Better Than a Birth Plan
April is Cesarean (or C-section) awareness month, so let’s talk C-sections. Having a Cesarean section is no joke, but two years ago, I delivered my child via emergency cesarean section after many hours of labor and subsequent fetal heart rate decelerations, fetal distress. If you knew me while I was pregnant you know that I had extreme, persistent nausea and vomiting for the first trimester of the pregnancy, so I was anxious because I had gone through a previous miscarriage, but after the nausea and vomiting subsided, I was anxiously anticipating the arrival of my baby girl. They said my baby girl was due January 29, 2018. However, that due date came and went, so an induction of labor was scheduled for February 1, 2018. FYI: Induction is when the mother is brought into the hospital and given Pitocin in order to get her to go into labor. I was induced at 40 weeks. After hours of labor, little progression and my baby’s heart rate plummeting, an emergency C-section became necessa...
