This post is in continuation to this post.

     Yes dear friends, my water had broke when I laid down which meant this baby was coming very soon. I was fully effaced and baby’s head was very low but I was only dilated to a 1. Several hours and many more contractions passed when the doctor came in to check me. Still only dilated to a 1! He said that if my cervix would just dilate that he felt the baby would just come flying out! However, he could not give me anything to help because this was a VBAC and chances of uterine rupture or tear would increase with pitocin. So we continued to wait. Several more hours and many contractions later he came back in to check me – this time I was dilated to a 3! I was so excited about the progress but in so much pain. The doctor said that I could go ahead and get an epidural if I wanted one. I said,  ”YES PLEASE!”    

     Another several hours passed and the intensity and frequency of the contractions completely died down. My thoughts were that the epidural caused things to stall. The doctor came in to check me and I was still only at a 3!  By this time it was around 5:30pm and I had labored for about 18 hours. (this is where it gets hard for me to finish telling my story) The doctor said he thought it was time for us to do a cesarean for failure to progress. I agreed but was so very disappointed. It seemed that after the word cesarean was mentioned that things went really fast! They almost didn’t wait for my husband to get back to the hospital from grabbing a bite to eat.

They wheeled me into surgery…

Husband and Mimi get their scrubs on,

and surgery begins.

      As I lay there struggling with why this is happening and asking myself what went wrong, and blaming myself for getting an epidural the doctor is busy at work. Then I hear him say, “Looks like there is a slight tear and the uterus was beginning to separate.” The anesthesiologist looked at me through all my tears and said, “It’s a good thing we did this!” I could do nothing more than thank God for answering all my questions and for keeping His hand on me! From start to finish He had His hand upon me! If my water had not broke they would have sent me home because I was only dilated to 1. It is now my opinion that God allowed labor to stall to keep me and the baby safe!

     Surgery lasted about an hour and then a beautiful new life was born…

our baby girl took her first breath. The sound of her cry sent tears jolting down my cheeks. I couldn’t believe she was finally here. Praise the Lord!

I thank you Lord for a happy, healthy family of four!

THE END to a wonderful new beginning.

Posted: Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 @ 8:00 AM
Categories: Pregnancy.
Tags: baby, birth, cesarean, epidural, VBAC.
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