Opinions of experienced c-section vets please!! - Parenting Issues Message Board

Haley1234 · 10-20-2003, 05:25 PM

I think my OB may have given me the anti-anxiety medication that I asked him NOT to give me. I had a scheduled c-section (frank breech baby) and they gave me a spinal. I asked that I NOT be given any anti-anxiety drugs until after the baby was born. I think that my OB gave it to me any way, and a lot of it. I can't remember the baby being born. The only thing I remember after they injected a clear medication into my IV, is them putting my daughter on my chest. I tried as hard as I could to focus on her, but I couldn't. I did some reading and didn't see anything that said a spinal would cause this. I've also seen c-sections on TV and the video of my friend's c-section and none of them seemed drugged out of their minds like I was. Does this sound to you like he gave me the anti-anxiety medication? Would that cause me to feel so drugged and not be able to focus? Since this is my only child, and only c-section I'm not sure. Opinions of experienced c-section vets please!!

rrsmom · 10-20-2003, 05:56 PM

I have had 2 c-sections. I don't know what you mean about anti-anxiety drugs... I was completely aware of everything during both births. But after my first was taken out the anesthesiologist told me he was going to give me something to relax me. (I guess that's what you mean?) I was out - I mean like asleep, and woke up just in time for the dr. to tell me he was done stitching me up (that was great). the 2nd time I didn't totally pass out, but I was going in and out of it, but again only after the baby was born. It sounds like they did give you something in your iv. Did you ask your dr about it yet?
By the way, I did not have a spinal, I had epidurals with both. But I don't think that has anything to do with it. Nothing in a spinal would make you that out of it as far as I know.
When did you have your baby? (Congratulations by the way)

Haley1234 · 10-20-2003, 07:48 PM

Yep, that's what I mean, relaxed and I mean WAY relaxed, like drugged.
I had my dd on 7/2/03. Thanks for asking!

No, I haven't asked my OB yet. I'm not good with confrontation. I like him and if he did give it to me, he probably thought he was doing me a favor. I really wish I could remember the birth! I was sooo drugged!! If he did give them to me without my consent, I'm going to be ****ed and he'll be hearing about that! I'm getting a copy of my medical records from the hospital to find out for sure what was given to me.

kslittledevil · 10-20-2003, 10:33 PM

When I had my daughter Jan 11, 00, I had to have a csection because the OB was afraid of her getting to be 10-12 lbs, she was 8 even and 2 weeks early ( I had gestational diabetes that was not easily controlled ). When I started off with the c-section the only thing I had was the epidural ( I have a feeling it was a spinal though because I couldn't feel anything from shoulders down )until he started taking her out. She was on top of my bladder and it hurt when he started pulling her out so he had the anesthesiologist give my the anti anxiety. I got to hear her cry and the dr ( pediatrician was there also because of it being a high risk pregnancy ) held her up, said she was a beautiful girl but they had to go to the intermediate care nursery ( the dr had to stick once every 15 minutes to check her blood sugar). This is all I remember. An hour I came out of the sleep crying "where is my baby, I want my baby, give me my baby, did someone take my baby" over and over again. She was born at 7:28 am, I didn't see her again until after 10 am, the OB and pediatrician felt sorry for me. The worst thing was I was breastfeeding and my sil had to hold her because I was numb from shoulder down.I wasn't able to hold her on my own for another 7-8 hours. This is not an experience I want to repeat, but I look at my 3 1/2 year old daughter and Thank God she is healthy and here.

sawbuck44 · 10-21-2003, 08:49 AM

I had two c-sections with spinals. For both I was aware and watching the doctor's deliver my babies. I really couldn't see anything but I was aware of my husband's reactions. Especially at the birth of my first son - the doctor held up my ovaries so my husband could see and said, "your wife has healthy ovaries!" My husband told me about it later cause I barely understood what went on and my husband said he almost fainted! The doctor held the baby up above the partition so I could see them and hear them cry. the nurse cleaned them up and gave them to my husband. After my husband held the baby and we looked at them, the anesthiesologist (sp) told me he was giving me something to relax me. I remember then being pretty much out and in the recovery room. I awoke slightly while the nurse was pushing on my stomach (afterbirth) and went back out again for a while.

So, I did know what was going on. Unfortunately, with the birth of my second son, the attending nurse dropped him back in and he swallowed some merconium. He had to be in intensive care for five days on intravenous antibiotics. That was very difficult to deal with.