Babies born with a return of the umbilical cord

The other day my young son asked me to tell him again how was the day he was born, what happened and how everything happened. That's how I remembered that intense day, a Saturday of bridge, the day that came out of accounts. I arrived at the maternity ward where I was going to give birth for routine

The other day my young son asked me to tell him again how was the day he was born, what happened and how everything happened. That's how I remembered that intense day, a Saturday of bridge, the day that came out of accounts.

I arrived at the maternity ward where I was going to give birth for routine monitoring and was received by a young doctor, who was about to perform a routine test on a pregnant woman. My baby had the cord around his neck and he suffered from fetal distress.

Being born with the umbilical cord wound around the neck

But the monitoring did not turn out to be routine and I still remember her scared face when she detected that my baby's heart was not beating properly and suffering from fetal distress. Scared, he told us what was going on and that he was going to call my gynecologist to prepare an emergency caesarean section. During the monitoring, I was lying on the table on my back, I put on my side and asked her to try to take the same data, but in the other position. On the side, the results of the monitoring were normal, so, what happened?

Upon arrival, my gynecologist performed an ultrasound and on the screen you could see my son with a loop of the umbilical cord around his neck. That was all, almost nothing or almost everything. As that day came out of accounts, he told me that the decision of choice was to cause the birth so that the baby was born as soon as possible. I was very worried because I did not want to have a cesarean section and I asked her what possibilities she had of giving birth vaginally.

I had had another baby before without problems and reassured me saying that it was possible that the baby was born vaginally, despite its cord return, if it was long enough so as not to hinder the passage of the baby through the canal. Birth. Finally, at that moment I began to fill out the papers of my hospital admission, they gave me a room and then a midwife broke the amniotic sac so that the birth process would begin.

After an hour I began to dilate, while my baby's heartbeat was constantly controlled by the medical staff. My baby is fine, I'm sorry, I notice, I thought in the meantime. I found it curious to know that he was fine, it was as if both organisms were connected by something more than the physical part, there was something mental, something emotional that told me everything was fine.

They gave me the epidural and finally, they took me to the delivery room when I reached 10 cm of dilation. Once there, I only had to bid twice, at the second push, my baby was born and I had him in my arms. A lovely baby of 3,400 gr, who smiled at me the first time he saw me. We had both behaved like true champions, we fought for life while maintaining calm and serenity at all times. I will never forget that beautiful day.

Marisol Nuevo.