 Posted 10/20/2006 3:07:04 PM
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I just wanted to share my c-section nightmare with everyone. I was due on Sept 2, 2006 but was scheduled to be induced on August 22, because of previous health issues and I was huge! and I mean huge, I'm only 4 foot 9 inches and I already had gained 45 pounds! Yuck!!My water broke on August 19th @ my brother inlaws wedding reception, nice huh? I was so embarressed. But even when we arrived at the hospital I wasn't having any contractions. The doctors waited for about an hour before giving me any meds to induced my contractions. After they did for some reason they could not control my contractions and I had the joy of having back to back contractions with no breaks in between and to make it worse my son was facing the wrong way. Which they explained was going to make things even more painful. I finally gave in at 3 am and asked for the epidural. Just as the doctor was going to insert the needle into my back, he was called away to an emergency!! An hour later I had my epidural. All was fine after that but because I had a cold going in the epidural numbed me so much I didn't feel the need to cough, so I had fluid builing in my lungs. ( I figure maybe the doctors or nurses should have realized this) I'm not sure why but my epidural had worn off three times on my left side by the time I was ready to push @ 5pm on the 20th. And they said once I was pushing I could have anymore medication. Unfortunately my son was stuck in my pelvis and the more I pushed the more pain I was in. At this point most of it becomes a blur because I was actually passing out from the pain. As my husband tells it I was screaming for them to cut my leg off and stop the pain!!! So finally they wheeled me into the operationg room to use forceps but again no go. So finally the decided to do a c-section. Thank God I remember thinking, but as the started to cut into me I had to tell them to stop because I was no longer frozen. I was terrified! So they put me to sleep. There wasn't any complications with the actual procedure but I ended up with pneumonia because of the fluid on my lungs then my left lung collapsed, my blood pressure went through the roof, and they thought that I had a blood clot in lung. That turned out to be fluid in my chest cavitity as well. Multiple tests and medications later I finally was sent home a week and a half later. Still with pneumonia and high blood pressure. Thankfully my son was healthy and had no complications but I have a huge amount of guilt because I don't remember the first time I seen him or held him, and I didn't get to share that first moment with my husband. I am now terrified to think about having a second child for fear of not knowing how things will turn out and the dream we all see for our child 's birth is tainted for me. I didn't turn out the way I wanted and I feel really guilty about that. Jenni 
 Jenni
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Posted 10/23/2006 10:36:26 PM
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| Sorry to hear about your problems with your birth. Through talking to other moms and my own stories I realized that a lot of birth plans didn't really happen the way they wanted them. But you have to think what all those events resulted in -- a healthy baby and that is what you want. Perhaps with your next pregnancy you can hire a birth doula who can help you and some even do photography so you can have those first glimpse of your baby.
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Posted 11/6/2006 9:06:14 PM
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| I am sorry to hear how your delivery went. I too had an unplanned c-section.
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Posted 11/23/2006 11:28:26 AM
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Not fun  I laboured hard for 3 days in the hospital before they gave me an unexpected (but very welcomed at the time) C-Section. I thought for sure I would be terrified and scarred for life. I even remember saying many times after our baby came home how this would be our last child. It's funny though...now I am excited about getting to have another one if God blesses us with more kids.
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Posted 2/12/2007 7:23:24 PM
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| I have had three c-sections. Only first one unplanned. But the last one was the worst experience in my life due to his father(not same as the first two). I had nobody there with me for the operation. I had gone into premature labor three weeks earlier and learned I was so sick from high blood pressure that they wanted to keep me in, even after three months of bed rest to prevent the blood pressure from getting out of control. I was finally scheduled for an early birth at 37 weeks to make sure my son and I were both going to live through it. Then the father didn't even show up. To make matters worse; he is bipolar and decided to make this day a miserable memorable one for all of us. He flipped out at the nurses and hospital guards when he was late and couldn't find me. He threatened to kill me and take the baby when I told the staff I couldn't have him see us in this state of mind and then after all the police and social workers and staff for over a week I was left with a baby who wasn't eating well, me with an infection and my family were not allowed to go home. We were sent to a safe house for about 4 days until they could find the father and get him off to jail. I still have more doubts in my mind than ever because I have court this mothers day to testify and put him back in jail. This makes it very hard to stay positive but it makes me love my son even more (weird) because I found out he almost killed his other infant by another woman and I atleast know he will never ever get the chance to hurt mine or anyone else's again if I testify and justice is served. I needed to get this out. Thanks for listening. I have two other girls 10 and 9.
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Posted 9/20/2007 4:00:27 PM
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Well honestly that all really sucks BUT there is one thing to keep in mind for the next child - you will be 100% qualified for a return c-section no questions asked. They will book your appointment a week before your due date, you will just go in, and come out with a new little one. There will be a lot less to worry about the next time!!
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