So my birth story is 9 months old. I keep forgetting to post, but I will now!

I was 38 5 when I went to my ob apt. I was actually scheduled for an induction the following week. That week I had been feeling pretty good except my baby was trying to kick my cervix open I was feeling very heavy down below. No consistent contractions though.

Anyway I went in to my apt and my ob checked me and said I was dilated to a 4 and was thinned out. He said we may see you back sooner than next week. Well, it being Valentines Day, my husband and I decided to go eat at a Mexican Restaurant. During lunch, I started to contract about every 10 minutes. I didn’t really get my hopes up because I contract after being checked and after sex as well. We live 45 minutes from the hospital and dr so we drove home. On the drive home my contractions were becoming every 6 minutes apart and lasting for about 1 minute. We drove to my moms house to get our kids, but decided to stay for a little bit to see if my contractions would hang out. I was getting pretty excited at this point, but didn’t want to get my hopes too high up. I got out my contraction timer and started really tracking. If I was up and walking around they were consistanly 5 minutes apart for 2-2:30. If I sat down or layed down they stretched out a little farther. At this point in time, my mother in law came over bless her heart. She is a bit much sometimes. She wanted me to go the hospital right then and she would not let up. She is very loud and it was not helping me out. We finally got her to leave and my husband wanted me to go in as well. My contractions were about every 3-5 minutes at this point. I agreed to go, but told him that I wanted to walk around outside once we got there. I do not like laboring in the hospital. On the drive over they started to get pretty intense. We decided to go straight to the hospital. When I got checked in I was dilated to a 6. They called the dr and he came over to see me and checked me again and said I was at a 7 and my water broke when he checked me. I was getting pretty excited right about now, I was getting ready to meet my baby boy. He left to go eat dinner with his daughter. In the meantime they hooked me up to an IV and gave me some pain medication. About 45 minutes later I was ready to push, YAY. But oh my heck. This baby was almost 2 lbs bigger than my other 4 (I had IUGR with my 4 girls and they were all around 5 lbs). Holy Moly I could feel his larger noggin ripping me open. It hurt -

a lot, I remember thinking I need to push as hard as a can to get his huge head out of my vagina NOW! Out he came perfect as can be. Pretty easy recovery, but I did have to have about 10 stitches and they were sore for about a week. He was 7lbs 6 oz. We love him❤️