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“The birth of my baby has been initiated. The doctor found that he was not gaining enough weight. So he made the decision to schedule the delivery. Personally, I didn’t agree too much. For me, it was better to wait, especially since I was a week away. But I was made to understand that I had no say. “
My baby’s heart rate is dropping. Direction: the block
“I arrived at the maternity ward around 9 am, quite stressed. I was put in the delivery room. The midwives injected me with a first product to trigger the contractions. Nothing happened. At 14 p.m., I was treated to another product, which was supposed to be stronger. But still nothing. I also quickly had the epidural. Suddenly, I was not allowed to swallow anything. Midwives examined me frequently, but my cervix still did not dilate. With my husband, the time was starting to get long. I was hungry, cold… 21pm: the doctors see a drop in my baby’s heartbeat. Immediately, a midwife feels my stomach. The heartbeat returns to normal.
The hours go by. I half doze off, when suddenly my husband notices a drop in the heartbeat on the monitoring. He starts to run in all directions. The doctors are coming. And there, I understand that I am going to have an emergency cesarean.
I don’t have time to panic. I see lots of people tumbling around me. The anesthesiologist quickly explains to me what will happen, while the midwife shaves me. My husband puts on a special outfit so he can enter the operating room. “
I fell in love a few seconds after discovering my daughter
“I am transferred to the operating room, my husband joins me. A gynecologist, whom I have never seen in my life, opens my stomach. I do not see anything but I feel everything, without pain. I have the impression that something is being crushed inside of me. It’s the case ! In a quarter of an hour, it’s over. I get my baby on top of me for a few seconds. And they take it off right away, because they have to sew me up. I’m starting to feel very cold. Nobody listens to me, I am told that it is normal, to calm me down. They are heinous. I shiver. A few seconds later, I feel faint.
An hour later, I was taken back to my room. My husband is there with the baby. I am completely elsewhere. I find it hard to take my daughter in my arms. I don’t have the feeling of having given birth to her. Fortunately, my darling was able to take advantage of her immediately. When I got to the room, he had already gotten to know the baby. “
I was not an actress in my childbirth
” With hindsight, I really have the feeling of having undergone my childbirth, not to have been an actress. It was really violent. And I think it affected my relationship with my baby at the start. If I had been warned, I could have prepared myself, but then it all happened so quickly and in such panic. Later, I learned that many induced deliveries ended in Caesarean. This further reinforced my conviction that the doctors should have waited a few more days. I saw my gynecologist again to try to understand. And he told me no, they had made the right decision. I don’t know what to think about it. One thing is certain, I am not reassured for my next pregnancy. “