Lone Rogue and Cub.
You never know what is going to happen.
Shortly after they gave Amanda the first dose of induction drugs she started having some nasty contraction pains. I slept maybe an hour or so at the very beginning, and spent the rest of the night having my hand clenched every two to three minutes. The nurse gave her a dose of some sort of pain medication, which took the edge off for a short while. I think they were skeptical as to the severity of her pain. The pain was bad enough to cause her to throw up after a while, and toward the end it started to make her delirious. I hovered around the monitor attached to her most of the night, between contractions. Finally when she was around five centimeters dilated they gave her an epidural. This was between 730 and 800 am Friday morning, but the epidural just would not take effect. The gave her a dose of some other medication, and more through the epidural, but the most result they got was some tingling in her feat. Finally by about 1000 he tried a second epidural, and the relief was as palpable as it was immediate. Shortly after that the staff called in a doctor because the doctor who was supposed to be on call was tied up in surgery and they were concerned because the baby's heartrate had dropped. The doctor immediately made the decision to do a c-section, based on her blood pressure, the heartrate fluctuations, and her particular heavy bleeding during labor. Dr. Galloway thinks that her placenta might have been trying to tear from the uterine wall, and that was what was cauing her extremely severe labor pains. We should know it a week or so when the lab work from the placenta comes back.
So Miss Molly Morgan was born at 1055 am on Friday, October the Sixth. I was present during the c-section. They put up a curtain around the mother's head, and I was up there with her during the actual extraction process. I'm glad I was prepared for how gory and rough the process appears. The amount of yanking at her insides could be disconcerting. At that point Amanda was just happy for it to be over. She would get upset before all of this when contemplating a caesarian, but the relief from the lack of pain was enough to overcome reservations. I did see some of the gory details immediately after the extraction. I walked around to where they were cleaning the baby. I think I took it pretty well, seeing her womb opened up. Also when they were cauterizing the blood vessels, it looked like they were soldering her shut and smelled like a dentist's drill grinding away your teeth. Molly has a perfect little round head due to not having to pass through the birth canal. She weighed just half an ounce shy of eight pounds.
Mother and baby are doing very well. Amanda is just very sore from the ordeal. Her best friend, Tammy, from Montreal arrived Saturday Night and is staying here until the twenty-first. Amanda is also recovering from four straight nights of near zero sleep. We came home a day early. Amanda lobbied for it, and the hospital was compliant, probably partially due to how full the labor and delivery floor was. I have lots of pictures, but haven't uploaded any yet.
So she has all of her fingers and toes, and is distinctly lacking in the tentacle department. All is well.
Later!
Shortly after they gave Amanda the first dose of induction drugs she started having some nasty contraction pains. I slept maybe an hour or so at the very beginning, and spent the rest of the night having my hand clenched every two to three minutes. The nurse gave her a dose of some sort of pain medication, which took the edge off for a short while. I think they were skeptical as to the severity of her pain. The pain was bad enough to cause her to throw up after a while, and toward the end it started to make her delirious. I hovered around the monitor attached to her most of the night, between contractions. Finally when she was around five centimeters dilated they gave her an epidural. This was between 730 and 800 am Friday morning, but the epidural just would not take effect. The gave her a dose of some other medication, and more through the epidural, but the most result they got was some tingling in her feat. Finally by about 1000 he tried a second epidural, and the relief was as palpable as it was immediate. Shortly after that the staff called in a doctor because the doctor who was supposed to be on call was tied up in surgery and they were concerned because the baby's heartrate had dropped. The doctor immediately made the decision to do a c-section, based on her blood pressure, the heartrate fluctuations, and her particular heavy bleeding during labor. Dr. Galloway thinks that her placenta might have been trying to tear from the uterine wall, and that was what was cauing her extremely severe labor pains. We should know it a week or so when the lab work from the placenta comes back.
So Miss Molly Morgan was born at 1055 am on Friday, October the Sixth. I was present during the c-section. They put up a curtain around the mother's head, and I was up there with her during the actual extraction process. I'm glad I was prepared for how gory and rough the process appears. The amount of yanking at her insides could be disconcerting. At that point Amanda was just happy for it to be over. She would get upset before all of this when contemplating a caesarian, but the relief from the lack of pain was enough to overcome reservations. I did see some of the gory details immediately after the extraction. I walked around to where they were cleaning the baby. I think I took it pretty well, seeing her womb opened up. Also when they were cauterizing the blood vessels, it looked like they were soldering her shut and smelled like a dentist's drill grinding away your teeth. Molly has a perfect little round head due to not having to pass through the birth canal. She weighed just half an ounce shy of eight pounds.
Mother and baby are doing very well. Amanda is just very sore from the ordeal. Her best friend, Tammy, from Montreal arrived Saturday Night and is staying here until the twenty-first. Amanda is also recovering from four straight nights of near zero sleep. We came home a day early. Amanda lobbied for it, and the hospital was compliant, probably partially due to how full the labor and delivery floor was. I have lots of pictures, but haven't uploaded any yet.
So she has all of her fingers and toes, and is distinctly lacking in the tentacle department. All is well.
Later!