20 hours of labor *let me start by saying, I acted a complete FOOL*

Claire

So my due date was 8-19 and my precious baby girl came on her exact date.

So if any of you are familiar with the midwife brew, I drunk it at 9pm Saturday night because I was determined to have my baby no later than her due date. So around 10:30 pm, I started getting contractions. Some I can manage but others I was just like oh naw let’s go to labor and delivery. We get there about 11pm they check me and I’m having contractions back to back but not enough to be admitted because I was still only 50% effaced and 1/2 centermeter dilated. So they watched me for 2 hours then sent me home. Got back home and contractions was still coming. I let my husband get some sleep because I knew he was exhausted but by 6am, the contractions was so strong I was gagging and crawling around the house because I couldn’t walk. So by 7 or 8 am we end up back in labor and delivery, and they check me and I’m a 3 1/2 so they decide to keep us. So they give me this medicine that helps me bare the contractions and also get some sleep since I was up all night. And honey let me tell you, whatever that was they gave me was a little slice of heaven! I slept from 8 till 4 that afternoon, didn’t even know they transferred me to my room, or kept checking my cervix honey I was out!!! But it wore off of course and I started feeling contractions all over again and by this time I hear the nurse say “ let’s get you some pitocin in 3 stages since she kept checking me and I was still a 3. So I got the pitocin and I’m still determined to do this all natural no epidural. But by 5:45 she cranks the pitocin up on 9, the contractions are coming every minute lasting about 2-3 min I don’t have time to breathe and it was so strong that it made my water break. As soon as my water breaks she checkes me again and say “ you’re still a 3 do you want the epidural” by this time I’m sweating, gagging, flipping around in the bed, all while I’m about to break my husband whole arm off. So I said man skip this where that epidural at. My husband is strongly encouraging me not to get it and the nurse is like ok honey let me get the anesthesiologist. So by this time dude comes in read me rights blah blah blah, I’m in so much pain I didn’t hear a word he said I’m just basically like ok I’ll sign my life away for the drugs.. where they at!!! So they put my husband out and dude try’s to insert this epidural but I’m contracting none stop. Sweet little nurse was so small I was afraid to grip her because I didn’t want to hurt her so I’m begging to send my husband back in so I can dig my nails into his side, but dude finally get the epidural in only for it not to work, I’m still feeling contractions like strong, so he comes and try to get it in again but this time it’s different with each contractions I start feeling like I had to poop so my body starts pushing so I help. I tell the nurse I’m pushing she’s coming, she tells me no baby. I just checked your still a 3 I tell her again IM PUSHING IM PUSHING IM PUSHING.. she quickly calls for help and the poor epidural man got kicked out. By this time a whole team of nurses bust through the door flip me over and check me and say “she’s complete, let’s have a baby. They go grab my husband. Now I’m pushing uncontrollably nobody’s telling me what to do so I just start screaming and trying to flip off the bed. They tell my husband to hold my left leg while I hold the right but the whole time I’m still pushing. So they tell me to stop and push with every contraction. So I position myself and start pushing and holding my breath at the same time and let me tell you, if you are not in shape that is the hardest thing to do, anyways after screaming I can’t do this, it burns it burns, I push 2 times and I hear my husband say come on bae I see her hair! And I ended up pushing 1 last time and out came our little girl at 6:12pm weighing 5lbs 10oz and 19in long it all happened so fast my husband couldn’t even cut the cord because she swallowed some poop or something on the way out. But it didn’t take long for the placenta to pass and after that they stitched me up with a second degree tear and I felt ev👏🏼er👏🏼y👏🏼thing. But it’s all worth it now that i get to love on my lil brown suga😍😍 I’m so in love💞💞