Our due date was 3/31, and we went in for our post due-date BPP at 9:30am on Monday, 4/2. Well, Nola likes to sleep in the mornings, and they could not get her to move during the BPP ultrasound. Well, this essentially gives you a failing grade (despite a strong heart rate and breathing). and they wanted to induce right away. We told the doctor we would think about it, and after calling Coral and another doula friend of ours, we started the induction at 1:30.
West Allis worked very hard with us to have a natural birth, and Dana went from 1 cm to 10 cm, but it took 16 hours on Pitocin to do this. Let me tell you all, Pitocin is just like what Coral says -- constant slamming contractions. I think they were about 1 minute apart (max) Dana felt like she never got a break. Plus, once they stick you to the monitor and IV, you are essentially tethered. The monitor just does not work - I was ready to barricade the doors. If you tried the technique other than laying there, you were going to get a visit from the nurse because they couldn't see the heartbeat for 30 seconds. However, we used a lot of the natural techniques (sitting on the ball head-to-head was probably one of the best), but we couldn't do the bath or shower, and hand an knees continued to screw up the monitor. Very frustrating.
Well, long story short, we went for the epidural around 7:30 because Dana was just in constant pain and felt like the Pitocin was just destroying the experience. However, we barely made even that. Dana was suddenly at 10 cm, and Nola was ready to come out.We had to break the water (we did consider delivering the bag, but thought that at this point, we were in good shape to break). We broke the water, and 30 minutes later, we had Nola. 8lbs, head and one arm coming out. we did have immediate skin-to-skin for actually a couple of hours (she was in really good health). She is definitely the best thing to ever happen to us!
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