My crazy birth story

Like many gals on here, as I approached my due date I was looking for all kinds of birth stories to encourage me through labor. Buckle up!! 😂

I worked my fairly physical job up until last Wednesday. I’d been doing everything I could to try to avoid a c-section, I was also trying to do all sorts of things to induce labor, because I really didn’t want to be induced synthetically if I could help it. My doctors kept saying his head was in a perfect position, and that he had been dropped for awhile. I was getting so frustrated that I wasn’t going into labor on my own even though I had multiple signs of it being near. God was watching out for my son. Last Friday I had a cervical check and I hadn’t progressed much, my due date was January 12th and my dr asked how I felt about coming in on January 13th to start induction, otherwise I could’ve waited until the 18th to see if I would go on my own before that. I asked if she would give my husband and I a few minutes to talk it over. We decided we would come in on the 13th. I got in my room around 10 am, we started pitocin and a foley balloon shortly after. I was progressing great, they kept upping the pitocin and my body was handling everything very well. I knew coming in that I would eventually want some form of pain medication, but I held off as long as I could. A lot of the contractions I was having were apparently strong and close together but I could barely feel them. When I would have periods they would be extremely intense so the contractions I was having weren’t really phasing me. My dr came in at one point and said they were going to break my water to get things going further. When they broke my water my contractions started feeling slightly more intense, so I suggested maybe they should send in the order for the epidural before they got too terrible. They left the room, I had only had a few contractions and within 10 minutes 2 doctors and 2 nurses rush in the room and are having me flip on my side and throw an oxygen mask over my face. I was so confused, I thought they were starting the process of the epidural, but much more dramatic than I was expecting. (😂) my dr flipped me and told me to be on my hands and knees. She proceeded to tell me my baby “wasn’t loving life right now.” Anesthesiologists started giving me shots in my arms and more medical staff came in and said I was going to be put under and for my husband to say goodbye to me and he would see me in a few hours when everything was over. My baby’s heart rate was dropping significantly. They were wheeling me to a surgery room and I literally had to shut my brain off to everything going on around me. As they were wheeling me I was just praying through my oxygen mask that my baby and I would be alright no matter what happened. They sat me up quickly to put in a spinal and epidural and my baby’s heart rate picked up (Thank God!) so they said due to that they were still doing an emergency c-section, but that I could be awake. They started doing the surgery and they eventually were able to grab my husband to bring him in. I couldn’t see a thing and as I stated before I just shut my brain off and allowed whatever was happening to happen. Anything for a healthy baby. We heard our baby cry and we just lost it (happy tears, of course.) they pulled the window down a few minutes later so I could see him and we lost it all over again. My dr stated to us that when she pulled him out, his cord was wrapped around his neck twice. When they broke my water and he had dropped further down it was cutting off his oxygen. So as much as I wanted to avoid a c section as much as humanly possible, I’m so thankful for the doctors being quick and using wisdom, and that I didn’t go into labor on my own because if my water had broken on it’s own I probably wouldn’t have made it in time. So with that crazy story of laboring for some time, to him being out at lightning speed once things started going haywire, my beautiful baby boy, Finn; was born at 8:17 pm on January 13th. He’s here and healthy and that’s all that matters. 💕