Induced but no pain killers

Danielle • Mom of 3 💜💙💜

Since my little princess is going to be a month old tomorrow the details are a bit hazy but here's her story.

This 3rd child wasn't planned but thanks to that original shutdown back in March and April we had extra time on our hands lol. Being 35 when we conceived this pregnancy was not exactly a walk in the park. I had asked to be induced at 39 weeks because of the pain I was in. So we got to the hospital at 8am and checked in, at about 9:30 the doctor broke my water and then they started me on pitocin to move things along. I was only 3cm when we got to the hospital and by 11:30ish I finally made it to 6cm. Then things got crazy! In the space of 1 hour I sprinted through the last 2cm and delivered my little princess. By time my pain was getting unmanageable it was too late for anything. I remember being told I couldn't push yet on one contraction because the doctor had just gotten to the room. Then I had just 1 super long contraction and pretty much just kept pushing through that and her head popped out. The cord was actually wrapped around her neck so I had to stop while they took care of that and then one last push and she was out. No tearing and she still scored an 8.9 on her Apgar. At 6lb 14oz she was just a little peanut anyway. So start to finish only about 3 hours of labor and delivery combined, and it was my fastest one by only about 30 minutes.