Birth Story (super long)

I always thought it was cheesy to post a birth story then I realized how much it calmed me down to read them. So here’s mine...

I was to be induced Friday January 26th at 8:00 AM. I had already been induced that Monday but it didn’t work. And the same for this time, my husband and I left the hospital at 12:30 disappointed that we wouldn’t see our little one yet. We had been told to come back Tuesday at 6:30 AM. That same day decided to have a date and went to the park and ate. Around 1:30 I feel small pressure on my back, I shrugged it off thinking baby boy was just acting a fool in there.

Around 6:00 PM the pains are worse and I realize it’s contractions. I sit in the bathtub for a good 30 minutes to numb the pain. At 7:00 PM it’s happening every 2-3 minutes so we head to the hospital. We get there at 7:45, they check and I’m only dilated 1 cm. I stay hooked up for almost 2 hours, the contractions saying the same but I didn’t dilate so they sent us home.

I’m in so much pain my husband couldn’t sleep so after an hour or so I leave and go sit in the tub again for about 2 1/2 hours. I doze off for 10 minutes until I feel the worse contraction I’ve felt. And I try getting out the bathtub and it’s nearly impossible after fighting through the contractions for 10 minutes I finally manage to get out and dressed. I go to the room and husband is asleep. I don’t want to wake him because it’s around 3:30 AM. I’m walking in place holding on to the dresser and I feel another terrible one. I made a small scream and husband wakes up. He tells me that we should go but I don’t feel like we should because I don’t want to go 25 minutes away in the pouring rain to get sent home again. I start to worsen and he says that he can’t take it anymore and calls the hospital, they tell us to head over immediately. So he gets us some rain boots and we go outside, the yard is flooding badly from how much it’s raining. When we get in the truck we say a prayer and leave.

We get to the hospital at 4:30 AM, the check me and I’m 4cm. They get me into a room and tell me the contractions are really close and that I should dilate soon. Still by 10:20 AM I’m a 4. So they decide to put pitocin. I’m on it for 5 minutes and the contractions somehow get worse but I can still breath through them. They check at 11:30 AM and I’m at 6 now. They asked if I want an epidural or IV meds and tell them no. I’d wait for the IV meds. I get the meds at 12:40 PM (I hated it and would not do it again I got dizzy and felt nauseous, plus it didn’t even help) and I’m at an 8. At 12:58 PM I tell the nurse I have to poop. She checks and I’m ready. I say a prayer so God can watch over me for what’s about to happen. She’s gone for all of one minute and I feel myself pushing. I tell her “I pushing and I can’t stop and I don’t wanna stop!” She says okay start pushing and husband grabs my hand and leg. He tells me he can see the head and that he has a lot of hair. I started pushing at 1:02 and pushed maybe 10 times. Halfway through I feel like I pooped and I say “I think I pooped I’m sorry.” And the doctor and nurses laugh and tell me I didn’t, to just nkeep pushing. At 1:20 I feel relief and here “1:20 PM on January 27th. It’s a boy!” I fell back into the hospital bed and watched as my little boy took his first breaths. His little cry was music to my ears and his dad cut the umbilical cord with tears in his eyes. They give me him while cleaning him up and take him to get his weight and measurements. 8.9 pounds and 21 1/4 cm long. I get him back and do skin to skin. He immediately stops crying and I just stare at him. About 10 minutes in he starts trying to suck. I tell the nurse and she says that that’s perfect. She helps me latch him on and tells me “congratulations your a mommy”.

They said I was technically only in labor for 4 hours and I pushed for 18 minutes. All of them were shocked because this is my first birth and he came out fast even though he was so big.

I thank God so much because as soon as he came out I felt nothing anymore. No pain anywhere and for the whole time I was in the hospital up until now I’ve been perfectly fine ❤️