bamagirl Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Just wanted to know from those of you with pre-birth POTS if any of you had to have a c-section due to your cervix not dilating or "failure to progess". This happened to me and I was wondering if cervical dilation and labor was an autonomic function. I think this is very interesting.bamagirl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Hi,Not in my family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Belinda Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Thier is some kind of autonomic response having to do with vagal nerve and sensories. When i recently when in for my procedure the anesthiologist said to make sure I was extra numb down thier(cervix) because it can cause major reflexes elsewhere in throat and chest/esophagus.And this is probrably why I didn't miscarry on my own even though i had something really wrong and my body knew it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faithinspires Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 bamagirl,This is an interesting topic. I was not diagnosed until after I had given birth 3 times. However, I have had symptoms since I was a child.I did have a failure to dilate with my deliveries. My first child, I was in heavy labor 36 hrs, never dialated past 2 cm, they tried everything to no avail and my daughter became distressed, so they did an emergency c-section. (18 yrs ago).With my next 2 children, I had a failure to dilate, but they had better success with medications to induce, and a gel to force my cervix to dilate. So, I delivered them vaginally. (10 & 12 yrs ago)I wonder if it did have anything to do with this condition?Renee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CyberPixie Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Very interesting. I never went into labour and was induced several times but it never worked. I had a c section due to failure to progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaColumbus Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 I never had to have a c section but I did have to be induced multiple times with all three of my kids. My shortest time laboring at the hospital was 16 hours, the longest was 26 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarthMother Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 POTS with all 3 kids -- all really rapid dialation and delivery. Strange I probably thought my dysautonimia had a hand in making them so quick. Goes to show it can go either way.Interesting as always.EM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoGiuliana Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Interesting question. I don't know what the statistic is for "failure to progress" in the general population. I know quite a few women without POTS who had c-sections b/c of this. Some of this may have to do with the promtness with which c-sections are performed these days b/c of fear of litigation, etc., rather than an actual medical problem.In my case, I have no idea to what extent I dilated. I was 2 cm for two weeks and then was induced after my due date. After 3 hours of labor I had abruption and had to have an emergency c-section.Katherine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pamela Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 I too had problems dialating even though with my son my wter broke first after 6 hours I still was not dialating. The used some gell stuff and heavy pitocin. 10 years lateer with my daughter they scheduled my induction for bleeding issues and I had to be gelled, pitocin, mor pitocin, water broke for me and once again it took me over 28 hours. Who knows? But it does sound as if our bodies automatic birth giving response is screwed up right along with the rest of the,. And controlled breathing really made me light headed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wufflebear Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 (edited) I was in labor for 32 hours. For 18 hours I was 'stuck' at contractions every 3 minutes but very little dialating. At the 18 hour mark they admitted me, due to my own daress and that they could 'stretch' me to enough dialation to admit me. Then I had an epidural and was supposed to "sleep" for a few hours...I just shook for a few hours. The doc broke my water...The baby was not coming down the birth canal and I was not dialating enough...I had back labor the whole darn time YUCK!!!!! Then my daughters heart started getting weaker and I started running a temperature and other things...So at the 32 hour mark I had a c-section, during which the adrenalin rush kicked in and I shook violently and the anestesiologist had to keep reminding me to breath. (He sat right next to my head saying "Breath" periodically. The whole time I had a saline and glucose IV...I told them I fainted easily and they gave me these...good thing. Edited January 30, 2006 by hmichel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariella Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 HiAt least four of my five kids were born after my POTS symptoms. I had premature contractions with all of them with no known cause. Two deliveries were near c-sections but in the end normal deliveries, but unlikely POTS had anything to do with that. In retrospect my premature labor probably has something to do with my mysthenia gravis which was recently diagnosed, but in retrospect was probably in my body for quite some time. A couple of deliveries were induced a little early because I was unusually weak. I was tachy and weak and short of breath though during and after labor and needed oxygen, and showed an arrhythmia on an ecg in the delivery room that has not shown up again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 I had to be induced for all three of my deliveries. I always thought it was a low level of oxytocin, a hormone that brings on labour. The induction was through a drip and brought on labour very fast and hard. Luckily I had them all after 4 hours, but needed saline drip afterwards on the last one. It made a huge difference to my recovery. I fainted after the first and broke my nose! I was undiagnosed throughout, but can see now how the birth severely affected me and maybe was the trigger? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aprilmarie52 Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 I went into labor and she was out within 6 hours. I went from a 2 to a 9 1/2 in 3 hours. I did not have any problems dialating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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