My birth story!

By 40 weeks I was totally fed up of being pregnant and because my obgyn thought I was having a big baby (he was estimating 9.5lb), I went in for an induction at 40 weeks, 4 days. I had heard horror stories about inductions so was worried but ready for my baby girl to be outta my tummy and into my arms!

I checked into the hospital at 7am on Nov.28th at which time my doctor broke my water. An hour later I was not feeling any contractions and didn't leak much fluid so he broke a bigger hole in my bag of waters. Getting your water broken, for me atleast, was very unpleasant and caused a lot of cramping but it passed fairly quickly. Still, this did not bring on any contractions so we started a pitocin drip and the dose was increased every 15 minutes till I was having strong and regular contractions. I was 2cm dialated for the weeks leading up to my induction and unfortunately after 11 hours of labour (they would not give me an epidural since I was not dialating any further), I had to go for an unplanned c-section because the baby just was not moving down into the birth canal and started showing signs of distress with my contractions. We assumed this was because she was a good size baby.

Anyway, once it was decided I needed a c-section, things moved along really quickly. I'd say the most uncomfortable part of the induction was getting my catheter put in!!! It was an awful feeling. Also the recovery from the surgery is not pleasant when you have a newborn to look after but as far as the procedure itself, it was ok. I felt no pain during it and the only side effects I had were shaking uncontrollably from the spinal block and nausea and vomitting from the morphine for the pain. But all these things aside, I would do it again in a heartbeat. My baby girl is beautiful and perfect in every way (except for not wanting to sleep through the night, LOL). My daughter was not even a big baby, she only weighed 7lb/3oz so it just goes to show that the doctors don't always know everything:)