At the hospital they hooked her up to the fetal monitor, baby was doing great and Melanie was having very minor contractions and was dilated 3cm. Once they knew she was okay, we walked around, sat on a ball and tried to encourage little Munchkin. By around 9:00 Melanie's contractions had stopped completely. At this point her dr. wanted to induce her because she was still bleeding heavily and was dilated.

Petocin was started at about 11:30 and this got Melanie's contractions going again. They increased it every 30 minutes until about 4:00 when contractions were getting stronger and shortly after that she discover Nitrous Oxide. At about 5:30 she wanted to push so they checked her again and she was fully dilated. Her water didn't break until she was in active labor which lasted less than one hour (about 45 min) and Melanie squatted her out like a good strong woman with nothing more than laughing gas. She was amazing.

Breanna joined us at 6:22pm and was perfect.

After they put in 6 stitches, Mommy and Breanna were golden.