Despite having extremely healthy pregnancies (so far), I suffer from the "symptoms" pretty bad. This pregnancy I struggled with morning sickness pretty much through the whole pregnancy right up until the day he came. I took my last zofran pill the morning of the day that he was born. That, plus the back aches, body aches, extreme exhaustion, heartburn, not being able to sleep AT ALL, etc, made this pregnancy hard to handle at the end, and I jumped at the chance when my doctor offered to induce me on my due date. We scheduled the induction at my Wednesday appointment for the very next day. I made arrangements with my mom to have her come stay with Chase and we started frantically getting last minute details ready.
My mom showed up at about 10:00, and we all headed for bed. At about 1:00 I woke up with those unmistakable contractions. My body had finally given in and I was in labor. At about 2:00 we got up and got ready to go to the hospital with contractions about 10 minutes apart because I didn't know how fast labor would go this round and the hospital was 45 minutes away. When we got everything ready and I wasn't progressing that fast we went back to bed and slept between the contractions that were still about 10 minutes apart.
We decided to keep the appointment to get induced and headed in at 8:00 with contraction about the same. They hooked me up started antibiotics and pitocin. The same as when I had Chase, the monitors wouldn't pick up any of the very painful and strong contractions that the pitocin had strengthened. I got my blessed epidural at 11:30 and at noon the doctor broke my water, promising the baby would be here by 3:00. At 1:00 I was "complete" and told that they were going to have me "rest and descend" because they were low on nurses and there were 3 other deliveries happening at the same time. At 1:30 a nurse came in the help my nurse and had me start pushing. After half a push she told me to stop and wait for the doctor.
When the doctor showed up it only took 15 minutes of pushing before this little guy entered the world at 2:06. I can't believe how smoothly everything went. We've been enjoying every little moment with our little Brody.
2 comments:
Funny, my 2nd was the same way! I went into labor the night before induction. It sounds like everything went well, and he is just beautiful! I hope you are feeling well and enjoying your Mother's Day!
Sometimes you just have to threaten them :) Beautiful story! Glad you wrote it down.
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