Our Super Smooth Birth Story!

Our story is thankfully uneventful in spontaneous problems lol. We were scheduled for an induction on May 30 due to a placental lake. (They wanted to make sure I delivered around 39 weeks to avoid complications.) So we arrived at L&D around 7:30am and went through the whole admittance process. I’d been 2-3cm dilated for almost 2 weeks at this point and when they check me, I was then at 4cm, 70% effaced, and -3 station. By 9:00am, they started me on the pitocin drip. I walked around the halls and my room to try and get things moving. By 1:00pm, I started to feel the contractions and by 1:45 my water broke. They checked me again and I’m only 5-6cm, 80% effaced, -2 station. Luckily, the anesthesiologist had just finished a case and was in my room by 2:30 to administer my epidural. He was great and I still had some feeling in my legs, but no longer felt the pain of contractions. I was checked again around 5:30pm and was 7cm, 90%, 0, but they wanted to take my pitocin over 20units so they had to place an internal monitor to assess the intensity of contractions. Although now baby’s heart rate would dip during peak contraction so the midwife assumed the cord may be interfering. They told me about maybe trying amniofusion to move the cord more naturally, but before they hooked everything up, the midwife suggested we try pushing to see how baby would react. I could still feel pressure, so I could tell when the contractions were happening to be able to push. I start pushing with contractions (about 3 pushes per contraction) and about 8 contractions later, little Cormac Edward arrived! Born 7lbs, 6oz and 20in at 7:38pm on May 30, 2019.