So I wake up around 7am to take my morning tinkle and when I get back into bed, I feel a gush of liquid come out in between my legs! I run back to the bathroom to check whats going on down there and I find a little brown/red discharge. I`m thinking that this can not be happenning! Not right now! Josiah just purchased a plane ticket so he wouldn`t miss this! So after I snap out of it...I waddle to my moms room and tell her what`s happening. All she said was `it`s time` and I`m telling her nooooo! lol
We took forever to get ready cause my brain was scrambled and my mom was calling everybody in her phonebook. I got ready before she did.
We arrived at the hospital close to 9am. Seemed like I was the first person to sign in for that day. Everything seemed to be running smooth. I started feeling some cramps but they weren`t major. I was laughing and smiling and feeling waaaay too excited. I called the list of people that I wanted to be in the room with me, which was a bad idea. About an hour after I got my room I had about ten other people in there with me. At first it didn`t matter but as the contractions got worse and started coming every minute...every last one of them started to get on my damn nerves! But surprisingly I maintained my cool and kept my focus on the nurse who kept telling me to breathe out the pain.
Around 3 to 4pm the pain went from a 5 to a 10. I wanted an epidural free labor but I couldn`t stand the pains anymore. I tried walking around and sitting on a ball for comfort but the contractions were coming way too quick and way too strong. So I requested for an epidural. I was having contractions while getting the epidural and all of my strength just went downhill cause I just started crying uncontrollably...lol I was 4 to 5 centimeters dilated by then. around 6 pm I was at 10 centimeters! Although I couldn`t feel anything from the waist down, I was told to push. And the nurse rolled out a mirror so that I could see what was happening. I saw some hair at first. But when I was pushing for the third time...everyone saw a nose and a mouth instead of the hair that we saw about a minute ago. The nurse said that this was a bad sign because the baby should be facing down and not up.
The Dr is called in and he tries to see if he can fix this. But as he`s trying to fix this...part of the umbilical cord comes out and he orders his staff to get ready for the OR. At this point I`m dissapointed and scared. Cause a cesarean was the last thing that I wanted. They roll me and the Dr down to the OR room. The DR was on the bed with me because he didn`t want to remove his arm from out of me since the cord fell out. Everything happened so fast! I was crying through it all. Everyone was moving quickly and saying a whole bunch of things that I couldn`t understand. The only time I felt relieved was when I heard my baby crying. That`s when I relaxed. And when they finally brought her over to me all wrapped and bundled up, I felt so much better.