Birth Story:
After weeks of thinking I would go into labor early, due to contractions and being dilated 2 cm, I made it all the way to my induction date. I was scheduled to be induced (due to gestational diabetes) at 39 weeks. Early Tuesday morning I called to make sure they had room for me, and they told me to come in. So off we went down to Stanford. I was admitted at 8:15 and by 9 they had me hooked up to the IV (for fluid). They decided to start me off with a small pill called misoprostal (sp?) since I was already dilated and having contractions pretty regularly. At 10:20 I had 1/2 a pill and we were to wait 4 hours to see if it got things going adequately. It didnt really work to do more than make my contractions a bit stronger and closer together but no active labor. So then I was to get Pitocin. They had some Pitocin shortage and I had to wait until around 4pm to get hooked up to the Pit. The Pitocin definitely increased the intensity of my contractions and at 5pm I was 4cm dilated, so my doctor broke my water. After that things started to get a little more serious, contractions that hurt, each one worse than the last. I was trying to make it until I was checked again, but around 6 I could not take it anymore and decided to ask for the epidural. It took a long time to get the epidural in place bc my contractions were coming very close together and were very painful. Finally at 6:30 it was in and the contractions started feeling better. 15 mins later they actually started to hurt again. They thought they might have to come back to adjust the epidural a bit, I was NOT excited about this. And I started shaking uncontrollably and feeling very emotional. And this was all during shift change for the nurses. At about 7:15 or so the new nurse checked me and I was complete! She paged my dr. and set things up to start pushing. We did a practice push and she told me to stop, bc the baby was right there. I was excited but it was very hard not to push. The contractions were hurting a bit but that was good bc I could feel them enough to help with the pushing. Once my dr. got there I was able to push and gave about 3 pushes per contractrion. 3 contractions and out she came, all beautiful and screaming. Piper Rose, 7#7 oz, 19 3/4 ". They put her on top of me and she nursed right away. We love her so much!
Can you believe it? She is such a big girl now. Ceci loves her oldest cousin sooo much!
