Astrid versus induction!

So here's our birth story, sorry in advance, I love details...

I was induced with my daughter, Astrid, at 39 weeks exactly. Nothing wrong with her, I just had an extremely difficult pregnancy and was ready to meet the girl causing me so much trouble 😂

It took her two days to arrive. They inserted my foley balloon at 8pm on February 3, well they tried to. Astrid pushed the balloon out twice before they could finally get it in the third time, aside from my contractions, this was the most painful part of my labor. At 4pm the balloon was taken out and I was 4cm, then at 7am they broke my water.

I wanted to go natural so I continued to turn down the epidural the entire day, I was laying in bed fighting off contractions. At about 7pm they told me I wasn't dilating and if I didn't dilate by 7am the on the 5th that I would have to get an emergency csection. They told me epidural could help me relax and dilate so I cried then took it. I had my heart set on going natural but I guess my babygirl didn't.

I began to start shivering viciously after getting the epidural and I started to grow a fever. The nurses started to put cold cloths all over me and give me oxygen to help me from fully catching the fever. At 12:58 I began to push. The epidural had start to wear off but it was enough for me to not feel her coming. I kept feeling like she wasn't coming, like I wasn't pushing correctly. Then I looked at the ceiling light reflection and saw her head with all her hair and I pushed the hardest I could. Right after her head came out, everybody ran around like crazy, nobody told me what to do next so I just gave one more push for her tiny body to come out.

At 1:48am on february 5th my sweet girl was here. 50 minutes of pushing. Her daddy and grandmom helped and comforted me through it all. I have never in my life been so grateful, all the pain I felt during my pregnancy was worth her ❤️