My birth story (a little long) with PICS!

As you already know from my numerous posts and complaints, I had been having contractions since 25 weeks, so I really didn’t think much of the fact that I was contracting throughout the day on Thursday, 10/11. I worked until 7pm and then came home, exhausted and just feeling generally yucky. At that point I had a hormonal meltdown, crying to DH, saying that I just wanted pregnancy to be OVER! Then I went to sleep…

Fast forward to 2:30am on Friday, 10/12. Woke up to pee, as usual, and noticed pinkish discharge on the TP. Looked in the toilet bowl and there was a slight bit of blood. At that point I had a feeling that this was it, so I woke up DH and we decided to start getting our things together and washing up - we anticipated having to go to the hospital sometime in the morning. ..

Well, things happened much more quickly than expected. At 3:07am I had a slightly more painful contraction than my usual. Five minutes later I had another one. That lasted for about 30 minutes, and then they started coming 3 minutes apart. By 4:15am I was having excruciating contractions every 2-3 minutes and I feared that I might give birth on my kitchen floor. So we literally rushed to the hospital and forgot half our stuff – luckily we remembered the cameras!

Got to the hospital at 4:30, and was 5cm dilated and 100% effaced. I decided that I wanted an epidural but we had to wait for bloodwork to come back. Meanwhile, the contractions were coming on so strongly and so frequently that I barely had time to rest in between then. I’m not going to lie, it was the worst pain I could ever have imagined.

Got the epidural at 6am, and after that the labor process was wonderful. Honestly, not feeling the pain of the contractions allowed DH and I to savor the excitement and anticipation of having a baby. Getting the epidural itself was relatively painless and I would do it again in a heartbeat.

The doctor came in to check me at 6:30am and I was 8cm, so he broke my water and let everything progress. The nurse had me sitting upright to encourage the baby to move down the canal quickly. By 9am I was ready to push, and the first round went well. But for the second round of pushing they had me in a position that the baby didn’t like and he had a pretty severe heart rate deceleration. At the point there was talk of an emergency c-section if the heart rate didn’t recover, but luckily it did. I was never so scared in my life as I was during those few minutes where I was so worried about my baby… Thank God, I was able to keep on pushing and before I knew it the whole thing was over and Jonah had arrived!!! Here are some of his first pics – the second and third feature his “coming home outfit”.

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Great birth story. Glad to hear everything went fairly smooth for you. Your is adorable. Congrats again and welcome home!

thanks for sharing your birth story!

he is so gorgeous!!!! congrats!!

he's adorable!!!!

Great story! He is beautiful!!

He's Beautiful!!! Congratulations!!!!

Congrats new mommy!! Thanks for sharing!

awww he is so cute, congrats!!!

Thanks for sharing your story. Jonah is gorgeous!

Congrats! He's adorable.

Congrats!!! Thanks for sharing!

aww he is so cute congrats

He is adoreable!!! Congratulations!!!

Congrats and welcome home!!