Having the baby

My doctor and the doctor on call disagreed where to send me. My doctor thought it would be fast and they should put me right into labor and delivery. The doctor on call said no, send her to high risk perinatal to watch her during the induction. So after several hours, off I went to HRP to get induced. I had only eaten a morning star farms breakfast pattie for breakfast, and this was already early afternoon. Knowing there could be several hours ahead of us, we asked if I could eat. I was told to eat until midnight (big mistake). The doctor came to put the gel in to start the effacement and informed me to have some sleep, they would check on me at around 7:30 the next morning to start pitocin. Ha.

The contractions started getting stronger later that night, but the nurse didn't believe me because the monitors didn't show them to be as strong. Until she saw me during one of them, after I had asked for something for the pain. She said I had two options: an iv which would make me drowsy or to go to L&D and get the epidural. I said I would try the other meds first. They didn't help. Every time I got drowsy another contraction would start and I felt the full pain. So I asked to be transferred. I should not have waited. It was a few hours before they could transfer me and get in the order for the epidural. By that point I was past 10 on the pain scale if you asked me (or my poor husband). The anesthesiologist was with another patient so I would have to wait. I was finally seen around 12:30 am.

He got the epidural in me with no problem and laid me down so it could start to take affect. My blood pressure immediately plummeted, I got light headed and threw up everything I had eaten. (Sorry a bit graphic). Once they stabilized me, they suggested I get some rest for the work to come.

A few hours later, the nurse came in to check on me and asked me- when did your water break?!?! I had no  clue. I couldn't feel anything down there! I was almost ready to have the baby she said. After talking to the doctor, they decided that instead of pushing I should wait a little longer. So I waited. Then they decided around 6:45 am to have me push. With about 3 pushes, the baby was out and my husband announced "it's a girl!" She was born at 6:57 am. Pitocin at 7:30? Yeah, I don't think so! She weighted just 5 lb, 11.7 oz of perfection. She was healthy. I could not believe it.

Thankfully, with the help of a lactation consultant, we were able to get her breastfeeding and she has developed normally and been the joy of our lives since.