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I don't THINK so, I think I'd remember that? I had to get oxygen (for me) at one point but I think I"d remember if her HR dropped. I will confirm with DH though, but I'm 95% "nope."

Yes, I was sitting in bed reclining back and it dropped. They had me turn on my side and then he was fine.

Yep. All night long, but they would move me into a different position and it would be fine. I had an oxygen mask for awhile too.

Yes-- or rather, they were having a hard time tracking it and getting a reading after each contraction but it seemed like it was dropping and not picking back up like it should, if I'm remembering correctly. They ended up using a vacuum assist on the last push because they just wanted her out fast. In my end of labor haze, I remember thinking they were just overreacting and it was the monitor not picking it up correctly, not that there was any problem with the baby, but that I wanted to be done too so I'd go along with them and push as hard as possible, like I wasn't already.

She was born screaming so there was no problem, and they said after there was no indication of any problem so they don't know what caused it-- so maybe I was right. But I do know it was scarier for DH than me. And the midwives transferred care to an OB (in the same room, just had the OB come in) because of the 'complication'. Better be safe than sorry for sure.

We were told that with Charlie. They kept having me move positions because his heart rate kept dropping.

But no problems with Olive!

Yes, they had me change position to my side and gave me an oxygen mask and she did well after that. Unfortunately the position caused me to have an uneven epidural experience.

Yes, but I wasn't exactly told. They put me on oxygen and started moving me quickly. After a few requests for me to move in less than 5 minutes, I realized this wasn't normal and finally asked what was going on.

I had been induced, and as a result they stopped the pitocin during this. They got a stable heartrate but as soon as the pitocin was re-introduced the heartrate difficulty started again. It was off to the OR for me.

Nope!

Yes. But the real issue was that at two different times it wasn't picking up again after a contraction ended. There was one really scary moment when some alarm went off and a ton of people raced into the room and gave me oxygen and more fluids, and put in nan internal monitor. It was terrifying.
The other time was during pushing. They basically told me I had to get her out immediately. She wasn't breathing when she was born, and was pretty purple and limp. She had aspirated a LOT of meconium. Everything ended well though!

My LO's heart rate dropped intermittently during labor. They gave me an oxygen mask and moved me around to help it.

@MamaMoose: She was actually squeezing her own umbilical cord? That is crazy!

Yes, while I was pushing. They said she had gotten tired and they needed her out immediately.

Yes, and they gave me an air mask.

Yes. Multiple times through early labour, he was so small and contractions were too intense for him. Once labour was going ok, it started to drop again while he was crowning because he was tired and tiny and they needed him out immediately.

Yes. LO had worrying heart rate decelerations the whole time I was in labor. That was the reason for my c-section. He had great Apgar scores and was perfectly healthy, though.

Yes with DS. I was induced and at the start of pitocin, we started having heart decels immediately and had to turn the pitocin off with the threat of a c-section. eventually, they found out if i lied in a certain position, it was better.

No with both

@Alivoo01: same thing happened with me with the pitocin!

Yep...not even hard labor and baby lost her heartbeat. Didn't happen with either of my boys.

@T.H.O.U.: I don't think they'd rush you straight to the OR unless it was a really extreme heart rate drop. Or unless you had a c-section prone doctor I guess, but that's very much not the case in my area/hospital!

But yep I heard this...and ugh, it was such a roller coaster from there. They started with position changed, then added oxygen. It wasn't helping, so they took me to the OR to monitor me and prepped me for a C-section just in case so that everything wouldn't be as frantic if it did become necessary - they would've gone ahead and done it if I'd wanted them to, but I did not. After awhile they decided that baby seemed to be doing well enough to send me back to my room, and to rest until I was ready to push since I was getting close at 7cm dilated. Then the heart rate dropped yet again, more position changes, more oxygen, back to the OR...and 10 minutes later there was a severe enough dive that they couldn't risk waiting and the C-section became mandatory instead of optional.