i know i'm a little late. but i copied my labor story from another site. so ignore all of the "yesterdays" i used. lol. just replace them with thursday.
so yesterday (38w6d) the specialist at maternal fetal medicine said to go ahead with the induction that my OB wanted to do today when i turned 39w. so i was thinking i would be coming in this morning. after my appt at MFM i called my OB and they said the only time they could schedule me in was last night at 8pm, so to be at the hospital at 8. well we get to the hospital and i get hooked up to the monitor to start monitoring her heart and stuff. but my OB was at another hospital assisting a c-section and they were waiting for him to call the resident to let her know what to do with me.
this past monday i was checked for the first time and was told i was 30% effaced, stationed -3 and my cervix was still closed! so i was assuming i was gonna come in with a closed cervix still. on wednesday night i was having contractions for 3 hrs straight, then they died down and came back for an hour, then went away completely. last night when i got in they checked me and said i was 2-3cm and 60% effaced, stationed at -1 i was so surprised to hear that.
so then my nurse tells me they have a little bad news. they didnt look at the notes before i came in, and they said "elective inductions" cant be done until 39 weeks. but the nurse tried saying that since i'm being induced for medical reasons it shouldnt count. they go to look at the notes that MFM put on my U/S from earlier in the day and they wrote for me to be induced at 39weeks (today) so i had to wait arond until midnight before they could do anything. well when i get to the hospital i started having contractions while we were waiting for 12 to roll around.
at 11:20 my OB and the nurse come in and said they were gonna break my water to see if that would help with my natural contractions and wait on giving me any pitocin. after they broke my water i noticed the contractions started to get more intense. but not closer together.
a little after 1 am they said i was allowed to get up and walk the hallway. they checked me right before i got up and i didnt make any change from the contractions i was having after my water broke. so me and SO start walking up and down the hallway. did that for a good hour. pretty much the entire time i was having contractions every 2-3 minutes. i thoguht forsure it was helping. after i couldnt walk through some of them we came back to my room (around 2:30 am). they checked me again at 3am and still no freaking change! by this point it turned into super bad back labor. they took the monitors off my stomach and put in the internal monitors. then all of a sudden they said her heartrate started to dip with every contraction so they cheked me again and said i was a very stretchy 4. thats when the contractions got super painful since i had so much back labor. i got two doses of nubain at 4:30 and 5:30. they helped and me and thomas get a little nap in. at 7am i wanted more but then decided i was gonna get the epidural. by this point i cried with one or two of the contrations. the back pain SO bad. so a little before 9 they checked me and said i was only an 8. but with every contraction it felt like my body was pushing by itself. so when i told them they said dont let it happen and to breathe through them. well i was doing that for a couple and then they got all the doctors/nurses and my room ready. so at about 9:20 or 9:25 they said i could push with the contractions. so basically i was pain med free because the epidural failed! they had to give it to me twice. i felt like i was a typical movie laborer and screamed when i pushed. but i had to! lol. i ended up with 2 stitches but all in all it was good. the pushing wasnt AS BAD as it couldve been. but those contractions had me acting like a bitch lmao. so in the end i had 2 hrs of painles contractions, but other than that everything was pain med free.
Ava Lou Sanchez was born on 4/29/11 at 9:35 am weighing 6 lbs 11 oz and 19.5 in long
been awake since 6am. I feel like a zombie! I am sooooooo sleepy 
Hope they come up with some good pain management for her- or just deliver her already!
