420 birth story - it’s long

My dr scheduled my induction for 4am on 420. She specifically chose this time because she would be able to deliver my baby on 420 or 421 or even the morning of 422 depending on how long it took...

I was excited and anxious and it all felt surreal. It was really happening!!!😍😍😍😍😍

Nurse placed first dose of cytotec and the Foley balloon at 530am. I was only 1cm 10% effaced. The balloon was SO uncomfortable when she pulled it taught against my leg. 😵😵😵 And it was nearly Impossible to pee bc I couldn’t really Bend where I needed to Bend to sit on the toilet the way the balloon catheter was strapped to my leg 🙄

I Felt some general crampy discomfort but I could still nap on and off. The nurse said the balloon could be in for up to 12 hours and that it should dilate me to a 4. 12 hours 😰😰I was not looking forward to it 😐

Welp I got lucky - balloon came out after 4.5 hours! It was 10am and I was 4cm.💃🏻 I Needed a second dose of cytotec though - so I had an easy breezy next 4 hours with no balloon and just the cytotec. I felt nothing. Watched grease and Ferris buellers day off. My boyfriends parents came and said hello.

Around 2pm nurse says let’s start the pitocin! I’ve heard horror stories so I was nervous but also excited to progress. Started pit around 2pm I was 4cm 60% effaced.

I started pit at level 1 and every so often nurse would come up the pit to the next level. Everything was fine and dandy for the first 9 levels. I bounced on the ball took a walk around the halls, and ate some

Italian ice. Level 10 took me down. I started feeling intense BACK AND BUTT LABOR. 🤬I’ve never even heard off butt labor but there is no other way to describe it. 😳😳it was terrible.

At this point it was almost 7pm (5 hours on pit) and I was alone since my bf had left to go eat with his parents. I couldn’t get in any position to help the pain. I buzzed the nurse and asked for the walking epidural. I was hoping there wouldn’t be much longer so I wanted to be mobile. She called the anesthesiologist in and he’s going over everything with me ... In walks my bf AND his dad. I give them both the death stare and blurt out “I’m abt to get a walking epidural!” As in GTFO of here. Nope. The dad does not leave. Hes like “so you’re experiencing some type of pain right now?” 🤬🤬🤬🤬 No. No pain. Just in labor and getting the epidural for fun. Not painful at all. I swear to god I wanted to scream in his face to get the F out but I just didn’t have it in me with all the pain and I was just exhausted and pissed off at my bf for letting him in. I had specifically told him earlier - no one in the labor room when shit starts hitting the fan. THe dad then starts asking the anesthesiologist questions and finally the nurse is like ONE PERSON IN THE ROOM FOR THE EPIDURAL. My bf is totally oblivious. Dad leaves. I get the epidural

Placed.

Well It does nothing. 🙄They’re like well The walking epidural only brings Abt level 8 pain to level 7 pain. So while I contemplated what to do they checked me - FOUR CENTIMETERS. I was on pit for 5 hours and NO DILATION. I was upset.

Cervix did thin to 80% effaced and babygirl

Moved down to -2 station so pit did something but I was so discouraged I had not dilated at all.

I thought It would take another 24 hours so I asked for the standard epidural. They changed the epidural bag and I slowly started feeling better.

Well around the same time (just about 7pm) the doctor on duty came in and suggested we stop the pitocin bc baby’s heart rate was dropping with each contraction. So we stopped it and I wore an oxygen mask for a while. Nurse placed peanut ball in various positions. I could still feel some pain but nothing like I felt before. The epidural was working. I prayed that I wouldn’t need a c section and that baby’s heart rate would stabilize.

By the way I have not seen my dr all day. She was apparently in surgeries during the day. I didn’t know a single person that came into my labor room all day.

So I’m wearing the oxygen mask on the peanut ball waiting for my epidural to kick in all the way. AND IN WALKS THE DAD WITH A FUCKING FRAPPUCCINO. I screamed bloody murder and told

Him to get out. I was so upset and mad at this point and I hated his dad so much for just walking in. And hated my bf for letting him. And I hated the hospital staff for not asking me if visitors could come in the room. And hated that I was still at 4cm ... or so I thought. 😱😱

Nurse comes back just before 9pm so that’s 2 hours off pit. I had just eaten my 3rd or 4th Italian ice and I started shaking. I thought I was cold from the ice. Nurse wanted to check me to start pit again .... but HOORAY to my suprise I was FULLY DILATED 10 cm ready to push 😝😝🤪😜the shaking wasn’t because I was cold

It was bc I was in transition! I was so happy. 5 hours on pit no dilation. Stop pit for 2 hours get fully dilated 🤔🤔 weird, weird, weird.

Nurse called the dr. At 9pm

Thankfully visiting hours also ended at 9

So I didn’t have to worry about bloody dad barging in again.

I did some practice pushes with the nurses. It was SO much harder than I thought. I was not prepared to push. I figured once ur at a 10 baby is crowning and just comes out. Not so. We practiced for abt 20 minutes and it was so exhausting I could not hold my breath for the 10 seconds and I could not regain enough strength to do the third set my body was just going limp. They said I could do 4 sets of 8 second pushes instead of 3 sets of 10 second pushes. Finally

Nurses are like ok let’s stop and wait for dr. She should be here in 20 min they say.

20 min go by and Dr isn’t there. Dr is in traffic they say. So I wait. And wait and wait. And lay there at 10cm feeling like I’m going to poop a watermelon 💩🍉for AN HOUR. 🕑🕖🕓🕗 Im grunting and groaning can barely contain myself and can’t do it much longer.

Nurses finally come back - Dr got in a car accident they say! She won’t be coming at all they say! (She is ok) Remember how this induction was specifically scheduled around my doctor’s schedule? 😫😫 At this point i ask for any doctor. I need to get this baby out. Well In waltzes a SUPER young good looking guy ... I’m

Like huh that’s the doctor? Just my

Luck. He looks like he can barely be a med student could barely be 25 years old.

So here I am spread eagle

Probably pooping in front of this strange new guy and I’m just like I have to get her out, I have to do this. So we push. And we push and we push. It is sooo hard. I don’t know why it was so hard for me. The nurse was like your taking one step forward and five steps back with each push. 🤔😤 I was so exhausted though I literally

Could not hold my breath. I felt like I could feel it all. My wrists were sore from holding my legs. I pushed in this set for like 30-40 minutes

but it felt like an eternity. I will never forget that feeling when her head came out and then her body flopped out just like a flailing human coming out of your vagina should feel like LOL. 🤣🤣🤣

I saw her face and first I thought yay she looks like a human and then I thought her face is so little and cute and her cute little cry was like music to my ears. And I held her. Dr hottie stitched me up two stitches.

My babygirl was born at 1130pm on 420 weighing 6lbs 14oz. I love her more than anything in this world. She passed her birth weight by day 8 she loves her milk. She will be 2 weeks old tomorrow 💕💕

First photo - fresh out the oven

Few hours old:

One week old:

She is a little angel 😇