This is my last belly photo with Mark
Because I have Factor V Leiden and I'm Homozygous for this blood disorder I take heparin during my pregnancy. Because of the risk of bleeding during delivery my Dr. takes me off of the heparin and induces my labor. I have never gone into labor by myself, this pregnancy was no different. The day before going in to be induce I was called and told I would need to be at the hospital at 6 a.m. so Kyle and I made arrangements for Leah and Beau to take with my Aunt Heidi the night before.
We went in to the hospital that morning and started the process of labor. With both of my children I was given a cervical softener to start, then as the day goes I am put on pitoecin. When I went into the hospital for the delivery I was dilated at one centimeter and my cervix was 70% effaced. After the first dose of cytotec cervical softener they put me on pitoecin. The nurse Heidi tried to put in my IV, it, they stuck me 6 times before getting the needle in. Nothing seemed to be happening but this the contractions were more often, and more intense. This when on through the day, Kyle and I played a couple games, he watched movies, I took a nap. Dr. Esplin whom I have had for all my pregnancy's came in and we talked about a game plan. Because things were going so slow he said that we would keep checking, but if my water didn't break by itself they would come in at 5 and rupture the membranes. The resident came in at 5 p.m. but didn't feel comfortable with breaking my water because the babies head wasn't engaged in the birth canal. After she left I decided that I wanted to have the epidural, so the anesthesiologist came in and gave me the epidural he said it would feel like a bee sting. (it wasn't anything like a bee sting) It was fast and quick, and the Dr. even told me that I'm skinny. He said I probably didn't feel skinny at the time but that the skin between that and my spin showed that I didn't have much fat. I started to feel very comfortable by then, and my contractions became even more even. At 7 p.m. a new resident came in to rupture the membrane and he felt to see if the head was down, and decided to go ahead and break the water. It seemed like there was a lot of water. Not ten minutes later the resident came back in, babies heart kept dropping with each contraction so they thought that it might be that because of the loss of fluid that his cord might be somewhere between his body and mine so they were going to see if they could move it. They said that they would have a better idea of his heart rate if they did an internal monitor and they wanted to put a balloon in if cause they need to put extra fluid back in. When the resident went to check where he should put the monitor he looked up and told me that they had to do a c-section. He said the cord was in front of his head. What ever they said on the speaker there was suddenly there was a team of people in the room and a new Dr. (which I later found out was the Maternal Fetal Medicine on call). She took over pushing the babies head off of the cord. The rushed me in to the O.R. and keep Kyle out of the door to prep him with the O.R. outfit; up until that point he was by my side. The next thing I knew they were draping a curtain over my belly and the anesthesiologist was talking to me about pain, then they started to poke my belly with a scalpel to see if I could feel the blade. The first pokes I didn't feel, but then I felt the rest as they kept going. Because of that they put me out, and as soon as Kyle got back in the room they kicked him out. When they put the oxygen mask on my face I couldn't help but sob, I was terrified the whole thing scared me.
The next think I could remember was one of the nurses was trying to wake me up on the way back to the room. When I got there Jessie was there to hold my hand and reassure me, again all that had happen terrified me. My through was itchy, and I still had the oxygen mask on. Again I couldn't help but sob. Dr. Spencer .. told me afterwards that from the time that I fell asleep to the time that Mark was born was under 5 minutes.
His initial apgar test was 2, then the 10 minute apgar was 8. Because of that and cord gas, and grunting sound they sent him to the NICU to be treated. apgar test
After what seemed like forever, Kyle came back into the room and showed me a picture of Mark. My first thought was how much hair he had.
