Birth Story: `My son was born 12 days past his due date with a Foley Catheter`

My boy was birthed 12 days past his due day with a Foley Catheter. With a rather uneventful as well as conventional pregnancy I finally began to obtain some significant ‘bearing down’ tightenings at 1 am each morning from 38 weeks. The contractions would certainly come on strong as well as a confident feeling would certainly embed in and after that two hrs later on … ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Absolutely nothing happened.

So week after week passed without news … I did everything I could to prompt work. Reflexology, curries, strolling, strolling unevenly on the curb, yoga, sex – you name it I was attempting it.

10 days after we mosted likely to the medical facility with our bags loaded (for one reason or another I forgot nappies!). Within a 1 Day duration I had three sets of ‘gels’ on my cervix and there was definitely no progress. My cervix was ‘rock tough’ … Regrettably with this sort of induction I might really feel some fairly solid tightenings – period pain. I was provided strong pain killers and also a resting tablet computer just to obtain some rest.

The doctors decided they would certainly attempt a Foley Catheter (or a ‘balloon’) to blow up my cervix, as the physicians placed it. That was an experience I prefer to forget. It wasn’t excruciating yet I do keep in mind saying ‘I’m ill of things entering, rather than appearing!’. I remember asking the midwife, ‘Does this really work? Exactly what will occur if it does not work?’ This was the discouraging component, well … exactly what occurs if it does not work? The doctors as well as midwives were just extra hopeful and also could not guarantee it in any way, and also just weren’t extremely communicative about the following actions. The Foley Catheter treatment was rather unusual from what I could collect in order to I truly didn’t have a great deal of time to study it as I had never ever listened to of it.

Another 12 hrs later on, we ultimately took care of to break my waters and also choose a basic induction with the drip. At 9 am the drip remained in, 10 am I ‘politely asked’ for the epidural in order to my kid was ultimately birthed at 8:38 pm through vacuum cleaner. He was a really healthy and balanced 3.8 kgs and 54 centimeters. Twelve added days in the womb need to have done him some great! We are significantly in love with our son.

For those reviewing this ready to go right into labor, my guidance is to not prepare. You really could not predict just what is going to happen and just what your body desires or doesn’t desire to do.

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