I’ll try to make this my birth story and not my pregnancy journal. A little history first, this is our rainbow baby. I’m high risk with Epilepsy so we had a very cautious pregnancy. My husband was very nervous about birth defects and issues caused by my meds. All in All I was only hospitalized once at 20 weeks and had continuous bleeding that came an went for no apparent reason that scared the living crap out of me especially the first 16 weeks.

Now for the delivery, being high risk I did plan a induced date of Feb 25(which is also my husbands birthday:) so on the 24th at 6pm they called and said they were full and our room wouldn’t be ready until 8Am. That’s fine just all night long I was up waiting counting the minutes. So 8 am rolls around we get to the hospital and by 9:30 I’m all hooked up on my first dose of meds. I was already 3.5 centimeters dilated when I arrived. The nurse had told me that if I planned on a epidural that the anesthesiologist had a surgery at 11:30 and might not be back until after 1. Well crap I’m not feeling any contractions, do I wait? So I turned to my husband I saw that look in his eye, so of course I called for him to come. Then she breaks the other news that my OB just called and said she’s on her way to break my water.... WHAT... serious it’s 9:45 I’m just getti

ng here they really wanna get things moving. As I’m getting the epidural which I thought I was going to scream bloody murder with didn’t even hurt...I’m so confused here I am not feeling contractions im having them but the pain isn’t strong enough for epidural. My OB walks in waiting to break my water.

Fast forward that happens about 30 minutes later they check me and I’m at 5.5. So my husband and our mothers go eat some lunch. When they get back it’s now 12pm

and things are rolling the babies heartbeat keeps dropping so they check my cervix again and I was at a 9.. wow already it’s been like 3 hours how did that happen. So she went to call my doctor an we did a few practice pushes. My Doctor came in and with 2 3 pushes she was out. I couldn’t believe it. My husband got the best birthday gift ever. My rainbow baby. It was so fast not a single cramp or pain. I feel I cheated the system. 4 hours later miss Harper Rayne was with us 19.5in and 6.5 pounds. I still can’t believe it.