Drs didn't think I was really in labor & Failed Epidural!

I'll start this off by saying that I had Gestational Diabetes and had to get NSTs twice a week from 32 weeks until I delivered. I went in on Wednesday June 12th for my regularly scheduled NST. I'd been having contractions and bloody show for about a week at this point and was sitting at 3cm since my last appointment the previous Thursday. Around 3am on the 12th I woke up to a few contractions that were just barely painful enough to wake me up. They continued until my NST. I let the nurse know id been having contractions all morning (it was 8am at this point) and noted it. Sure enough contractions showed up every 3.5 minutes on the NST. The nurse stated they wanted to leave me on a little longer to watch them and they'd check my cervix if it continued. Well an hour goes by and all the sudden they're sending me home despite me telling them I was feeling the contractions more and more.

So, I called my fiance whod dropped me off and went back home with our toddler. He came to get me and I got in the car and the pain with the contractions doubled as we were driving home. He didn't like that at all and turned us back around. When we got to the hospital again I went to the bathroom since I felt a lot of pressure like my bladder was going to burst. So u peed and looked down and the toilet bowl is bright red. I wipe and it's just straight blood on the toilet paper. I'm glad we'd already gone back to the hospital because it was seriously alarming and we went straight up to L&D. The nurse that did my NST cracked jokes about me missing her. I told her the pain was worse and i had bleeding. She got me into triage and a doc came and checked me. I was 4cm and having bleeding from dilating. They kept me an hour to watch things and at the end of the hour I was still at a 4, maybe a 4.5. I got repeatedly told "you're only 37 weeks it's probably false labor but we'll keep an eye on you for a few hours. But expect to go back home since you're early." So that's what I expected. They admit me for observation, an hour and a half later and I'm 5cm. Progress! At this point they still swore I wasn't really in labor, that things would stop and I'd

have to come back because I "wasn't in enough pain."

Well, contractions went to 2.5 minutes apart and then 2 minutes apart and I was at 6cm. This is the first time they even considered I was in actual labor and decided to keep me. I already knew I'd get the epidural, I had with my son and his birth was lovely. So I got it again, they missed the first time and had to do it again. So that's done and I get out on the peanut ball, dilate to a seven in 20 minutes. Half an hour later one side of my cervix had gone to ten and the other wasnt quite there so hey flipped me. But this time I was feeling pains and not just pressure. The nurses had me turn over all kinds of ways and nothing helped. The epidural had failed due to back labor and within an hour of getting it I was feeling EVERYTHING through the transition phase of labor. I felt everything while pushing, all the pressure the ring of fire, all of it. I don't know how people do that without drugs willingly, it was the most excruciating pain sensation Ive ever felt and I'm honestly considering not having more kids for fear another epidural would fail. The doctor also didn't believe I was ready to push even though I was pleading with him about the insane pressure I was having. He kept insisting baby hadn't dropped all the way even though I was 10cm. He finally listened and my body had started pushing her out by itself and when he checked she was nearly crowning.

3:58am June 13th my little girl was born. She didn't cry and was taken away. She was completely fine though just didn't want to cry. She was 5lbs 10oz and 18 inches long and perfectly healthy and alert. She's three days old now and the sweetest little thing. My little Violet Fae is definitely worth all that pain.