I was due on July 18th. Which thinking about it, I still wouldn’t have been prepared. I woke up early the morning of June 20th because the dogs wanted out. While I was waiting to let them back in, I went to the bathroom. I went to get back in bed and A LOT of fluid leaked out and I was like why am I all wet? I went back to the bathroom wondering if my water had broke and it was just a slow leak. I laid back down and tried to go back to sleep. Being 8 months pregnant I had to go to the bathroom again after an hour. More fluid leaked out and I was bleeding. I woke up my husband and said we had to go to the hospital. *We suffered a miscarriage last year and the bleeding made me panic and want to go to the hospital ASAP. I also have a bicornuate uterus so I knew the baby could come early.*

This was the only time I have ever seen him get out of bed immediately. It normally takes him like 15 minutes. Lol.

We grabbed my hospital bag and were on our way. *If you are reading this and getting ready to give birth soon, make you significant other pack a bag also. He had nothing the whole time we were at the hospital before I gave birth.*

Contractions had started before I got down the stairs and were getting stronger during the 20 minute drive to the hospital. Intake was quick and we were put in a triage room. They hooked me up to an IV to make sure I was getting fluids and called the doctor to come check me out. I was only 1cm dilated but insisted I was having contractions and in pain. They gave me IV. Tylenol, which was useless. We called my mom and after she got there, they decided that they were going to keep me over night to see what happened because I was continuing to dilate but not very quickly. So they moved me over to the labor and delivery side of the wing.

Believing that the IV Tylenol was enough pain medication, they didn’t give me anything else until one nurse came in and looked at my contraction monitor and goes “Have you just been breathing through your contractions?” To which I responded yes and she said she was going to call the doctor and have her come look at me and get her to order stronger pain medication because my contractions were getting stronger. I was now 4cm so they have me something stronger.

In the middle of the night they came in and asked if they could check me and I said sure. We both hadn’t been sleeping at all. I was 6cm and they ordered an epidural. The next morning, they checked me again and the epidural had slowed everything way down and I had gone back to 4cm. So we were just playing a long waiting game. I had been in labor for over 24 hours at this point. To this point my water hadn’t broken but when a nurse came in to check me, she was having a hard time because the amniotic sac was pushing so hard on my cervix. Then boom! My water broke and went all over her and in her shoes. That was such a weird sensation, having all of the fluid rushing out of you like that.

At some point that evening, my epidural began to fail and I started feeling natural labor. I was literally screaming. I had gone to feeling nothing to feeling everything. They had the anesthesiologist come in and give me more medication through my epidural and that helped until that night (6/21) when it completely failed and I was 9.5cm and all my body wanted to do was push and they kept telling me not to. After about an hour and a half, they decided to redo my epidural while I am having crazy ass contractions. Like both my sister in laws could hear me screaming from the waiting room. This was at like midnight. By two in the morning on 6/22, I was in pain again. My whole left side wasn’t numb anymore. They decided to check me and told me I was at 10cm. They sat me up in the bed and said they were going to let gravity do some work. I told the nurse I needed to sleep and she told me I was having a baby soon and walked out of the room. By 5am I was pushing and at 6:08am my baby girl was here.

She came out, the doctor laid her on my chest and I saw her and all the pain and frustration of being in labor for 48 hours, melted away. She was crying and I just pulled her to me and told her she didn’t need to cry.

She was almost exactly a month early. I had literally had my 36 week check up the day before I went into the hospital. It was crazy.

Isabelle Skye

6/22/19 6:08am

6lbs 2oz 19.25 inches long

Now she is almost two months old and it’s crazy to me how fast she is growing. She weighs almost 10 pounds now! I’m having a hard time believing that the little tiny baby I gave birth to, has gotten so much bigger so fast. I can’t handle it.