Easter baby!

Our April fools baby decided to come a little early and take the Easter holiday instead! Started cramping around 3 AM and started having more regular contractions around 5 AM. Gave the midwife a call around 8 AM once we hit the 511 (contractions every 5 mins, lasting 1 min, for 1 hour). We headed in for a labor check but I was only 1 cm dilated so they sent us home to labor some more. Around 2 PM we went back in because the intensity of the contractions was becoming unbearable and they found I had only dilated to 2 friggen cm! 😭 I was so beyond frustrated my body wasn't progressing but they offered morphine and phenergan to induce a "therapeutic rest"- just made me groggy but must have relaxed my body enough to dilate to 5 cm after the meds! We headed to the tub for a waterbirth and after 20 mins I was dilated to 9 cm! I think we ended up pushing for 45 mins and baby Madelyn arrived at 5:46 PM. Amazing experience as a first time mom - I did have some tears that required some stitches but worth it and the pain for our beautiful daughter