no matter how much they did I would never progress, I just wasn't ready.

So they prepared us for a c-section. I was practically in tears at this point because the perfect natural birth I had planned was non-existent. They wheeled me into the OR and began the c-section. My epidural was not working so that I could feel them cutting me. They added a little more to the epi and gave it a few minutes to kick in. Surgery then resumed. Once again i could feel it. The next thing my husband and I knew they were asking him to move so that they could "put me under." I think that was the hardest thing I've ever been through. I remember crying for my husband and that's it. When I woke up I was holding a sweet beautiful girl. She had some jaundice levels and spent some time on the lights. We are so blessed that things were not worse.