Baby on the Mind

I finally had my baby girl!  Last Sunday at 4 am, I woke up feeling contractions.  DH and I spent the day timing contractions.  At 9 pm, my MIL came over to support us.  At 4 am on Monday, we made the trip to the hospital.  I spent the whole day in the hospital with contractions that never progressed much.  When the midwife checked me, she said I was only 1 cm.  I could have cried because I felt I was halfway there!  They tried to break my waters to get things moving, but not much happened.  That night they gave me morphine so that I could sleep since I hadn’t slept in a day or so!

I slept, and then in the morning (Tuesday) I labored most of the day and only made it to 2 cm.!  They gave me gel to ripen my cervix, but by then I was so exhausted and lost my confidence.  I asked for an epidural.  I labored for the rest of the day feeling much better, but not feeling much below!  I eventually made it to 10 cm!  I pushed for 3 hours, and then the decision was made that a c-section was the safe way to go.  Off to the OR, and my baby girl was born weighing 9 lbs. and 14 ozs.  She was 20.25 ins. long!  She was not going to come out vaginally.  I spent a few days in the hospital getting to know my little girl and healing.  DH has been the most amazing.  We are having so much fun being a family and taking care of each other!

It may not have been the birth I envisioned, but I have a beautiful and healthy little girl.  HypnoBabies helped when I was forced to lay down for fetal monitoring.  It helped in the whirlpool tub.  It also helped in the OR to keep me calm while the surgery was going on.  Lamaze helped when I was upright and walking around through contractions.  I’m glad that I went through labor and pushing.  DH thinks it’s great that I got to try a little bit of everything!  The epidural worked perfectly, and the c-section was as fast as possible.  All in all, it got the job done.  I thought she was never going to be born!