My Story: Chapter 15: And On This Day, A Baby Is Born

The day finally came!! I could not wait! I was finally going to meet my baby girl! My husband, his mom and I all get in the car and go to the hospital! Once there, they put me on all of the monitors, and set me up with an IV. My doctor comes in and breaks my water. They then give me the medication to induce me, and now I wait. I tell them I am going to try to go natural! My friend Brie, her mom, and her brother arrive after about an hour to be there for our daughters arrival!

Not even 10 minutes after being given the medication to induce me, I start to feel some minor contractions. I was having contractions every two minutes, and each one was worse than the one before. It got so bad, I started hitting the bed. My husband kept telling me that everything was going to be okay. For some reason, him saying that just made me mad. I yelled at him a few times, and even swung at him a few times. lol.

4 hours later, when I couldn't take the pain anymore, I begged for some epidural. It took 15 minutes to fill out the request form and 15 minutes for the pharmacy to send it up, so all in all 30 minutes. They came in with the epidural, and checked how dilated I was. My nurse told me I was 9 centimeters and I could push if I wanted too... I was in so much pain though, I couldn't even sit still. I was hitting the bed and rocking back and forth. I told her no, that I couldn't imagine any worse pain than where I was at right then... They then gave me my epidural. About 10 minutes after it was administered, my doctor came in ready to deliver my daughter! The process was difficult with the fact that I could still feel some of the pain due to the epidural being administered so late. After about 30 minutes, Our daughter was born!!!!