So I said I wasnt going to share my birth story because they annoy me. All they do is either get us excited or scared.... and then we compare ourselves to others and that's not the way to go.

So I'm going to share mind for all those first time moms who dont know their bodies like they think they or or like other people think they should.

I am usually pretty in tune with my body. The last 3 weeks I had been complaining of stomach pains and cramping but it wasnt anything like contractions had been described. My doc had put me on fetal monitoring, lots of labs and fun stuff for high blood pressure, among other fun things. Nothing that really bothered me too much because of a high pain tolerance, but enough to worry because I've never had a baby before!

I spent the last 10 years being told I'd never conceive so you can imagine.

I have PCOS and dont normally get periods, so I dont get the bad cramping or any of that normally, so I expected to feel when there was a change, to feel the contractions or tension or whatever else was described to me.

I felt mildly uncomfortable cramping in my lower stomach and pains I was already accustom to.

So last Tuesday I have my 39 week appointment, then fetal monitoring, went the same as the week before, I'm told to come back Monday for more monitoring and we will go from there. On Wednesday (my birthday) I'm trying to release some tention in my back and floating in my little pool and the dr office calls to tell me to come in Friday instead of Monday, I ask why the sudden change. The nurse just said doc wanted to monitor me a little more closely and that was all I got. so okay.

I call my mother-in-law and let her know. We go in Friday morning. Spend nearly the whole day there, they were not prepared and couldn't find my file, I had to tell them some of the things they needed to do, that I needed lab work in addition tot he fetal monitoring for high BP and other stuff.

So the on call doctor comes in to talk to me. She let's me know that I have gestational hypertension, its literally high blood pressure caused by pregnancy. So no big deal I knew that. she then says she wants to induce me. But ultimately it's my decision. So I spend like an hour or 2 trying to get ahold of my deployed husband, and trying to process the fact that I have to choose weather or not I'm going to have this baby now....

So I convince the on call doc to let me wait til Monday, when my husband gets home Tuesday so that more then likely he would make it for labor.

She goes to get everything ready so I can go home. Comes back, and dropped a bomb, my doctor said no do it today.... so okay, they let me go home get things and take care of my pets and I come back by 8 PM.

Get in my room, they get me settled, and insert the med to soften my cervix, and give me sleep meds. I get the second dose around 130am, then I wake up at 330am with really bad cramping. they give me plain meds and off to sleep I go (best 2.3hour sleep of my life) I wake up just before 6am and the cramping is worse, they give me more meds but ita not touching these crams. I was so worried because cramps....weird. then my water breaks. By 7am its established I'm in labor, they go to get me morphine and within minutes it's back to back and I almost cant breathe through them so i ask for an epidural. They give me the epidural and before I'm even numb I have this beautiful baby girl on my chest and I'm finally feeling those sleeping pills! Lol

If my doctor has not made me stay, I would have gone into labor over the weekend and I would not have made it back to the hospital in time, she would have been born the car just like her father was.

I normally dont trust doctors, I've had bad experiences, but for some reason I trusted her and thank God I did! <3

She is perfect <3