Inducement is no joke - update

I left off when I was 7cm. I continued to quickly go up to 10cm; however, baby never dropped they much. My first half of labor was pushing to get our boy down the birth canal, the last half was to actually get him out. It was way more exhausting than I had anticipated. I used up so much energy to get him down that when it was time to really go hard to push him out I was so tired. I cried. I wanted to give up. Oh and did I mentioned they lowered my epidural to 50% to make sure I could feel my pushes? So I was also in pain.

After 16 hours of labor and 4-5 hours of pushing, our little one arrived. He did some serious damage to my lady parts and I have a ton of stitches but I did it! And his poor head is so bruised from all of the pushing and he was born was a pronounced cone head which is quickly going down.

Meet Henry Jake. Born 11/29 at 4:07pm, weighing 8lbs exactly, and 21 3/4 inches long.

First picture with conehead.

Our baby now

Good luck everyone! It really is all worth it in the end; though I never plan to do it ever again!