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Cranky pants birth story
C/S elective for previous c/s, arrived 7 am and met the anaesthetist...Told
him of problems with last spinal block (it took 7 attempts) he bragged about how great he was and if he got it in he wanted a good bottle of Red... Went up tomy room, settled in, showered and got ready for theatre... Took him 3 goes and I told him I didn't feel numb, last time I went completely numb for 6 hours...he did the frozen ice on my skin test to prove my legs didn't feel the cold and even though I could move my legs a bit and felt the catheter go in I was supposedly numb enough not to feel pain.... Yeah right, it was the foulest most painful distressing experience of my life, I felt the cutting in but just as a scratch and felt hands prodding about in me, ok gross but not painful at first but before long I had massive abdominal pain I was really confused and didn't know what I was feeling. By this time It was 1/2 over and he supposedly gave me something in my IV to help the pain....next thing I have 4 people diving on my stomach pushing my uterus ( I found out later cranky pants(CP) had moved while he was trying to get him out and had gone transverse and up high and he was fishing about trying to pull him out) Now seeing this big anaesthetist dive over my face to push on my stomach was scary enough, I knew something wasn't right and the pain sure wasn't right...anyway out comes CP and they hold up my head to watch im get pulled out...Like I was interested, NOT! They took him over to the resus bed and The nurse in me is calling out"he isn't very pink" the midwife goes to turn the oxygen on to find the cylinder was empty, luckily he cried abit more and pinked up, meanwhile I'm crying in pain and watching them fuss about...the little resus bed wasn't even turned on, I had to tell them to turn it on so he wouldn't get cold...then I get a massive chest pain they put oxygen on me and try and calm me down, between my crushing chest pain and abdominal cramping pain, me crying, DH looking helpless they ask me if I want to hold my baby....You have to be kidding right? They try telling me the chest pain is some kind of pooling effect, whatever that means and I'd be ok it had to do with the layer they were sewing up. I couldn't actually feel sewing, or anything as low as the scar, just from the top retractor upwards. The Dr asks if I still want my tubes tied and I scream " well I'm not coming back"...anyway it feels like the longest hour of my life...off to recovery where they keep giving me fentanyl every 10 mins without much effect, finally they give me my PCA which I'd been asking for for the last 40mins and I start pressing it, spent an hour and 1/2 in recovery ( not like the 20mins with DD's birth)...I go back to the ward and they give me some indocid and finally I feel some relief...I pressed my PCA more in the first two hours than I did the entire time with DD... CP was about 3-4 hours old before I felt well enough to hold him, I'd given up the idea of early feeding but his blood sugar was good at 4 hours of age so we just waited for him to wake a few hours later and whamo....could the little guy latch! I was in shock...the one good thing was my boy was healthy and could feed like a champ... the next few days were a blurr and the whole theatre experience was just overwhelming, the pain over the next 5 days slowly improved but I was still experiencing alot of pain. It was so different to my first c/s where I sprang out of bed the next day and never looked back, it's only today a week later I am feeling better, I still need help to get out of bed and can only lay flat on my back.... A friend of mine who is a DR says that people who experience alot pain in the first 6 hours post surgery feel more pain later and have a slower recovery than those who don't, they have a heightened pain response so that may explain it, he also feels they probably went one vertebrae too low and thats why I felt such abdominal pain. Needless to say there will be no gifts of wine. so I have had two vastly opposite birth experiences, 1, the easy c/s and trouble feeder and now the nightmare c/s and the best feeder...I'll never minimise a c/s again...and luckily I never have to have one again.Most importantly though I have two beautiful healthy children. Alissa |
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