Had a normal pregnancy all the way up to two weeks before he was born
Had a normal pregnancy all the way up to two weeks before he was born. I went from normo tensive at approx 110/60 to hypertensive st approx 150/100. The baby was growing very long, but we expected a tall baby out families are over 6ft tall. The night before he was born I began having contractions at 20:00 (8pm) that were every 10ish min. My husband, mother, and mother in law all demanded i go to the hospital, that something was wrong because I was only 35 weeks. I didnt want to go, i work in emergency medicine and knew that if my water had not broken, or i wasn't having any other symptoms the hospital would observe me for a bit and send me home telling me to relax and that I was not in labor. They examined me, my cervix was rock hard and in the wrong position, they sent me home at 02:30. By the time I got home (20 min) I was in labor. My water broke and I began vomiting, my contractions were constant pain of 6/10 with waves of 10/10 pain on top of them decreasing in time between them. We went back to the hospital, my husband knew something was definitely wrong when I said I was willing to take an ambulance (I or my child would have to be dying befor I'd take an ambulance). When we got to the hospital in our own car, they examined me and found that in 40-50 min that I was away from the hospital, I was fully effaced and 8cm dilated. They thought he was breach and called for an emergency c-section. I was taken to the OR and intubated. They opened me up found he was not breach but was stuck in the side of my pelvis, and a vaginal birth would have put too much stress on him. I was told that while under I began to come out of sedation and started pushing, I was pushing my bowels out of my abdomen. My baby Barrett was healthy, a little jaundiced but not treatable high. Our local hospital has no NICU and send premi babies to Seattle (3 hours away). Barrett was doing so well they kept him with me, instead of sending him to a NICU. We stayed in the hospital for 5 days and were sent home on mothersday.
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