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I will give you a longer medical version of my labor and delivery for my medically interested friends and a shorter version for you busy ones.
Long version: Well, I started showing signs of pre-eclampsia so my doctor wanted to induce me. I was determined to go all-natural so he started the induction with prostaglandin on friday. I started having small contractions until the next morning at 5am when they gave me potocin. They would not let me eat during this whole process so I was starving. They had to break my water to put in an internal catheter to see how much "juice" to give me...well, i still was not progressing after hours of hard contractions 30 sec to 1 min apart so i had an epidural and they found that his head was not descending...he was stuck and therefore not allowing his head to push against my cervix to dialate me. So, the doctor said "Let's go have a baby" and 30 min. later they were pulling Kaleb out of my stomach via C-section. So much for a natural birth! Well, the next day, Sunday, I was feeling okay and finally got to eat my first meal since thursday night. Then Sunday afternoon I started to feel bad and by nighttime was having 10/10 pain in my abdominal area...I suffered thru the night and the doctor finally came by the next morning and when he found out how much pain i was in he was upset no one had called him. They gave me double doses of morphine and this did not touch the pain. I soon started vomiting uncontrollably. By tuesday they decided to put an NG tube in (a tube that runs from my nose into my stomach). They thought I had an ileus which is somewhat common after C-sections which the small intestines is so inflammed it shuts down. The tube would take the pressure off the small intestines. Well, I layed in bed for 4 days with a stupid NG tube as well as other uncomfortable tubes that i will not elaborate on, as they did X-rays and CT scans to try to figure out what could be wrong. Finally on friday, due to my stubborness, they did exploratory surgery via laproscopy and found that i had a hole in my peritineum in which 4 feet of my small intestines had fallen thru and occluded. The surgeon fixed it and I was finally able to eat my first liquid meal in 7 days. On sunday we were able to go home after a long, painful and emotional week. Kaleb was a perfect baby thru the whole process and has been great at home too. My parents were able to stay for two weeks which was a tremendous help.
Short version: On friday 11/2 my doctor wanted to induce and Kaleb was stuck and had to arrive via C-section on 11/3. He was 8.47 lbs and 20.25 inches long. He was born at 6:59 pm. He came out with red hair which was a big surprise to us. After this I began to have a lot of pain and ended up having another surgery on friday, almost a week later due to complications of the C-section. We finally got home on sunday. Kaleb was a champ thru the whole process and was the big kid in the nursery.
We are still in awe that Kaleb is our child and am so thankful that he is so healthy and perfect.
I will give you a longer medical version of my labor and delivery for my medically interested friends and a shorter version for you busy ones.
Long version: Well, I started showing signs of pre-eclampsia so my doctor wanted to induce me. I was determined to go all-natural so he started the induction with prostaglandin on friday. I started having small contractions until the next morning at 5am when they gave me potocin. They would not let me eat during this whole process so I was starving. They had to break my water to put in an internal catheter to see how much "juice" to give me...well, i still was not progressing after hours of hard contractions 30 sec to 1 min apart so i had an epidural and they found that his head was not descending...he was stuck and therefore not allowing his head to push against my cervix to dialate me. So, the doctor said "Let's go have a baby" and 30 min. later they were pulling Kaleb out of my stomach via C-section. So much for a natural birth! Well, the next day, Sunday, I was feeling okay and finally got to eat my first meal since thursday night. Then Sunday afternoon I started to feel bad and by nighttime was having 10/10 pain in my abdominal area...I suffered thru the night and the doctor finally came by the next morning and when he found out how much pain i was in he was upset no one had called him. They gave me double doses of morphine and this did not touch the pain. I soon started vomiting uncontrollably. By tuesday they decided to put an NG tube in (a tube that runs from my nose into my stomach). They thought I had an ileus which is somewhat common after C-sections which the small intestines is so inflammed it shuts down. The tube would take the pressure off the small intestines. Well, I layed in bed for 4 days with a stupid NG tube as well as other uncomfortable tubes that i will not elaborate on, as they did X-rays and CT scans to try to figure out what could be wrong. Finally on friday, due to my stubborness, they did exploratory surgery via laproscopy and found that i had a hole in my peritineum in which 4 feet of my small intestines had fallen thru and occluded. The surgeon fixed it and I was finally able to eat my first liquid meal in 7 days. On sunday we were able to go home after a long, painful and emotional week. Kaleb was a perfect baby thru the whole process and has been great at home too. My parents were able to stay for two weeks which was a tremendous help.
Short version: On friday 11/2 my doctor wanted to induce and Kaleb was stuck and had to arrive via C-section on 11/3. He was 8.47 lbs and 20.25 inches long. He was born at 6:59 pm. He came out with red hair which was a big surprise to us. After this I began to have a lot of pain and ended up having another surgery on friday, almost a week later due to complications of the C-section. We finally got home on sunday. Kaleb was a champ thru the whole process and was the big kid in the nursery.
We are still in awe that Kaleb is our child and am so thankful that he is so healthy and perfect.
