32 week delivery: big baby girl! *long*

Caitlyn

This is my first time posting but I read all the new delivery stories daily😂 Backstory: I have a 15 month old son, which I had a short cervix with but didnt deliver until 37 weeks. He was a very good size (7 lbs 14oz) so when our daughter was measuring big, we weren't surprised. My cervix was checked for length at 14, 20 and 24 week and was so long at 4cm! We were so excited and thinking I wouldn't have preterm labor.. wrong! I had an ultrasound at 28 week and it had shortened to 1.6cm but we still weren't that concerned. I was also a fingertip dilated. Now comes the fun part! At 32+1 on saturday I went into labor and delivery for. bit of spotting and cramping but it had stopped and I was still only a fingertip. So home I went. On Sunday morning at 10am contractions started. Now, I contract all day everyday basically bc I also have an irritable uterus but they're usually just tightening. These contractions were 5 mins apart the whole day but with it being about my baseline, I decided it would be okay to wait for my appointment the next morning. They started getting stronger throughout the day and just as I was beginning to worry, they started to spread out at about 8 pm. I contracted pretty strongly throughout the night and headed to my doctor. My app was at 9am. As I was in the bathroom, I lost my bloody show and I knew things weere bad. They checked me and I was at a loose 3. They sent me to the hospital straight away where they started magnesium, gave me tributaline to stop the contractions which worked for the meantime and steroid shots to mature baby girls lungs, this was about 1pm. Shortly after arriving they decided to transfer me to a hospital with a level 1 nicu also. When I got there and got settled (4pm), they wanted to check dilation again. By this time I was 5cm with a bulging bag of water. They did an ultrasound only to discover that she had flipped to breech from head down, which she was just a week before. I was scared and devasted, as my son's vaginal delivery was great. My contractions had now picked up again and were very intense. They checked me and I was now 7cm and said it was csection time. I was terrified but obviously the best for baby! I was prepped, got the spinal block and everything was so smooth. My husband was amazing and kept me calm and smiling the entire time. At 8:21 pm, on 11/27 (at 32+3) Teagan Everly entered the world at 5lb 4oz, 18in long. We were shocked at how amazing she looked! I didn't get to see her but she scored 8/10 and 9/10 on her tests and is doing amazing. We couldn't be more blessed to have such a healthy baby, she is breathing on her own and thriving❤ update: she is now on 25% oxygen but still doing great!