First off, the baby is here, happy and healthy! So thankful and blessed!
I want to Recap my labor experience, just in case I forget how Horrible it was.( I don't think I could ever forget, but what if?)
The first couple weeks of April I had appointments twice a week for stress tests. When I went in for my last ultra sound to check my placenta, (which turned out fine, Yay!) the baby was measuring very small, a month behind to be exact. So the Doctor made me appointments to come in every week to check my water levels. I only had two stress tests before the baby came! I had a regular checkup with my doctor April 12th and that is when he gave us the news. The baby wasn't growing anymore,so why are we going to keep him in? This is basically what his story was and he then sent me to be induced! Being Induced is such a crazy/scary feeling. I waited so long and anticipated everyday of when the time was going to come. I would drive myself crazy! When would I feel my first contraction? Or when my water would break? Not knowing when the baby is coming seemed like such a better feeling. I was excited for the day that something would happen, on its own, surprisingly. I was so terrified knowing that I was going to go into labor right here, right now.
Next We Drive 200 feet to the hospital, texting and calling everyone I knew, as well as my Mom and Husband. : ) I get there, get checked in and ready, get dressed in My Cute (NOT!) hospital gown and the Nurse didn't waste any time! They inserted a medicine into the cervix to start the loosening process. I don't remember what it was called exactly, all I remember was that it felt like a ball of card stock being shoved up my hoo! :/ Talk about unpleasant and uncomfortable! So, The medicine had to be in for 12 hours and then I would be checked to see if it was working. If it wasn't, I had to get another dose. Oh how I was praying it would! I was having mild contractions with the first dose, it was very hard to sleep! The Nurse gave me a medicine to relax me and put me to sleep. That nurse instantly became my bff. : )
So 12 hours comes along, I get checked, and I am only 1/2 dilated! Yep, a 1/2. I thought, Ohhhhh great this is going to be a looong day. So the nurse gives me another dose of card stock medicine (that's my new name for it). Two hours goes by and I start bleeding. I got up to go to the bathroom and blood and big clots of blood were falling on the floor. (Sorry ,tmi! It was quite shocking to me too) So the nurse checks me and the card stock fell out. The nurse said I was dilated to 4 and we were moving onto bigger a better things, Pitocin! Meanwhile, The doctor and nurse don't know why I am bleeding. I am going crazy as well as my family, thinking why aren't they checking my placenta? We ask the doctor (which wasn't my regular doctor. I hate Kaiser!) to check my placenta and he says he thinks the bleeding is from the card stock medicine. So they switch me into a new room, the "labor room" (Dun Dun Dun) to go ahead and start pitocin.
Within an hour I start gushing blood and the baby's heartbeat is slowly dropping with every contraction. I was having contractions every 3 minutes for a minute long. I tell my Mom, "Mom,I just felt a big gush,look." I will never forget the look on her face and the sound of her gasp "oh my god." (I am trying to remember everything that happened, but I was so out of it and in so much pain, I'm sure there is more I don't remember.) So my mom goes running down the hall looking for my nurse. After 5 minutes my Mom finally found her. The nurse then comes in, lifts my sheets to take a look and starts panicking and yelling for a doctor.
At that point my hospital room turned into a freak out room. So many people coming in and out. People Rushing around and talking. From doctors coming in and out, the doctor telling my family to get out, to the nurse shoving and turning me from one side and over to the next, over and over trying to get the baby's heart rate to change, to the gushing of blood, to the nurse checking me, to the pain of contractions, to my family members looking at me crying and not knowing what was going on and what was going to happen. I was just lying there thinking I am experiencing hell on earth. Did I mention my regular doctor always wanted to give me a C section from the beginning because of all the problems I had and what I faced during my pregnancy? He came in when I first got induced and told me the reasons why he was or would do a C section on me. He was working when I first got to the hospital, not when I actually went into labor. Sad. : (
So the doctor checks me, says I am dilated to 5 and that my placenta is fine. But he still doesn't know why I am bleeding so much, he just doesn't know what it is. It was so many bad things happening at once, I can't even recall what happened next exactly. The baby's heart rate was still dropping with every contraction. I was still gushing blood and in so much pain with the contractions as well. Also, The nurse wouldn't give me an epidural! When a contraction would start she would make me turn from side to side to try and find a position where the baby's heart rate wouldn't drop. If you have been in labor before, you know you cant even breathe during a contraction,let alone get up and move yourself around!
The doctor then tells the nurse to take me off Pitocin and see if the baby's heart rate will get better. She takes me get off and the heart rate does get better. I am still contracting pretty bad and still dilating, so the nurse finally gives in to giving me an epidural. As they are getting ready to give me an epidural I start to gush A LOT. The worse my contractions were, the more I gushed. The doctor checks me again, says the placenta is fine and just decides to break my water to see if it gets the show on the road quicker to get this baby out ASAP. So he breaks my water and it makes everything worse. As soon as he took his tool out I thought I was going to die. I didn't think these contractions could possibly get worse! I definitely thought wrong. There are no words to explain the feeling of contractions. Excruciating doesn't even do justice! Now I was dilated to 8. Breaking my water made my contractions worse which made the baby's heart rate drop to its lowest. It went down to 0 at one point. Luckily it came back up. Now my room was freak out room times 10. The doctors don't know what to do. They try to make things better by inserting a tube into the uterus to give the baby water. They also put another tube up with a monitor on the baby's head to measure the heart rate perfectly. They also put a cathader in. OH EM GEE right? Wish I could of seen that picture.
At this time the anesthesiologist comes in to give me my epidural. I am so happy to be getting this, but little did I know they were just getting my hopes up. Probably just shutting me up because I kept asking or screaming for it! : ) I get the epidural and the bastards only give me a drop every 15 minutes. I now know they were keeping the best interest in my baby, but at the time they were bastards! They didn't want the medicine to effect the baby's heart rate even more. Thank you doctors! : )
15 minutes after I get the epidural the doctor comes in and checks to see how things are going. I am STILL gushing water and blood with every contraction, and now dilated to 9cm. I'm STILL turning from side to side because the baby's heart rate is STILL dropping with every contraction. The doctor FINALLY says this baby is stressing me out, we are doing an emergency Cesarean NOW! HALLE-FREAKIN-LUJAH! I was the happiest woman alive! My husband... not so much, he was crying his eyes out! Poor thing! He was so scared for me and his baby. I was telling him, "Baby, it's going to be okay, I'm Happy!" The doctor saw him balling his out and said, "You better decide if you or her mom is going in with her because we are going in now!" My mom is crying saying , "Cody, are you going with her? Are you going to be Okay?"
He then says yes hes going with me and the nurse then says to him,"It will be okay daddy, Ill be in there with you!". And we were off, strolling down the hallways of the hospital to the Cesarean room. My mom grabs my hand as she is going the opposite way and says, "Good luck" with her quivering voice.
We get into the Cesarean room and the doctors are running around rushing, counting things, and getting everything ready. Then the anesthesiologist gives me my spinal and the baby was out in 10 minutes! It turns out the umbilical cord was wrapped around the baby's neck 3 times! When the doctors pull him out I hear them say,"What a stinker!" They also named him turtle because the cord looked like he was wearing a turtleneck! So that's the reason why his heart rate kept dropping. Each contraction was tightening his neck, making it drop.
Now that the baby was out,I could only be so thankful it was all over with and that my angel was here and healthy! And of course hearing my husband yell to me,"Baby,he has all his fingers and toes!" HaHaHa, Men!
This experience was definitely an experience of a lifetime. An experience only mothers can have. The most amazing feeling and happiness attaining from something so frightening and terrible. So bittersweet. Something I will go through again in a heartbeat. Something so worth it!
Brody Russell King
April 13th 2010
4 lbs 11 ounces.
5:25 pm.

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