October Baby!

Hello I'm new to this app so I figured I would tell my little birth experience with my almost 3 month old son.

My original due date was October 26 2019, however he decided he wanted to come 3 days later on October 29 2019. I remember the night before I was Moody and emotional just not myself, through the course on the night I had woken up around 2 times to use the bathroom. I remember at 3am it was a little difficult to get comfortable but I had ended up going back to sleep until around 6:30/7am when I got up again, by then it was even more uncomfortable I remember sitting in the computer chair after using the bathroom to see if maybe I just laid wrong on my side. A minute or two after sitting there I felt like I was peeing myself and I had just used the bathroom. Therefore I got up and walked into the living room seeing if it would happen again before I decide to call my mom then wake up husband. It was baby time.

We got to the hospital around 8am and by then the pain in my hips which I then realized were contractions had gotten stronger. Waiting while they checked me out to confirm my water had broken (which I knew it did) I remember throwing up out of nowhere with no other urge of feeling like I wanted to get sick. Eventually they got me moved into another room where I would been until baby came. I tried to go as long as I could handle the contractions up until around 2:30/3pm I then wanted the epidural and I don't know why I didn't ask sooner because it made the rest of the night a little more relaxed and enjoyable. (Aside from the two times of throwing up from pitocin, each time they injected it I threw up).

Somewhere around 11:20/11:30 I kept telling the nurses I needed to poop at that point I didn't care about the baby coming I just wanted to go, and I had that urge because each contraction he would push down towards that area. They finally checked and he was coming. I had tried so hard to not push until they told me to when the doctor got into the room which felt like forever. Within 2-3 pushes in 3 minutes he was out at 11:42

pm.

He was 7lbs 5oz and 19.5"

Overall I thought my experience wasn't terrible and honestly I would probably do it again. Postpartum healing for me I believe was worse than giving birth. And I know not everyone has an easy birth experience but this is mine and I'm not here to gloat about it either.

Side note: he's half Vietnamese and half Caucasian