My induction birth from hell 😡😱

Wanted to share my birth story finally.

First off I didn’t want to be induced but my little man wasn’t showing any sign of coming. I was scared to force my body into something it wasn’t ready for.....and was I right!

Friday, February 23rd- I went in at 6pm to start the process. They got my all set up and I started the Cytotec oral medication at 9:30. Hours later with contractions coming in close together i was only a 1/2 cm!!😩 I got about three dosages of the Cytotec every 4 hours and after 10 hours of contraction every 2-3 minutes I was at 2cm!

I was in a lot of pain and the nurse offered some pain medication. As she drew up the medication my baby boys heart rate dropped EXTREMELY low! She made me flip from side to side to get it back up and she said she couldn’t give the pain medication after that.

At that point I wasn’t to scared because I’m an RN and knew what the meant. He has cord compression but doesn’t always mean around the neck.

Saturday the 24th- after that scare the nurse transferred me to L&D; to have the nurses watch me more closely. After no progress and still at 2cm and in extreme pain (I was pretty much screaming and couldn’t breath because thr pain was so bad) the doctor inserted a balloon catheter to manually dilate my cervix. MAN was that uncomfortable!

After that the contraction with those were EVEN WORSE! I told my fiancé “im gonna die if I have any more of those contractions” 😂😭 the doctor and nurse offered me my epidural at 2cm because I was in that much pain, so i got it! Thank god for whoever invented that because I couldn’t do it much longer.

After that hours later the catheter dilated me to a 4 1/2! They broke my water and BOOM 💥 his heart rate dropped low and nurses came flying in flipping me from side to side to get his heart rate back up.

Then they put in two internal monitors into his head to get better reDing because the ones on my belly weren’t that effective!

Right after that they gave me an amniotransfusion to put fluid back into the placenta to help him. They did 500ml one time and the next one was 300ml. Still his heart rate was getting better but they didn’t like it. That whole day and night I was being flipped every couple minutes and I was on pitocin at some point nursing all this. One nurse told me he didn’t like the pitocin and every time they did it to normal speed his heart rate would tank. So I was slowly in pitocin for a whole day on and off. Baby boy only liked me on my right side so I laid there for hours and that resulted in that past of the cervix getting hard! So they had to keep flipping me to get that side backed thinned out 😔

Sunday February 25th- sometime in the morning I was was dilated to an 8 and then hours later I was at a 10.....FINALLY.

IT WAS TIMR TO PUSH🙌🏻

The nurse told me I had three hours to push or else they would have to do a c-section. Which I did not want! At first my pushing did nothing. I started to get worried I was gonna have to have a c-section. After an hour the midwife came in and said I wasn’t pushing out his head yet (ohhhh did I feel that pressure though!) she said I was pushing out his swollen part of his head because he was stuck there for awhile (he had caput succeduem). She said don’t her back until I’m we can see his ears and eyebrows! The last two hours of pushing I finally was pushing effectively and the midwife came in and within 2-3 pushes he was born! And no evidence of cord compression! Which is why his heart rate was tanking for a whole day. No cord wrapped around anything. Thank god!

Now I have a healthy baby boy and so in love.

Just wanted to share my story that even though you go through horrible labor it was all worth it and I’m glad my baby boy Paxton is healthy and safe!