ALL the interventions. Birth totally didn’t go the way I planned.

I thought my birth plan was going to be slightly altered as nothing ever really goes to plan but the whole thing got thrown out the window.

My baby was suspected to be large, weighing 9.5lbs according to measurements, at 38 weeks. My doctor thought it best to induce at 40+1 on Thursday.

So, my unmedicated birth center birth became an induction on the labor and delivery floor instead. I was still going to try my best to have as little intervention as possible. HA!

Saturday comes and I’ve been in my apartment for 5 days straight and going insane. I decided I wanted to go out and watch Black Panther and get some errands done after.

Well, my baby had other plans. About halfway into the movie at 7pm on Saturday I started getting contractions. They were about 5 minutes apart and lasting anywhere from 30 seconds to 1 minute. I finished watching the movie with my husband and quickly went home to keep track of the contractions. I had lost my mucus plug that morning around 7am.

They got stronger and stronger and I didn’t know what the heck to do so we grabbed the hospital bag and went into labor and delivery triage. They admitted me pretty quickly and started tracking my contentions and the baby’s heart rate.

I was only at 3 cm around 9pm but my baby’s heart rate kept descending with each contraction. They got better if I was on my right side but not good enough that they would send me home so I got admitted around midnight.

Sunday comes around and it’s 3am and I haven’t progressed from 3cm. They wanted to immediately start me on Pitocin but I asked if I could hold off and walk around to see if I could progress on my own.

To be honest, I was so tired that most of what I did was walk, bounce on the ball I brought, and eventually just sleep. Doctor comes in to check me at 7am on Sunday and still at 3cm.

I accepted the Pitocin. I was on it for about 3 hours and apparently my contractions were coming every 2 minutes but they weren’t horrible.

Around the 11am mark they got really painful and uncomfortable. Enough that I couldn’t talk through them and I knew I wouldn’t be able to handle the pain so I asked for the epidural.

Sweet relief!

If I have to be strapped to a bed again, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to give birth without epidural and I’m fine with that!!

My husband and I were able to sleep until about 6pm with periodic cervical checks. Let me tell you, those cervical checks were HORRIBLE!!! Probably worse than early contractions. The last check of the evening before my doctors switched at 8pm I was at 5cm. My water broke on it’s own shortly after!!

Progress. I started getting rectal pressure shortly after that check and at about midnight I was at 7cm and 100% effaced. Baby was still really high up and didn’t want to come down.

I got checked around 3am again and I was good enough to start pushing!! Baby was still high but I could start pushing to bring him down lower.

I felt like such a dumb ass pushing. Like I didn’t know what to do. I felt I pooped more than push. With each push he went down a little and then went back up!

Baby boy is stubborn as heck and really didn’t want to come out.

I started getting so tired in between pushes that I would fall asleep and they had to wale me up to keep pushing. It was so exhausting. He just wouldn’t want to come down.

Ended up needing a cesarean after all because I was too exhausted and his heart rate kept fluctuating.

I was brought into an OR pretty quickly and set up was quick. It was weird feeling the pressure of them cutting me open and pulling out the baby. I was so numb though that it obviously didn’t hurt.

Finally, my baby was born at 4:50am today via cesarean.

You know how newborns usually look like aliens out of the womb? Well my Hulk baby looked like a straight one month old.

My son was born 10 lbs and 21.5 inches long!!!

Maybe it’s because I’m his mom but he’s the most beautiful baby I’ve ever met. Still feels so unreal.

Here he is just a few hours old:

And his father being a silly goose with him: