So as I said in my last blog, I had pre eclampsia, so they began inducing me at 9:30 pm on June 13th. I was feeling contractions all that day, and they were getting more intense. They began the induction with Cervidil. That's a ribbon thats inserted in my vagina and attatched to my cervix. It's used to soften the cervix and help me dilate. This caused my contractions to get extremely intense. I was to leave this in for 12 hours at which point they would start the Pitocin. I was doing great with the contractions and back labor. I'm pretty proud of myself. No tears, no screams, I breathed through them great. After those 12 hours were up a nurse, who I wasn't very fond of, came in to take the ribbon out and check my cervix. When she began the exam it felt like my vagina had chemicals poured on it. It was the worst pain I had ever felt in my life. I screamed and screamed. I had some sort of reaction to the medicine and aparently it was only going to get worse. Now, I had promised myself that I would not get any pain medication, but after 6 nurses telling me I need the epidural, my husband saying we just needed a healthy baby and nothing else mattered, and making my mom promise not to tell anyone, I got the epidural. I made it 14 hours into an induced labor without it, so I believe I still deserve some bragging rights there. I was humiliated though and completely crushed. They started the pitocin and my contractions got even worse, but the epidural made everything pretty easy. Finally they came and checked me at 7pm and I was fully dilated...I had been ready to push for a while at that point. so they set up the room and I began pushing at 7:15. My mom had my left foot, my husband had my right foot, and my best friend, Haley had the camera behind the doctor. She became my focal point during my pushing. Pushing actually felt great. Part of the reason I had pushed so long though, was that my contractions began to slow and I was waiting about 3 minutes in between each push. I pushed for about 2 hours when they figured out that the baby was stuck under my pubic bone and wasn't progressing downward. So the repositioned me on the bed. They laid the bed flat and I was on my bak and I arched up and looked straight behind me and that got the baby to move downward. Once the baby had moved down I got back up into the regular position and began pushing like crazy. They had told me they only allow two hours of pushing before calling in a c-section, but I pushed for 3 hours. Baby's head was out and everyone was cooing over all the hair they saw! The cord was wrapped around his neck, but I didn't even know that until my husband mentioned it 3 days later. Once his head was through [oh yeah...that ring of fire that no one tells you about until it's about to happens sucks, but I just pushed through real fast and got past it-which is probably why I tore so much!], the shoulders came right out and he slipped out pretty fast. As soon as the body was sliding out I got the euphoric, ectasy type feeling wash over my whole body. It was really an out of body experience. A warm tingling feeling stayed over me and nothing hurt anymore. All of a sudden I heard my husband say "It's a boy!" I bawled and after that everything was a blur. I sat there feeling so wonderful with my beautiful son on my chest. I delievered the placenta and it felt great, too. They stitched me up, which also didn't hurt, and then finally I came to and focused in on my husband washing the baby up. Finally he was back in my arms.
Tucker Stanley Poeschel was born June 14th, 2012, at 10:19pm. He was 6lbs 9oz and 20.5 inches long. He had a head full of dark hair and dark blue eyes, and olive skin. I instantly fell in love.
This blog is to keep my memory fresh on my journey of being pregnant. It's also there to keep people updated on how we are doing, and to help anyone out there who might have some of the same struggles as me. I also want to reach out to all types of families and situations. I want to teach what I learn, and help moms everywhere!
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Too much time has passed.
So I have not updated this blog since I was 28 weeks pregnant, so I am just going to fill you in from where I left off.
My 2nd trimester ended smoothly off of bed rest, but as I entered my third trimest around 34 weeks I had some mild bleeding again, but it ended up being nothing. We did spend our Easter morning in Labor and Delivery though, monitoring the baby and the bleeding. They determined it was just my uterus stretching and causing a little bit of blood loss. The baby was totally fine so they sent me home.
With my last trimester came complete exhaustion. I'd sleep about 16-20 hours a day, and was only awake to get a snack or pee. I gained a total of 33 pounds with the pregnancy, and ended at 125lbs. my record was gaining 6 pounds in less than 2 weeks! My cravings toward the end were french toast, starburts, and of course Taco Bell. I have all three almost daily. I know, I know! I already feel guilty!
My baby shower was an amazing blessing. My mom had a BBQ and I got more gifts than I ever imagined! [Which reminds me of all the wonderful products I've come to love that I will share in a later blog!]
I ended up having a total of 4 sonograms throughout my pregnancy. Two of which were completely unnecessary and I am not thrilled about it. Since the determined in my second ultrasound that I did not have Placenta Previa, they shouldn't have continued with the sonograms, since everything was going healthy. But alas, I had one, and then a week later I have another! Next pregnancy I plan on standing up for myself a little better. I'm not recalling if I ever wrote a blog on the danger of ultra sounds but here's a good link to check out: http://www.unhinderedliving.com/pultra.html
So, that's the quick sum of my pregnancy up to 38 weeks [i'll share more details with the upcoming blogs]
At my 38 week check up I had really high blood pressure [which is very unusual for me!] and a high amount of protein in my urine. Both of which are signs of pre eclampsia, so they hooked me up to monitors to check on the baby-baby was fine but I was having contractions [most of which I wasn't feeling]. So they sent me to the hospital to be monitored more closely. They also sent me with a jug i had to collect all my pee in for 24 hours [which I had to keep in the fridge, so needlesstosay I was the butt of every joke that night when I had to go to the fridge which just annouced to everyone in the house that i had to go pee!]. I got to the hospital and after 5 hours my blood pressure went down so they sent me home. The next day I returned my jug to my doctor and they said I had 700mg of protein in my urine-400mg was the cut off. I was told to go to the hospital asap and to be prepared that if the tests came back bad I was going to be induced that night. After a few hours, my wonderful nurse Jeni informed me that I did indeed have pre eclampsia and I would indeed be induced. They began inducing me at 9:30pm June 13th.
Next blog---> Birth story.
My 2nd trimester ended smoothly off of bed rest, but as I entered my third trimest around 34 weeks I had some mild bleeding again, but it ended up being nothing. We did spend our Easter morning in Labor and Delivery though, monitoring the baby and the bleeding. They determined it was just my uterus stretching and causing a little bit of blood loss. The baby was totally fine so they sent me home.
With my last trimester came complete exhaustion. I'd sleep about 16-20 hours a day, and was only awake to get a snack or pee. I gained a total of 33 pounds with the pregnancy, and ended at 125lbs. my record was gaining 6 pounds in less than 2 weeks! My cravings toward the end were french toast, starburts, and of course Taco Bell. I have all three almost daily. I know, I know! I already feel guilty!
My baby shower was an amazing blessing. My mom had a BBQ and I got more gifts than I ever imagined! [Which reminds me of all the wonderful products I've come to love that I will share in a later blog!]
I ended up having a total of 4 sonograms throughout my pregnancy. Two of which were completely unnecessary and I am not thrilled about it. Since the determined in my second ultrasound that I did not have Placenta Previa, they shouldn't have continued with the sonograms, since everything was going healthy. But alas, I had one, and then a week later I have another! Next pregnancy I plan on standing up for myself a little better. I'm not recalling if I ever wrote a blog on the danger of ultra sounds but here's a good link to check out: http://www.unhinderedliving.com/pultra.html
So, that's the quick sum of my pregnancy up to 38 weeks [i'll share more details with the upcoming blogs]
At my 38 week check up I had really high blood pressure [which is very unusual for me!] and a high amount of protein in my urine. Both of which are signs of pre eclampsia, so they hooked me up to monitors to check on the baby-baby was fine but I was having contractions [most of which I wasn't feeling]. So they sent me to the hospital to be monitored more closely. They also sent me with a jug i had to collect all my pee in for 24 hours [which I had to keep in the fridge, so needlesstosay I was the butt of every joke that night when I had to go to the fridge which just annouced to everyone in the house that i had to go pee!]. I got to the hospital and after 5 hours my blood pressure went down so they sent me home. The next day I returned my jug to my doctor and they said I had 700mg of protein in my urine-400mg was the cut off. I was told to go to the hospital asap and to be prepared that if the tests came back bad I was going to be induced that night. After a few hours, my wonderful nurse Jeni informed me that I did indeed have pre eclampsia and I would indeed be induced. They began inducing me at 9:30pm June 13th.
Next blog---> Birth story.
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