My beautiful birth story💕

I am a lover of the labor and delivery experience in general, mostly because my first two deliveries of my boys were pain free due to the epidural. I was induced with both of them and although I felt no pain, I regret the fact that I opted to induce and the recovery was not pretty.

With my second delivery the anesthesiologist hit a nerve and now my back just isn’t the same, I feel pain when I bend over and it’s something that is permanent for the rest of my life. If I could go back in time, I would totally go natural with no epidural. It took months to heal my back and be able to feel normal again.

Fast forward to my 3rd pregnancy and expecting my beautiful and only little girl EDD 10/05 I made up my mind that I would be brave and go natural since I knew I could not possibly care for my 3 kiddos with a bad back again. I was not scared but I was so nervous that I would cave into getting the epidural again. I have a high pain tolerance and knowing that did help me tremendously to convince myself that I could do it!

At 38 weeks I was 4cm dilated and my doctor told me that my baby was low and I could go ahead and check into the hospital to have my baby. 😳 I knew that it wasn’t time yet since my water bag was in tact and also my contractions were irregular. I told my doctor that I would instead wait it out some more until baby decided it was time.

My doctor appointments went from weekly to every other day or so. At 38w6d check up I was already 4-5 cm and doctor suggested again I go ahead and check into the hospital that night and my gut said to wait. I knew that if I checked into the hospital all that would happen is they would induce and pitocin contractions for me personally are almost unbearable and an epidural was in order to tolerate that pain. So I waited.. and the following nig at 39 weeks my contractions started being very painful however still irregular. I squated, twerked (lol) ,bounced around, drank red raspberry leaf tea, ate fresh pineapple, snacked on dried dates, and inserted evening primrose oil capsules near my cervix to help me dilate more.

My next check up at 39w1d I knew it would be time since my contractions were painful and I had to breathe and pause what I was doing through them so I made a plan and was convinced after my appointment I would definately head to the hospital.

Friday 9/29/17 my hubbys day off of work we dropped off our 4yo at preschool and I headed to my check up while he stayed home with our 2yo at home. Upon being checked my doctor was alarmed and after checking me I was 6cm with a bulging water sac. She was a bit upset that I didn’t follow her orders to go to the hospital the night before and asked me if I was alone and driving to the hospital immediately🚨?? I said yes I was alone and was going to pick up my hubby and head to the hospital ASAP! She said since this was my 3rd kid things could go super fast and in a matter of minutes since I was so dilated and ready to deliver 😯👏🏼

I made the necessary calls and my mom was headed to sit with my 2 boys while my MIL got off of work to watch them since my mom would be in the delivery with us (as well as my sister). I got home and my hubby was cutting his hair 😐 so I loaded my bags and stuff in the car, waited for my mom to arrive and we were finally on our way to the hospital.

We arrived and signed in when a nurse at the check in counter said to me “wow, you’re ready and you are not ugly in the face!?” Meaning at the point of active labor women come in crying and distressed so I smiled and in my head thought heck yes! This is motivation for me to proceed with a natural delivery! I can do it!

I didn’t do much research on ways to naturally cope with pain since that would make me more nervous thinking about it beforehand, but I read somewhere that having a mindset that this is “good pain, pain with a purpose” did help my mind! Instead of saying to myself “omg I cant do it” I told myself “yes, more pain! Pain is good and she will be here soon” (sounds crazy, right?)

I checked in at 2pm and finally about 45 min of sitting waiting for a triage room to become available, I was brought in and checked when the nurse confirmed I was 6cm and not going anywhere but to a labor and delivery room! Yay!!! The time I was eagerly anticipating for sooo long had finally arrived!!!!

My doctor was called in and she would break my water since it was bulging like a full water balloon ready to explode. They walked me over to a delivery room, started an IV and my doctor arrived. At this point my hubby was more nervous than I was and kept asking me if I was sure I didn’t want an epidural 🤣 he was pacing the room and sweating.

She proceeded to break my water and while she checked for dilation she said 7cm and then instantly followed by oh no! 9cm!!! Wow everyone in the room stood up and we were shocked how fast that went (tears of joy-praise God!) about 10-15 min went by and the nurse checked and I was still 9cm so she went out and care back in with pitocin iv bags to start up😩😭 I told the nurse noooo I don’t want pitocin!

So she said ok turn from side to side and that should bring baby all the way down.. sure enough with one turn from my left side (with the most pain I’ve ever felt in my life) I felt her drop down and turned to my right and she came out with a few pushes at 4:40 pm (no tearing). We had an hour of skin to skin and breastfed her cute little butt😍 before they weighed her in at 7lb 9oz.

She is perfect in every way and I am so in love all over again! Since everything went so well and we didn’t have any medications, our doctor and pediatrician let us go home the following day (24 hours after delivery)🎉

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