I was 41-1 weeks along, only 1cm dilated and had some thinning with 3cm remaining on my cervix by Monday, August 24,2020.

After checking the status of the stretch and sweep, we scheduled to be induced on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 9:30am. Due to a delivery happening the evening before with my midwife, we were postponed to 5:30pm, which I was more than okay with. We need our birthing coaches to be well rested for us and I really wanted to let my body labour on it’s own; it gave us more time. 💕

Tuesday morning arrived and during the day I felt like my body was preparing to go into labour, but 5:30pm came along and it was time to get the ball rolling. As I was being hooked up for monitoring at the hospital, the machine caught that I was having contractions. Sure enough, it was the beginning stages of labour.

We still went ahead with induction as planned and had Cervadil inserted at 6:30pm to help thin out my cervix and was monitored for 2 hours before being released to go home. The Cervadil had to be removed by the midwife at our house at 10:30pm as the contractions were way too intense and too long, putting strain on both baby and I and I was only 2cm dilated by the time she got there. Two hours after the removal and suffering in bed, the contractions were still too intense and I asked my hubby to pour a bath. I slept in the tub from 1am to 4:30am which helped ease the contractions tremendously.

Contractions continued Wednesday morning around 5 mins apart. The midwife came over around 10am and I had dilated to 3cm and was 90% effaced. That night I took another bath and awoke to back labour. It was so bad that I couldn’t breathe and asked to be admitted to the hospital and have morphine drip and gravol so I could actually sleep through the night. Was checked again and still remained at 3cm, 80/90% effaced. We scheduled to have my water broken Thursday morning at 9am-ish and had a second dose of morphine and gravol overnight at 2:30am after it wore off.

Thursday, August 27, 2020 was finally here and I was up at 5:30am with back labour continuing. I tried some yoga poses and enjoyed the sunrise of what could potentially be my child’s birth date. My husband used a massage gun on my back to relieve the pain and let me tell you, that hurt more than the damn contractions!

My water was broken at 9:00/9:30am and I received a shot of gravol. Started on the exercise ball with breast pump which escalated contractions. Contractions were intense and too long again around noon and became risky for baby, so I was given gravol, morphine, and had an I/V connected to hydrate and slow down the contractions. Slept between contractions while the morphine kicked in. My last dose of gravol and morphine was around 2pm prior to the final stages of labour. Started off the next stage of labour on my hands and knees and a spent lots of time in the glorious soaker tub, which was great and relaxing.

Delivered naturally as planned on hands and knees starting at 5:15pm and our little man was here are 5:54pm. Best little surprise and I loved every minute of it!

Introducing our beautiful baby boy, Dax Rolando!! Born on Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 5:54pm. Weighing in at 9lbs, 4oz, 21.7” long and 14.7” head circumference. Due date was August 16, 2020...was well worth the wait 💕

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