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@sarah.clarisse: Sorry to take awhile to respond. I had to go into the doctor. Mine had blistered and was oozing. They gave me a triamcinalone cream and removed the strips. It fixed it all within a few days. I hope yours has gotten better!
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Right - happened quick, within a day. Healthy baby, healthy mom
Wrong - breech baby. Csection recovery.
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Right:
-healthy baby, healthy mum
-amazing, supportive, patient midwife - I'm sure she is the only reason I barely tore and didn't end up with a csection
-discharged within 16 hours of delivery
-husband was super supportive
-immediate skin to skin and breastfeeding
-easy recoveryWrong:
-water broke and contractions didn't start, I was GBS+ so I had to be induced
-should have got an epidural sooner, the contractions with the oxytocin was terrible and I didn't progress much until I got the epidural
-pushing for 2+ hours was exhausting, midwife threatened to use the vacuum
-DH didn't get to cut the umbilical cord (DH didn't mind) because the cord was around our soon's neck
-I was hoping to go home 4 hours after birth but my midwife suggested I stay overnight since I didn't deliver our soon until 7pm (still wish we went home late, I hated staying in the hospital overnight)
-ongoing issues with thrush (going on 5 months now!!!) probably from the antibiotics I received in labour -
Right:
Went into labor on my own.
Had an effective epidural.
Baby and mama were healthy!Wrong:
Maybe I'm seeing this through rose colored glasses, but I don't see anything wrong with my L&D. Breastfeeding, however, was an entirely different story. -
Bumping this old thread because it's a helpful thread to see the good and the bad.
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As I read through these I realize that I really didn't have any expectations. I had scheduled c sections resulting in healthy babies and healthy mama. So to me everything went right.
My only negative is DS1 lost too much weight early on and I freaked. DS2 had jaundice and I barely got to hold him because he needed to be under the lights. But that's it. And in the grand scheme of things, I think it's pretty minor.
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Right: Mom and baby were healthy
Wrong: I had high blood pressure at 41 weeks leading to induction, wasn't dilating, got an epidural (I'd wanted to go natural but 8 hours into an induction they thought would take 24-36 hours I was over it), finally dilated but then baby got stuck on my pelvis and my water broke but there was meconium in it, her heart rate went crazy, I spiked a fever and they were worried about infection, and I ended up with an emergency c section and then my c section incision opened up at 1 week pp and that was a huge gross deal.
Despite all of that... all that really matters is that me and baby were fine.
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Right:
- I progressed very quickly once things got going. Went from 3-10 in a couple hours.
- my husband was amazing!
- my dr stayed with me for almost the entire 4.5 hrs that I was pushing. She was fantastic and supportive and ultimately told me yes I could do it when I was begging for a c-section.
- no tears or episiotomy despite a vacuum delivery!
- the new anesthesiologist named Steve gave me the hook up on all the meds after my failing epidural
- ultimately we were all healthy, which is obviously the best thing!Basically everything else went wrong:
- blood pressure was elevating when I was upright so I couldn't walk around
- dr tried to do a Foley catheter and couldn't get it placed properly so it was an hour of her digging around in there without any result
- there was an emergency on the floor so they had to shut off the pitocin once it was finally up as high as it would go. I had to start over at the lowest level and work my way back up again.
- my dr let me eat but I ended up throwing it all up because I started dilating fast and furious as soon as I ate and my body freaked out
- my epidural kept failing (they kept giving me more and it'd fade out in 30 min)
- I pushed for 4.5 hrs and LO was majorly stuck
- I yelled at everyone, like a lot
- once Baby A was out, Baby B was in distress and was an emergency C, so DH was kicked out of the room. So basically the worst happened - one vaginal delivery and one c-section
- my giant smushed together double placenta (apparently can become a thing with twins) was very difficult for my dr to get out, but I guess at least it was being surgically removed at this point and I didn't have to deliver it. It probably weighed more than each of my little ones!
- this was post L&D, but still related - but I was by myself for a couple hours after delivery because they didn't have enough nurses on staff to have the babies with me in recovery. DH was with the babies but I was really disappointed I wasn't able to nurse for several hours after. When I did finally get to hold my babies, I was interrupted by medical staff who had to take me for X-rays to check to make sure there was no surgical equipment left inside which is apparently hospital procedure when it's that sort of last minute emergency. Unfortunately I was very drugged up (since my epidural failed I was given a cocktail of narcotics during my c-section) and couldn't tell them that it could wait until later. That's actually what I'm most upset about 15 months later! -
Right--
- great support from sister, DH, nurses
- neither of our safety was compromised
- my room was amazing and had a place for DH to sleep (even my post partum room had a bed for him)
-vaginal deliveryNot so great
- had a pretty unnecessary induction due to "high" PB
- labored for 32 hours and pushed for 3 hours
- epidural kept wearing off/too weak
- they kept cranking me full of pitocin because the OB broke my water way too early and there was a time crunch
- pain was so bad, I started hallucinating...I honestly didn't know pain like that existed
- not eating for two days but I was in so much pain, I didn't care but just weak
-the OB said they needed to "partially resuscitate" him which was TERRIFYING but I guess that just means they had to use the bulb syringe
- I don't know how many stitches I had buy I tore quite a bit
-was so swollen and sore, I couldn't walk for a few days and now, 7 weeks pp, my back pain is just starting to go away
-needed the vacuum
- I was so out of it, I didn't get a chance to latch him on for several hours
-he lost a lot of weight by his first appointmentTotally worth it
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Right:
- I had two healthy babies
- Both deliveries were fast (about 1.5h of very active labor with #1 and 20min with #2 (from 4-10cm in <20min))
- Both were unmedicated
- Especially after my second delivery is was practically jogging through the hospital by the next dayWrong:
- My firstborn wasn't able to latch in L&D and they made me pump as of day2 which caused massive oversupply issues
- I had some tearing with #1 because he had his hand infront of his face
- ETA: Oh I did have meconium with both of them but it was never even an issueOther than that there wasn't much I'd change. I'm really thankful for the uncomplicated births I've had.
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