Not as expected

I was due on July 1st. On June 22nd around 1pm my water broke. It took me two hours to figure out if my water had really broken or if I had peed myself, the joys of pregnancy. I finally gave in and called my doctor and they told me to head to labor and delivery to check it out. I had to call my husband and wait for him to get home, he works an hour away. He was super anxious when he got home and at that point I was like no rush. I wasn’t even sure if my water had really broken. We made it to the hospital and got put in a room and I had to tell them I wasn’t even sure if my water broke. I kept telling my husband I was going to be so embarrassed if I just peed myself and we had to go home. They swabbed me and my water did break. They gave me a choice to augment labor with pitocin or just wait. I wanted to just wait but the midwife was real pushy and by 7pm they were hooking the pitocin up. It wasn’t bad the first two hours or so, but it started to get worse. I had wanted to go natural but by midnight I was begging for drugs. They gave me fentanyl in my IV and it did nothing at all. I begged for the epidural especially after they told me I hadn’t dilated anymore and was sitting at 3cm. At 3am I finally got my epidural and I slept so good for an hour. The midwife came to check me and I was fully dilated and there was some discrepancy about me not being checked before the epidural was given. They gave me another hour before pushing because I literally felt no pressure at all despite being 10cm. A little after 5am I started pushing and baby girl was born at 5:42. They gave us 2 hours with baby before doing measurements, she was 19 inches and 7 pounds 2 ounces. Unfortunately me and baby struggled the first few days as I couldn’t sleep and she was struggling to eat. I feel like the epidural really had some lasting mental and physical effects on both of us. I couldn’t have done it without it but I didn’t like the side effects it caused. Thankfully me and baby both overcame this and are now doing much better.