Jessica shares her birth story with us. Read with caution as she did experience some birth trauma during her c-section due to medication not working effectively. The fail rate is roughly 10%. As with any surgery there are risks involved. C-section momma’s know that this isn’t the “easy way out” at all. Giving birth is beautiful and life-changing but also carries risk for the mother – whether vaginal or c-section. All birth stories are shared unedited. You can send us your birth story for upload, to be shared with or without your name.
On the Saturday I had a little bit of mucus discharge. My water broke at 2am on Tuesday. I thought I had weed in my bed. It happened again at 4am. I already had a scheduled gynecologist appointment at 8:20 so I didn’t stress too much. When I went in, explained to my gynecologist and he did an internal examination. He said my membrane had ruptured, meaning my water had broke and that I was 1 cm dilated. He sent me straight up to the maternity ward. At 9 am they had me on a drip and started administering Oxycontin. The contractions started and only got more painful. By 1 pm I was only 2 cm dilated. They upped the Oxycontin and I thought I was going to die. The contractions were so painful I thought I was going to pass out.
At 3 pm I told them I wanted an epidural. They took me to the labour ward and the anesthetist came in. She gave me the anesthetic, which my body clearly didn’t take, because as soon as she gave me the epidural, I could feel absolutely everything. Again, thinking i was going to pass out
but after that, I felt amazing, was watching the monitor, and my contractions were sky rocketing and couldn’t feel a thing.
Come 7 pm, my gynecologist came to check and I was only 6 cm dilated. But the thing was, my cervix had started to swell. So my gynecologist said I’d have to go in for C-section because the swelling was just getting worse and because of the timeline between my water breaking and still being in labour, he was worried she would start to go into distress. So I said, what ever is safest. He prepped me and wheeled me down to theater. They explained what was going to happen etc etc and then started.
A different anesthetist was there and administered anesthetic, they did a numb test, and pinched me, I said I could feel it but it wasn’t a painful feeling. So they told me I’m just going to feel pressure etc, they started cutting and I was like okay cool.. then they put that clamp thing and as they did and started stretching my wound, I could feel absolutely everything. It wasn’t the pressure, it was the pain. I turned blue apparently, I told them I could feel them tearing the skin apart, they administered more anesthetic but I could still feel pain. Then she asked if I’d like them to put me to sleep and I was like NO WAYS!
There was no ways I was going to have gone the whole day feeling all the contractions and pain and then be put under and wake up dazed and miss all of it. So I just lay there and went through the pain. It was absolutely torture but once I heard her crying.. the pain all went away and I just burst out crying
the things I’ll do for this little girl is never ending. She is the most perfect, little human I have ever laid my eyes on
My baby is now 7 weeks old today, happy, healthy and so loved.
