My baby girl decided to be a January baby. Sunday morning around 2am came into L&D after hours of contractions. I was admitted due to frequent strong contractions and high blood pressure. Only at 1 cm tho. They started magnesium immediately due to my high BP (dont ever recommend getting this medication it made me super hot and dizzy and dazed they kept me on this 24 hours post partum and it was terrible) they also gave me a narcotic that helped lessen my contraction pain. 3 hours later contraction pain back asked for more pain meds still only a 1cm maybe 2cm the nurse and doctor suggested I just get the epidural so I did. This part was so much easier than I imagined. It didnt hurt I was so used to being poked at my entire pregnancy with multiple blood work appts diabetes checks etc.. about 15 mins later had some relief. From then on out I was checked periodically took a few naps. Nurses I had were super nice and helped turned me when I wanted to be comfortable. About 8pm the epidural started to fail I started to feel the contractions and my foley catheter started to burn so bad I wanted to rip it out. After many attempts to relieve the pain the anesthesiologist coming in again to check the lines I still had no relief and I only progressed to 6cm. I actually got up to a 7 at some point but they think her head on my cervix pushed me back. 830ish doctor called me and asked me with hesitation if I wanted to continue and at the point with as much pain and no relief for a while I decided to call her and they prepped me for a c section. The surgery was actually very fast wasnt as bad as I thought some things I dont remember due to high amounts of drugs they give. Baby girl was born at 930pm. 8 pds 6 oz 20.5 inches. She has a ton of hair and me and her are doing great. Going into day 4 I'm pretty sure we get to go home today. Daddy deserves praise too cuz he has been taking care of both of us since recovering from a c section honestly is not easy work. We are both so in love with her and I'm working on conquering breast feeding. Honestly think I'm going to miss being pregnant but I love my little girl so much I cant wait to see what our future with her has in store. I wish everyone best of luck in their deliveries and hopefully bringing home healthy moms and babies😊