I was due on the 29th of june, but my body clearly had different plans. I had high blood pressure on the 12th and was having bad headaches with floaters and I had really bad swelling so i was ordered to do a 24 hr urine test that i had turned in on that sunday. So it turns out that 334 for protein is decently high and I got the phone call that I was going to be going in to be induced! This is not my first time this was my fourth baby. So I go in and they start the pitocin and I was having contractions but my cervix was still really high because my son was not in position and was towards the right. So after so long probably 8 hrs maybe a bit longer they wanted to try cervidil and took me off pitocin I was devastated I was thinking my induction was failing and I wake up that morning the 16th and still not a whole lot had changed. So they take out the cervidil and try pitocin again which was doing nice but they wanted me to get an epidural and break my water. I wanted to go without the epidural this time but they were insistent so I got the epidural and they were finally able to break my water. I was really excited that it was all happening because after that it was only 4 hrs and it was time to push. I got a little sleep in before hand. I also dont have small children at all and I was 38 weeks keep in mind so I pushed for maybe 20 minutes which is incredible! And I have my son here which was so exciting and he was 8lb 4oz and 20 inches long! If he would have stayed in my body any longer I would have had a 9lb baby which my first son was 8lb 14oz which was my biggest fear about giving birth. So I was so lucky not to have too crazy blood pressures during labor where it was dangerous. But my baby hudson lowell was born on june 16th literally 2 months before my birthday! And 8 days after my anniversary with his dad. His dad also got to catch him coming out with the help of my midwife he is the father to all my children so this was a first time experience that he got to have! It was so exciting. I'm so in love with my son he is a week tomorrow which makes me want to cry. But I had a positive covid birth story! And I wanted to tell it.