Baby's Name: Harrison Troy
Date of Birth: August 22, 2010 @ 1:10 am
Original Due Date: August 17th, 2010
Weeks Pregnant: 40weeks 5 days
Weight: 8lbs 14oz Height: 21.5 inches
We had an induction scheduled for Friday, August 20th at 7:30 pm. I had been having high blood pressure since my 37/38 week appointment and at my 40 week appointment there was a trace amount of protein in my urine. So we decided to not wait any longer. Plus I was very done with being pregnant! We checked into the hospital, got comfortable in our room, and cervadil was inserted at around 9:00 pm. Got some pain meds and a sleeping pill at 11:15 pm and pretty much immediately passed out. Around 4:00 am the contractions woke me up and I got another dose of pain meds and was able to sleep for a few more hours. Around 8:30 am my midwife came in to check me and insert a foley bulb. I was dilated to 2 cm at that point. The foley bulb was absolutely awful! I thought I was going to pass out when she inserted it. My cervix had shortened so the process of her trying to get a hold of it to be able to insert the foley was miserable! Once the foley bulb came out at around 3:30 pm I was at 5 cm. My water broke shortly after that. Well...very long story short after laboring all day (which there is no way I could have done without my wonderful mom and amazing husband there to help me get through the contractions...pitocin is no joke!!) by 11:00 pm I had stayed at 5 cm. My midwife said she would give me another hour and a half to make SOME progress...any progress...or we would have to have a c-section. He was laying posterior and his head wasn't pressing on my cervix to get it dilated any more. I was absolutely heartbroken! I cried from the moment she left until she came back to re-check. My poor husband was so sad for me...we prayed that whatever happened would be the right way for us to deliver and God would give us peace about it. My midwife came back and I had made absolutely zero progress. After that everything happened so fast. The nurses started prepping me for surgery and changing into gowns. My husband had to throw all of our stuff together and toss it behind the nurses station so they could bring it to our mama and baby room for after he was born. They wheeled me into the surgery and I was so freaked out. I just wanted my husband there with me the whole time. I had an amazing team there and everyone was so great. Unfortunately I hyperventilated on the table and the minute my little boy was detached from me they pumped me with stuff to get my heart rate down and my breathing normal. I don't remember much after that...just moments every now and then. My husband said I was talking crazy! LOL!
Going through a c-section and the first week trying to recover was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. Luckily with the incisions I will be able to try for a VBAC with the next little one we have. As far as our little Harrison goes...he was completely posterior when they opened me up! The back of his head had entered the birth canal and his neck was hyperextended. So God definitely answered our prayer with the many reasons why a c-section was the way it had to be. Otherwise our little boy would have had lots of head and neck trauma. We are so in love with him and I have to honestly say, as much pain as that c-section was and how much recovering sucks, I would do it all over again for him in a heartbeat!
**the above is taken from my birth board on www.babycenter.com which I posted on 8/28/2010**
