I went into the induction with hopes of having the baby without pain meds or an epidural. Unfortunately, that didn't work out to well. I was given the foley ballon to stretch out my cervix to 3 cm and the doctor suggested I also take misoprostol. After 4 hours I was only 2cm dialated and the doctor gave me the second dose of misoprostol. My body didn't agree with the extra dose of misoprostol and a few minutes later I started getting intense non stop contractions and shortly after a team of doctors and nurses rushed into my room--put an oxygen mask on me, gave me a shot to stop the contractions, and broke my water to put a heart rate monitor on the baby's head. The doctor explained that the intense contractions were causing the baby's heart rate to drop to 70 (normally was 140). I was so shaken from that experience but thankful for them acting so quickly.

From then on the doctors decided to let my body to continue to contract by itself. 14 hours later I was only 3cm dialated and my body began to have back to back to back to back contractions with a minute break in between. It was excrutiating. I decided to go with an epidural and I honestly think it was the best decision I could've made. The doctors were telling me I may be in labor for 2 days and I couldn't fathom being in pain for so long . 

Lucas Gael was born!