Brittany's 29-Hour Long Induction!
Mommy Labor Nurse
Liesel Teen
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Brittany shares her unplanned 39-hour long induction at 37 weeks.
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About Brittany Dougherty
Brittany Dougherty is a mom to a 1.5 year old and is currently pregnant with baby number two. She lives in Reno, Nevada with her husband, son, and two dogs. She is a civil engineer by trade, but she enjoys talking about pregnancy and babies whenever she gets the chance.
You can learn more about Brittany here:
- Growing Our Family Podcast & Blog Website: https://growingourfamily.com/
- Instagram: @growingrfamily
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast episode number 56. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey guys, happy Monday. I'm back doing my intros. |
| 0:08.5 | Last week, Jenna did my intro because I was just not feeling well if you guys have been following my stories. |
| 0:17.9 | I had mastitis and then I had pneumonia and it's just not been fun. but I'm feeling a lot better now |
| 0:24.8 | thankfully so back to my normal self back to our routine this year guys it's just been it's been crazy I'm ready for 2021 already. |
| 0:37.0 | So this week we have another birth story Brittany came on the mommy labor nurse |
| 0:42.4 | podcast and she actually has a |
| 0:45.5 | podcast of her own the growing our family pregnancy podcast which I was on which I |
| 0:50.8 | will leave a link to that episode if you want to hear me be on her |
| 0:55.6 | podcast but Brittany came on today to share her birth story. Brittany is a mom to a |
| 1:02.0 | one and a half year old and she's currently pregnant with |
| 1:04.8 | baby number two. She lives in Reno, Nevada with her husband, her son and her two |
| 1:10.1 | dogs. So she talked today about her induction that was at 37 weeks which was totally |
| 1:18.2 | unplanned and super super crazy long. I'm trying to look back here. I think it was 29 hours which is a pretty long |
| 1:25.5 | induction but we all this is what I always tell you guys if it's your first baby expect it to be a long long process so even though 29 |
| 1:36.1 | hours sounds like a crazy crazy long time this was her first baby so yeah |
| 1:41.6 | unfortunately it can take that long. |
| 1:44.3 | So Brittany ended up getting induced because she had high blood pressure |
| 1:49.8 | at the end of her pregnancy which is a pretty common reason why they do medical |
| 1:54.1 | inductions at that gestation. She got some medications to dilate her |
| 2:00.3 | cervix and then she got Patosin in her IV. She ended up getting an |
| 2:06.6 | epidural and got her water broken by her provider at one point. She just kind of slowly eventually made progress, got to 10 |
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