Come back tomorrow night...

[LandsharkNole]

The wife was due with our son a couple of days ago and nothing has been happening so her Dr scheduled her to be induced tonight. Long story short, we make all the arrangements-bags packed, work stuff, daughter staying with a friend, neighbor to watch our dogs, family in town, and so on and so on.
We get to the maternity ward at the hospital to check in and after a few minutes of fumbling around the nurse tells us oh we had to reschedule you for tomorrow night, one of the other nurses said she spoke to you earlier about it...W.T.H.

I thought the wife was going to have a meltdown. I had to walk away before I did too. Was having this debate in my head that this was complete BS but this wasn’t the place to get loud and nasty and not to mention that these are going to be the same people who have the lives of my wife and child in their hands tomorrow.

Maybe this isn’t that uncommon and I know I’m a little emotionally exhausted but damn, cmon man.
What say you LR?

 

[Gonolz]

The wife was due with our son a couple of days ago and nothing has been happening so her Dr scheduled her to be induced tonight. Long story short, we make all the arrangements-bags packed, work stuff, daughter staying with a friend, neighbor to watch our dogs, family in town, and so on and so on.
We get to the maternity ward at the hospital to check in and after a few minutes of fumbling around the nurse tells us oh we had to reschedule you for tomorrow night, one of the other nurses said she spoke to you earlier about it...W.T.H.

I thought the wife was going to have a meltdown. I had to walk away before I did too. Was having this debate in my head that this was complete BS but this wasn’t the place to get loud and nasty and not to mention that these are going to be the same people who have the lives of my wife and child in their hands tomorrow.

Maybe this isn’t that uncommon and I know I’m a little emotionally exhausted but damn, cmon man.
What say you LR?

I may be going out on a limb here, but I say that you should probably go back tomorrow night. You ever tried inducing and delivering a baby yourself? It's not as easy as it sounds.

 

[dmm5157]

The wife was due with our son a couple of days ago and nothing has been happening so her Dr scheduled her to be induced tonight. Long story short, we make all the arrangements-bags packed, work stuff, daughter staying with a friend, neighbor to watch our dogs, family in town, and so on and so on.
We get to the maternity ward at the hospital to check in and after a few minutes of fumbling around the nurse tells us oh we had to reschedule you for tomorrow night, one of the other nurses said she spoke to you earlier about it...W.T.H.

I thought the wife was going to have a meltdown. I had to walk away before I did too. Was having this debate in my head that this was complete BS but this wasn’t the place to get loud and nasty and not to mention that these are going to be the same people who have the lives of my wife and child in their hands tomorrow.

Maybe this isn’t that uncommon and I know I’m a little emotionally exhausted but damn, cmon man.
What say you LR?

That does suck that you got everything arranged, but...

Honestly, induced labor sucks and it tends to be very stressful for mom, baby, and dad.

Having an extra night of sleep in your own bed instead of walking the halls and wife dealing with the horrible contractions caused by pitocin for induced labor isn't the worst thing in the world. It feels rough in the moment, but the extra day should be fine.

 

[Fijimn]

I may be going out on a limb here, but I say that you should probably go back tomorrow night. You ever tried inducing and delivering a baby yourself? It's not as easy as it sounds.

YouTube is your friend

 

[FSUdawg]

That does suck. I would suggest calling before you go to make sure they still have you scheduled. When my daughter was born, my wife was induced and they told us to call ahead to make sure they still had an available bed. Once we spoke to a nurse they said they would hold the bed for an hour. After that it was first come first served. Go figure.

 

[TexSkills]

Honestly, induced labor sucks and it tends to be very stressful for mom, baby, and dad.

Having an extra night of sleep in your own bed instead of walking the halls and wife dealing with the horrible contractions caused by pitocin for induced labor isn't the worst thing in the world. It feels rough in the moment, but the extra day should be fine.

With our son, my wife had a scheduled and induced labor. Went in on a Thursday evening, they gave her Pitocin and he was born Friday morning.

Guess I'm a bad husband because I slept for several long stretches on the bench bed in her maternity suite, LOL. I was already exhausted from work. She threw stuff at me a few times to wake me up.

After she got an epidural, she was pretty chill. His birth was a lot less stressful than my daughter's.

If we had gone in and they said, "sorry we had to reschedule" I would have been pissed. We had good experiences with both births and both were at Baptist South in JAX.

 

[LandsharkNole]

All good points...I guess the biggest thing is that they didn’t tell us and then try to say that they did. I totally get if they had an unexpected delivery or an emergency come in and were short on beds and staffing. And yeah it was a real pain making all the arrangements but the emotional toll was what was getting to the wife. This is her first kid, shes had a good pregnancy but quit smoking, had to stop taking her anxiety meds and quit drinking...so there has been plenty of mental breakdowns haha

 

[coloradonoles]

Same thing happened to us about 2 months ago... Supposed to go in at 7pm on a Friday, they first said come back at 11 and then said we will call when you should come. Ending up going the next morning around 10.

1 bit of unsolicited advice... If you are going the epidural route (highly suggested especially for her first) make sure you get the epidural BEFORE they start pitocin. We have a friend that waited and her contractions were so severe that they had trouble with the epidural and it didn't work well. The downfall is once she gets it, she's stuck in bed.

Also if they want to insert a balloon to help open the cervix, make sure you are there for that. It is extremely painful... And you don't want to be out getting lunch when that happens. Trust me on this one...

 

[dmm5157]

Same thing happened to us about 2 months ago... Supposed to go in at 7pm on a Friday, they first said come back at 11 and then said we will call when you should come. Ending up going the next morning around 10.

1 bit of unsolicited advice... If you are going the epidural route (highly suggested especially for her first) make sure you get the epidural BEFORE they start pitocin. We have a friend that waited and her contractions were so severe that they had trouble with the epidural and it didn't work well. The downfall is once she gets it, she's stuck in bed.

Also if they want to insert a balloon to help open the cervix, make sure you are there for that. It is extremely painful... And you don't want to be out getting lunch when that happens. Trust me on this one...

Same thing happened here with epidural AFTER pitocin. Wife tried to go no epidural and those pitocin contractions kicked her butt. Then she couldn't sit still while they tried to get her epidural set up. It ended up not taking, so she was stuck in bed AND she had tremendous pain. Pretty horrible.

2nd kid shot out before doctor even showed up, record fast delivery. Glad nurse was there to catch son #2.

 

[runkpanole]

With our first, they induced her on the 26th, she didn’t deliver until the 29th. By the time we went home on NYE, I’ve never been more tired.

 

[dmm5157]

With our first, they induced her on the 26th, she didn’t deliver until the 29th. By the time we went home on NYE, I’ve never been more tired.

Friend's wife just had their first child a month or so ago. 4 days in the hospital before they induced, 2 more days after that they finally went C-section. I had warned him before, "sleep as much as you can, you won't get much opportunity to sleep after and during will be hell so sleep when you can". He's still in that newborn baby sleepless haze.

 

[NebNoles]

When I was a child I thought adults knew what they were doing, that businesses had to have qualified and competent employees. Then I got into the workforce.

How many times at your business have you thought the communication sucked? How many times have things slipped through the cracks? Even at the very best companies.

The same things that plague those businesses plague hospitals, too.

 

[Nole Lou]

Same thing happened here with epidural AFTER pitocin. Wife tried to go no epidural and those pitocin contractions kicked her butt. Then she couldn't sit still while they tried to get her epidural set up. It ended up not taking, so she was stuck in bed AND she had tremendous pain. Pretty horrible.

2nd kid shot out before doctor even showed up, record fast delivery. Glad nurse was there to catch son #2.

Yep, this happened to us. My wife wanted to go no epidural on the first one...just local painkillers and tylenol or whatever. It was rough, she was in labor like 9 hours, so on the second one, she was like EPIDURAL. So our daughter was two weeks late, so they scheduled induced labor.

Went in, got her set, put the medicine on, and the doctor left to get some sleep. At the first check, 30 minutes later or whatever, they were like "Oh my God, this baby is ready..." No time for an epidural, not time for even regular pain meds to work. They ran and were able to find the doctor in time to walk in and deliver the baby, but the nurse was prepping to deliver.

Anyway, showing up and being sent home sucks out loud. Anything that adds stress to the situation sucks. It's just one of those things...what are you going to do? Just rest assured knowing that what's going to be going on in the next several months of your life, you're not going to have any time or mental capacity to dwell on this inconvenience. It's about to be barely a blip.

 

[TexSkills]

With our first child (daughter), my wife was already 5 or 6 cm dilated by the time we got to the hospital.

She wanted to go the no epidural route at first but quickly changed her mind. The epidural also slowed down how fast she was dilating. After they gave her the epidural they had to give her something else to get the dilation going again. Can't remember what it was. Might have been Pitocin.

She actually started going into labor on a Sunday afternoon. She thought they might have been Braxton Hicks contractions but when she woke me up at 3 AM, we hightailed it to the hospital. My daughter wound up being born at 4 in the afternoon.

 

[Fijimn]

Reverse for us. We got sent to the hospital when baby was at 24 weeks because they thought the sac had torn. They gave my wife magnesium and steroids. The doctor told us that the magnesium is like getting hit with the worst flu you have ever experienced. Man, he wasn't kidding. I was holding her hand listening to the neonatologist explain what was going to happen if she gave birth to a 24 week baby, and you could see the sickness move through her body. Thankfully, it held Sawyer off for another 2 weeks.

 

[NebNoles]

When I was a child I thought adults knew what they were doing, that businesses had to have qualified and competent employees. Then I got into the workforce.

How many times at your business have you thought the communication sucked? How many times have things slipped through the cracks? Even at the very best companies.

The same things that plague those businesses plague hospitals, too.

I should share a quick story ...

Nurses decided my wife was ready for her epidural. They called the guy to administer; he didn’t show. An hour later they called again; he had fallen back asleep.

My wife was furious.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Look at all us men with opinions on dos and donts in childbirth. Lol

 

[dmm5157]

Look at all us men with opinions on dos and donts in childbirth. Lol

That's how you know we're getting old. And thank God our wives aren't around

 

[F4Gary]

I can relate. I waited all this morning for Frontier to come out and change out phones over to VoIP and they no showed. Now I have to wait tomorrow morning for them to show up.






OK, so it's not on the same level as LandsharkNole.

 

[ericram]

The wife was due with our son a couple of days ago and nothing has been happening so her Dr scheduled her to be induced tonight. Long story short, we make all the arrangements-bags packed, work stuff, daughter staying with a friend, neighbor to watch our dogs, family in town, and so on and so on.
We get to the maternity ward at the hospital to check in and after a few minutes of fumbling around the nurse tells us oh we had to reschedule you for tomorrow night, one of the other nurses said she spoke to you earlier about it...W.T.H.

I thought the wife was going to have a meltdown. I had to walk away before I did too. Was having this debate in my head that this was complete BS but this wasn’t the place to get loud and nasty and not to mention that these are going to be the same people who have the lives of my wife and child in their hands tomorrow.

Maybe this isn’t that uncommon and I know I’m a little emotionally exhausted but damn, cmon man.
What say you LR?

Sorry to hear about this. Also, and I don't know how to say this gently, your life is about to get a whole lot more stressful. Don't plan on sleeping, having sex, going out to a movie, eating a romantic dinner, etc for a while.

Good luck!

 

[ZZ828]

Both my kids were induced. They had us come in first thing in the morning. First one took about 10 hours from start to finish, but neither of us felt it was a stressful experience. Second child took about 5 hours from the time my wife was induced. Also a pretty easy experience.

 

[LandsharkNole]

No turning back now, at least there’s a little tv to watch football on in here.

 

[NebNoles]

No turning back now, at least there’s a little tv to watch football on in here.

Good luck, may man. And good luck to your wife and soon to be new born!! Exciting times.

 

[LandsharkNole]

Was chatting with the nurse, she graduated from FSU. That’s a good sign...

 

[RunRonnieRun]

All good points...I guess the biggest thing is that they didn’t tell us and then try to say that they did. I totally get if they had an unexpected delivery or an emergency come in and were short on beds and staffing. And yeah it was a real pain making all the arrangements but the emotional toll was what was getting to the wife. This is her first kid, shes had a good pregnancy but quit smoking, had to stop taking her anxiety meds and quit drinking...so there has been plenty of mental breakdowns haha

You knocked up a smoker? Ew. Hope your trailer has a nice corner to put a crib in.

 

[LandsharkNole]

You knocked up a smoker? Ew. Hope your trailer has a nice corner to put a crib in.

Wow...

 

[RunRonnieRun]

Wow...

I know!

 

[LandsharkNole]

I know!

don’t get me wrong, it’s a bad habit...and hopefully having quit for 9 months will hold out. Nothing else has stuck

 

[seminole97]

Wow...

It’s his schtik...

 

[goldmom]

All good points...I guess the biggest thing is that they didn’t tell us and then try to say that they did. I totally get if they had an unexpected delivery or an emergency come in and were short on beds and staffing. And yeah it was a real pain making all the arrangements but the emotional toll was what was getting to the wife. This is her first kid, shes had a good pregnancy but quit smoking, had to stop taking her anxiety meds and quit drinking...so there has been plenty of mental breakdowns haha

So are you saying she did OK considering she is a chain smoking drunk who is now a pill head? Wow. I'm sure she'll have ZERO problems with being a Mommy...
JUST KIDDING couldn't resist. I do hope she'll continue to be an ex-smoker. Best wishes to you!

 

[cfbfan23]

Resist the urge to let your baby juul.

 

[osceola74]

I would have called the doctor and have him/her explain the delay. Of course my wife is an RN (FSU) and she might have had a very serious discussion with the charge nurse.

 

[F4Gary]

Better to piss off the medical staff after the birth, not before.

 

[LandsharkNole]

Delivered a 9lb 3oz baby boy this afternoon, everyone is doing great

 

[MIKE_G]

New mom is resting comfortably.

 

[LLOYD72]

My daughter went in to be induced - twin girls - two weeks ago and the babies decided to come out naturally. Everything went well and they're beautiful but I read into it that they will be making a lot of their own decisions as they grow up Good luck to Mom and Dad.

 

[RunRonnieRun]

Delivered a 9lb 3oz baby boy this afternoon, everyone is doing great

What hospital? I’d like to send a bouquet of Pall Malls

 

[billanole]

What hospital? I’d like to send a bouquet of Pall Malls

And a quaalude cocktail. Congrats to momma and papa.

 

[F4Gary]

Congratulations, Dad.

 

[OsceolaNole]

New mom is resting comfortably.

Would