Title - Delayed pain relief during Maria’s birth Tags - sapstory
- The inciting incident
- Mabel had low papay score; induction required
- Progressive complications
- Pessary; 24 hours; nothing happened
- 2nd pessary; 6 hours; nothing happened
- Offered caesarean or trial rods
- Rods in for 12 hours; 1-2cm dilated
- Crisis
- 1pm: to delivery suite; broke waters
- 4pm: syntocinin (hormone) drip to bring on contractions.
- Contractions came on fast and hard; painful
- Started on gas & air; soon need more
- Climax
- Midwives extremely busy and overrun
- Cal kept asking for pain relief
- Over an hour later; I lost it!
- Still didn’t have pain relief; frustrated; threw bedpan at midwife!
- Resolution
- Got the pain relief; made big difference
- 1am: gave birth
- Point made
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