I gave birth to a sweet baby boy on Sunday February 10th. I had a fairly healthy and uncomplicated pregnancy up until 38 weeks when all of a sudden I felt no movement anymore. I went for an NST test that Monday (2/4) evening and he was fine, we could hear him moving around but I couldn’t feel his movements at all. I went the next day for my regular weekly appointment and my midwife and doctor sent me back to the hospital for a follow up NST test and a biophysical ultrasound. The biophysical showed that I had a little extra fluid, nothing too excessive but enough they decided to induce me at 39 weeks due to the extra fluid. That Friday (2/8) I had another follow up appointment and my midwife checked my cervix and said she felt like I wouldn’t make it to my induction day which was going to be Wednesday. Sure enough Sunday morning I woke up to painful contractions and was leaking amniotic fluid. I got to the hospital at 3 am and by 6:30am I had gone from 2 CM to 5. The doctor said she felt like once my water fully broke it’d be quick, she ended up breaking my water but I was stuck at 5 for hours upon hours. Finally around 6 PM I was 10 CM but little guy was still up above my pelvis, she said I could either push like hell for about an hour or wait and let the contractions do their work for another few hours. I decided to push and I was able to get him up to his nose in like 2 pushes but then I had zero energy and I couldn’t push hard and he ended up being stuck for close to an hour. His heart rate started to drop and the doctor and my boyfriend started yelling at me to push and not give up because he needed to come out. Finally at 8:21 he entered the world.

He wasn’t crying but he was awake and seemed healthy, they laid him on my chest and I wasn’t even aware of it because I was so out of it but the first thing my boyfriend noticed was that he seemed to have an extra finger. It was mostly a little skintag with a fingernail, there was no bone. It was a little freaky but not a big deal.

The other thing we noticed was his cry was very unusual, nobody could seem to figure it out, itslike he has a very hoarse raspy voice. He screams but no sound comes out.

That night they kept him in the nursery because he kept spitting up a ton of mucus and they had to suction him quite a bit.

The day they were set to do his circumcision they realized he has hypospadias and the dr wants us to see a urologist.

I’ve felt like something is very wrong from since he was born, like some type of genetic issue, i mentioned this to my doctor yesterday at our weight check and she said that she was pretty concerned about that too because individually the issues that have occurred aren’t overly concerning but all of them together also coupled with my previous 3 miscarriages despite being fairly young and healthy were concerning to her so she’s referring us to another doctor to get another opinion.

Today I received a phone call that they received his heel stick results had come back and were a little abnormal and we had to redo it.

I just can’t shake the feeling that something is seriously wrong with my baby boy and I’m so stressed out and on edge. I just want answers but I’m also scared of what answers I may get.