Miracle Story #11
“It was my third pregnancy. I have two older boys and this was with my daughter.
I was induced with both of my boys. My doctor was pretty “induce-happy.” He liked to do it that way, which was okay, but I knew that this was going to be my last pregnancy and I was just bound and determined to go into labor myself.
I had gone in that day for a routine doctor visit and my doctor said to me, “I really think we should go ahead and induce.”
I was full-term so it was pretty much time to have the baby. He was wanting to induce me the next morning because I was already pretty dilated, but also because he had time in his schedule. And I remember him telling me that certain things could happen if we let it go too long.
But I was like, “Nope. I’m stubborn and I’m bound and determined. I’m going to go into labor and have this baby without being induced because I don’t even know what that’s like.”
So he checked the heartbeat and it was fine. And he reminded me that as fast as I had gone through the labor process when I had been induced before, that I had babies really quickly.
Because I was already dilated quite a bit he was like, “I’m afraid that if you go into labor on your own, you’ll barely make it into the hospital.”
So he had that to say too. But I was stubborn.
So I left the doctor’s office and when I was driving home, I had this horrible feeling that just came right over me. And I started thinking, ‘Why am I being so stubborn?’
And then it was like an audible voice.
I felt like God said to me, “Your baby is in danger.”
And it was so loud. And this wave came over me of just, heat. I knew it was in my head and I was driving but it made me look around my car because it was such a loud voice.
“Your baby is in danger.”
So by the time I got home I was just shaken. I picked up the phone and I called the doctor’s office and told them I would go in to have the baby in the morning.
And then once I did that I thought, ‘Okay, I wonder if I need to go back to the doctor now. Do I need to go back in right now?’
So I sat there and I prayed about it for a little bit, for a few minutes. It felt like God was telling me that it was okay to wait until the next day, but that it was important to do it that day.
And I just felt at peace.
And I was like, ‘Okay, it’s going to be okay.’
And then I was. I felt at peace for the rest of the day.
So we got up at five o'clock that next morning and went in for the induction.
When you’re induced it usually takes a couple of hours and then they break your water so it will start getting everything going. I wasn’t overly panicked because I really felt a peace about it still.
Some time had passed and when my doctor came in, he decided to go ahead and break my water. And I immediately felt it was different than when he had broken my water the first two times. It was just a huge amount of fluid and stuff.
And I looked at him and he had this look on his face. He had this look of sheer terror on his face.
And he said, “Oh no.”
And he turned and he grabbed the machine and started to look for the heartbeat and check the baby.
And then he said, “Your placenta has ruptured and we need to have this baby as soon as possible.”
He said, “I know you go through labor really quickly so I’m going to give you a little bit of time and if you don’t have this baby very soon, we’re going to have to do a c-section.”
And I did.
My daughter was born within two hours from the time we had started the induction. So it was very fast.
And since my placenta had ruptured, when she came out she was purple and she was coughing up all of this stuff. It was blood-like fluids that she was not supposed to have.
And he had said to me afterwards, he said, “I hate to think what would have happened if you hadn't had her here at the hospital this morning.”
I had never had an experience before that was so profound where I was like, ‘That was God.’
It was definitely God.
And the other thing is this. Just prior to getting pregnant with my daughter, I had lost a baby when I was five months pregnant. I lost that baby. So I had that in my head too.
He is so merciful.”
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My name is Janelle, and I live in Wichita, Kansas.
In the midst of a placental abruption during the birth of my daughter, I AM Miracle Story #11.