The delivery was pretty smooth
It was a long time in the hospital, though.
Here's the longer version of our birth story:
They did cervadil Monday night, then pitocin Tuesday all day. It didn't do enough, so they paused the induction for a few hours and started over again Tuesday night with the cervadil again and then the pitocin on Wednesday. Wednesday, the contractions started coming stronger, more painful and 2-3 minutes apart right away, but I still wasn't very dilated. I ended up getting the epidural at 4cm around 1pm because I was pretty tired already and the contractions were pretty strong and painful at that point. The epidural was WONDERFUL! haha- I could feel the left side for awhile before they fixed it, so I did have a lot of pain for a bit, but once it kicked in fully, it was so peaceful.
They ended up turning off the pitocin around 4:30, bc the nurse got called into a delivery and the baby's heart rate needed to be closely monitored on the pitocin since it would go down many times after the contractions. They didn't think my contractions were progressing much more, and honestly everyone, including us, thought we would need a c-section. Thankfully, when the doctor finally checked me at 5:30, I was fully dilated!!! It was such a happy surprise to everyone
It turned out the monitor on my contractions hadn't been working too well.
I could feel the urge to push with the epidural, and I only pushed for about an hour and fifteen minutes, thankfully! I had a second degree tear, and I ended up with an episiotomy bc I was tearing and his head was really big. I could feel the tear even through the epidural, but it was not nearly as bad as I could've felt it! I have to say that the moment they put him on my belly was just amazing
Also, just use the hospital gowns! It was so messy, and I ended up giving birth totally naked bc I didn't want anything touching me, I was so hot and wanting to vomit!
It was very long and tiring, but it's SO true that all that fades really fast and I already feel like I could do it again even though during the process I didn't want to think about doing it again! haha