Birth story long post many details

So I'm finally writing it out! I read so many birth stories to help find signs for when I go into labor because I had no idea what I was looking for being a ftm. I definitely didn't want to give birth at home and I have read that it happens more often then you think. My due date was Oct 28th 2018. 2 weeks prior to Oct 28th, I was no longer able to sleep at night. I would get braxton hicks every 5 min and would not be able to breath. There was no pain though and I had read stories some women didn't feel it until it was too late, but I kept thinking about how every woman says "you just know" and I thought this can't be it. I timed them on a contraction app and it tells you when to go to the hospital and it kept telling me to go but I thought let me see if I can sleep because if it's time it should wake up from my sleep like most women said in the stories I read. I would wake up the next morning and no braxton hicks. This happened every night starting at 38 weeks. I did get the diarrhea and nausea at 36 weeks but nothing. I lost my mucus plug in pieces. I would get contractions and the time interval between them would range from 2 to 10 minutes and I kept timing because my cousins girlfriend had contractions that started 3 hours apart to 1 hour to 30 min and then to 15 min apart. But at 15 min apart they hurt her so bad she went to the hospital and she was already at 6 cm!! So I would say no do not abide by 5-1-1 rule all I would say is if the pain is horrible like you need to stop everything you're doing and last more than hour and contractions are at least 15 min apart then do what you have to do. Worst thing is they send you home. All these alarms I was for sure my sweet baby girl would make her appearance soon! But that was a negative. Then on Oct 28th I woke up at 7 am with a bad contraction that was both in my lower back which felt like just lower back pain and my front, on the front it felt like a menstrual cramp. It hurt enough to wake me up but not to keep me up. I timed it lasted a minute then I fell back to sleep. 10 min later I woke up again to the same feeling, this lasted all the way till 9am. When 9 am hit the lower back pain went away and it was just the menstrual cramp pain that went from a 2 to a 4 in pain. I do want to add my belly didn't get hard with each one either. I laid in bed timing the contractions for an hour and they were ranging from 5 to 7 minutes. I drank water and nothing wouldn't go away. I thought to myself this is could be it. At 10 am I walk around the house to see if it would go away in case they were braxton hicks and nothing. So I decided to take a bath that always made my Braxton hicks go away. I got into the bath and almost instantaneously my contraction came every 2 to 5 min with the pain still being at a 4. App kept saying go to the hospital I waited an hour in the bath and it did not stop. I finally thought this is it. I'm in labor. I get up from bath and here comes my bloody show. I tell my mom (who I currently live with because my ex and I broke up) mom I think it's time. She gets excited packs her bag I get dressed and I go to the restroom and the toilet gets full of blood. I'm in labor and I knew it from the moment I woke up but I thought this can't possibly be it. I guess all those women were right. I call the nurse's line from my obs office and they tell me go to l&d you're in labor. We get there around 12 to triage and the nurse checked me and said I was barely at 1cm. (I wasn't dilated any prior but I was completely effaced) I was still getting contractions every 5 min but not very strong and at 1 she told us go walking around the hospital and meet back at 2 and if I hadn't dilated anymore I would be sent home. So my mom and I went and found some couches and a TV she laid down and I walked around the couches. After about 5 min, contractions came every 2 min and the pain was a 11 I literally hunched over the couches every contraction. And I walked around those couches for a hour, getting painful contractions every 2 min lasting for longer than a minute. Finally at 2 we went back to our triage room midwife nurse came in to check me at I'm at 3 cm. They admitted me right then and there. The moment I get to the room and settled I get the epidural the pain was horrible especially every 2 to 5 min and my mom said all of us kids slipped right out with the epidural. Best thing ever. I was confined to the bed but I never felt a thing. Contractions slowed down so they started me on a drip (forgot what it's called) to basically induce me. They also started me on pencillen because I was positive and that was the worst pain ever i cried because it felt like my arm was on fire. Anyways I for sure thought baby would come on her due date but didn't happen. I ate popsicles because I forgot to eat before coming to the hospital and thats all the hospital had because my city was on a water boil notice. So eat of you can. Around 5 am Dr came in to break my water I was at 6 cm. And when she broke it turns out baby popped inside. That wouldnt change anything she said just have extra people in the room for my daughter. Then finally at 4 pm I was at 10! I did a couple practice pushes and I wasn't pushing right and baby was still high up. So they sat me up for an hour and at 5 they came back my mom gave me some advice on pushing like holding onto my legs and push like your constipated. Dr wasn't ready because she said ftm usually last hours but she was there for support. Well in 4 pushes less then 5 min baby was crowning. She told me to wait she called for the delivery team and got ready. I laid there thinking like I'm I really pushing my daughter out like I don't feel anything this is awesome lol. Once the team was in place Dr told me to push and baby's head came out with the cord wrapped around her neck I stopped Dr snipped it and I pushed again and out comes my baby. Dr. Held her mouth shut whole she got the mecomium out of her nose. I didn't hear my daughter cry they gave her to me wide eyed but she wouldn't cry I was freaking out a dr grabbed her and then I heard that beautiful cry. No time in the nicu for her. I had a second degree tear but I also was hemorrhaging. I laid there and asked my Dr I'm I going to die and she said she's doing everything she can so I won't and that that's why she's being so aggressive. Her hands were inside me taking out blood clots while nurses were pounding on my stomach and giving me shots. My mom was clueless she was in awe with her first grandchild. But I ended up okay and I'm so in love with my daughter! Sorry for such the long post! I wrote this in this way because I feel some stories miss everything that happened in between and I would of really liked those details.