Destiny, yes, that was me.... Ok. Here's my DD's birth story. Trigger warning for those who only want to hear happy birth stories! Mine was complicated.
I was trying to work 2 days past my due date, because of insurance reasons. I worked on my due date, worked a full day, & everything was fairly normal, except I remover feeling kinda off that day & said so to several coworkers ("I feel funny"). When I got home around 4 PM, I had a little pink discharge, but that's all I noticed. My first period cramp like mild contraction was at 6 PM. I don't remember much about the times after that, but before I knew it, contractions pretty much were on top of each other. Called my midwife bc I had been instructed to wait til they were 3-5 mins apart before going in. Was told to stay home despite contractions being so close together that I couldn't figure out when one ended & the next began... Because it was my first & midwife said I had a long night ahead of me. Was told to get in the shower for pain management. Did that, got out to dry heave into toilet. Finally decided screw it, we're going to the hospital.
Longest 15 min ride of my life, because all I wanted to do was walk around & sitting in the car was excruciating. DH dropped me off at the maternity ward door (where I puked on the ground) & drove away to park. What a joke - it was after hours & the door turned out to be locked. I literally put my hand on the door and asked it to please open in a pitiful way (funny looking back on it, not so funny in the moment). Then I hobbled off waving my hands around to try & find DH. Finally got back in the car as we drove around trying to find the emergency entrance. Waited for what felt like forever for a nurse to WALK all the way from the maternity ward to come get me & WALJ me all the way back. Felt like the longest walk of my life. By this time, I had decided screw the natural birth, I wanted an epidural.
So I finally get to the maternity ward, they have me try to use the bathroom, (couldn't) hook me up to the fetal monitoring thing, get on the bed & check me. I'm 9 cm dilated. I'm told no time for an epidural. I'm pretty sure I cried. Told them I couldn't do it. Was hooked up to an IV & told if the liquid got into me fast enough I could have an epidural. So i stood in front of the IV, willing it to get into my veins faster. Kept my legs closed (bad idea - learned later I could have hurt my DD - def don't do this!) finally told my midwife I thought I was holding my DD in. She didn't believe me, but checked my cervix anyway. I was fully dilated & ready to push.
Pushing was a relief!!! Mad at myself for waiting so darn long & holding off from doing it! Body pretty much took over for me, very instinctual. Not sure how to w long I pushed for, but she was out at 11:54 PM.
Now for the complications.... Midwife took 45 mins to stitch me up. Felt like I had a knife in my rectum. Would tell midwife & she'd reach her arm up into my uterus, & pull out blood clots, etc. worse pain than labor while she did that. While I didn't swear in labor, I swore when she did that & grabbed her arm. She did it twice more - the pain would build, she'd pull stuff out, I'd feel better. Then it would build again. She called in the on-call ob from my practice. They determined I had a hematoma under my stitches. They put me out & did vaginal surgery & redid my stitches while I was under. Unfortunately missed out on showing DD off to my family, who was in the waiting room. Missed out on telling them she was a girl (we were team yellow). Really crappy time. The next day my blood counts & iron were so low I needed 2 blood transfusions. I wasn't allowed to get up & hold my daughter. I had to be sitting or lying in bed. I needed to be walked to the bathroom & watched so i wouldn't fall. Recovery down under was so awful & painful, I remember thinking it was worse than labor & wondered why nobody told me postpartum recovery was so bad. (Was told by many people there later that it's usually not quite that bad).
Then, at my 6 week checkup, when I'm finally starting to feel a little bit better down there, the midwife used silver nitrate on me because she said I had some granular tissue. (I had no idea what she was talking about or what she was about to do to me. It was awful. It burned and bled like crazy after she did that for a couple of days). Between the birth with this particular midwife & the after care, I was basically terrified of her after all of this.
Meanwhile, I had also developed a weird issue with my left foot. I discovered I couldn't flex my toes up toward my knee. & I had pain up & down that leg. Doctors tried to say it was probably due to my epidural - but I was quick to say I had an unmedicated/natural birth! (And this is another reason why I want to have another unmedicated birth this time around - I don't want to mess with my back &/or have doctors attribute any issues to an epidural). Anyway, very quickly started going downhill from there. When I walked, my left foot would drag/limp along. I actually fell while holding my daughter because of that. It was bad. Saw a neurologist, was sent for an MRI & was told it was the worst bulging disc he had ever seen in my back & id certainly need surgery. So I'm sent to a neurosurgeon, but the closest appointment they had was a month away. At the time that wait was awful, but now I'm thankful for it, because my foot had mostly resolved itself by the time I got in to that doctor (probably because I lost a lot of my pregnancy weight by then) & I was no longer in pain. They have me on "watch" there now - said despite my horrible back, they wouldn't perform surgery on someone who wasn't in pain.
So. There's my whole story.
sorry you asked??
Mmm chocolate cupcakes....
. Anyways sorry for the TMI....but I was laying on my back and my belly almost completely disappeared!! LIKE WHAT?!? Any of your belly's do that? In previous pg my belly usually stayed somewhat the same shape. 
It acted like a giant boob 
