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From: the mom who had the child while hooked on the drip. Email me let's talk.
Email: ejcny@aol.com
Category: CSection
Date: 02 Feb 2004
My baby girl is 29 this July. She was 7lbs. 7 ounces at birth. I too was given pitocin drip. They told me it was like her head hitting a brick wall. I felt contractions rough. I too had a c section after they x-rayed me to tell me that the Baby's head was not going to fit to come out of me. Geesh, now I think what were they actually saying to me. When she was born she was placed in an incubator for at least 24 hours because of being a c section they told me. So for the first 24 hours I never held her. I looked at her thur a window. She looked swollen to me. She is my heaviest child to this day. I think she also has learning problems like being unable to concentrate for a long period of time. She has been jolted in relationships from time to time. She enjoys being alone or with few friends to this day. When she was held by me for the first time I was angry. I thought why didn't she want to come out on her own and now look at me with this nasty vertical scare from my belly button to my hair line. The nurse said to me look at your beautiful baby girl. I remember turning my head the other way....away from her and thinking geesh........... I am tired. I think if they would have allowed me to touch her it would have seemed more real to me. She was my first and frankly I was an only child myself. I had gas when I had her not an epidural. I stayed in the hospital back in 1975 for 5 days at least. When I brought her home I was visited by a nurse that came to my home. I always thought that this nurse came because I seemed so uninterested at the hospital at first seeing my daughter. The nurse or some one told me that it was common for a woman to get a visit from a nurse after having her first baby. I did accept that information. I did have a historectomy 20 years after giving birth to her. I DID HAVE TWO MORE C SECTIONS OUT OF CHOICE. After reading this, I now know 29 years later if maybe they would have stopped the pitocin and waited for me to diolate on my own then maybe I would have had her naturally. I will tell you this...........I will never forget me screaming in the room they had me in when I heard for the first time I was to have a c- section. I let out a blood hurteling cry. It was so loud that I heard foot steps running towards me. since it was one yipe they never came into my room to see what was the matter. This is just my story of a birth that took place 29 years ago when I was put on pitocin without being consulted about it. I do not know if this will help you in any way.........but maybe it will open your eyes to one tiny thing. I do not know that much about pitocin. I just know I did take it back in 1975. I am not in the medical field I just know that pitocin seemed to be a harsh way to bring a baby into this world.
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