She explained that just checking my cervix at her office must have gotten my body in gear and labor had started on it’s own. ![]() She came in and said “Nancy are you feeling your contractions? Look at the monitor… you are already in labor!” I didn’t notice this- but I looked at the screen and I was having contractions every 2-3 minutes. I got hooked up to the HR and contraction machine right before my doctor arrived. This was happening in the morning this time, but I didn’t really think anything of it. I was having pressure waves at this point… but I usually did just about every night. My OB of course got the update from the fetal monitoring and came over to the hospital to see me. They sent me down the hall to L&D and put us in a room that would end up being the destination of a very intense 24 hours to come. LABORING NATURALLY WITH NO PAIN MEDICATION: One b/c I was worried about the baby and two because I didn’t want to have any medical interventions. ![]() They said baby is totally fine and healthy and not in danger, but they couldn’t let me go home in case his HR dropped and then couldn’t recover on his own. About an hour in to the monitoring they came in and said that they had another drop in his heart rate… this time for 8 minutes. I was worried about the baby, my birth plan, the fact that I did not want to be induced. It was just really overwhleming. We monitored the baby again for a little over an hour. Before I left my OB”s office she did cervical check on me (my first one). I just wanted to make sure this isn’t a pattern happening.” So my first thought is “Fuck- they are going to have to induce if this is a pattern.” Since I had been planning for a natural birth… induction was not on the birth plan. She told me “it’s probably nothing but I want you to pop over to Hoag (our hospital) and do another fetal monitoring session for 2 full hours. She looked at the data and sure enough she said his heart dipped to 90 something for just a few seconds then came back up. My OB came in after being monitored for 20 minutes and said “Did you hear it? I thought I heard a tiny drop in the heart rate from the other room… it was really short only 10 seconds.” I didn’t hear it. The baby’s heart rate was always great at these visits so I didn’t expect anything different. Notice where the cord inserts… the edge not the middle like it should)Ĥ0 weeks and 4 days I went to do fetal montioring at my doctors (OB) office. Until my final visit at 40 weeks and 4 days… I did fetal monitoring 1-2 times a week from there on out and baby looked great. ![]() Once I hit 37 weeks I didn’t need to measure growth anymore but we still needed to monitor heart rate and fluid to make sure there weren’t any issues there and if there was that could signal that the placenta wasn’t doing its job efficiently anymore and we would have to decide if we needed to induce to get him out and get nutrients from my breastmilk rather than the placenta. The baby was always right on target around 50th percentile andwas doing great. We then got ultra sounds and measured growth once a month. ![]() She assured me that since I was healthy and low risk that this probably would not be the case, but we would monitor his growth more closely for the rest of the pregnancy just in case. Since the center is the most nutrient rich area of the placenta this could potentially face us with some growth issues with the baby. This basically means that the umbilical cord attached off to the side of the placenta and not in the center. Taking a step back really quick., after my 20 week anatomy scan my OB informed me we had what was called a marginal cord. I had a huge tight belly that felt like it was STUFFED to the max with baby. Once I hit 40 weeks, my patience was running thin. So when April 25 came and went I was super disappointed that there was still no baby. I was SO positive that I would deliver on my actual due date.
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