It's the moment you have all been waiting for.... the birth story.
It started on my birthday (the 16th) I was having contractions almost all day.. nothing consistent enough to warrant a trip to the hospital but I was hoping they would pick up and we would have a baby the next day. I did NOT want to share my birthday... what can I say? I'm selfish.
The 17th came and I was STILL having contractions but now they were way more painful. Jason kept trying to get me to walk but I was just getting frustrated because the contractions would go from being 6 minutes apart to 15 minutes apart and I felt like I was never going to have our little girl.
All night I had contractions and could barely sleep.. on Monday I was really miserable. Thankfully my Mom came down and Jason stayed home with me so we could time my contractions and hopefully have our baby. BUT the same thing happened. I got really excited because my contractions (although painful) were now consistently at 6-7 minutes apart (they had to be 5 minutes apart before the hospital recommended coming in). At one point during the day I couldn't bare the contractions and almost went in for some pain relief (aka some drugs) but decided against it because I didn't want to get in the car. Around 7pm I decided to lay down and was just crying because I was in pain and hadn't been able to rest well for 3 days the contractions had gone to 10 minutes apart. I then decided to get in the shower.. and within minutes contraction after contraction were hitting. I am NOT quiet when I'm in labor. Jason came in and told me to get out of the shower because we had to go to the hospital. I was telling him that these probably weren't contractions and that I didn't want to get sent home... but he insisted we go in. The ride over wasn't much fun..And trying to give all your information to nurses while having contractions equally not as fun. I finally got checked and was 4cm dilated and 50% effaced.
Side note to all the al natural moms: PROPS.. I could not imagine going through labor without drugs.
Unfortunately for me, the hospital had just been infiltrated with lots of patients and they were trying to get rooms ready for everyone. I could hear some of the other women and realized they had priority over me. So we opted to walk around the halls to get the labor going some more... that lasted 3 laps and then i was demanding a room to sit down in. Then a nurse came in and I was quite dramatic and was SUPER eager to get my epidural. In fact, as soon as she asked when I was ready for my epidural I told her right now would be good.
I was scared to get an epidural because with Kenzie it never spread to one side of my body so they had to redo the epidural. It just wasn't a pleasant experience. This time around it was HEAVEN. And getting the epidural was nothing compared to those dang contractions. My demeanor immediately changed and I talked with my Mom and Jason and apologized to teh nurse for being a little cray-cray. We checked into the hospital around 8:45 and got checked again around midnight where they broke my water because I had progressed to 8cm and 100% effaced. We were really excited because I progressed SOOOOO slowly with Kenzie so we were expecting another long wait.
Around 2am I was ready to go and Piper Rose Morris was born at 2:35am.
She was 7lbs 11oz (just like Kenzie) and 20 3/4 inches long.
PART II coming soon
