About 9:45pm on Tuesday January 22nd, we got a littttleeee frisky. (It has been a few weeks because we were scared of THIS HAPPENING.

10:20pm - the trickling started to happen. I thought I was peeing myself, so we held off for almost an hour.

Then at 11:13pm, we decided to go to the hospital to check.

At 11:45 we get to the room they place you in, (I think it’s triage) I was changing into my gown as my water just gusheddd all over the floor AND my clothes 🤦🏽‍♀️ so I knew I was staying.

We get to my private room, everything was chill, good, no contractions yet.

By 5:00am I was practically BEGGING for fentanyl (didn’t want epidural) so I was offered that instead..

9 months with no alcohol I was LOVING that fentanyl. I felt like I was having a great buzz 😂

9am rolls around, & I gave in and got the epidural 🙁 I felt defeated. I felt weak. I felt sad. I truly didn’t want the epidural, I wanted to try and be tough.. but I couldn’t. I had to give in.

I held our daughter in the back, so the contractions were in my back area and I couldn’t move during any of the contractions which made everything SO MUCH WORSE.

I was dilating quickly.

9:18am - 4cm

11:51am - 7cm

1:00pm - 9cm

3:03pm - still 9cm

By 4:45pm - was 10 centimeters and able to do a practice push while we were waiting for my OB to show up.

Well... that practice push was enough for me to KEEP PUSHING.

I had to keep pushing, I couldn’t stop. The nurses were getting irritated with me but it wasn’t my fault..

FINALLY my doctor showed up and a few pushes later she was out !

7 pushes and out came the light of our lives ❤️❤️

Ariel Marie

January 23, 2019

6.5 lbs

19inches

Came to meet us at 37 weeks and 5 days 🥰