I just had mine! She came on her own at 36+6 (though I suspect they did a membrane sweep when I went in for contractions). My water broke the next night, and they induced me after 12 hours of relaxing at 1-3 cm dilated.

I got on picotin and my epidural, and then 10 hours of napping later, it was time to push!

No pain — it was literally everything I had hoped for!!

Here’s where the GD gets weird and affects my little family:

When she was born, she latched immediately, but since she was early, my milk wasn’t in. The lactation nurses at the hospital apparently didn’t get the memo, and spent the next 24 hours depriving baby of formula because they wanted her to breastfeed so badly.

This sent baby to NICU for hypoglycemia. She stayed there for just 28 hours, where they gave her an IV drip and supplemented formula.

They tested her little heels constantly for blood sugar, and tested me every 2 hours.

I was back to normal within hours of the placenta being gone!! So, that was great!!

Baby is doing really well, now! She’s 1 week and 1 day old now, and we did formula for 5 days. My milk came in (currently at .5oz total so far) and we’re mixing it with the formula now!

We also are not having any issues with nipple confusion! Avent bottles and nipples plus paced feeding are what we’re doing, and we tried latching again last night! Went super well!!

I hope all of that helped! Happy to answer any questions!!

Tips:

- Let the anesthesiologist know if you have scoliosis if you are going the pain-free route, like I did.