I've always found it hard to come to terms with my son's birth mainly because they didn't tell me what was happening or why they intervened.
After a birth debrief I found out the reason for them rushing my labour. Towards the end of the 2nd stage, my son's heart rate dropped to 80 bpm for maybe over 5 minutes (not wholly sure) with a bit of a recovery but went straight back down again, it didn't recover. Is this bad? Would there have been severe consequences if they hadn't intervened?
I know the heart rate is meant to be in between 110 and 160 I think, but is it really that bad for a babies heart rate to be lower or higher than this for longer than normal? Is it reason enough for intervention or could I have been left to birth him properly?
It was the first decel during labour and it happened as I was getting ready to push him out. My mum said there was a lot of blood and he just kept going back in everytime I pushed, which I assume is normal for baby to linger before actually being born (need to stretch etc). I would never have gotten him out when they were telling me to push anyway, then ended in rushed episiotomy which I've hated ever since as I wasn't told a reason for it.
My son was born limp, blue, bruised and unresponsive. They put some air on him as my mum says and rushed the cord cutting and placenta. When they gave him to me they said he was shocked from the quick delivery (established labour lasted 3hrs 30mins), so I didn't think anything drastic had happened so couldn't understand what their problem was. I've never known why they took the last bit of my labour away from me until I had a debrief which I think is wrong.
If I didn't feel like they attacked me then I don't think I would have at all had a problem with his birth which is pretty shitty to be honest. One bit of information is all I needed. Because of it, it's led me to question everything else about his birth, it's frustrating.
I don't know, if anyone can give some insight, a midwife, it'd be appreciated, thank you.
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Is it bad for baby's heartrate to drop to 80bpm?
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Lonz · 12/08/2015 16:25
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