My beautiful baby boy was born a couple of weeks ago (a couple of weeks early!). He is doing really well and we are completely in love with him.
Here's my bizarre labour story. I'm wondering if anyone else had a similar experience: My water broke and we went to the hospital to see if they wanted me to stay. They discovered the baby had passed meconium, so I was immediately put on pitocin to get my contractions to speed up. I'd been told I couldn't have an epidural and wanted to avoid the IV narcotics for the baby's sake, so stuck it our for 12 hours in labour with no pain meds. All this time, the pain was in my pelvis area - no back pain. Finally, after 12 hours and still only 3 cm dilated, I accepted some IV pain meds. 10 more hours of labour, still no back pain, all pelvis pain, and I was finally fully dilated. I pushed for two hours and the baby just wasn't making it through. I ended up with a c-section.
After the c-section, they told me the problem (the reason labour took so long to progress and the baby failed to descend), was that he was facing my stomach. This is a situation that usually leads to severe back labour which helps you know to do things to "flip" the baby (side lunges with one leg on a chair apparently and pelvic rocking - I was prepared to do all this). But I had no back pain so we never thought to do any of this. It makes no sense to me, me who's had a lot of back pain in my life, both recovering from my 1990 fusion and my more recent herniated disc. Could it be that the nerves are all just dead now and don't feel any pain?
I'm really grateful that both the baby and I are healthy, but am still really confused as to what happened.
Here's my bizarre labour story. I'm wondering if anyone else had a similar experience: My water broke and we went to the hospital to see if they wanted me to stay. They discovered the baby had passed meconium, so I was immediately put on pitocin to get my contractions to speed up. I'd been told I couldn't have an epidural and wanted to avoid the IV narcotics for the baby's sake, so stuck it our for 12 hours in labour with no pain meds. All this time, the pain was in my pelvis area - no back pain. Finally, after 12 hours and still only 3 cm dilated, I accepted some IV pain meds. 10 more hours of labour, still no back pain, all pelvis pain, and I was finally fully dilated. I pushed for two hours and the baby just wasn't making it through. I ended up with a c-section.
After the c-section, they told me the problem (the reason labour took so long to progress and the baby failed to descend), was that he was facing my stomach. This is a situation that usually leads to severe back labour which helps you know to do things to "flip" the baby (side lunges with one leg on a chair apparently and pelvic rocking - I was prepared to do all this). But I had no back pain so we never thought to do any of this. It makes no sense to me, me who's had a lot of back pain in my life, both recovering from my 1990 fusion and my more recent herniated disc. Could it be that the nerves are all just dead now and don't feel any pain?
I'm really grateful that both the baby and I are healthy, but am still really confused as to what happened.
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