DRUNK and IN LABOR

Hello everyone, it’s my turn to share my birth story. I gave birth to my sweet girl April 7th. I know I’m posting a little late but hey new moms have zero free time!

I originally had a scheduled induction for April 7th (my original due date) due to Covid. We were trying to be in and out of the hospital before Covid got worse. They had been talking about changing it to ZERO support person. Which I didn’t wanna wait for that to happen especially with this being my first.

April 6th comes and I get a phone call and they asked if I’d like to go ahead and come in to be induced! Scared and excited at the same time I agreed and got showered and ready to go in.

The whole way there I’m scared crying. I’m so scared of csection so I was praying to not end up having one. My family (mom, brother, grandma and grandpa) followed me to the hospital just to send me off and all. They were so hurt they couldn’t be apart of the birth. When we get there we are all crying and hugging each other bye.

Okay I go in and get settled the first nurse wasn’t there long. She started me on some pill to soften my cervix. Which started contractions (very light ones). I was only 1cm dilated.

My heart rate was through the roof so they couldn’t start the Pitocin until it got back to normal. They started my IV and gave me fluids.

Once my heart rate got back down they started the Pitocin. Which they’re supposed to up my dose every 30 mins.. she didn’t do that. So it prolonged my labor.. Not long after starting the pitocin contractions started getting worse. Eventually I was shaking and barely could handle these sharpe contractions in my back and thighs. They came in to give pain meds through my IV to hold off on the epidural. The meds were stadol. She said “now you’re gonna get a little dizzy” and as soon as she said that. I BLACKED OUT. Completely. Then when I got my vision back i couldn’t move. I was stuck in one position. My husband FaceTimed my mom (my mom is a nurse) and showed me to her and asked if that was normal. It instantly scared the living crap out of my mom cause I looked half dead. She told her to call the nurse into the room and he did. She comes in and he asked her if it was normal. (This nurse we will call Nancy) Nancy looks at me and busted out laughing and said “she is just sloppy drunk right now) and walks out. (I have never been drunk)

I finally get some control back I’m able to talk with slurs and slowly move. I couldn’t barely see straight. My husband then starts advising me to get off my phone and take a nap bc I had to rest. But it was helping me keep my mind off of things so I stayed on my phone for a little bit. He then threatens to take my phone. I get pissed and started drunkenly telling him he’s not my daddy or my school teacher. I hid my phone. He tried to reach for it and I go to trying to pull his nipples off... 🤦‍♀️ he’s got sensitive nipples so I thought “oh this will stop him from taking my phone”. He’s got it all on recording 😳🤦‍♀️

Once it began wearing off I needed the epidural. So Nancy comes in and acts mad that I wanted it and goes to get the man to do it.

My mom called the hospital a few times to talk to the nurse to check on me and see what THEY planned on doing. Every time my mom called Nancy would come in my room raging saying “oh my god!! Your mom is over protective!! She needs to stop!! Ugh!”

Well literally while I was getting the epidural put in she STILL was talking crap about my mom. Like I’m trying to focus on this not hearing you talk crap and disrespect my mom. Like she’s not allowed to be here and she’s worried about her 20 year old daughter having her first baby give her a break!

So epidural is in and I’m feeling better.. then a couple hours later I noticed. I’m starting to feel things again and I started feeling the catheter they put in too. I kept telling her I was feeling things and it was really painful and it wasn’t working. She rolls her eyes and says she was gonna get the man up the dose. Ok he comes in and was preparing.. he looks and somehow the epidural was TURNED OFF!! He said to her “this isn’t even on anymore.” Nancy said “ I didn’t think to check that! *giggle* and leaves the room. Me and my husband looked at each other like are you kidding me.. we then didn’t see Nancy at all for a long time not until she came in to introduce us to the two nurses coming in to take over. We will call them Brianna and Mary. Nancy ran out the room quickly before we could even say hello to the new nurses. We then tell them our experience with Nancy and they agreed it was wrong what she did and how she treated us the entire time. As soon as these nurses are in our experience brightened up sooo much. Unlike the other nurse who we RARELY seen, these two ladies were in every 30 mins checking on me and giving me the meds I needed. They checked me and I was barely 3 cm dilated and that was the only small amount I dilated the entire time I had that night nurse. Meaning she didn’t do her job and continue to give me the Pitocin as she was supposed to. As soon as the new nurses began to come in every 30 mins as needed to give me the Pitocin everything sped up. They became my nurses at 7am.

At 12pm I began having a crazy urge to push, I told Mary about it and she said that was awesome and to wait a little while bc that means we were getting close. She walked out the room and then I told my husband “ok I cannot wait anymore I need to push”. So he called the nurses back in and they sent a Midwife in the check my dilation. She said “ok you’re ready to have your baby. You’re 10 cm”. I think “oh god really?! Are you sure?!” They got me ready and they started directing me when to push and how and we began. In between pushes I was laughing and talking with the nurses and my husband. My husband was giving me water in between pushes. I’ve always heard the pushing is a bunch of screaming and saying I can’t do this. But it was pretty easy going and calm for me. I even noticed the tv a movie with The Rock was on and as I was pushing and was yelling like “GAHHHH” I busted out laughing mid push. I told my husband to turn the tv off because I honestly didn’t wanna bring my baby into the world with The Rock even with how funny it was I still just couldn’t. At 1:45pm my sweet baby girl came into this world. She is my little rainbow baby. I had 2nd degree tear only 1 stitch. One of the nurses massaged my vagina as I pushed to keep it from tearing. Which helped so much!

I’m so thankful for Mary and Brianna. They really redeemed that whole experience for both me and my husband.

My sweet baby girl now ♥️