06/17-18/10
Posted by Robin Simmons on Monday, June 21, 2010
Thursday the 17th:
Had my doctor’s appointment at 10:15
I told him she hasn't moved much since the failed induction on Monday, but I can still feel her move sometimes. Then it took like 15 minutes to find her heartbeat. Then he felt around and said she is still high up... and I am still 1 cm dilated. He was concerned about why she was so high up, especially after an induction with such good contractions. So he wants me to go to the Prenatal Assessment Center at St. Joe's. And get an ultrasound by a specialist to see if, she is stuck, and if she is How she is stuck. He was thinking maybe her head is too big? So he labeled me official a "high risk pregnancy" When Dr. Gilman left the room to make me an appointment, I texted Matt so he would know what's up. ...no response, but then a minute later when the doctor came back in, Matt was with him :) So the doctor explained what was going on to Matt. The office over there must have been busy, so he had his nurse stay on the line. He said he would try and get us in there tomorrow, and we could go home, and they will call us with the appointment date.
So I had brought nana with me, so she could watch Kyla, and drop some stuff off by Richard's place. So we stopped by burger king so we could all have a whopper jr. fix. (Also it was like 2 by now!) We were HUNGRY!
Then wail driving grandma home I got a call from Dr. Gilman, saying he talked with the specialist and they decided to squeeze me in today, they both thought it was a better idea than waiting till tomorrow.
So I left Kyla with Nana, and said she might be there for a wail... and called Matt to fill him in. He came over and we relaxed for 5minutes, then he took me to the Prenatal Assessment Center. We had to be there at 3:30, but we had parking structure issues, and got there at like 3:40pm. :P
We went in an ultrasound room and started our "assessment".
On a side note...her lil hand was up by her head...as it always has been.
So we noticed a couple of things, 1) her head is not stuck...in fact it's little. 2) Her umbilical cord is too short. 3) Her cord is around her neck. 4) There is a lot of fluid! But the big problem was on her 'non stress test' she got 2 out of 10.
So we got transferred over to L&D. It was about 5:00pm. We got room 14 :) guess what there is no room 13! It goes 12 then 14, so technically we are in room 13! :) That's got to be a good sign. I'm going to get checked and see how they are going to induce. They will be inducing with pitocin again... with high level monitoring... They started the pitocin at 6:00pm, but said it won't be likely this will work, but they'd give it a try. I got my blood drawn, and was told like 50x that a c-section is most likely. Matt and I thought it would be a while, so Matt left to get some stuff... but then he got lost, I told him I was waiting until he got back for the epidural... 8:24pm and the contractions are 3 minutes apart, and then when he was a minute or so away the nurse finally said... you know he can't be in the room when the epidural is being placed right? ...ummm WHAT!? So I said yeah, give me the epidural now (10:35pm)! So then they said they just were going to check me one more time, before the epidural. Then the nurse looked up all quick and said to the attending "She's at a 4!" Yea I made it to a 4 by myself :) Then they finally got the epidural in.
And guess what everything that was supposed to happen for success happened!! When my water broke it trickled out instead of gushing so her head can get threw first! I went from 4cm to 8cm in a 1/2 hr! Ouch! I wanted to push with the contractions but they said wait! They called Dr. Gilman. He got there around 11-something? Only 4 pushes later Shayna was here!!!!! (12:55am) Matt got to cut the cord! She didn't cry right away, and we already had the NICU people there. ...but as soon as she got to the table I heard her cry, and it was a good cry too! She got an 8 on her one minute APGAR and a 9 on her five minute APGAR. And by the way no tare or stitches for me! :)
We stayed in the room a little while for some R&R recovery. Shayna got her first feeding :) and had some bonding time with us. Then we were moved up to the 5th floor. She went to the nursery to sleep, and we got a few hours of sleep in ... 2 hours actually. By the way... She Was Born On Her Due Date!!!!
Had my doctor’s appointment at 10:15
I told him she hasn't moved much since the failed induction on Monday, but I can still feel her move sometimes. Then it took like 15 minutes to find her heartbeat. Then he felt around and said she is still high up... and I am still 1 cm dilated. He was concerned about why she was so high up, especially after an induction with such good contractions. So he wants me to go to the Prenatal Assessment Center at St. Joe's. And get an ultrasound by a specialist to see if, she is stuck, and if she is How she is stuck. He was thinking maybe her head is too big? So he labeled me official a "high risk pregnancy" When Dr. Gilman left the room to make me an appointment, I texted Matt so he would know what's up. ...no response, but then a minute later when the doctor came back in, Matt was with him :) So the doctor explained what was going on to Matt. The office over there must have been busy, so he had his nurse stay on the line. He said he would try and get us in there tomorrow, and we could go home, and they will call us with the appointment date.
So I had brought nana with me, so she could watch Kyla, and drop some stuff off by Richard's place. So we stopped by burger king so we could all have a whopper jr. fix. (Also it was like 2 by now!) We were HUNGRY!
Then wail driving grandma home I got a call from Dr. Gilman, saying he talked with the specialist and they decided to squeeze me in today, they both thought it was a better idea than waiting till tomorrow.
So I left Kyla with Nana, and said she might be there for a wail... and called Matt to fill him in. He came over and we relaxed for 5minutes, then he took me to the Prenatal Assessment Center. We had to be there at 3:30, but we had parking structure issues, and got there at like 3:40pm. :P
We went in an ultrasound room and started our "assessment".
On a side note...her lil hand was up by her head...as it always has been.
So we noticed a couple of things, 1) her head is not stuck...in fact it's little. 2) Her umbilical cord is too short. 3) Her cord is around her neck. 4) There is a lot of fluid! But the big problem was on her 'non stress test' she got 2 out of 10.
So we got transferred over to L&D. It was about 5:00pm. We got room 14 :) guess what there is no room 13! It goes 12 then 14, so technically we are in room 13! :) That's got to be a good sign. I'm going to get checked and see how they are going to induce. They will be inducing with pitocin again... with high level monitoring... They started the pitocin at 6:00pm, but said it won't be likely this will work, but they'd give it a try. I got my blood drawn, and was told like 50x that a c-section is most likely. Matt and I thought it would be a while, so Matt left to get some stuff... but then he got lost, I told him I was waiting until he got back for the epidural... 8:24pm and the contractions are 3 minutes apart, and then when he was a minute or so away the nurse finally said... you know he can't be in the room when the epidural is being placed right? ...ummm WHAT!? So I said yeah, give me the epidural now (10:35pm)! So then they said they just were going to check me one more time, before the epidural. Then the nurse looked up all quick and said to the attending "She's at a 4!" Yea I made it to a 4 by myself :) Then they finally got the epidural in.
And guess what everything that was supposed to happen for success happened!! When my water broke it trickled out instead of gushing so her head can get threw first! I went from 4cm to 8cm in a 1/2 hr! Ouch! I wanted to push with the contractions but they said wait! They called Dr. Gilman. He got there around 11-something? Only 4 pushes later Shayna was here!!!!! (12:55am) Matt got to cut the cord! She didn't cry right away, and we already had the NICU people there. ...but as soon as she got to the table I heard her cry, and it was a good cry too! She got an 8 on her one minute APGAR and a 9 on her five minute APGAR. And by the way no tare or stitches for me! :)
We stayed in the room a little while for some R&R recovery. Shayna got her first feeding :) and had some bonding time with us. Then we were moved up to the 5th floor. She went to the nursery to sleep, and we got a few hours of sleep in ... 2 hours actually. By the way... She Was Born On Her Due Date!!!!