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I went to the hospital on March 11, my water had broken. When I got to the hospital they told me that I had just urinated - I didn't turn the paper colors when they checked for fluid...Maybe a little tmi, but I was quite aware of which part down there that gush came from...... anyway about 4 hours later, they finally confirmed that I had indeed broken my water and was having contractions about 10 minutes apart. The following morning my labor wasn't progressing and they started me on the pitocin. Contractions were coming quite strong and decided to have the epi. Felt fine and labor was progressing. Suddenly the baby heart rate started to go down due to the pitocin and they took me off for about an hour or so, then started it back up again. They checked me a little while later and I was at 8 cm dialated, then fetal heart rate started to go down again, so they rushed me into emergency surgery for c-section. I was totally freaked out to say the least. After my son was born, the dr. said that I had a short umbilical cord the didn't enable baby to come down for birth. Ironically, the only other lady who was being induced at the same time was having the same problem, however, when they took her off the pitocin her labor was still progressing. After her child was born, she was told that she had a short cord as well. But she still delivered naturally..... I'm just wondering if anyone else has ever heard of a short cord. I'm thinking that they didn't mix the pitocin correctly, I do know that the nurses mix that stuff up themselves..... It's been three weeks and I still feel like poo after the c and wonder if the hospital staff did something wrong. I'm very glad I have a healthy son, but it makes me sad that I can't hold him for very long due to the excruciating pain from that c- section. Anyone heard of this? Any advice would be great......
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Hi AmyJo, i also had short cord and can relate to your story. I labored for 12 hours and only got to 5-6cm. After that, the baby's fetal heartrate started to drop at every contraction and they had to do a c-section on me. The doctor told me i had short cord and a small placenta which made it impossible to deliver v____ally. Unfortunately, my baby came out with a lot of problems and only lived for 2 months.
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OMG Tiffany ... I am so sorry to hear that. Here I am/was complaining about my pain and I should really be thankful! Wouldn't those problems be something that dr. should've seen in an ultrasound? I had one everytime I went for a visit. I guess I don't know how they could not see a small placenta or a cord that was too short. I am so very sorry about your loss......
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A close friend of mine is an OB nurse. They quite often downplay the severity of the situation for the mother's sake. If they rushed you to an OR for a c/s when you were 8 cm dialated, you baby was in serious distress. You and the other lady could both have short cords, but her placenta was probably "low lying" where as yours was probably high in your uterus. So one of two things would have occurred if you had continued naturally: 1) the cord was so short that the baby could not reach the outside world or 2) the contractions would have forced the baby down into the ca___l and the placenta would have detatched too soon. This could have resulted in the death of your child. I think you should count your blessings that your baby is here. To my knowledge, the IV machines still controls the amount of pitocin that is added to your IV line. I'm not saying that human error would be impossible, but highly unlikely. Not only that, but a doctor was overseeing your care and drugs as well.
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Kara, my sil was an OB nurse before becoming a Cardiac Care nurse, actually I guess she's the one who got me all worked up about this... she says the nurses mix up the pitocin in the bag before placing it on the IV line. In her opinion the mixture wasn't right. Of course when I was going through this I had to have the on-call OB-GYN, as mine was out of town... I do know that she is in danger of losing her license to practice in this state because of too many lawsuits... Just having that in my mind was driving me crazy, and having the pain from the surgery was contributing..... At any rate, I am ok with the fact now that this could have been a natural occurance. I really do count my blessings everyday. My hubby and I tried for 7 years to have this baby and now that he's here happy and healthy .... words can't even describe .... I would go through it a million times over to have this little guy here with us.
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