Birth Story 💗

I finally have a few minutes to write our birth story!

I walked into the hospital contractions every 5 mins, 5-6 cm dilated, 36 weeks and 6 days . After 4 hours there was no cervical change so they sent me home 😢 I labored at home from 2 am in the morning until 10 am.

At 10 am I started losing pretty big globs of blood, so I called my OB and she wanted us to come back.

At 11 am I was 7-8 cm dilated and contractions every 2 mins .

I had a scheduled c section for the 28th of November due to my previous delivery my son was 9 lbs and I lost a lot of blood .

Well considering I was already 7 and I was only 37 weeks I was going to push , I figured baby wasn't gonna be big and I was already 7 ..

But after thinking about it for another minute I was just so exhausted and I couldn't do it.

So they rushed me back for an urgent c section . ( I had to be put under general anesthesia instead of being numb through epidural because I had ate at 9:30 that morning and they were concerned about the food backing up into my lungs) super scary because my husband couldn't go back into the OR with me 😩

FINALLY they woke me up and I got to see my sweet rainbow baby!

After a few hours and some family time the midwife and physician that did my c section came in to talk to me (the midwife assisted)

Basically if I would of delivered vaginally I would of bled out because my uterus wouldn't firm up. So they highly suggest no more babies. Which we were done anyway considering once my babies start middle school my husband and I would love to be foster parents.

Everyone always told me how hard a c section would be but honestly it wasn't bad . Of course it's major surgery so it's not easy but my pain is controlled.

I'm SO happy with my decision to do the c section and I'm so grateful to my OB for basically saving my life. For those of you struggling with the decision between c section and vaginally delivering, follow your gut and what your body tells you & LISTEN to your doctors . 💗

MEET MY SWEET AURORA JANE