Question abotu c section/ epidural

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had emergency, not planned or unplanned due to rupture.

One minute they were looking at the monitor the next I was waking up after my c/s.

They knocked me out via IV, intubated and cut. It took all of a few second and happened in the labor room not OR.

If you had an "emergency c/s" in OR or with a spinal it was an unplanned one.

So happy you and the baby survived. This is why I want to give birth in a hospital.

if caught in a hospital high chance of surviving. I talked to my dr all about it yesterday. They know how to quikcly handle these things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had an emergency C-section. Early on in the induction we started losing his heartbeat. They did a spinal.

Was the decrease in heart rate due to the induction?

Cord was wrapped around him. They expect the heart rate to go down when you're having a contraction and then go back up, and his didn't recover. We were only an hour into the induction and I was 0 cm dilated and wasn't feeling any contractions yet. The scariest part was that the doctor was very calm about telling me he wanted to do a c-section etc. and then what felt like 15 OR nurses came bursting into the room to take me to the OR. It was terrifying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had emergency, not planned or unplanned due to rupture.

One minute they were looking at the monitor the next I was waking up after my c/s.

They knocked me out via IV, intubated and cut. It took all of a few second and happened in the labor room not OR.

If you had an "emergency c/s" in OR or with a spinal it was an unplanned one.

Holy crap that's terrifying. I was contemplating a VBAC and my doctors said that an epidural was non-negotiable for them because of the higher risk of the placenta rupturing and needing to operate immediately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had emergency, not planned or unplanned due to rupture.

One minute they were looking at the monitor the next I was waking up after my c/s.

They knocked me out via IV, intubated and cut. It took all of a few second and happened in the labor room not OR.

If you had an "emergency c/s" in OR or with a spinal it was an unplanned one.

So happy you and the baby survived. This is why I want to give birth in a hospital.

if caught in a hospital high chance of surviving. I talked to my dr all about it yesterday. They know how to quikcly handle these things.

So glad you and baby are ok pp. my mom was a L&D nurse, and she said the quickest she’d seen a mother go into distress to having baby out was under a minute. She said no epi, and they cut her navel to pubic bone right there in the labor room. It really traumatized me into almost not having kids. She said this mother had had many stillbirths, and she was just so happy to have a live baby. Shock must’ve kept her going. I would never do a honebirtj because of this. Too much to lose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had emergency, not planned or unplanned due to rupture.

One minute they were looking at the monitor the next I was waking up after my c/s.

They knocked me out via IV, intubated and cut. It took all of a few second and happened in the labor room not OR.

If you had an "emergency c/s" in OR or with a spinal it was an unplanned one.

So happy you and the baby survived. This is why I want to give birth in a hospital.

if caught in a hospital high chance of surviving. I talked to my dr all about it yesterday. They know how to quikcly handle these things.

So glad you and baby are ok pp. my mom was a L&D nurse, and she said the quickest she’d seen a mother go into distress to having baby out was under a minute. She said no epi, and they cut her navel to pubic bone right there in the labor room. It really traumatized me into almost not having kids. She said this mother had had many stillbirths, and she was just so happy to have a live baby. Shock must’ve kept her going. I would never do a honebirtj because of this. Too much to lose.

its rare for this to happen right? About to give birth soon and this is freaking me out! omg

[Anonymous]

Happened to me with my daughter at 25 weeks. Went into labor and her heart rate was dropping and they wanted her out ASAP, so I was put under general anesthesia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happened to me with my daughter at 25 weeks. Went into labor and her heart rate was dropping and they wanted her out ASAP, so I was put under general anesthesia.

PP here. It is amazing how fast they can do it all. My daughter was born in under 10 minutes from the time they rushed me out of the regular delivery room and into the OR. I actually think in a traumatic situation like mine, it was better I wasn’t awake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happened to me with my daughter at 25 weeks. Went into labor and her heart rate was dropping and they wanted her out ASAP, so I was put under general anesthesia.

PP here. It is amazing how fast they can do it all. My daughter was born in under 10 minutes from the time they rushed me out of the regular delivery room and into the OR. I actually think in a traumatic situation like mine, it was better I wasn’t awake.

In a true stat C-section, rapid sequence induction takes time in the ballpark of seconds, not minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had emergency, not planned or unplanned due to rupture.

One minute they were looking at the monitor the next I was waking up after my c/s.

They knocked me out via IV, intubated and cut. It took all of a few second and happened in the labor room not OR.

If you had an "emergency c/s" in OR or with a spinal it was an unplanned one.

So happy you and the baby survived. This is why I want to give birth in a hospital.

if caught in a hospital high chance of surviving. I talked to my dr all about it yesterday. They know how to quikcly handle these things.

So glad you and baby are ok pp. my mom was a L&D nurse, and she said the quickest she’d seen a mother go into distress to having baby out was under a minute. She said no epi, and they cut her navel to pubic bone right there in the labor room. It really traumatized me into almost not having kids. She said this mother had had many stillbirths, and she was just so happy to have a live baby. Shock must’ve kept her going. I would never do a honebirtj because of this. Too much to lose.

its rare for this to happen right? About to give birth soon and this is freaking me out! omg

NP
Yes. Situations like this, while they do happen, are rare. Don’t let it freak you out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had emergency, not planned or unplanned due to rupture.

One minute they were looking at the monitor the next I was waking up after my c/s.

They knocked me out via IV, intubated and cut. It took all of a few second and happened in the labor room not OR.

If you had an "emergency c/s" in OR or with a spinal it was an unplanned one.

So happy you and the baby survived. This is why I want to give birth in a hospital.

if caught in a hospital high chance of surviving. I talked to my dr all about it yesterday. They know how to quikcly handle these things.

So glad you and baby are ok pp. my mom was a L&D nurse, and she said the quickest she’d seen a mother go into distress to having baby out was under a minute. She said no epi, and they cut her navel to pubic bone right there in the labor room. It really traumatized me into almost not having kids. She said this mother had had many stillbirths, and she was just so happy to have a live baby. Shock must’ve kept her going. I would never do a honebirtj because of this. Too much to lose.

its rare for this to happen right? About to give birth soon and this is freaking me out! omg

I also have to imagine that things would go differently today.

[Anonymous]

A friend had a true emergency, a cord prolapse. She got general anesthesia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They will either give you a spinal or they will give you general anesthesia. They will not operate on you unanesthetized if that is your worry?

They sometimes cut without anesthesia. I’ve seen it happen.

Me too..but very rarely... For a true emergency C-section. Usually they do have time to at least so general anesthesia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had emergency, not planned or unplanned due to rupture.

One minute they were looking at the monitor the next I was waking up after my c/s.

They knocked me out via IV, intubated and cut. It took all of a few second and happened in the labor room not OR.

If you had an "emergency c/s" in OR or with a spinal it was an unplanned one.

So happy you and the baby survived. This is why I want to give birth in a hospital.

if caught in a hospital high chance of surviving. I talked to my dr all about it yesterday. They know how to quikcly handle these things.

So glad you and baby are ok pp. my mom was a L&D nurse, and she said the quickest she’d seen a mother go into distress to having baby out was under a minute. She said no epi, and they cut her navel to pubic bone right there in the labor room. It really traumatized me into almost not having kids. She said this mother had had many stillbirths, and she was just so happy to have a live baby. Shock must’ve kept her going. I would never do a honebirtj because of this. Too much to lose.

its rare for this to happen right? About to give birth soon and this is freaking me out! omg

Extremely rare!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They will either give you a spinal or they will give you general anesthesia. They will not operate on you unanesthetized if that is your worry?

They sometimes cut without anesthesia. I’ve seen it happen.

DS was in a bad situation and I was told if I couldn't deliver him vaginally in 10 minutes, I would have an emergency C-section with no epidural or anesthesia. The emergency was that the baby had to be out of my body ASAP. I would survive without pain meds, he would not survive a minute longer. Luckily I was able to push him out. Still shocked and scared at the possibility of the different outcome. No one prepared me for that as a possibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They will either give you a spinal or they will give you general anesthesia. They will not operate on you unanesthetized if that is your worry?

They sometimes cut without anesthesia. I’ve seen it happen.

DS was in a bad situation and I was told if I couldn't deliver him vaginally in 10 minutes, I would have an emergency C-section with no epidural or anesthesia. The emergency was that the baby had to be out of my body ASAP. I would survive without pain meds, he would not survive a minute longer. Luckily I was able to push him out. Still shocked and scared at the possibility of the different outcome. No one prepared me for that as a possibility.

If they had time to give you an additional 10 minutes, they had time to put you under.