Change in barometric pressure put me in labor

Long birth story: My water broke just like in the movies! Lol well at least it felt like it. On 7/23 at 3:15pm, I came out of the shower and while I was drying myself up I felt a gush come out from between my legs. Doubting myself I continued to dry up and as I squatted to get my legs it was definitely apparent that my water had broken. I was upstairs in my bathroom and my 9 year old heard me scream out that my water had broken, she relayed the message to my hubby whom then rushes in and immediately jumps in the shower. I soaked through two pads within 5 min and 2 underwear along with pants. I finally sat and waited for my sister to arrive to care for my other two children while I left for the hospital. On the way to the hospital, I called to notify L&D that we were on our way. Upon arriving, I was told they had no rooms so we had to wait in the hallway until they had someone clean up a room for me. The nurses all seemed annoyed and bothered to see another pregnant woman. They asked me several times if I knew for sure my water was broken. I told them what happened and still they seemed annoyed. Finally after waiting in the hallway for almost an hour we were noticed by a nurse who had provided care for me in the past and she excitedly was ready to help me. We were given a room and checked to see if it was amniotic fluid gushing out. All she did was rub the test on the pad and it instantly turned bright blue. She got us admitted and explained the process. She apologized for the wait time in the hallway and shared that they were so full and have so many women with their waters broken. I jokingly said and laughed that it was the barometric pressure change that we have had in the past day. She looked at me and appeared shocked that I mentioned it, and confirmed that she truly believed it was the change in barometric pressure that brought the increase of women into labor with broken water. (Thank you Southern California weather for the great daily changes) I came into the hospital at 4:30pm- was given a room by 5:30pm checked and I was 2.5cm dilated, by 6:30pm I had 3 nurses attempt to get IV started (for antibiotics for testing positive for group B) finally the third nurse succeeded. By 7:30pm the new shift was introduced and started getting my antibiotics going. I was checked again at 8pm and was told I was still at 2.5cm dilated. Got antibiotics started at 8pm. Started pitocin to speed up the process. I knew I wanted an epidural since I had SPD through pregnancy and requested the epidural by 10:30pm. By 11:30pm anesthesiologist arrived and inserted the epidural. After 15 min the pain alleviated, but only my right side numbed up causing the right side still cramp up. The nurse turned me on my side “to allow gravity” travel to the right side as well. It worked until baby wasn’t ok with position and heart rate dropped. The nurses came in every 10-15 minutes to turn my position because baby’s heart rate kept dipping. At 4:15am I felt him and was ready to push. By 4:45am I let the nurse know I felt the need to push, got checked and yes I was fully dilated and ready to go. She left to go get the team ready for baby. 5am and still no one in the room with us and I feel the pressure more and more. I call them again and they said the doctor was busy delivering another baby so I had to wait. I knew there was two drs and requested for the other dr to get things moving and the nurse apologized and stated she was sleeping and they take turns delivering so I had to wait. Before she left the room she says just don’t push. 5:15am the team comes in and gets everything in and ready, I get a contraction, pushed once for 10sec head came out, pushed a second time rest of baby was out. 2 pushes 20 seconds later baby was born at 5:17am 7/24/19 right on his due date. Out of the three children this baby was the easiest delivery, but second longest. Meet Ezra James 7.7lbs, 20.5 in long.