I thought I posted this in here after it happened - but I guess I didn't. The pain killers they give you in the hospital are good stuff .... let me tell you .... I don't remember half of anything for a few days after haha
Anyway --
Little Allison Hope made her debut last Saturday at 12:15pm via emergency c-section after 21 hours of labor. She decided to show up 10 days early, funny enough right after I posted on FB requesting she hurry up because I was done being pregnant and I was ready to meet her now. Ideally, I would have appreciated her cooking to 40 weeks I wasn't being serious - but I guess she was ready. Friday at 3:30pm we walked in the door and I said to myself, "I have to pee" and as soon as I said that I felt a 'whoosh' of liquid and thought it was vaginal discharge because that gets funky while pregnant ... and it was water with no smell. So I came out and told my husband I needed to call the doctor. He said, "Why?" I said, "I think my water just broke." and sure enough - when I stood back up, another 'whoosh', and another panty liner full. So I said, "We have to go. Now." I put on a heavy-pad and we went to the Doctor to get checked to verify if it was or not. I'm StrepB+ so I needed to get hooked up to the anti-biotics ASAP when I went into labor so I didn't want to hang out at home for very long. We got to the doctor and they did the strip test, the 'fern' test, and saw the water pooling in my vagina.
Off to labor and delivery I went.
Got checked into L&D, I was dilated to 3/4 at that time and due to my water being broke for a couple hours at that point, they hooked me up to petocin. I labored naturally with no epidural from until 5:30am. They had done 3-rounds of petocin at that time and I still wasn't fully dilated. My contractions were getting to 95 on the level reader (whatever they call that thing) and I honestly barely felt them. Having PCOS and cysts my whole life prepared me for contractions because THEY WERE NOTHING to me LOL My friend who has 6 kids was up there and she said, "Do you not feel those?!" I said, "I feel them, but they're not bad...." she said, "Girl if you don't feel THOSE, you will be able to do this all naturally!!" I did have the pain killers to take the edge off because I was afraid they would get bad, but ummm yeah - I didn't feel them really. They were like a bad day of cramps. I have had cramps worse, honestly.
ANYWAY
So I ended up getting an epidural because they said she wasn't dropping on her own and that if I didn't get the epidural at that time, they wouldn't be able to give me one. I logically thought if after all this time, my water has been broke, she's not dropping, I'm at 8cm -- it's about to get painful because they are going to end up having to assist with her arrival. So I got the epidural. AND I AM GLAD I DID.
Once I got to 10cm, the doctor said she was not dropped and I needed to push her into the birth canal, and then I needed to push her out from there. Ok, I was game. I was ready and had my game face on. 2.5 hours I pushed, I pushed like my life (and hers!) depended on it. She was stuck between 0/1 position - her head didn't turn fully so she wasn't able to fit down the canal
The doctor came in and said it had been too long, there was no other option - I needed a c-section NOW.
I cried. I cried like I can't even tell you; I was scared to death. However, I am SO glad I got that epidural because since I got the epi not only did I not feel the extreme amount of pain I would have felt from having to do all that pushing, but I also didn't have to get a spinal block (those just scare me more than an epidural did...)
Within 5 minutes, they had me back in the OR, prepped and waiting on my husband. Why waiting on my husband? As my doctor came down the hall, he asked my husband if he had the camera and everything we wanted to have foot-printed. I am SO glad he did that because we left her baby book AND the camera in the duffel bag in the delivery room!!! lol So he hauled ass back to the room, got the book and the camera and joined us just as they were getting ready to make the cut.
I was holding my breath, this was it - this was the moment I have been waiting years for. The moment that every doctor except my current one said would never happen. The moment I was about to become a mom on the outside and not just to the little human inside of me. I was about to be responsible for the care and well-being of a little human. And I held my breath because I was so scared something was going to happen and it was all going to be a dream and I was going to wake up and realize the whole thing never happened and I wasn't pregnant. Then I heard her. The most beautiful, amazing, blissful noise I have ever heard in my life. I looked at my husband and I couldn't stop crying. I was doped out of my mind, I couldn't feel anything from the neck down, I had no idea what day it was - I couldn't even tell you my full name I am pretty sure, but I cried like no other time I remember in my 30 years on this planet.
She spent 3 days in NICU due to an infection contracted by my water being broke for so long before she was actually born; and she was a little jaundice. She had an IV port in her head, that was the most gut-wrenching thing I had to ever see. My husband I were sobby messes of emotion because we didn't know exactly what was wrong, they hadn't really explained anything or to what level of severity her infection was.
She was born with a side-way cone head due to being stuck diagonally in my birth canal - but this is my angel. My little angel that everyone told me would never happen. And it did. PCOS, and all the doctors I had in the past all lost .... I had my baby. BOOYAH. Jinni - 1, PCOS - 0
Sorry for the super long post; I didn't think it would be that long
congratulations and I am.glad you are all well 
