During that morning I went for a long walk to hopefully start inducing labor. I was already 40 weeks and ready for baby to be born. On that US appointment again baby wasn't as active - heartrate excellent just lacking frequent movement. So basically we went straight to labor and delivery. 

Pitocin was started and by 5 hours later my water broke. 3 more hours and I was given an epidural upon my request. Baby and I were doing great. Unfortunately, starting the epidural when I was only 2 cm dilated may have delayed me from dilating fully but finally by 1:30 pm on the July 29th I was ready to push! 

I pushed for about an hour and baby Isaac was born! They told me early on that since my water had a greenish tint that this probably meant that the baby may have swallowed meconium. So a neonatal doctor was there to check him immediately after he was born. He cried when he came out. Everything seemed fine. My husband and mom went to make the announcement to the family. As they were gone for maybe 10 min, the doctors and nurses noticed he was struggling to breath. When my husband and mom returned I told my husband to go to NIC with the baby. My mom stayed back with me. 

Now they were working on me, to remove the placenta, stitch me up, etc. During those 20 min while husband went to check on baby Isaac, that's when everything went wrong for me. I was hemorrhaging. I didn't know what was going on. This was my first baby and I thought it was normal for the doctor and two, then three then four and five nurses to be there. Little did I know I was bleeding out and everyone was working frantically to get me stable. Our in the waiting area our was praying and crying. 

At the end everything turned out fine. Thankfully they were able to stop the bleeding. I did need a transfusion but I am slowly starting feel back to normal. Baby Isaac is recovering nicely. He'll be home soon.