Wednesday, 04 June 2008
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Reader Stories: Birth Story #5
from AlwaysandForever_hisbaby@xangaI was 41 weeks when I went into the hospital. It was scheduled. I expected to have pitocin, but the catheter and the water breaking is something I wish I would have stopped. I wasn't even give the option to walk around to try and lower my son down. I was 2cm and only ever went to 4 and a half.. I was told by 7pm that I could choose what would happen now... After having an epidural, water broken, tons of pitocin and being so tired from the contractions I chose a c-section.
If I had known... They used a suction cup on my son's head and never told me till I saw the bruise, and they tied me and held my arms down which I found out today is not necessary.. They over drugged me to the point I was puking it all up. I wasn't allowed to hold him, I could see him but not hold him. He was born at 7:53pm and i was done being stitched up at 8:10pm... I didnt get to see him till midnight... I was told his temperature needed to settle, and when it did they gave him a bath and made me wait another hour and a half before holding him. They gave him a bottle instead of letting me try to breastfeed, and the nipple on the bottle was for premature babies. My son was 8lb 11.7oz, he didnt need a premature nipple... one of the nurses caught the nipple right before I went to feed him for the 4th time in the hospital. My doctor screwed up my c-section... the incision was placed in the wrong place, causing me to miscarry, and I am now in a high-risk pregnancy due to this. I'm treading along at 17 weeks, praying I make it.
Use a birthplan, be specific. Its amazing how we learn things after the first birth. If only they had told us beforehand...
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Comments (7)
Wow, I'm so sorry... That's ridiculous that they didn't let you hold your child, being up against your skin would have HELPED with the temperature settling!
Best of luck with this new pregnancy, and with your delivery to come!
I feel so very fortunate to have friends on xanga that I can learn from before I give birth. I feel like I know quite a bit about how our hospital works with labor and delivery, but it's so nice to hear about other people's stories and u learn something you hadn't thought of...
so sorry that I'm learning from birth stories like this, I wish things would have gone better and I pray for the best with this pregnancy for her.
It is stories like yours that make me realize my quest to tell every woman even thinking about getting pregnant to do her research and learn everything she can is valid.
I have said it before and I will say it again .... WE are the only ones who will advocate for us and our children. TOO many times dr's are more interested in orchestrating every single aspect of medicine... particularly pregnancy and L&D. They claim that if they control it then there are fewer risks. Unfortunately that is not true. It is just easier for THEM ... and often not the best thing for US. We should NEVER do something just because the dr said so. Ask questions... and lots of them. Ask specifically WHY something needs to be done, what are the implications, what will happen if they don't do it, what will happen if they do it, what other things do they need to do in order to make it happen. And above all else, insist that you see your baby right away.
I had to have a c-section ... however, I do believe we did all we could to delivery vaginally before that decision had to be made. I was adamant in my birth plan I wanted to hold my baby right away. She was not in my arms right away, as they tied me down as well .... but I only had to wait until I was in recovery. My husband had her before that.
I am so sorry you went through that experience. I pray this pregnancy goes well and you have no complications.
This is why there has to be more teaching out there for expectant moms...moms are not fully informed enough to know all of their options. Instead, Dr.s take advantage of moms assuming Doc knows best, and they go and screw things up! I'm so sorry it was such a crazy experience for you. it is unfortunate, but at least your son came out healthy right? This is why I'm planning on working with a midwife for baby #2. Midwives know alot more about normal births than Dr.s do.
I had a c-section which wasn't in my plan of attack, I hated it, even afterward. I'm really sorry your doc didn't do a good job. Already have a c-section is scary and then for them to mess up is even scarier I bet. Giving birth should be something beautiful. I would have said something to remember, but I was all drugged up from my csection and so I don't remember a dang thing.
I hope your pregnancy goes smoothly, I'll be praying for you my dear. Keep us updated!
Wow.
That's insane. Seems like that whole department of the hospital should be fired. What was their reasons for not letting you hold your baby right away?
Take it easy. && please tell me, you have a DIFFERENT doctor now?
That sounds awful and ridiculous. I have alway heard/been told that one of the best things to help regulate their temp and soothe them is immediate skin to skin contact with mom. (Don't know if that is possible after c-section though.) K, so they are working so hard to regulate the temp and when they finally do, they give the baby a bath!?!?!? What the heck? Some peoples' doctors. I have to echo the above comment - you do have a different dr.this time, right? Best of luck.