Hello there!!! I'm back with a story of the amazing beginnings to Mattie's life...
Well for those of you who had been following the pre-birth stories in 3rd trimester I'll try to be brief... Little Matilda was 14 days overcooked... she disengaged about 7 days overdue and was unable to be induced on our first date due to her head being no where near the right place, so off we went home and had to go back the next day to be told that it would be unlikely that I would be able to have a vaginal birth... my cervix wasn't near giving birth status, and the baby was no where near where she should be for giving birth. So I went back Wed arvo for inducement again... the baby had moved slightly down into a better position so we were given the all clear to start things moving...
At aroung 3am I was having contractions every 7 minutes with my hindwaters breaking at 11pm, so DH & Mum came back to the hospital... at 7am I was moved into a birth suite to have my waters officially broken, with the crochette needle thingy...LOL. Then things got really hard, really fast. My GOD!!!! I was lucky enough to get a shower in, and move a bit before I got some gas which whacked me so badly I couldn't think, so I looked at DH and he asked for my epidural.... ahhhhh the bliss!! It was hard though, because I felt like I had failed somehow at that time...a bit of an emotional wreck. ( go figure! ) So that was around 11am, and then my blood pressure dropped dramatically so they had to rush around giving me more drugs to stimulate my blood pressure and increase the fluids going in and the synctocin to try and get baby out quicker.... well I was only 4.5cm dilated at that time and contractions weren't very hard at all according to the monitor and I'm allergic to the meds that help increase blood pressure well... so they slowed things down again turned down the synctocin and epidural.... then around 2.30pm I started feeling the contractions again and the pain relief was wearing off but I couldn't move and was shaking all over. So they increased the epidural and I had only gone to 6cm dilation and the baby rotated half way and stopped. Basically the midwife was really uncomfortable with what was going on and called in the ob who wanted to give us another 2 hours and then see what was happening.... NOTHING HAPPENED... just painful contractions and shaking and no more dilation and no moving along from the little one. So they discussed caesarian again with me as the baby wasn't going to be coming out naturally anytime soon. I agreed before she went into distress I wanted her to be healthy so I agreed. I won't go into anymore gory details as to the caesarian, just that as the epidural wasn't working that well... the spinal block didn't work fantastically either, but 5 minutes later DH was holding our little girl, and crying and I was shaking and chattering and couldn't talk but just amazed by everything. 20 minutes later I was in recovery and she was nursing (without me doing anything because I couldn't) and I still couldn't talk but people were talking with me, and the surgical staff (both surgeons, two nurses and the midwife) were all cooing over the baby and how beautiful she was and how amazing she was... DH & I thought so of course, but they kept saying it.... So I had a pretty rough 24 hours afterwards with medications really messing with my head and she was perfect. She breastfed perfectly for the first few days, no problems.
So...our little Matilda Lee Janssen was born... bright and beautiful from the beginning... (now if we could only master these cluster feeds!!!) or if I could only master them.... LOL, she seems to enjoy them...
Oh! I almost forgot statistics!!!
8lbs 14oz, or 4.04kgs
52cm long
35cm head
born 6.02pm Thursday
Matilda's arrival
) So that was around 11am, and then my blood pressure dropped dramatically so they had to rush around giving me more drugs to stimulate my blood pressure and increase the fluids going in and the synctocin to try and get baby out quicker.... well I was only 4.5cm dilated at that time and contractions weren't very hard at all according to the monitor and I'm allergic to the meds that help increase blood pressure well... so they slowed things down again turned down the synctocin and epidural.... then around 2.30pm I started feeling the contractions again and the pain relief was wearing off but I couldn't move and was shaking all over. So they increased the epidural and I had only gone to 6cm dilation and the baby rotated half way and stopped. Basically the midwife was really uncomfortable with what was going on and called in the ob who wanted to give us another 2 hours and then see what was happening.... NOTHING HAPPENED... just painful contractions and shaking and no more dilation and no moving along from the little one. So they discussed caesarian again with me as the baby wasn't going to be coming out naturally anytime soon. I agreed before she went into distress I wanted her to be healthy so I agreed. I won't go into anymore gory details as to the caesarian, just that as the epidural wasn't working that well... the spinal block didn't work fantastically either, but 5 minutes later DH was holding our little girl, and crying and I was shaking and chattering and couldn't talk but just amazed by everything. 20 minutes later I was in recovery and she was nursing (without me doing anything because I couldn't) and I still couldn't talk but people were talking with me, and the surgical staff (both surgeons, two nurses and the midwife) were all cooing over the baby and how beautiful she was and how amazing she was... DH & I thought so of course, but they kept saying it.... So I had a pretty rough 24 hours afterwards with medications really messing with my head and she was perfect. She breastfed perfectly for the first few days, no problems.
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