My birth story: no one knew I was in labor .

I was 39 weeks and had been measuring small for 7, at my regular ob appointment she decided to check on the ultrasound, long story short baby was just under 3 pounds and I was hauled to the bigger hospital for tests. Upon taking my blood pressure (which was dangerously high) they decided to induce me, but said I’d first have to wait in triage because all the birthing rooms were occupied. They put a string in my vagina that had some kind of hormone meant to soften my cervix and prepare me for induction.

After 10 minutes I was in pain, I HATED that string and they wouldn’t let me take it out. I kept saying it was causing me pain and they said I was being dramatic. I felt like crap because everyone including SO was annoyed with me, everyone left and my SO fell asleep. I started feeling a lot of pain but I didn’t want to wake him up so I kept quiet and cried. I gave in after an hour and called the nurse In, I asked for the epidural because if this was only 1cm I know I couldn’t handle more, my natural birth plan went out the window and the nurse was SOOO annoyed with me. They absolutely took their time but I finally got the epidural, the nurse kept saying “if you can’t handle the beginning good luck giving birth.

I’m pretty sure she did this to humiliate me but she called a doctor in because I was acting “unusually in pain”. He checked me and I was 9cm!!!!!! They rushed me to L&D where the doctor checked me one more time to make sure, and bam my water broke and my son was coming. Everyone rushed to get prepared and the ONE thing I asked my SO for was my water I had in the bag because I was so dehydrated and wanted some before birthing a human, to which he told me “ sorry babe I drank it”.

I was pissed but had to focus on baby, he came out crazy fast and In all honesty I turned away in fear of seeing a sick baby. I had expected them to take him away into nicu but I felt them place him on my chest and he was 6 pounds 7 ounces??!! Perfectly healthy! I hadn’t noticed it at the time but apparently I was bleeding too much so they took him away. I looked down and realized I felt big gushes coming out of me and passed out from all the blood, but In the end everything was fine, and I was so In love with his little face!!!

The only thing I have to say is make sure the doctors listen to you and make sure your voice is heard! If I haven’t spoken up I would of had my baby in that room by myself while my SO was sleeping.

And ps: it was too late for the epidural anyway 🙃