5月9日傍晚,爸爸妈妈吃过外公外婆准备的丰盛的晚饭之后,开开心心的到Alta Bates Summit Medical Center准备接受induce。一想到马上就能见到这个“preorder”41周5天的“大玩具”,爸爸妈妈心里都充满了喜悦。然而,生产的过程到Aiden出生的前几天让爸爸妈妈都经历了前所未有痛苦。其中有若干惊险,所幸最后有惊无险,都没有产生实际的坏结果。
5月9日晚上进入delivery room之后,签完一堆paperwork之后,晚上9点左右护士给宫口放入了cervidal用于帮助软化宫口。护士给妈妈绑了NST监测的设备,用于监测妈妈的宫缩情况和Aiden的心跳。因为轻微的疼痛和兴奋,妈妈有点不能入睡。为了保证第二天生产的精力,护士上半夜给了妈妈一点帮助睡眠的药,下半夜又给妈妈打了一针morphine,勉强算是睡到了早上7点半左后。这一夜妈妈睡在deliver bed上,爸爸睡在边上的沙发床上。护士的每一次操作,妈妈的每一个进展,爸爸都仔细地记录在一个小本本上了。
下面是爸爸记录的Birth Journal:
5月9日
- 20:10 Enter room, meet nurse Mila, Dr. Rudd on call tonight.
- 20:50 Take blood sample
- 21:40 Insert Cervidal to ripen cervix.
- 23:20 1st contraction that hurts a bit. Meet 2nd nurse -- Cathy
- 23:38 Meet 3rd nurse -- Victoria
- 0:20 Mom is told to drink more water. Contraction is too frequent
- 0:25 Take sleep pills
- 1:30 Go to sleep
- 4:15 Wake up because of pain. Victoria gave Morphine to relieve pain
- 7:30 Breakfast. Pancakes are delicious!
- 8:00 Nap time to get more rest
- 8:30 Lab result -- Platelets low. Dr. Kanwit arrives. 70% dilated, 2cm. Oops. Not much progress.
- 9:15 Pitocin@6ml/hour, no food from now. Blood sugar@~90
- 10:40 No painful contraction, Pitocin@12ml/hour
- 11:50 Water breaks by itself after several strong contractions. Added anti-biotics (due to GBS positive)
- 12:25 3cm, 80-90% dilated, pain index -- 3
- 13:00 ~ Painful
- 13:30 Meet nurse Victoria (another Victoria). Blood pressure is a bit high -- 140/96, but when lying on left, it turns normal -- 120/70.
- 13:45 Use birth ball to control pain -- it help the pain a lot
- 16:10 Dr. Kanwit rapture the bag again. Because platelet is low (93,000), epidural may be unsafe -- threshold to use epidural is 60-100,000 depending on anesthesiologists. 4cm, 100% dilated
- 16:40 Admin pain relief through IV. Should last 1:30 hours
- 17:40 Nurse checked cervix. 5-6 cm
- 18:20 A lot of pain. Got Fentenel in IV
- 19:50 Platelets tested again: 77,000 lower. Dr. Ahsan takes over. Baby is in R.O.B. position -- try widest angle to see if we can turn it.
- 20:10 No epidural possible because of low platelet! HELLP syndrome. Another Fentenel. Will allow 6 Fentenel in total (regular practice: 3 at most)
- 20:50 Nurse says 9 cm
- .... (Dad did not have chance to write anything because Mom was in great pain.)
- 23:03 Aiden is born
- 0:10 Picture & footprint taken
HELLP syndrome的直接结果就是不能使用epidural,所以妈妈从5月10日13点最后到Aiden出生的这10个小时中经历了巨大的疼痛。
生产过程中的另外一个小意外就是妈妈被错打了糖水,造成Aiden出生以后短时间内血糖偏高,而妈妈的血糖更是飞到了天上--291。Aiden血糖偏高这个问题居然还是在发现妈妈血糖飞到天上以后才发现的。不得不说Alta Bates这个医院比较糊涂。这个意外的代价就是Aiden在出生的第一天内白白多被扎了几针血。
整个生产全程28个小时,Aiden表现出强大的生命力。即便是在很危急的情况下,Aiden一直保持140左右的平稳心跳,在最后push阶段有过1分钟左右心跳下降到100左右但是在妈妈吸氧之后迅速恢复。Aiden的强大生命力是妈妈和Aiden最后都能够化险为夷的一个重要原因。另外需要提一下的是Dr. Ahsan是一个很好医生,处理非常得当,在调整Aiden的position和最后push阶段给了妈妈很大的帮助。
5月11日2:20后Aiden和爸爸妈妈一起被转移到postpartem care。生产过程宣告结束。
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