Tuesday morning Jan 26th I was browsing FB and suddenly felt very wet. I actually commented on Brandy Bells status about either having peed on myself or having my water break (I almost would have rather peed on myself). I figured out about 10 min later that is was my water that broke and it continued to leak throughout the morning.
I called the doctor, my mom and Kevin. Per docs orders, if it continued to really leak we were to go to L&D and if not, to keep my appointment that afternoon. Tuesday was my actual due date.
I tried to get things together around the house which was hard with water leaking out of me and I also had to contend with Brady. Kevin decided to come on home and my mom decided to come on down. I called a friend to see if she could pick up Kendra for us and keep Brady until my mom got here.
Kevin got home and we got stuff together to go to the hospital. Got Brady ready and took him to Sabrina's with our van. We left the house around 11 am I guess and headed to CMC North East hospital.
Side note: I had been having very mild contractions for several days
Heading into hospital I had my first contraction since my water broke. We got checked in and I was feeling great. Far cry from my last L&D experience. Walked back to triage. I think I found out I was only 1cm at that time. UGH.
We got into a room, met nurses, and began waiting, walking, and resting. Doc wanted to start Pit but I was not ready. We tried different positions and I even called my Bradley instructor to get some ideas, but we were doing everything natural we could. I labored through the night and decided to start Pit if at 7 am on the 27th I was not dilated any further. I wasn't...blaaah. Pit started and so did contractions, regular and hard. I labored with Pit for 5 hours...started asking for epi about 10:30 and got it about 12 noon. Relief. I honestly don't think I would have made it to the end without being exhausted without it. Twenty-six hours of natural and simulated (med) labor was enough and a great experience. The best thing I did was ask for the relief when I needed it. Side note: I was not at all disappointed that I didn't make it to the end unmedicated. I labored a long time naturally and that experience will always be mine. :-)
At 12 noon (when I got epi) I was 2-3 cm. At around 3pm, I was 3-4 cm and at 4:45 I was complete plus 2 station. He was coming out on his own! I pushed with my favorite nurse, MaryAnn, and a squat bar maybe 4 times and they called the doc. Yes, it was cool that I had an epidural and could still stand up enough to squat but not feel much. Awesome!! The doc came in, an alien encounter took place (as we called it), and I pushed maybe 4 more times and Carson entered the world!
He was perfect. They placed him on my stomach and he stayed with me from then on. I did have a lot of bleeded after caused by my c-section scar on my uterus. The doctor had to really work on me to get it to stop but finally did. Kind of scary but I just prayed and knew it would all be alright.
Carson was born at 5:11 on Jan 27th. He was 20 in long and beautiful.
We left the hospital to come home less than 24 hours later. :-)
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