Our Birth StoryI felt a little gush of mucusy liquid at 10:30 AM on March 1

Our Birth Story

I felt a little gush of mucusy liquid at 10:30 AM on March 1. Continued to leak mucus from then until 2PM. Huge gush of fluids at 2PM, at the bank. Went grocery shopping and walked the store, contractions started at 3PM. Went home and ate, drank, showered, walked some more and napped. At 9:30, we decided that it was in Killian's best interest for us to go to the hospital. Checked in to L&D at 10:30PM at only 2cm. Labored through the night rather consistently. Pretty strong contractions. Was checked Friday morning and was only 3cm 60% effaced. Continued to labor but the contractions got weaker and further apart. Began to get tired of being in the room so we walked the halls and then used the birth ball when I would get back to my room. Met the doctor on call in the hallway and he said I was smiling too much to be on labor. I started vomiting and overall feeling bad, but we chalked it up to the morning sickness that I had throughout my pregnancy. Around 1:30 PM, I was checked again and I was still at 3 cm but was 80% effaced. By this point, I was running a 99.5 temp and they began talking about the possible issues with having a busted water bag for over 24 hours. Dr asked me if he could break the rest of my amniotic sac and if they could start a pitocin drip. I said yes and decided to get nubain when they did this. I was also given an antibiotic to help with the possible infection. My temp lowered rather quickly and my contractions started getting very real, very fast. Within two hours, I went from 3 cm to 7 cm. I was only able to cope with the active labor contractions by having counter pressure applied to my back. Within the next hour, I had the "urge to poo" and I was checked again and was at 9+. By this point, I was ready to give up. The nurse allowed me to push through a few contractions while she was checking me to see if she could move the small amount of cervix that was still in the way. By this point, Dr was in the room and he said he would let me push. We started pushing around 5:15. Pushed through two or three contractions, and Dr said "ok, two more contractions and we will have a baby," after the next contraction, he offered for me to catch my baby. So with the next contraction, he got the head and shoulders out, told me to grab my baby and pull him to my chest. And I did. Killian was born at 5:25PM. I ended up with stitches from a 2nd degree tear. In the meantime, the nurses started working on him on my chest and when one nurse was rubbing him down with a towel, I stopped her from rubbing off their vernix and I rubbed it into his skin. I remember Dr making a comment about how most moms don't want to touch their babies when they are covered in vernix but there I was rubbing him down. We were allowed the hour of skin to skin, after his lungs were suctioned, and the stork nurse came to help with our first latch. His first feeding was a little over 30 minutes because he was being so lazy!! Then at one point, I moved too much and he put a death grip on my breast as if to say "excuse me, ma'am, where do you think you're going?"