Spaced out for a week after labour
I just have a question for anyone that's had this happen to them, or maybe someone that might know why it happened.
With DD, I went into spontaneous labour at 42 weeks, well after drinking castor oil and doing all the fun stuff for natural induction as I had already put off one induction of labour (I called in sick) and the hospital wasn't happy and was pushing for another due to me being so overdue.
The labour itself wasn't too bad. I laboured at home in the shower for the first half and then went to hospital when I was 5cm, but contractions were 2 minutes apart. My husband at the time slept through the whole labour, at home and also in the hospital till I woke him when I needed to push. He even slept through the ARM I had an hour before 2nd stage. I laboured without midwife help as well, they came in occaisonally. I was on my own. DD was posterior like my DS was, and I stayed on all fours most of the time on the big ball and was active in between contrax, pacing around. I had ARM because after 3 hours I wasn't dilating and they said the waters were bulging and that would get it all going, it did.
I did not have drugs at all, I didn't even have gas. I used to shower and the big ball as my pain relief. The only drug I had was the injection they routinely gave to deliver the placenta, I didn't realize then that saying 'no' to that was an option.
In transition, I got really spaced out as is normal when you have no pain relief in labour, the endorphins kicked in big time. Difference was this time though was that the spaced out feeling lasted a whole week. With my DS I didn't have pain relief either, but the spaced out feeling went away after the birth.
This spaced out feeling was horrible I have to say, I coudnt' feel normal after I went home and it was to say the least, freaky. I constantly felt like I was on the ceiling watching myself as I did in transition, like I wasn't really there.
I'm wondering if anyone else experienced this?? I'm also wondering if anyone's heard of it and what could have made it happen?
These are my theories:
1) something to do with being unsupported in labour, that XH didn't care and slept through it and got annoyed when I woke him up. I realized later this actually traumatized me.
2) Something to do with the synto injection?
3) Perhaps something to do with the early disharge as I disharged myself that day, but was doing housework that night and back to normal house duties (not my choice, just no one else to do it and I had a toddler as well) and I wasnt' able to rest after the labour.
4) Just the endorphins were that strong naturally and just sometimes do last that long?
I'm a bit worried it will happen again, it really depressed me and made me feel out of control in the first week of DDs life as I didn't feel like I was really there.
Any thoughts?