My experience with childbirth Part One!

I have given “birth” twice. Both caring the child and delivering the child was complete opposite of each other!   During my first pregnancy I carried my child to full term. She was actually born two days before her due date! This was also almost 26 years ago! My doctor told me that I should gain 25 pounds and I gained 25.5 pounds.  I only felt a little nauseated a couple of times early in the pregnancy after smelling certain foods but I never threw up! I also had back labor (at that time I had NEVER heard of) with this child. I did not rest the night before because my back hurt so much! The next morning my mother came to take me to breakfast and I told her my back hurt and I didn’t feel like going! She ask if I wanted her to take me to the dr. of which I replied “NO!”  Who goes to the dr. when you are 9 months pregnant with a back ache?!! It is suppose to hurt…right??? Well I was able to get down one bite! My mother (not telling me her intentions at the time) told me she needed to go to Wal Mart!

NO WAY

! But I went! She realized my “symptoms” but didn’t bother to tell me! She thought walking would increase my labor! She was sooooooo right! LOL I walked toward the back of the store, and made it about half way and a MASSIVE pain jabbed my back! I actually thought someone walked up behind me and stabbed me in the back with a knife! I bend over double! I tried to catch my breath! I stood up took one more step and BAM another stabbing pain! What on earth was happening to me??! At this time an elderly gentleman ask me if I was alright and could he help me? I told him I was fine and started walking to the front of the store. Every time I stood straight up, the stabbing pains hit me in the back so I proceeded to the front of the store bent over and looking totally stupid but I didn’t care! I looked at each aisle looking for my mother. I saw her a good distance away but yelled her name across the store! She looked up and I pointed to the door! She continued to the check out (way to go mom!) and as I turned to look at her, there was the older gentleman. He had followed me to make sure I was ok. He told my mother “I believe she needs to go to the hospital.”  I walked on to the car and got in; my mother said well do you want me to take you to the dr.? I finally said I guess but they are going to think I am totally stupid for going to the dr. with a backache!! They took me to the back to examine me and told me to go to the emergency room. I ask WHY??? My dr. just gave a little laugh and said “you are going to have a baby!” EVERYBODY told me with my first baby, I would NOT go by my due date…I would go over! Boy were they soooooo wrong! lol My dr. came to the hospital to check on me and ask if I wanted anything for pain. I said no! My back was killing me but if this is all there is, I don’t need a thing! He said if I changed my mind he would come back & give me something until then he would just go back to his office and check on his other patients. Until the dr. actually broke my water, I did not have any pain in my stomach which blew my mind! I had to learn the hard way about back labor!  But once this happen he left again to go back to his office and oh my word OUCH….PAIN IN THE TUMMY! I became a different person! I had never felt anything like it! I buzzed the nurse and told her to get that dr. in here NOW! She informed me that he had gone back to his office and would be back later! I (in someone else’s voice & frame of mind) said “you call him and tell him to get over here NOW!!!!” Well he actually came! I guess he didn’t want to die on that day! Lol He gave me an epidural and all was well in the world again!! Lol Everything was AWESOME until going into the delivery room and when I had to sit up to push, OH MY WORD here comes that massive pain again!!!! The dr. said push and I said NO!! lol I changed my mind! This baby is not coming out today!! I was soooo wrong! The nurse laid on my stomach with her arms and ROLLED on me!! We had a head delivered! My baby was screaming! I ask the dr. what the baby was and he replied “I don’t know.” OMG I have had a monster! I freaked! I said WHY don’t you know what it is?? He said because we only have the head delivered! Oh, ok I can chill…..wait I have never heard of this either!! When the head is delivered the baby can cry?? Well yes it can! Now I was excited! The hard part was over. I can push now!! Let’s get this baby out!! I tried to push AGAIN and NOPE!! This baby is NOT coming out! The baby was STUCK! I could see the look of concern on the dr.’s face.  He was trying everything and this baby was not moving. He worked and worked and nothing! He finally told me he was going to have to break the baby’s collar bone to get it out! I cried and cried please don’t break my baby’s bones!! I was going crazy! He told me he would try one more thing and that was it! He took both of his hands and placed them inside me and put his hands on the baby’s shoulders. He pushed one side forward and one side back and with a jerking, twisting, yanking on my poor baby, he was able to get her out!  I was a very small framed person and weighed 110 pounds when I got pregnant. My new baby girl weight 8 pounds 1 oz! The dr. had no idea she was going to be that big and he even said I should have had a C-section. It was toooooo late for that now! My baby girl Brittany was born healthy with no broken bones! I on the other hand was feeling the “path of destruction” that was left behind! The word “doughnut” took on an entirely different meaning that day! In this day of computers everywhere, all of this “I had no idea” does not exists any more! That is a GOOD thing! I wish I had known all of this before hand!  Although my daughter entered this world as a “big” baby, she is now 26 years old and weighs a major 105 pounds! She knows the story of her birth and said when she is pregnant, she will ASK for a C-section! lol