Our Rainbow is here

Backstory...

After 3 miscarriages in a row our rainbow is here. I’ve been considered high risk my entire pregnancy due to type 2 diabetes. At 21 weeks I started going to an MFM doctor and was getting regular growth scans. By the time the 3rd trimester came she was starting to measure large. By 34 weeks she was recommending early delivery at 37 weeks. By 36 weeks she concerned babies shoulders would get stuck and said I may need a c section. Well my OB was confident that I would be able to deliver vaginally as I’ve had 4 other babies. So we went ahead with our scheduled induction on 7/22/2020.

Prior to my induction my OB told me the hospital will call me to schedule a Covid test. Never got that call. 🤷🏻‍♀️ anyway Friday before scheduled induction she had a non reactive NST so I was sent to the hospital for monitoring and a biophysical profile. She passed and we were sent home. This ramped up my anxiety over the weekend.

Induction day arrived and we checked in at the hospital at 5 am. They got my IV going but took 3 tries 😢 then I got hooked up to the monitor. My nurse disappeared for awhile then came back and she said she didn’t feel comfortable starting the pitocin until my OB could review the strip so had to wait until 8am 😣 finally my OB showed up and she said there was enough variability she was ok with starting the pit slowly. She did a cervical check and I was already 3cm and 75-80% effaced on my own. So she gave my bf a false sense of hope by saying she thinks it’s possible we could have baby by noon. I knew better 😝 Not sure what time it was but the nurse came in and shut off the pitocin because she was having decelerations after it had been upped a couple times. My OB okayed it to be started again and the same thing happened So it was stopped again. I was making progress so they kept the pitocin at a low level and also started me on an insulin drip to get my blood sugar levels lower for baby as it was high. When I got to 5cm I got the epidural and as difficult as it was they had me lay on my side as that was helping with babies heart rate. I was put on oxygen and the peanut ball was put between my ankles. I took a little nap and the next time my OB checked me I was feeling some slight pressure with each contraction and I was 8.5cm. She predicted it would be another couple hours and left. My boyfriend went downstairs to see if the coffee shop in the lobby had anything to eat. I was alone in the room and he forgot to put the remote/call button next to me. Luckily I had my phone because I started feeling stronger pressure and I was starting to panic. My OB had placed internal monitors earlier in the day and I swore I was going crazy because I could feel them moving 😳. Anyway my boyfriend came back up as quick as he could and hit the call button. Told the nurse the pressure was getting stronger and more painful and she was pretty dismissive about it. Like she asked if it was all the time or just with contractions and when I told her it was mainly with contractions she didn’t seem too concerned. I was really annoyed as she left the room to call for the OB but I felt like she was gone for a long time. The doctor came in and said she was gonna listen to me. At this point I was moaning and my teeth were chattering. She checked me and said I was completely dilated and ready to push. They got every thing set up and her head was right there. Her head came out in 3 pushes and then I was beginning to panic internally because I knew the shoulders were next and that was the concern with her size. With the next contraction I pushed several more times and out she came. I cried and talked to her while they stimulated her to breath. Her apgars were 7 and 8. They got her pinked up and I was able to try to nurse her. She wasn’t latching very well and her nose was congested from not being squeezed long enough on her way out of the birth canal. Once my epidural wore off enough for me to walk we were transferred to the postpartum room and the baby nurse checked her blood sugar. It was 25 😳 they had to take her to the nicu and place an IV to give her glucose. I was devastated. I was really hoping I’d be able to get colostrum in her and she’d be ok. I was wrong. They have given her IV sugar and fed her formula (something I wish they would have asked me about because I would have preferred milk from the milk bank).

Today I fed her with a bottle and she spit most of it up and when they checked her sugar it was in the 30’s. So they did more iv sugar and I went back to my room. Her daddy visited her and they were talking about adding a feeding tube. Which they did and we are currently waiting to see how she continues to do with it.