We made it to 37 weeks, 6 days…. and then surprise my water breaks! Let me start from the beginning…
Wednesday morning I get up, like any other day, to get ready for work. Shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, do my make up. Then the day becomes very different. While finishing my make-up I feel like I suddenly need to use the bathroom, I don't think much of it, because for the last nine months I've been needing to go pretty often, and out of no where. This is when I lost my mucus-plug. We had a doctor's appointment on Tuesday and I talked to my doctor about how I thought I might be losing it, she said it was no big deal, and didn't really mean anything. Well in my case, it sure meant something! I go downstairs to leave for work, and as I sit down in my car, my water breaks! I run back upstairs and wake up Amar! This was at 7:25am. We started making calls. I called my doctor and had to wait a while to hear back from them. So in the mean time we called work and our families. When we finally heard back from the doctor we headed to the hospital, around 8:30am. Once at the hospital, they had us go to triage. I was hooked up to monitors to check my heart, babies heart and contractions. Then they did a test to make sure my water had really ruptured, as if I was just peeing on myself :-) Once this test came back positive they put us in our delivery room. It is now around 10am. Upon arriving at the hospital I was not dilated at all, nor effaced. I had a lot of work to do, so we started walking, in circles, so boring! Shortly after we started walking my contractions started. They were pretty mild and just felt like period cramps. Fast forward a few hours, I was only dilated to about a 2, and the pain was starting to get pretty intense. I decided to get nubain and pheneragan to help deal with the pain. This lasted about 2 hours and I was able to rest, which was helpful! The second time I got this medicine was around 2am Thursday morning. Again I was able to sleep, however this time it also stopped my contractions. When I woke up Thursday morning I started walking again to get my contractions going. At 6am I was only dilated to a 3-ish, so we decided it was time for pitocin. We had held off on this because I did not want to have an epidural and pitocin makes contractions pretty strong. At 3pm Thursday I had only progressed to about a 4-5 and the contractions were getting unbearable, especially since they weren't doing much. The head anesthesiologist for the hospital was on call, and he came in and talked to me before placing my epidural. He made me feel so much better about getting one, and I am beyond thankful that I did! From there my labor started to pick up, and I felt great! By 9:15pm I was completely dilated, and it was time to start pushing. I pushed for a little less than an hour, it would have been much shorter but my contractions were about 5 minutes apart, so we had to wait between them :-( Asante was born at 10:01pm, and he was perfect!
Then the real fun begins! The nurses put Asante on my chest and Amar cut the umbilical cord. The nurses then take Asante to weigh him and clean him off before I try nursing. All while my doctor is trying to deliver my placenta. She is having a little bit of a hard time, and is saying that it doesn't want to come out. All of a sudden she starts saying "oh sh*t, OH SH*T!" and starts yelling for the nurses to get all this stuff. I had no idea what was going on, but could tell it wasn't good! Amar came right to my side and held my hand, but like myself, had no idea what was happening. Doctor Martin called for the anesthesiologist to come in and for them to start pitocin again. Unfortunately for my hand, my IV had come out, so as they started the piton again, my hand started swelling and hurting extremely bad! They had to place a new emergency IV, not fun! So back to Doctor Martin, she has one whole arm in my who-ha and the other pressing on and massaging on my stomach…. why you ask?!? Well because as my placenta is being delivered, it has not fully unattached from my uterus and is pulling it in-side-out. Doctor Martin was amazing, and gets it turned back right-side-out before anything terrible happens. All of this happened in about 5 minutes. Scariest 5 minutes of my life!
When the uterus turns in-side-out it can cause real problems, such as hemorrhaging. If the uterus does not get turned back right away it may need emergency surgery to correct it, and if that doesn't work the whole thing has to be removed. Like I said, Doctor Martin was amazing, and she saved my life!
So once all that drama was over, I was able to hold my baby boy again! He is totally worth the wait, all the pain and every bit of drama we went through! He is perfect :-)
