April 26th 4:48 PM
That's the date my son was born. I was so happy he was born on his due date. I love to be able to say that my son arrived on time (I am always on time and hate it when others are late so this really fits my personality). Here's the rundown of labor.
8:30 PM on the 25th my water breaks while I'm laying on the couch, I'm not having contractions yet
We gather all of our things and head to the hospital in a taxi (which is possibly the slowest taxi I've ever been in in my entire life!)
9:15 arrive at the hospital
9:30 I am checked and I am only dilated 1/2 CM and almost fully effaced, they start pitocin and antibiotics to get the contractions going and to treat the group B strep
12:00 2-3 CM dilated, the contractions are stronger but still manageable
4:00 Still 2-3 CM dilated, the contractions are one minute apart and lasting one whole minute, they are terrible and I can't take it anymore, I get an epidural (side note: I cried when I broke down and asked for this. I wanted to go as natural as possible but since I had made no progress and the pitocin was making the contractions too strong, I couldn't take it anymore)
I slept for 4 hours. The epidural was wonderful. Everyone should have one!
8 AM 6-7 CM dilated
11 AM 8-9 CM dilated
1 PM time to start pushing!
4 hours later the baby FINALLY arrives. It was terrible to push for that long. I begged the doctor to use a vacuum to get the baby out. I didn't think I could do it any longer. Seriously, who pushes for 4 hours??? The doctor made the right decision not to use a vacuum but at the time I was pissed off. The pain of pushing and delivery was horrible. I'm not going to sugar coat it and say all that crap about how you forget all the pain. You don't. He was 7 pounds 8 ounces and 20 inches long.
It was all worth it though. The moment they placed my son on my stomach we just looked at each other like, wow, what is going on? I will never forget that moment. My son is absolutely beautiful. I love him so much. He has my hair color and my husband's nose and mouth. We haven't decided on the eyes yet.
Today was my first day alone since my husband went back to work. I'll try to write more details later about the past week and 1/2. I'm sure he'll wake up and need to be fed any minute so I need to go.
8:30 PM on the 25th my water breaks while I'm laying on the couch, I'm not having contractions yet
We gather all of our things and head to the hospital in a taxi (which is possibly the slowest taxi I've ever been in in my entire life!)
9:15 arrive at the hospital
9:30 I am checked and I am only dilated 1/2 CM and almost fully effaced, they start pitocin and antibiotics to get the contractions going and to treat the group B strep
12:00 2-3 CM dilated, the contractions are stronger but still manageable
4:00 Still 2-3 CM dilated, the contractions are one minute apart and lasting one whole minute, they are terrible and I can't take it anymore, I get an epidural (side note: I cried when I broke down and asked for this. I wanted to go as natural as possible but since I had made no progress and the pitocin was making the contractions too strong, I couldn't take it anymore)
I slept for 4 hours. The epidural was wonderful. Everyone should have one!
8 AM 6-7 CM dilated
11 AM 8-9 CM dilated
1 PM time to start pushing!
4 hours later the baby FINALLY arrives. It was terrible to push for that long. I begged the doctor to use a vacuum to get the baby out. I didn't think I could do it any longer. Seriously, who pushes for 4 hours??? The doctor made the right decision not to use a vacuum but at the time I was pissed off. The pain of pushing and delivery was horrible. I'm not going to sugar coat it and say all that crap about how you forget all the pain. You don't. He was 7 pounds 8 ounces and 20 inches long.
It was all worth it though. The moment they placed my son on my stomach we just looked at each other like, wow, what is going on? I will never forget that moment. My son is absolutely beautiful. I love him so much. He has my hair color and my husband's nose and mouth. We haven't decided on the eyes yet.
Today was my first day alone since my husband went back to work. I'll try to write more details later about the past week and 1/2. I'm sure he'll wake up and need to be fed any minute so I need to go.
posted by Baby Hopes | 2:16 PM
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