Birth story

My baby is 6 weeks and 2 days old. I finally decided to share my birth story. I’m going back to work on Monday and struggling with leaving my baby. I have been very emotional since having her but overall feel good besides crying a lot. So here it goes, this is my first baby. My due date was 12-18. I woke up on December 5th went to work and all was normal and was scheduled for my 38 week appointment that afternoon. I’m a dental assistant and had talked to one of our patients about my pregnancy that morning. Around 10:40 I was walking back to my room to get it cleaned and set up for the next patient. And I get this gush, thinking it’s my water breaking I head to the bathroom and check and it’s not water. It’s blood, it was all over In my underwear now and running down my leg. Of course being my first pregnancy I have no idea what’s going on, I quickly go back out and tell a coworker what’s going on and that I’m going in. So I called the clinic as I knew my dr was there that day, no answer. So instead I called L & D, they said to come in. So I headed over there, yes I drove myself to the hospital. At this point I wasn’t really in pain at all, just slight cramping but likely due to being so worried about why I was bleeding. So I get there at 11 am and they get my checked in and ask all the questions and get me hooked up to the monitors. The nurse checked me to see if I was dilated. I was at a 6 and 100% effaced. I was shocked to say the least. I called my husband again and he was just pulling into the hospital. They did blood work and brought in ultrasound to check and make sure baby was okay and see if there was something wrong with the placenta to cause the bleeding. I was officially in labor, I was starting to have contractions but it felt like mild cramps at first. A little later the doctor comes in and wanted to break my water, but he couldn’t find it to break. At this point I was at an 8. I was not prepared for baby to come so I was walking my sister in law threw packing my hospital bag. She dropped it off at 1:10 for me and the contractions were just starting to really pick up. I labored threw them for a little while and then felt like I needed to push. They called the doctor back and I had to hold back from pushing with everything I could. They even had a nurse applying pressure against my bottom. The doctor finally arrived and I used for 4-5 contractions and she out!! We were so in love. Labor started about 11 am she was born at 2:17. Not what I expected as a first time mom!

Sorry it’s sooo long!