When we went in, baby was breech and they were planning to do the slashy-slashy. Turned out they were able to massage the baby into normal position, then they induced to eliminate the chance of him breeching again by the time things happened naturally.
26 hours (and three shift changes, where each shift was taking a different direction with things, raising/lowering oxytocin, etc) later, and without informing us about anything, there's all of a sudden 4 doctors/nurses in the room. They stay for a half hour, then (still without telling us anything) they move us to some cold room for 20 minutes before telling her to start pushing. What? Pushing? We just sat there not pushing for 26 hours and now we're pushing? A little heads up would be nice.
Anyway, he starts making his way out, and he's rotated so his shoulders are getting stuck in the pelvic bone and whatnot. They grab him and yank him out anyway. They thought they broke his shoulder, but didn't actually tell us this, we find out 2 days later by a nurse asking how his shoulder is. Turns out it wasn't broken, just twisted/bruised/whatever. Explains why he cried afterwards whenever we picked him up a certain way.
He comes out, they immediately take him without a word to some table in the corner for 10 minutes before I get to hold him. He didn't cry once, which wasn't helping ease concerns, but apparently babies don't have to cry and there wasn't a problem.
Anyway, I'm not gonna bother proofreading, I'm at work. Just realized I never actually summarized the event. After 26 hours of that, my brain was fried, so some of the events may be of more/less significance than I realized.
