Yep. So heres the story...
On october 15th I had just a regular weekly check up. So I guess my blood pressure was high sot hey sent me over to the hospital. After about 7 grueling hours of stupid little tests they decided I could be discharged and gave me a list of reasons why I should come back.
So me and James went over his grandmas house and then went to pick up his friend howard who was moving in with us. So when I went to the bathroom I there were clots in the toilet. Which was one of the reasons they said I should come back. so we had my sister come and drive me to the hospital.
So they did the regular, checked my cervix, strapped me up to the fetal monitors, blah blah... I was convinced they were just gunna send me home.
Then the doctor came in and told me that I was gunna be induced. I don't think I was ever so scared in my life my heart dropped and I wanted to cry. But I kept holding back my tears because I didn't want some nurse telling me how I should be ready or something.
So I sat there in that little room waiting for them to put in my I.V. and wheel me off to my birthing room. Scared shitless. James and my sister were out smoking a cigarette so I was sitting there alone having a mini panic attack.
They rolled me into my room, which was actually a preety appealing place. TV, nice little chairs, my own bathroom. My sister went home and it was just me and james. \to induce my labor the started me on an I.V drip on a drug called pattossin. Which preety much makes your body involunarily have contractions.
As soon as the nurses and everyone was out of the room. I sat there with james and balled my eyes out. I cried about how I should have just stayed home and I wasn't reeady and I just wanted to go home.
But it was about midnight so I decided I might as well try to sleep becuse I wasn't getting out of it. But my baby didn't want to let me rest. He wouldn't stay still so the external fetal monitors kept losing his heartbeat. So about every 20 minutes a nurse would come in and make me change position. All of which were not at all comfortable. they wouldn't even let me get up to use the bathroom. Everytime I had to piss they made me use a bed pan. Which is degrading and uncomfortable. Lifting your ass up and having a bowl shoved under in then pissing while the nurse watches and your ass gets soaked.
Well long story short for that night, I finally got to sleep. I slept for a couple of hours and I guess the contractions woke me up.
When I first woke up my contractions were preety far apart, annoying and not really that painful. Me and james sat and watched tv for awhile. Then they stared getting worst. At first I didn't complain because I didnt want to look like a pussy. But then they kept coming closer and closer. Every minute, then evry thiry seconds, then practically back to back. I kept sending james out to get the nurse and to get my started on some demerol (pain-killer thats not as stong as an epidurl it just makes you high and sleepy)
So finally the nurse came in and told me the doctor was gunna break my water and put in an internal fetal monitor since my baby didn't was to cooperate with the external monitors.
So the contractions kept coming and coming, and when I say that shit hurt that shit HURT.
So then my sister ansd james mom showed up. But my sister had my nephews with her and kids under 12 arn't allowed in the delivery rooms. So james went down to watch the kids while they came up.
So as soon as james left the room, the doctor came in. Of course I was scared. The prospect of having my water brike and a monitor shoved into my vagina and stuck to my babies head wasn't exactly appealing. The doctor told me my contractions would get stronger once he broke my water.
My sister and james mom walked in right as he was breaking it. It felt disgusting like a giant tidal wave of warm water gushing out of me.It didn't hurt but as soon as it happened i burst into tears. My sister came over and tried to comfort me but I couldnt stop crying. My contractions were happening one on top of another. I couldn't control the sounds I was making. i'm not gunna lie I was freaking out. The doctor wanted to start me on the epidural. So they cut off my patossin. Which slowed down my contractions. It was like a blessing from god. I could handle going a minute between contractions. PLus when they took the patossin off the pain level went down. When I was on the patossin the nurse told me on a scale of one to a hundredI was like a 75-80. After the patossin was off they kinda switched between a 30 and a 65 going every minute to every thirty seconds.
I got better with dealing with the pain. The nurse told me when the contractions came to breathe and concentrate on some thing. So when they came I'd stare at something...like a cup on the table and just put all my energy into staring that cup down and breathing. It actually helped the pain as stupid as it sounds. I personally thought that the breathing excercises wouldn't do shit.
So when they broke my water I was only 2 cenimeters dialated.
During the 3 hours after that while I was waiting for the epidural I dialated to 7 cenimeters. Which shocked the fuck outta me. (My labor was nothing like the ones I watched on "baby story" lol.
Anyways, I was getting frustrated with how long it was taking for the epidural to come. And you knpw it had to be bad if I was reading to get a four inch needle stuck in my back and I'm the girl who still cries when I get my blood taken.
The most irritating part being that damn internal fetal monitor that felt like a huge tampon that wasn't put in right. But finally the epidural people came. I was scared shitless but at the same time relieved.
My contractions seemed to want to get worst as soon as they wanted to stick it in. So I was crotched over with my face damn near shoved into the nurses boobs trying to breathe through them as they shoved the needle in my back. It wasn't all that bad really but that could just be because I was having pain elsewhere.
It took it like 5-10 minutes to start working and fifteen for them to get it in. But when it did start working it was like heaven. I felt heavy and fuzzy..like the way it feels when your foots asleep before it starts feeling like pins and needles...except all over.
Then my babies heartbeat started dropping...so they had me changing positions until finally it got back to normal. They gave me an oxegen mask to help keep it normal and had a blood pressure thingy hooked up to my arm going off every 10 minutes. Plus a cathder so I didn't piss on myself.
So I layed there enjoying my numbness when the nurses came busting in again. The babies heart beat dropped again so they decided to shove something up iside me to squirt water into my uterus because they tohught he was compressing his cord and wanted his to float up off of it.
Not to long after that I started feeling really uncomfortable. I could feel the the baby turning his head back and forth making the fetal monitor rub my insides. I knew I needed to push. Its like my body just knew. I had them get the nurse, she checked me but I was only 9 1/2. But I didn't give a fuck I wanted the fucking baby out. The nurse told me to do some practice pushes...but as soon as I did his head started coming down. They ran out and got the doctor...not the rest is kinda fuzzy to me. All I remember is hearing people talking. pushing as hard as I could and everythign beyond my view of my belly and my legs looking foggy. I felt myself rip but truthfully that wasn't the worst thing that was going on at the moment.
I pushed for a grand total of 5 minutes and he was out. (It takes the average 1st time mom 45 min to and hour) I felt his head out and one more push sent the rest of him. then a tidal wave of blood hit my doctor. whcih was preety funny...
to be continued my baby is crying.....