1. My name is Tiffany O'Connell and I live in Gunnison Colorado. I have a 2 1/2 year old girl and my second baby is due in early February. My 2 1/2 year old, Mikayla was born at 37.5 weeks.
2. I never gave thought to having a cesarean birth. During Mikayla's birth I noticed the doctors monitoring her heart rate very closey but they were not saying anything to me. While I was pushing the doctor was using a manual vacum in order to get her out quicker because her heart rate was dropping. She was born with the umbicall cord wrapped around her neck and that was causing her heart rate to drop. The doctor said afterwards that he was concerning but since she was so low in the birth canal that if he got really worred he just would have reached in and grabbed her (painful?!?).
9. Advice for pregnant women in talking to those offering birth horror stories? Everything birth is different and everyone's experience. I remember a birth story on mothering.com and it seemed very similar to mine but the author of the birth story said that is was a horrible experience and she is still not over how bad it was. I felt the opposite, I had a great birth, yes I would do some things different but if I had to do it again I would,
By Tiffany (not verified) at Wed, 10/24/2007 - 5:01pm |
1. My name is Tiffany
1. My name is Tiffany O'Connell and I live in Gunnison Colorado. I have a 2 1/2 year old girl and my second baby is due in early February. My 2 1/2 year old, Mikayla was born at 37.5 weeks.
2. I never gave thought to having a cesarean birth. During Mikayla's birth I noticed the doctors monitoring her heart rate very closey but they were not saying anything to me. While I was pushing the doctor was using a manual vacum in order to get her out quicker because her heart rate was dropping. She was born with the umbicall cord wrapped around her neck and that was causing her heart rate to drop. The doctor said afterwards that he was concerning but since she was so low in the birth canal that if he got really worred he just would have reached in and grabbed her (painful?!?).
9. Advice for pregnant women in talking to those offering birth horror stories? Everything birth is different and everyone's experience. I remember a birth story on mothering.com and it seemed very similar to mine but the author of the birth story said that is was a horrible experience and she is still not over how bad it was. I felt the opposite, I had a great birth, yes I would do some things different but if I had to do it again I would,