My body had been preparing for labor for several days prior. I could feel weird things in my legs as the days progressed. I had been drinking my red raspberry leaf tea very vigorously and walking every night. I had slowly increased my walking and length the days beforehand. On Sunday night we decided to check out this famous restaurant that almost guarantees a womyn that she will go into labor. So of course no one in the family really believed it but we all thought it would be cute to try. So we go on in Sunday night and order the eggplant parmisan. There is something about the way they do their marinara sauce w/the basil and the oregano....
So after dinner, we get home. Dad leaves to do Shauvot services, I walk around the block and am feeling not much just extreme heaviness in my lower abdomen area. I get home, go to bed around 12:30ish and wake up to my water breaking at 2:30am. Now I had read TONSSSS about how labor takes forever and you are supposed to labor at home for a while beforehand. So my water breaks and I am looking up all these things in my books about what to do next. Around 2:45 I call my ObGyns answering service and they are supposed to contact the midwife on duty and she is supposed to call me back. No one does..
I am having intense pains in my legs- one right after another. I can barely walk and decide around 3:20 that I need to call my mom and ask her for help. So my parents and sister get up, my mother has me recall the answering service and my midwife calls back almost immediately. I had the Group B Strep thing (its a strep that lives in your intestines that you need to have an antibotic for during labor- doesn't harm you at all) and you are supposed to go into the hospital w/in a few hours if you have this...
So we leave for the hospital around 4ish, and get there by 4:20-4:30ish. They already had my paperwork as I pre-registered and w/in 5mins tell me to go to a room on a floor. No wheelchair- just start walking. I get about halfway down a hall and literally have to lie on the ground I am in so much leg pain. They quickly get me a wheelchair and I am wheeled down several long hallways (how was I supposed to walk that???).
We get to my room and I send my dad/sister out and they tell my mom to wait in the waiting room while I fill out more forms. By this time my legs are killing me and I don't know whats going on. They do a quick test on me and determine that it was in fact my water that broke (my amniotic fluid). And then they start having me fill out alllll these forms and signing all this crap. I am now in this intense pain. And to top it off I had a headcold so was all stuffed up and had just taken my high blood pressure meds so I was out of it. I tell the nurse I have to call my mom and want her in there.. So they give me a phone to call her.
She comes in and helps me sign all the forms. By this time its almost 5am and they tell me I am 3 cm dilated. I automatically ask for an epidural and they say they have to give me my IV, draw my blood for the cord blood and other things and then they can give me one. By this point I am lost in whatever world I was in. My leg pains were coming quick and fast and my mom was holding my hand I was trying to breathe through them...
All I know is that w/in the hour I had an epidural. I don't remember when he came in; I barely remember the procedure- it was all a big blur.. The epidural did cause me to violently shake for a while which sucked majorly but it was better than the pain. My initial midwife came in around 7ish and she was getting off and she checks me and she says I am 8/9 cms dilated... Which means I went 5 cms in abt 2 hrs.. And she said she would stay w/me till the new midwife came on duty.. Around 7:30 the new midwife comes, and she says I am fully dilated and that I could start to push soon..
I have to say pushing and lifting ones legs are very hard when they are numb and heavy due to the epidural!!!! So I don't remember exactly when I started pushing.. Around 8ish?? But I had little boy Eli Samuel Slomovitz at 8:20am.. I had a 1 degree tear which meant I needed a stitch but I was all cleaned up and good by 8:45...
The whole labor is a bit of a blur. I remember closing my eyes at some point and it was dark outside and the next time I opened them it was light outside. All I can say is that I am glad it's over and that it went quickly!!!
From there the baby gets checked out and still had some mucus in his body (the mucus gets squeezed out during delivery but b/c delivery was so quick it hadn't all had time to work its way out). He had to be monitored a little bit for it, but thankfully all is well now.
The Womyn's Center were I delivered was really fab... The staff was SOOO nice. We had our own private rooms- we had the paper delivered to us each morning. The food was good.. It's very pretty.. It was a great overall experience and I am glad I delivered there.
I have to say I am willing to go through this again for 1 more child but after that I am done!!!! :) Phewww and thats my story! Here's a new pic of baby:
1 comment:
wow! that's impressive! he came out so quickly!
i dont know why you had leg pain. that's really odd! did you ask the dr why?
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