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Olivia Sex: girl Born: 17 February, 2008 Age: 0 years & 160 days Birthday in: 205 days Starsign: Aquarius Development: See the 5 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)

Duration of labor: from the time when water broke till the actual delivery: 27 hours. 1st part: 15 hours of drug free labor with a very little discomfort. 2nd part: 6 hours on pitocin with extremely painful contractions that were 1-2 min apart. 3rd part: 6 hours on pitocin + epidural: 5 h and 20 min of sleeping and then 40 minutes of pushing.

Weight @ birth: 6 lbs 14 oz

Length @ birth: 19

Olivia`s birthstory

I did not try to induce my labor in any way. I was not dilated, effaced or anything at 37 weeks appointment. I was planing a natural labor and delivery without pain medication. I took several ChildBirth classes and HypnoBirthing classes and nothing went as I planned, but it was a positive experience at the end.

At 38 weeks and 2 days, on Saturday at 2:25 am I woke up, nit even moving yet and my water started to flow. I called my hospital at 3:30 am and went there at 7 am. My contractions were 5-10 min apart and not painful at all.

I was given antibiotics through IV because I was Strep B positive.

At about 1 pm, doctor started to insist on starting Pitocin. I refused as long as I could and when she checked me at 6 pm I was only half cm dilated! They started Pitocin and after 6 hours at midnight I was only 2 cm and I asked for epidural because contractions were just impossible to tolerate! I found out later that they turned the dose of Pitocin up every 1 hours...

After I got epidural at midnight I fell asleep and the nurse woke me up in 4 hours at 4 am and I was 9 cm dilated. I finally felt relaxed and rested after taking such a long nap.

I started to push at 5:20 am and my baby girl was born at 6:03 when the sun just started to come up on the beautiful Sunday morning!

It was a great experience even though nothing went as I planned!

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