gcc2k
05-19-2013, 11:55 PM
37 weeks today and my water broke all over my parents bathroom while we were celebrating Mothers Day for my mom a week late. This was literally minutes after showing my mom my list of 8-10 things I still felt like I needed to get done. The main thing being picking out a name!
Dr said I was still only 1 cm dilated 4 hours after my water broke. I just walked the halls and stairs the last hour hoping to get things going since I really want to avoid a pit drip.
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So I guess I'm one of those rare women whose second labor is actually longer than the first. Despite my water breaking, this little boy has no interest in coming out.
Only 1 cm dilated when I got to the hospital around 9pm last night (when my water broke at 6:30) so I walked the halls and did stairs to try to get things going. But at midnight, nada. Still 1 cm and they put me on pitocin. At 630am, after pretty much lying in discomfort in the hospital bed all night long, I had progressed to 2 whole cm! Grrrrrr. They gave me until 9am and since I hadn't felt much significant change, I walked the halls again for another hour or so before they hook me back up to a new pit drip. Now I secretly wonder if there really is any pitocin in that IV bag. :)
I really really want to avoid a c-section. But I know that doctors really like to get babies out within 24 hours of your water breaking to avoid infection. So I'm asking all of you for P&PT that my cervix will start dilating!
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So there is no baby yet, but he IS coming.
We are the topic of conversation on the maternity ward today, and this little boy has managed to have everyone scratching their heads.
By mid afternoon I had been on pitocin for nearly 18 hours and had only progressed to 2-3 cm. At that point the doctors and nurses started wondering if my wAter had actually broken. For a few hours I thought I was THAT woman who peed herself, thought her water broke, then spent nearly 24 hours on a pit drip for no good reason. DH and I were pretty sure we were going home with a baby still in utero since I'm only 37 weeks. But in the late afternoon my doc, the on-call doc, my nurse, and the internal fetal medical specialist doc gathered round for an ultrasound to determine that, indeed, there was very little fluid around the baby. I wasn't going crazy!
Apparently I hadn't been leaking any additional fluid for ruptured bags which led them to wonder. Coupled with some miscommunication between the day/night nurses and docs, and they were ready to send us home. But the doc said that I must have had a "high leak". They explained it like a full covered cup tipping and leaking from the top, then righting itself and not causing anymore leaks. So DH and I got an hour break to eat (yay!) and shower. At 6pm they started me back on the monitors and pit drip while I was 3cm, and broke the fore bag to cause more leaking and hopefully get this show on the road.
All that to say is the past 24 hours have been tiring, uncomfortable, and not very productive, but we are hoping to get things revved up. And because DS2 is still looking great on the monitors, they are not worried about a c-section anytime soon.
Thanks for all the encouragement and advice!
Dr said I was still only 1 cm dilated 4 hours after my water broke. I just walked the halls and stairs the last hour hoping to get things going since I really want to avoid a pit drip.
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So I guess I'm one of those rare women whose second labor is actually longer than the first. Despite my water breaking, this little boy has no interest in coming out.
Only 1 cm dilated when I got to the hospital around 9pm last night (when my water broke at 6:30) so I walked the halls and did stairs to try to get things going. But at midnight, nada. Still 1 cm and they put me on pitocin. At 630am, after pretty much lying in discomfort in the hospital bed all night long, I had progressed to 2 whole cm! Grrrrrr. They gave me until 9am and since I hadn't felt much significant change, I walked the halls again for another hour or so before they hook me back up to a new pit drip. Now I secretly wonder if there really is any pitocin in that IV bag. :)
I really really want to avoid a c-section. But I know that doctors really like to get babies out within 24 hours of your water breaking to avoid infection. So I'm asking all of you for P&PT that my cervix will start dilating!
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So there is no baby yet, but he IS coming.
We are the topic of conversation on the maternity ward today, and this little boy has managed to have everyone scratching their heads.
By mid afternoon I had been on pitocin for nearly 18 hours and had only progressed to 2-3 cm. At that point the doctors and nurses started wondering if my wAter had actually broken. For a few hours I thought I was THAT woman who peed herself, thought her water broke, then spent nearly 24 hours on a pit drip for no good reason. DH and I were pretty sure we were going home with a baby still in utero since I'm only 37 weeks. But in the late afternoon my doc, the on-call doc, my nurse, and the internal fetal medical specialist doc gathered round for an ultrasound to determine that, indeed, there was very little fluid around the baby. I wasn't going crazy!
Apparently I hadn't been leaking any additional fluid for ruptured bags which led them to wonder. Coupled with some miscommunication between the day/night nurses and docs, and they were ready to send us home. But the doc said that I must have had a "high leak". They explained it like a full covered cup tipping and leaking from the top, then righting itself and not causing anymore leaks. So DH and I got an hour break to eat (yay!) and shower. At 6pm they started me back on the monitors and pit drip while I was 3cm, and broke the fore bag to cause more leaking and hopefully get this show on the road.
All that to say is the past 24 hours have been tiring, uncomfortable, and not very productive, but we are hoping to get things revved up. And because DS2 is still looking great on the monitors, they are not worried about a c-section anytime soon.
Thanks for all the encouragement and advice!