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My Labor Story
September 17th I went in for an ultrasound to check my fluid level which the week before had been normal but low. After a quick check the tech had us wait in the waiting room. She came back quickly and sent us upstairs to see my doctor. We knew then something wasn't right. My fluid had dropped extremely low, and at 11:30 am I was admitted to the hospital. At 4pm my induction started. At this time before pitocin started to reach my body I was naturally 2cm dialated and 50% effaced. Around 9pm the doctor came in to break my water (what little there was). I was progressing and was 5cm dialated. The contractions quickly picked up and became much more painful. At 3am 6cm dialated and 70% effaced I decided to get the epidural. I was vomiting every few minutes and felt it was the right choice to ease the pain and get some rest to have energy to push. During the next few hours the baby's heart rate wasn't reading well so I had a special monitor put on me (inserted into the vagina and lays on the baby's head) through the night I was woken up several times and hooked up to oxygen because his heart tones where too low. I was still progressing though and around 6am I was 8cm and 80% effaced. They brought in the delivery cart with tools preparing for the big time. Finally around 8am the doctor came in and told me I was no lomger progressing and my baby was in destress. I had went down to 5cm dialated and his heart tones continued to drop. This was probably the scariest moment of my life. At 12:30 I was taken back for a c-section. My little guy was born at 1:03pm on September 18th. After some skin to skin time him and dad went into recovery. Once I arrived there I was told baby was breathing too quickly and his blood sugar was way too low. He was sent to the NICU to be monitored. After a few hours he came back to us. Everyone spent a few hours visiting and later that night he was admitted to the NICU because things continued to decline with his blood sugar and breathing. After 5 long days me and baby made our way home. He is still battling jaundice levels. I had a completely healthy and normal pregnancy and delivered at 38+5. Up until the fluid dropping my little man was healthy. Now he is as happy as can be and working to get his jaundice levels down. I just want every ftm to be prepared because anything can happen, even in the healthiest pregnancies!
Congrats I'm happy everything is OK. I was induced with my son because his stomach was not growing while in labor his heart kept dropping every time I tried to rest his heart will drop so I stayed up the whole night watching his heart rate I know how you feel. My son also had jaundice and I had to take him back because it got so high and his face and eyes turned yellow. Good luck mama and congrats
I didn't know your dilation could drop back down during labor. Thats scary momma glad you and baby are doing good. CONGRATS MOMMA!
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