Desmond Kiran Singhal’s Birth Story
I went into the hospital last Tuesday to start my induction. Had the cervical (or whatever it is called) inserted and then spent the night sleeping/reading/getting my self prepared. Wednesday morning I ordered breakfast and then we started the pitocin (spelling) around 8:30am. First few hours went semi-slow, but around 2pm I felt a small gush and told the nurse my water had broken. Felt a larger gush at that point in time, and I was right.
From that point on things started moving a bit faster I went from 2cm to 6cm in about 3 hours at which point in time, I decided I wanted an epidural. I was trying to go for the no medicine route, but it hurt a lot, so I decided that pain bad, if it is avoidable and went for the drugs. Got the epidural, and was then in the bed. Labored for awhile longer and around 11pm the midwife checked and I was fully dilated.
During this time we had noticed that the baby’s heart rate was dropping occasionally so I was put on an oxygen mask to help with it. We rested for an hour after finding me at 10cm to see if the baby would drop on his own anymore. He didn’t so around midnight we started pushing. The heart rate problems continued and the midwife was worried the cord might be wrapped around him. So she got the OB/GYN over after about an hour of pushing (where he moved down from +1 to -1 position). He looked, had me push a bit more, and noted that the baby wasn’t moving down any more and the heart rate problem was worrying.
So we went for the emergency C-section. Got into the OR and the epidural medicine was not numbing me enough so they had to put me fully under general anesthesia. Which meant my husband was not allowed in the OR. No one expect me knew what was going on so they were all worried, since I was in the OR and well unconscious. At 2:35am on April 5th Desmond Kiran made his appearance into the world. His APGAR scores were an 8 and a 9. He was 7 pounds 14 ounces and 20 and 3/4th inches. DH got to hold him and stay with him as they took him to the nursery. I woke up around 3:15am from the general.
Because the nurse I had in labor and delivery sucked (just the last one the rest were great). It was 4 hours before I got to see him. She also drove my bed straight into the nurses station, which is not really fun when you just had a C-section.
Spent the next few days in the hospital recovering. And I have to say my husband rocks. He did all the diaper changes while we were in the hospital, and was great with taking care of both me and the baby. We got out of the hospital yesterday afternoon, and have been home and recovering well here. The baby is great and his jaundice went down so we never had to worry about the lights.
Anyways home safe and sound with the baby, though my birth experience did not go at all as planned, we are both safe and sound and doing well. And I have to say my doulas rocked and were great to have there for the laboring part even though they couldn’t attend the c-section. It was great to have them there for support along with DH, my mom and my MIL.