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pt 3, why I snagged the bag
Okay, where I left off yesterday… I just have to make it clear that
this is where my inner evil cranky foul mouthed thoughts took over my mind when things or people started to annoy me. For the most part I was in my own little space zoning on the labor when the contractions came and went. My family pretty much swirled round me here and there but for the most part stayed in the background. Juliet was holding strong despite it now going past 1 am without sleep. The fifteen minutes of walking were wonderful. Good solid contractions with me ranting and rambling to my peanut gallery who walked with me. I felt Someone New shoving down lower in my pelvis with even better position. Contractions while walking and off the monitors were coming every two to three minutes. It did trigger my blood pressure and pulse to go up a bit, but for crying out loud, so do the thoughts of being strapped into the bed from hell again just to have Someone New turn away from the monitor. Before walking I was 3 and a half to 4 cm dilated, after I went back Dr. Coolbeans checked me and I was 4 cm. And this is where I deviated from my original birth plans. Basically, Dr. Coolbeans mentions how I am in labor but at a snail’s pace. She couldn’t see admitting me at that point because she would want to augment labor with pitocin, iv, breaking the bag of waters, and she recognized that I didn’t want to go there. She said because it was me, she would let me go because I knew my body and would know when to come back, blah blah blah. She was awesome with this conversation, btw. There was no pushing opinions, just good balanced information for full disclosure. So don’t go hating on her for my change of mind. I was having good strong contractions just spread out when stuck in bed, and crazy fast hard contractions when on my feet. I *knew* that this was the night for Someone New, and I wasn’t willing to play is she or isn’t she in bleeping labor anymore. I wanted my own room to labor in, and I wanted to just move forward with a positive experience. So I asked Dr. Coolbeans if we would skip the pitocin, the iv and just go for breaking the waters because it had worked in Juliet’s birth. Dr. Coolbeans requested I reconsider the iv, but we negotiated that to just a badly placed heplock that didn’t work when it was needed later. =oP It took about an hour told to switch rooms and have the waters broken. Dr. Coolbeans nicknamed it “snagging the bag” and I had a lot of fluid. (I was also now 5 cm dilated because of the walk changing rooms) Then it was requested I stay on the monitor in bed or a little bit longer to help someone new descend a bit more. I think I lasted three contractions or maybe four of the super powerful gads get me off this damn bed type before I demanded Dh to go find out how much longer of this sillyness. to be continued... (potty break, transtion and chaos) -- birthmom to Bj 4-12-96 mommy to Juliet 4-13-02 and Serafina 8-9-05 |
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In message , SuperEeyore
writes birthmom to Bj 4-12-96 mommy to Juliet 4-13-02 and Serafina 8-9-05 Holy cow!! It just hit me - are you Magicpointeshoe? Crikey, Usenet's a small world! Sorry - that was way off the point, wasn't it? _Loving_ the birth story and thought your summary was brilliant. Just was temporarily distracted from it by reading the list of your children's names and thinking "Hey, that looks familiar....." All the best, Sarah -- http://www.goodenoughmummy.blogspot.com |
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On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:43:09 +0100, Sarah Vaughan
wrote: In message , SuperEeyore writes birthmom to Bj 4-12-96 mommy to Juliet 4-13-02 and Serafina 8-9-05 Holy cow!! It just hit me - are you Magicpointeshoe? Crikey, Usenet's a small world! Yeppers. I wanted a slightly different name on livejournal. ;o) Sorry - that was way off the point, wasn't it? _Loving_ the birth story and thought your summary was brilliant. Just was temporarily distracted from it by reading the list of your children's names and thinking "Hey, that looks familiar....." Awww, thanks. Laurel All the best, Sarah -- birthmom to Bj 4-12-96 mommy to Juliet 4-13-02 and Serafina 8-9-05 |
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SuperEeyore wrote: On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:43:09 +0100, Sarah Vaughan wrote: In message , SuperEeyore writes birthmom to Bj 4-12-96 mommy to Juliet 4-13-02 and Serafina 8-9-05 Holy cow!! It just hit me - are you Magicpointeshoe? Crikey, Usenet's a small world! Yeppers. I wanted a slightly different name on livejournal. ;o) Blimey! I've seen your name mentioned lots of times on Dawn's journal, and I followed her link to your story about Bj's birth and adoption. Awesome story! Never realised until now that you were posting here under this name. Congratulations again on the birth of your daughter! All the best, Sarah |
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