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Hi everyone! Finally i'm sitting here in a quiet moment and writing an update - i'm so sorry it wasn't sooner!
So to summarize the adventure so far.... on Sunday morning at about 4:15am i woke suddenly and felt i had to get out of bed. I stood up and felt a sudden warm flood. I thought i'd peed myself! So i went into the bathroom and sat on the toilet, but i could tell i wasn't just peeing. It went on and on and on lol
I looked down and the water was very pink. I woke up my husband, and we both just looked kinda shellshocked for a bit!
Long story a bit shorter... he went back to sleep for a few hours while i walked about, cleaning, tidying, packing, and trying to kickstart some contractions. I did this pretty much all morning until eventually with the whole family awake, we went for a long walk around Target, with all the hospital bags packed in the car. It was after lunch that we eventually got to L&D, and though Doug was trying hard to time contractions, they really were sporadic, not very strong and so hard to time at all.
The hospital, i have to say, have been awesome. The nurses were totally on board with me wanting to try and kickstart my labor, not get checked too often, and they strapped on a wireless monitor so i could walkabout and do what i wanted with no invasive monitoring pushed on me. However, after about 16 hours of my water breaking, and with none of my efforts working to get contractions going, i was 1cm with a very posterior cervix, and didn't seem to be progressing at all
I had a long chat with the doctor on call - not my doctor but another one i had met and liked. I'm not sure what it was that made the decision for me... but i chose, in the end, to opt for a cesarean. I think it was just that i wasn't even getting a single contraction that caused me discomfort, and i felt like they just weren't coming, after so much walking and bouncing etc
So.... with the decision made, they were very efficient in bringing in the anesthesiologist to talk to me, and provide the epidural, and with the whole team about how i wanted this to go. Baby would remain within about 5 feet of Doug and I the whole time - no talk of scalpels and cutting, Doug would cut the cord... and of course, my decisions about no vit K, eye gel, Hep B, etc.
Within minutes i was in the OR and unlike my previous c-sections, i seriously felt no pressure or tugging, or discomfort at all, beyond my light-headedness and shaking from the epidural.
Once they had my uterus exposed, the doctor called Doug to the other side of the screen to take a look. Where my previous scars were, my uterine wall was as thin as tissue paper, almost transluscent, and the doctor was basically expressing how relieved she was at the overall decision to operate because she felt that area would definitely tear in the near future. Scary!! Doug watched them take Josie out of me and he was able to cut the cord.
Her Apgar scores were an 8.5 then a 9 i think - she was pink and wriggly and yelling like a trooper
They brought her over to me very quickly and we snuggled, then Doug held on to her while they sewed me up. Then he went with her to the nursery to get checked in as i was prepped to leave the OR.
She came with us into my room. They wanted to take her for a bath but i declined, and said later when we bathed her, they could come in and help
Josie Lynn weighed 7lb 7.9 oz, and she is 20" long
Now, because my water had been ruptured early in the morning, the pediatrician on duty wanted (without even seeing her!) to have Josie hooked up to an IV of antibiotics for 48 hours, just to be safe. We declined this because it seemed a very invasive procedure, and a bombardment of antibiotics for no apparent good reason. So instead, we have both been monitored for fever and vital signs, and neither of us have had any kind of infection of course
So here I am, Josie is 2 days old, and i've finally got every needle, dressing and monitor off my body and been able to shower and feel human again! She's so perfect... and with the obvious danger of a uterine rupture apparent on my old scars, i feel happy with the decision to have surgery again, although recovery is as ever... a *****
Thanks everyone for your messages and well wishes! I will upload pictures right from the moment of her birth shortly! But for now, my Josie needs to nurse
Polly, Doug, and Josie Lynn (and Toby and Oliver,thebig big brothers!!)
xxxx
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