Labour Room Drama 231

Women are awesome and after reading this eh,you will agree with me!!!

Hi Stellz,


Here's my LRD...


I got pregnant when I least expected it and the first three months were the craziest. It got so bad that I had to resign from my job. I couldn't drink water for three months, I practically lived on Malt, white rice with beans and no stew till the first trimester passed.


Due date came, at exactly 12am, I started having serious pain in my back but I thought it was just one of those "routine pregnancy pains", my husband was in the guest room because I stopped wanting to sleep in the same bed with him at some point so he had to vacate the room.


Na so the pain start o, it became frequent so I had to wake my husband up that we should start going to the clinic, oga said we are not going till day break. I endured the pain till 5am and we left. Only for me to get to the hospital and and I was checked, the nurse said I was at 3cm, I shouted and started crying cos I knew it was going to be a long road to 10cm.


They admitted me and brethren, labour that was 3mins apart went back to 30mins apart, na there I know say I don enter. By that time, my grandma (I didn't want my mum cos that woman can fear for Africa) had landed from our place in Ibadan and she kept assuring me that I was going to be alright. By 1pm, another doctor came for vagina examination, I screamed the entire ward down; uncle said I was still at 3cm *hot tears*. 

By that time I was already inactive labour for 13hrs. 3pm came, another senior consultant came to do another vagina examination. It wasn't his big and strong fingers that made me cry and scream uncontrollably, it was the fact that I was still at 3cm. He told the doctors watching me to prepare for augmentation, mumu me sef dey happy not knowing that I was in trouble. ..lol



I was asked to change into a wrapper and wheeled in the labour room. They passed a line and hooked me up to a drip, the moment a drop entered my arm, I went bat shit crazy from pain. So, I started screaming for help from my late father, begged the nurses, begged the doctors seating beside my bed etc. They kuku kept looking at me. Note that all these while, my amniotic sac was still intact so a doctor had to put a scissor in through my vagina/cervix to cut it open...JESUS!!! 



After cutting the sac with me being in excruciating pain, they kept on checking my blood pressure and the baby's heartbeat was monitored. Then, a particular nurse started complaining about her not getting accurate heartbeat count from the baby, which means the baby may be in distress. This was after 3hrs of being on Oxytocin drip o *another round of hot tears*.

They quickly stopped the drip and placed me on oxygen for the baby. Right there and then I started asking for CS, the senior doctor in charge said that my cervix was good and it will dilate *yimu* and did another vagina examination (the 9th one). As I was screaming and shouting and puffing, they brought one woman in and she delivered her baby within 5mins, I come dey reason sey e be like sey dem follow me come o *cries in labour pain*



They made me rest for an hour then started another drip, immediately they started it, I told them I wasn't doing again that they should bring a knife and cut my stomach. After another 40mins on the drip, the baby's heartbeat dropped again and the senior doctor just told them to prepare for me for theatre. I was wheeled to the theatre, with 3mins my daughter was brought out and in another 30mins or so, I was wheeled to the ward. In all, I was in labour for 22hrs and if I had known it was going to end up in an emergency surgery, I'd have chosen surgery initially.


Thank God for the good nurses and doctors that were on duty, I saw my beautiful bundle of joy and I almost forgot all the pain.


She is a year and six months old now and we are expecting another baby *shines teeth*

*OMG;labour for 22 hours?thank God,it ended well