Baby's Name: Tenzley Sue 💖

Sex: Female

Date of Birth: 8 / 24 / 2019

Original Due Date: 9 / 1 / 2019

Weeks Pregnant: 38.6

Baby's Weight: 6 lbs 12oz

Baby's Length: 18.5 in

Birth Story:

I was scheduled for an induction on 8/28, which is also my birthday. However, on 8/23 my blood pressure started rising as it has been over the past few weeks. I was also feeling light headed and had a headache. I was told to come in to get checked out, but I had a feeling this was probably going to be it. After being monitored and urine and blood tested, the nurses contacted my midwife to see what she wanted to do. We decided to come back in at 9pm that night to be induced even earlier. We were told to go enjoy our last evening as a couple, to go out to eat and finish packing up our bags. It instantly hit me that our baby girl would be entering the world within 24 hours. We did some last minute spur of the moment maternity pictures and went out to eat, and returned to the hospital at 9 o'clock sharp. The ob nurse hooked me up to monitors, as we waited on my midwife to arrive to start me on cytotec. I was dilated to a 1 and having contractions every 5-7 minutes. So 4 hours go by waiting on the cytotec to work, and I was feeling contractions more and more. We decided to skip the second dose of cytotec and start me on pitocin at a 2, upping it every hour by 2. At this point I was trying to get rested up for our big day, but the contractions were becoming unbearable. I went in hoping to not have an epidural, but was keeping an open mind about it. I chose to try stadol, an IV pain medication. I had two doses 2 hours apart, which helped me sleep through the contractions. I woke up at about 5 am to myself moaning through the contractions, I realised if I wanted to be somewhat at ease through the most life changing experience I had better get an epidural before it was too late. They checked me and I was at a 5, and contractions were every 1-2 minutes apart. After the epidural I was OUT, and everything is kinda foggy. At 8:30 am my midwife came and put in a catheter and broke my water, I was then dilated to about an 8 or 9 and still having contactions about 1 minute apart. They turned down my pitocin because I was contracting enough on my own. I fell back asleep and remember the nurses turning me from one side to another every hour or so. I heard them saying my baby didn't like me sleeping on my left and her heart rate wasn't cooperating how they'd like. I was so numb I couldn't move anything from my waist down, they put an oxygen mask on me while I slept. Next thing I know it's about 1 PM and I felt a lot of pressure really low, they checked me and I was at a 9-10. My midwife was on her lunch break so we were just waiting on her to get back. It got more and more pressured and I told my husband to go tell the nurses she needs to hurry back because our baby girl was coming! I started pushing about 2 PM and she was out at 2:35 PM. I got to touch her head as she was coming out, and it was the most amazing thing. When they laid her on my chest everything else didnt matter, my baby girl was here, so beautiful and healthy. She had a little trouble breathing because of getting some fluid in her lungs, but it didnt take long for her to get to screaming. The whole experience was absolutely amazing, I love being her mommy. 🥰😍😊