Showing all posts tagged delivery

I want to share with you my experiences when I gave birth to RJ…my very painful delivery.

I had spotting and my cervix was 1 cm. dilated for four days before RJ was born. When I noticed the spotting on the 1st day, I immediately went to my OB-Gyne. I know I will be giving birth soon though I didn’t feel any contractions. My OB-Gyne said, I will be giving birth in a day or two because my cervix is only 1 cm. dilated so she can’t have me admitted yet. When I went back to her clinic on the 4th day, nothing changed. My cervix is still 1cm. dilated. She didn’t allow me to go home and had me admitted immediately for the fetal monitoring because I was a day overdue.

I was admitted to the hospital on July 22, my MIL’s birthday. My MIL was so excited because she was hoping that RJ would have the same birthday as her. The sad thing is my cervix dilation stopped at 4cm. The nurses administered an enema, broke my bag of water and induced me, hoping for my cervix to reach at least 8cm. If you are a Mom you know how hard it is to suffer from labor pains. Well, it is nothing compared to the pains of induced labor. That was the worst physical pain I had in my entire life. So after 25 long hours of super painful induced labor, my OB-GYN decided to conduct a caesarean section. “@#$%^&*!” That’s what I wanted to tell her. She should have done it earlier, don’t you think? I could hardly breath so I was hooked on an oxygen. I was drained, can’t move and talk that time. When they curled me for an epidural anesthesia, I didn’t feel any pain maybe because of what I went through. I even peed on my bed. So I told myself that would be my first and last pregnancy.

But still, I was thankful to the very accommodating staffs who took care of me while I was on the labor room. They gave me sponge bath, massage and brushed my teeth to somehow ease my discomfort. They also allowed hubby in the labor room (which is prohibited) for few minutes so we could exchange sweet nothings. He asked me what I wanted him to do though deep inside he knew he can’t do anything to ease my pain. His presence helped me to be strong and fight though.

Finally, on July 23 at exactly 12:35 p.m., RJ was delivered via C/S. She was very healthy at 3.35kgs. (7.37 lbs.) and 32 cms. long.

 

I cried when I first saw her and immediately counted her fingers and toes. I saw her red  lips and I heard her loud cry. It’s worth all the pain. All the pains were gone upon seeing her.

We  stayed in the hospital for three days because they were conducting new born screening and other tests on RJ.

Proud parents waiting for RJ to be roomed-in.

Rhonnel and I are lucky because my Mom and my MIL were there to assist us. I had no milk so they helped and taught me how to have breast milk and the proper way of breast feeding.

With the loving grandparents.