I delivered my beautiful baby girl on July 16, at 6:57pm. She weighed in at 8lb., 4oz. I had just visited the womens evaluation unit the day prior because i thought that my water had broke. I was examined and sent home with false labor and nothing wrong with the sac.

The next morning i woke up with contractions every 4-10 min this was at 4:00am, so i sat up timing them, took a shower, and relaxed, once they began to speed up to 3-7 min, i called the hospital, and was told to wait. I decided to lie down in bed to rest. After laying down the contractions stopped almost completely, one evey 10 min, or longer. My husband wanted to go pick up his work computer so he could work from home, so i said ill ride with you, not like ill be doing anything else.

After we got the computer, we went to get lunch, and wouldn't you know, my water broke in the restaurant,before our food came. Luckily, i had a pad on, and the hospital was about 3 min drive from the restaurant. I was again evaluated then admitted this time. Unfortunately, i was not having very many contractions, so on brings Pitocin. I tried very hard to go natural, she checked my dilation i was only at 3cm, now i went up to 8cm with my first child before taking the epidural, and delivered within the hour, because i was stuck at 8 for two hours. With this little princess, my pain was much worse then with the first baby and all i could show was 3cm, so yeah, i asked for the epidural, one hour later she came in and checked me and i had dilated to 9cm, once dr. got to the hospital i made 10cm and pushed baby out in less then 5min. Baby came out crying and beautiful, latched on to nurse immediately.

As far as going natural vs. epidural, its a personal choice that only you can make. My hat goes off to those who can make all the way without it, but the process of birthing a child is a victory in itself, for me i would have went natural with both but as you can see the epidural actually sped it my delivery not slowed it down. Good luck moms