So to start this all off I had been attempting to self induce for 2 weeks, finally had a membrane sweep 2 days before I went into labor and was also 4cm at that check up. That Friday after, I did stuff around the house and showered my daughter (tried doing more physical stuff). Later that day I started losing lots of my plug, and also felt super off and hormonal so I called my SO to come home. I felt way guilty having him come home without contractions/water breaking but I felt like something was happening. We waited around until 9 then dropped off our daughter at grandma's and headed to the hospital. I totally thought I'd be sent home, I was super calm because of this. They checked me and I was 5cm so they admitted me, my blood pressure was really low so I had to be put on fluids to up it. Being so progressed, I thought if I had some Pitocin and had my water broken that everything would speed up, which I wish I would have stalled on (Pitocin). My contractions got very unbearable and I hadn't slept that much for a few days so I thought it'd be better to get an epidural then sleep to help me later on. I was 7cm when I was given the epidural and about 3 hours in. Well I slept about an hour, when suddenly at 8cm I started having pushing pains. I then was stuck at 8cm for about 7 hours, still somewhat in pain from the pressure and then I got to 9cm which was a whole other nightmare. I was moved side to side, even went on my hands and knees WITH an epidural to try to dilate me/move baby (she kept twisting in weird places) all while having​ extreme pressure pain and needing to push. This causes me to become extremely swollen, and was exactly what happened with my last daughter. I got more epidural which did nothing for my pain but made me out of it (falling asleep just to wake up every 2 seconds to pain). Finally 4 hours later I felt a super sharp pain which really worried me so much. With each contraction I was screaming and crying and trying to get someone to help me. Finally a nurse came in and basically put my babies head under the lip of my cervix which was SO painful but AH thank her for that. I was then ready to push, despite the epidurals I felt everything since they had worn off. Of course that was painful but I was SO happy to see my beautiful girl. The doctor thought I couldn't feel anything, so he never numbed me while sewing so yeah that was FUN. Luckily my daughter distracted me from it. Yes, things could have been worse but I feel like it was a mess of a labor lol never again!

Our little Audrey Talia Mae was 8lb 6oz & 20 1/2 in