hey guys, i am finally taking the time to tell you about my experience.
well to start out my fiance, dustin, works offshore. he works seven days on seven days off. the last couple months the days that he was away i would go stay with my mom. dustin and i live about 35 miles from my hospital, where as my mom lives about 7 miles.
on tuesday, 10/9, i felt fine. it was a normal day. i went to work, felt big as ever then went to my moms for one more night until dustin got home. at about 2:00 am i woke up, went to the bathroom, got some milk and turned on the tv. that was a little routine i had gotten into when i couldn't sleep. after a few minutes of being up i began noticing pain in my lower back. well i stuck it out a little while, then i noticed some fluid leaking out. i wasn't really sure if it was urine or if my water had broke. so i kept watching tv thinking the pain would go away. well it didn't.
at 4:00 am i couldn't take the pain any longer so i woke up my mom. i told her i think i need to go to the hospital. it took her about 30 minutes to get ready then we headed to the hospital. we got to the hospital about 4:45 am and my mom was a nervous wreck. she couldn't do anything. she was trying to call dustin and she couldn't even calm down to find his work number in her phone. by this time the pain was horrible and my contractions were about 5 minutes apart, if that.
i always thought it was going to hurt in the front like braxton hicks contractions, well i was wrong, it felt like someone was stabbing me in my back.
my mom finally got intouch with dustin and let him know we were at the hospital and i might have the baby. dustin thought ok, her labor is just now starting i should have time to make it. he wasn't scheduled to fly out until about 8:00 am so that would put him at the hospital around 10:30 am. so from 4:30 am until he spoke with me again he was wearing out the soles of his boots from pacing the floors waiting to come home.
when i got into the labor and delivery room the nurse checked me and i was dialated to 2 cm. about 5:30 i was 4 cm. by this time my sister had gotten there and i was about to kill my mom. she wouldn't stay still i told her a million times to sit down. i was hurting alot, it was the most pain i had ever been in. i really wish dustin would have been there to see that.
after i had been at 4 cm for a while i had an epidural. thank god for those things. for all of you that go natural more power to you, there is no way in hell i would ever do that and i thought i had a high tolerance for pain.
after the epidural i was complete. it took my doctor a while to get there. he got there around 7:15, i was actually scheduled to go see him that day and i was going to get checked to see if i had dialted. guess i didn't have to make my appointment that afternoon.
as soon as he got there he said i could start pushing. my mom called dustin and said we're having a baby. my mom and sister were in the room with me, but i made them stand behind my head. they are family and everything, but i didn't want them seeing my stuff.
the whole pregnancy i thought i would start coughing while pushing, but i didn't cough one time. heck pushing a child out was easier than doing a pft <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> after about 20 minutes of pushing morgan entered the world and her daddy missed all of it.
my whole experience was great, i expected it to be so much worse. everyone keeps telling me i better be right by the hospital next time and as soon as i feel back pains to get there. hope i didn't ramble too much, but i had to share.
well to start out my fiance, dustin, works offshore. he works seven days on seven days off. the last couple months the days that he was away i would go stay with my mom. dustin and i live about 35 miles from my hospital, where as my mom lives about 7 miles.
on tuesday, 10/9, i felt fine. it was a normal day. i went to work, felt big as ever then went to my moms for one more night until dustin got home. at about 2:00 am i woke up, went to the bathroom, got some milk and turned on the tv. that was a little routine i had gotten into when i couldn't sleep. after a few minutes of being up i began noticing pain in my lower back. well i stuck it out a little while, then i noticed some fluid leaking out. i wasn't really sure if it was urine or if my water had broke. so i kept watching tv thinking the pain would go away. well it didn't.
at 4:00 am i couldn't take the pain any longer so i woke up my mom. i told her i think i need to go to the hospital. it took her about 30 minutes to get ready then we headed to the hospital. we got to the hospital about 4:45 am and my mom was a nervous wreck. she couldn't do anything. she was trying to call dustin and she couldn't even calm down to find his work number in her phone. by this time the pain was horrible and my contractions were about 5 minutes apart, if that.
i always thought it was going to hurt in the front like braxton hicks contractions, well i was wrong, it felt like someone was stabbing me in my back.
my mom finally got intouch with dustin and let him know we were at the hospital and i might have the baby. dustin thought ok, her labor is just now starting i should have time to make it. he wasn't scheduled to fly out until about 8:00 am so that would put him at the hospital around 10:30 am. so from 4:30 am until he spoke with me again he was wearing out the soles of his boots from pacing the floors waiting to come home.
when i got into the labor and delivery room the nurse checked me and i was dialated to 2 cm. about 5:30 i was 4 cm. by this time my sister had gotten there and i was about to kill my mom. she wouldn't stay still i told her a million times to sit down. i was hurting alot, it was the most pain i had ever been in. i really wish dustin would have been there to see that.
after i had been at 4 cm for a while i had an epidural. thank god for those things. for all of you that go natural more power to you, there is no way in hell i would ever do that and i thought i had a high tolerance for pain.
after the epidural i was complete. it took my doctor a while to get there. he got there around 7:15, i was actually scheduled to go see him that day and i was going to get checked to see if i had dialted. guess i didn't have to make my appointment that afternoon.
as soon as he got there he said i could start pushing. my mom called dustin and said we're having a baby. my mom and sister were in the room with me, but i made them stand behind my head. they are family and everything, but i didn't want them seeing my stuff.
the whole pregnancy i thought i would start coughing while pushing, but i didn't cough one time. heck pushing a child out was easier than doing a pft <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> after about 20 minutes of pushing morgan entered the world and her daddy missed all of it.
my whole experience was great, i expected it to be so much worse. everyone keeps telling me i better be right by the hospital next time and as soon as i feel back pains to get there. hope i didn't ramble too much, but i had to share.