Not the birth story I expected 💗 sorry it's long!
October 17th we were scheduled to induce at 5:30am at 39w1d due to gestational diabetes. We arrived at the hospital and filled out all paperwork and got hooked up to the monitors and waited for the Dr to check me. My Dr came in around 7am and I was 4.5cm and 50% effaced he said he would be back to break my water and see how I progress from there before having to give me pitocin. In the meantime my contractions were getting stronger and decided to get my epidural while I could. Around 9am the Dr came back and broke my water. I was still only at a 4.5 By 2pm I was 9cm n the nurse had me do some practice pushes while they called my Dr. My princess came out in 3 easy pushes n was born at 3:09pm on 10/17! 8.4 lbs and 19 inches of perfection!! 
Everything after seemed normal. This is my 2nd baby so I kinda knew what to expect after delivery. I had a lot of bleeding and they said it was normal to feel gushes so I didn't pay attention to it. They moved us to our postpartum room and my husband and I were just so excited to finally have our baby girl here. My parents brought my son to meet his baby sister
My husband left with my son to take him home n tuck him in bed then was going to stop to get food and come back to the hospital to spend our first night together. My mother in law called me on the phone and was so excited to visit later in the week, she ended up keeping me on the phone for 50 minutes, throughout the conversation I kept feeling myself getting wetter n wetter down there and at one point I thought I peed myself. My husband finally walks in as I'm hanging up with his mom and for whatever reason I decided to pull my blankets back and my whole bed and lower half was soaked in blood, my husband panics and calls the nurse. The nurse comes and and panics herself and says omg no that's not normal. I start to get scared, my husband takes our daughter out of my arms and 6 nurses rush in and start weighing the pads of blood and pushing on my stomach where they said gigantic clots were coming out. It felt like I just pushed the placenta back out. It was so painful as they were pushing on me and I just kept bleeding. My dr was finally called in and explained to me that I was hemorrhaging. They had to put me under so he could scrape the inside of my uterus out but the anesthesiologist refused because there was no airway machine in the room so they ended up doing a spinal tap but it only worked on my left side so I had to get another epidural! I have never experienced so much pain in my life. I started blacking out and they had to put another IV in for pitocin and a morphine drip. All I kept asking was how was my baby and they ended up having to take her to the nursery because my husband was too panicked and there was too much commotion in the room. They had to call a "code crimson" and 5 additional nurses rushed in the room. I was so scared. I ended up losing 2 liters of blood and had to get a blood transfusion. Our first night was not what I expected as having to be hooked up to 2 IVs for fluids and blood made it difficult n painful to hold my babygirl. I felt like I got hit by a bus after having 2 epidurals inserted and a spinal tap! My husband thought he was going to lose me and now almost 2 weeks later I'm still a little weak from the blood loss as they were only able to replace a 1/3 of what I lost. I'm just so happy to have my baby and to think I was so scared of the pain before delivery, it was the after delivery that was more painful than both of my babies deliveries combined.
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