So glad things are starting to progress for you! Hopefully you'll all be holding your babies soon. I figured I'd get in my birth story while Haylee is sleeping like a champ.
Went to my weekly appointment at 10:30am Thursday. Still had high blood pressure so they sent me downstairs for more monitoring for pregnancy induced hypertension. They made the decision pretty quickly to induce me. By 1:00pm they had me admitted to the birthing room and broken my water. Contractions started immediately and then they added in pitocin which only intensified everything. I came in at 3cm and within a couple hours I was up to 6. By then, my contractions were so intense I was writhing in pain and having to pinch or scratch myself just to have another pain to concentrate on. (No idea how some ladies labor naturally. Maybe it isn't as crazy without pitocin but I couldn't manage) Going into labor I was completely against the idea of an epidural but I'm glad I got one. I hardly even felt the numbing needle and the relief was amazing. I made it up to 8cm in a couple of hours then stopped progressing. They tried everything topping off my epidural, turning me in weird positions, sitting me up. Nothing worked and after several more hours the pressure on my cervix caused it to swell back to 6cms. At that point, the doctor decided I needed a c-section. Long story short, over 15 hours of rough labor ending with us running down to the OR because her heart rate dropped, but we got our perfect little one out in the end. So in love!
