Another Story of Birth - Mersei Nolen

Date: 14:25 13/JUL/2018, Friday
Weight: 3460 g
Length: 55 cm

On the 41st week plus 2 days of my pregnancy we did not want to wait any longer and also it was unadvisable because going beyond time. Waiting rose to the highest pitch. Although, the little boy inside showed no sign of coming into the world.

On Thursday morning (12/JUL) we went to the hospital as my doctor requested. Nothing happened on that day. My obstetrix came the following morning and we went to the labouring section. The cardiac sound of the baby and also the womb actions were continuously checked. No pains, no dilatation. As a first attempt for labor induction a special gel (Prepidil) was applied to help the cervix to be matured. Then we waited. Suddenly two sisters hurried to me and said to turn on my left side because the heartbeat of the baby critically fall. This CTG anomaly was temporarily normalized but once I got oxytocin as a second step of the labor induction, it happened again. The infusion was immediately stopped and we had no choice, decision was made: Caesearian operation. It was a little bit hard to accept but it proved to be the only and best possible solution because the umbilical cord was twisted loose around his neck as it turned out later. 

From that point, everything happened so fast. Epidural anesthesia, iodine, cutting, unidentified movements underbelly, baby’s out, sewing. I felt everything except pains. Then from the delivery room I was carried to the observing room where the best part was lived through thanks to a certain ’coctail’ as infusion. It made me to feel endless calm, a feeling close to world peace. This is something that every woman got after delivery to help them to relax for a few hours till the life returns into the legs. So I was just lying with a pleasing happiness, with the thought of fulness, I did it, I’m over, filled with inexplicable calmness. The golden hour was spent there together intimately: mum, dad and our newborn baby.