the very late arrival of Marcus Alexander
Hi there everyone.
Despite Marcus arriving in Jan having been through pregnancy and with all you Dec Mums I have decide to post his story here Hope you don't mind.
As most of you know i went in to be induced on Tuesday the 8th of January after no signs of baby arriving and my due date being the 28th of Dec. Anyway 4 days later on Saturday the 12th of January there was still no sign of baby arriving. I had had 4 prostglastin gels god knows how many internal examinations and nothing. I was having some pains every 12 minutes but nothing that was doing anything. The scale they measure how advance in labour you are goes from 0-15 the first 2 days I was at 0 and never got beyond 5. My cervix was still posterior which meant they couldn't try to break my waters and start me on a drip to get labour started.
So on Saturday morning it was another internal examination the doctor who examined me had seen me on the Wednesday night and told us that nothing had changed in my body since then so he recommended a C section as i was now 15 days late. We decide to go with this option as the risk of waiting were to too great in my opinion. Things then happened really fast and One hour later our beautiful baby boy was delivered. The c section was nothing like I expected no pain, no panic and I have to say a pleasant memory of the delivery with everyone there being very kind and supportive.
Marcus Alexander weighed 8llb 3 1/2ozs and had a healthy pair of lungs. We stay on labour ward for about and hour to recover before returning to the ward. Marcus was by this time really sleepy and we struggle to get him latched on to the breast.
The next morning he was looking a little bit yellow so they tested for Jaundice which he had as this had happened within 24 hours of delivery it could indicate and infection so they ran some more tests. He was taken to special care baby unit for phototherapy. Unfortunality they had plotted it wrongly on the chart and when they realised this he came back to me on the ward as he only needed one light not two. However 2 hours later the first blood test were back which indicated the early signs of infection so it was back to SCBU for further test including a spinal test for meningitis. Needless to say we were very worried he was started on antibiotics and had a cannula for this in his hand and was placed in an incubated under two lights. Fortuantly the spinal test came back clear but we needed to wait for 48 hours for the full blood test results so he stayed on SCBU and I went back and forward between there and the maternity unit trying to breast feed to supplement the nasogastric tube he had inserted. Three days later the blood tests came back clear so they stopped the antibiotics. We stay in SCBU for a total of a week as he had lost more than 10% of his body weight and they wanted him to regain this before we left. During this time the staff helped me get him started on breast feeding and though we have had to use a nipple shield to help him latch on he is now able to breast feed.
We have been home 4 days now and are starting to get some routine and he is gaining weight now he is up to 7llbs 10 ozs so hopefully it shouldn't be too long before he is back to his birth weight.
Sorryits such a long post but such a lot seems to have happened since I last posted and in my little fellas short life.
Jillycat x
Despite Marcus arriving in Jan having been through pregnancy and with all you Dec Mums I have decide to post his story here Hope you don't mind.
As most of you know i went in to be induced on Tuesday the 8th of January after no signs of baby arriving and my due date being the 28th of Dec. Anyway 4 days later on Saturday the 12th of January there was still no sign of baby arriving. I had had 4 prostglastin gels god knows how many internal examinations and nothing. I was having some pains every 12 minutes but nothing that was doing anything. The scale they measure how advance in labour you are goes from 0-15 the first 2 days I was at 0 and never got beyond 5. My cervix was still posterior which meant they couldn't try to break my waters and start me on a drip to get labour started.
So on Saturday morning it was another internal examination the doctor who examined me had seen me on the Wednesday night and told us that nothing had changed in my body since then so he recommended a C section as i was now 15 days late. We decide to go with this option as the risk of waiting were to too great in my opinion. Things then happened really fast and One hour later our beautiful baby boy was delivered. The c section was nothing like I expected no pain, no panic and I have to say a pleasant memory of the delivery with everyone there being very kind and supportive.
Marcus Alexander weighed 8llb 3 1/2ozs and had a healthy pair of lungs. We stay on labour ward for about and hour to recover before returning to the ward. Marcus was by this time really sleepy and we struggle to get him latched on to the breast.
The next morning he was looking a little bit yellow so they tested for Jaundice which he had as this had happened within 24 hours of delivery it could indicate and infection so they ran some more tests. He was taken to special care baby unit for phototherapy. Unfortunality they had plotted it wrongly on the chart and when they realised this he came back to me on the ward as he only needed one light not two. However 2 hours later the first blood test were back which indicated the early signs of infection so it was back to SCBU for further test including a spinal test for meningitis. Needless to say we were very worried he was started on antibiotics and had a cannula for this in his hand and was placed in an incubated under two lights. Fortuantly the spinal test came back clear but we needed to wait for 48 hours for the full blood test results so he stayed on SCBU and I went back and forward between there and the maternity unit trying to breast feed to supplement the nasogastric tube he had inserted. Three days later the blood tests came back clear so they stopped the antibiotics. We stay in SCBU for a total of a week as he had lost more than 10% of his body weight and they wanted him to regain this before we left. During this time the staff helped me get him started on breast feeding and though we have had to use a nipple shield to help him latch on he is now able to breast feed.
We have been home 4 days now and are starting to get some routine and he is gaining weight now he is up to 7llbs 10 ozs so hopefully it shouldn't be too long before he is back to his birth weight.
Sorryits such a long post but such a lot seems to have happened since I last posted and in my little fellas short life.
Jillycat x
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Replies
Ali and Gracie xx
xxxx holly+ ryan xxxx
Congratulations on his birth . Take care
Suz x
Your experience of induction and subsequent c section is exactly the same as mine!!
It's a lovely name you've picked too! Remember to try and take it easy!!
xx
Amy xxx
Enjoy him
Obi
Liz xxx
El x
glad you posted your story because what you all went through was very distressing and you very brave. my baby was the same birth weight as your lo and lost a pound in a week but he steadily put it on so dont worry and congrats to you all xx
Jillycat and Marcus