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My Dream Come True (lots of pics sorry not sorry 😂)

Alexis • Thu, Sep 20

So it's been 5 weeks since I gave birth to the love of my life and I figured it's about time I shared the story with all of you lovely people.

It was august 15th around 12:30 pm, my boyfriend and I had decided to grill out and were now finishing by making Smores. I told my daughter, whose due date was the 18th she could have a smore if she came out tonight, (who was I kidding shed get one anyway lmao 😂) After finishing we were laying in bed watching tv, I was having braxton hicks contractions (the same ones id had for weeks) and decided to use a contraction timer I had just downloaded for shits and giggles, I didnt think theyd be timable since the felt sporatic still. But low and behold they were 5 and a half minutes apart! But they weren't painful, it just felt like my stomach was tightening around her. Then I got one slightly uncomfortable one and I felt a trickle down my leg...I stood up and it was like niagra falls coming out of my vagina. My pants were soaked, the floor was soaked. But even still I thought maybe I just peed myself 😅 so i put on a pad but as I did this it still hadnt stopped and the pad was filled before it hit the 1 minute mark. So I told my boyfriend my water definantly broke and to call my dad, who we live with. Then I got my first real contraction. Holy Fuck theyre no joke. It was crippling and I wanted to scream but told myself to chill out because this was the first of many.

We left for the hospital at 2ish am and when we got there I thought I might be dying from these contractions, shit gets real fast when your water breaks. They brought me to a room to check if it was amniotic fluid and on the way i was profusely apologizing for the trail of water I was leaving behind 😂😕 The nurse hooks me up to moniters and that's when I asked for the epidural lmao. She told me I could have it as soon as i get to the room and they get my IV in. They check my dialation and im still at 3cm where I was at my dr apt on the 13th.

So she wheels me to the room and im still on shock this is happening. I felt it was a dream and id wake up any second. But the contractions kept me in reality. Everytime on hit all I could do was grip whatever was near me and say hi excessively. It was weird for everyone. They all just kept telling me to breath and that made me more upset than anything 😂. I went to the bathroom once more and told the nurse i feel like I have to poop, is it okay if I poop? She told me no please dont its probably the baby! Then the IV gets placed. She blew my vein and im pissed because i told her I just had one placed in that spot 6 days ago when i had the ecv to turn her. So it goes in the top of my hand. Im crying im pain at this point and the nurse told me i could have iv meds before the epidural to help. So of course I was like yes gimme the drugs pleasssse im dying!!! She administers and immediately everything is a-okay 👌 then literally 2 mins later the anesthesiologist comes in takes one look at me and tells me I have a naughty nurse 😂 he gets the epidural in and i feel like I can actually enjoy my labor now. By now its about 5ish am and they check my dilation again and say im at 5 and a half cm. Yay progress! Everything calms down and im just waiting to progress more while talking to some family members that came by.

Now by 630 am they check again and say im ready! To let them know when I feel the need to push. I didnt really feel that urge but i felt i might not because of the epidural so I told her Im ready to start pushing now. So here we go! I beared down and pushed with all my might over and over, drs flooded my room (not sure why, I think they were residents learning) literally though like 15 people came in and it was crazy crowded. I was too small and the dr had to do an episiotomy (4 degree) to get her head out, which she was sunnyside up. After the cut I push again and according to my sister yelled I feel like im shitting a bowling ball 😂😂 her head pops out and the rest of her body followed (weirdest feeling ever!) They put her on my chest and she immediately lifts her head up eyes wide open and looks at me then around the room. I dont even feel them deliver the placenta or stitch me up I was so in awe at my little baby girl.

After a 6hr labor she came into the world at 7:12am, weighing 7lbs 12oz and 21in tall ❤ Elara Marie