https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:52:31 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2445811 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 06:16:57 +0000 FaithFertility 2445811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The NICU team was present at her birth in case they couldn't get her sucked out enough or she had reaction to stool in AF!</p> <p>I had no idea it was NICU team just thought baby doctors </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2445802 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 05:50:26 +0000 DesertDreams88 2445802@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>- No one announced when I was crowning or when the shoulders / legs were out, so when they lifted him up, I was stunned he was born.<br /> - They used the vacuum twice, had no idea.<br /> - There were at least 4 nurses, I only remember 1.<br /> -I pushed for over an hour, I thought it was like 30 min.<br /> - My contractions at that point were 5 minutes apart, I felt like they were back to back... ev r y time they told me to push, I would moan and ask,"again??" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2445794 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 04:59:43 +0000 Ree723 2445794@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A lot of these stories are so scary! How fortunate though that a lot of you had no idea what was going on until later! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2445786 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 04:32:48 +0000 sometimesshesings 2445786@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO2 was born with the umbilical cord around his neck, too. I had no idea until my husband mentioned it the next day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2445252 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:15:39 +0000 travellingbee 2445252@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't know with my first that I hemorrhaged and lost a ton of blood. I didn't know until a few days later when I was discharged. With DS2, none of us knew he had a very short cord and that is what was making pushing him out take so long. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2445246 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:11:33 +0000 autumnlove 2445246@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't know how close I was to getting a hysterectomy after LO 2 was born. I had a pp hemorraghage and my drs and nurses were very calm. I guess I should have suspected something when they kept me away from my husband and baby for hours! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2445237 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:08:56 +0000 sarac 2445237@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, mine had a one minute APGAR of 1. I knew that many babies needed resuscitation, so I want terribly worried. She was fine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2445147 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:10:53 +0000 Astro Bee 2445147@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I still don't know exactly how bad it was, but I realize now how bad it could have been (too much googling). After LO was born (using vacuum assist because his heart was decelerating with contractions after 4 hrs of pushing), the room filled with people (maybe 12-15) and he was rushed to the other side of the room. He was covered in meconium, and wasn't breathing. I found out after that his APGAR score was 2!!! I don't know which of the factors he was zero on and which two he was one (or which one he was two). I have spent too much time thinking about this however. He didn't have to go to the NICU, thankfully, and his 5-min score was 8, so we were very lucky he rebounded so quickly. I only found the APGAR scores shortly before we were released, because they were on some paperwork. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2445043 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:10:16 +0000 kodybear 2445043@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>the midwife told me a couple hours after delivery of ds that his cord was wrapped around his head loosely (so not an issue) and that my placenta detached during delivery. it caused more bleeding than normal. i didn't know anything was wrong but the midwife did look slightly concerned when i was doing the last couple pushes. dh says he noticed more blood than normal but didn't think anything of it... :-/ it was my second tho and i delivered fast so it didn't end up being a big issue. had it taken a long time to push w/the placenta detaching i probably would've ended up with a emergency c section! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2445037 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:00:29 +0000 wrkbrk 2445037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rachiecakes: Similar - he had the cord wrapped around his neck!! I heard the doctor say it casually to one of the nurses taking notes right when he was born but it was all kind of foggy at that point. About two days later I remembered and was like, what the hell!!?? Haha! Obviously everything was fine! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2445012 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:44:43 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 2445012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought DH stayed next to me the entire time. It wasn't until I looked at pictures that I realized he went to be by the baby while I was being stitched up. He was scared by the amount of blood I was losing and needed to distract himself from it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2445003 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:38:13 +0000 yoursilverlining 2445003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When LO was born they (my OB and another doctor(?) nurse(?)) said they were calling up some NICU doctors to see her, which I figured was because she was supposed to get an EKG of her heart right after she was born. My OB told me after that she called them because she has birthed thousands of babies and has never heard one SCREAM as loudly and angrily as LO! She and the nurses were worried, so they called the NICU doctors up. LO remained angry for months, lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444978 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:26:07 +0000 JenGirl 2444978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I understood everything that was happening as it happened. But my sense of time was totally warped. When he was born they told me the time and I had to ask if that was AM or PM. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444781 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:32:51 +0000 PrincessBaby 2444781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't know until later that the cord was wrapped so tight around DD2's neck, the dr was about to cut it off of her but they managed to get it off at the last second. She was purple:/. Her apgar was 8 bc of that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444777 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:30:02 +0000 pwnstar 2444777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MRSJX3: I had a similar experience. I didn't fully understand what happened (or how bad it was) until my first follow-up appointment with my OB (less than a week after delivery). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444772 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:27:45 +0000 MRSJX3 2444772@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had no idea that I was hemorrhaging and they couldn't get it under control. I thought something was wrong with my daughter because they only let me hold her for a second. I don't really remember much after that because I lost so much blood. I narrowly escaped a blood transfusion! My husband said blood was just pouring off the bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444765 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:24:04 +0000 Corduroy 2444765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With LO2 I didn't realize how fast everything was happening. I was in transition in the car and 10cm when I arrived. So I didn't realize what they meant when they said "you're good to go." I made a mental note to ask DH what that meant when the midwife left but her next word was "push". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444761 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:20:46 +0000 Foodnerd81 2444761@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With C they were getting a little stressed because her heart rate wasn't responding well but I didn't take it very seriously- in my head the monitor just wasn't picking it up correctly. They used a vacuum to get her out quickly and it was fine but it was scarier for Dh who actually realized that everyone was worried. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444732 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:02:45 +0000 knittylady 2444732@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Didn't realize that I had a placental abrupt ion or how serious that can be. That was w DS2. I started bleeding a ton right after we arrived at the hospital but the midwife and nurses kept me calm. I knew it wasn't exactly right but not how serious it was. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444679 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:12:35 +0000 winniebee 2444679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rachiecakes: wow that's so scary!</p> <p>I learned they sent my placenta to pathology for testing since T was low birth weight and I guess the placenta looked funny (per my husband who is a doc). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444672 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:10:02 +0000 KT326 2444672@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was so out of it (I was violently throwing up) I didn't realize he wasn't crying. Dh told me almost a year later that they had to call a code because he wasn't breathing. I do remember there being a lot of people in the room but it didn't register why. I was more coherent by the time the Dr. was done stitching me up and by then DS was ok. He had a little bit of oxygen and then DH got to hold him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444645 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:58:21 +0000 petunia354 2444645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Honestly, I didn't know what time he was born until we got his birth certificate many months later. I knew generally it was very early morning but I was under general anesthesia so I had no idea his exact time of birth (3:22am). Also, his weight on the birth cert was different (lower) than what I was told. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444627 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:49:31 +0000 runnerd 2444627@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my doctor didn't really ask me about the episiotomy she performed, just "now I'm going to make a little cut"; I was irritated about that until I finally realized she probably didn't ask me if I was ok with it because the cord was wrapped around his neck, and after he came out it took what felt like forever to get him to cry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444608 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:39:41 +0000 808love 2444608@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think they spent a long time stitching me up (but what did I know) and mentioned something about it. Later I realized I had quite the abnormal tear up down there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444599 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:37:05 +0000 Torchwood 2444599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't know how many people were in the room. I only remember 4 plus DH. But he said he counted and at one point there were 18 people there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444594 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:34:16 +0000 lovehoneybee 2444594@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That he was face-up and had the cord around his next several times. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444578 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:29:57 +0000 rachiecakes 2444578@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: J was face up as well! They suggested an epidural in an attempt to relax my muscles and manually turn him. I'm glad I didn't feel that :) or all the stitches! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444576 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:29:56 +0000 Eko 2444576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 38w I was sent to the hospital to check my blood pressure and for Pre-e. I had high bp, but always came back negative on the pre-e. They were going to induce me anyway because of the high bp, but found out during my discharge I had actually developed pre-e. I was like oh. That sound be fun for #2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444523 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:11:07 +0000 Jess1483 2444523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know at what point they knew, but they didn't tell me LO2 had the cord wrapped around his head twice until they'd already taken them off. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anything-you-didnt-realize-about-your-los-birth-until-later#post-2444520 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:08:52 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2444520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When they transferred me to postpartum I overheard the nurses in bedside report and learned I had a placental abruption! It was small and just displayed as a very large clot when delivering the placenta. But still I was listening and like I did??! </p>