It's TIME!!

At my last appointment I was told to be at the hospital on Thursday April 24th to begin the induction process. Little did we know what was in store for us.

Here we go…

We get to the hospital and get all checked into our private room.  So far so good. I was started on Pitocin in order to increase contractions and help me dilate. After hours and hours not much progress was made. The idea was I’d have Ms. Madison Mae in my arms on the 25th (my actual due date). She had other plans.

Friday morning comes and goes with still not much of a change. I still wasn’t dilating and all I had to show were harder, stronger contractions. I was pretty tired and not to mention starving. Toward the end of the day they decided to take me off Pitocin. I was able to finally eat something and was told we’d try a different method to help move things along. They inserted Cervidil and we waited some more. Hours came and went and I had dialted to 3. The nurses weren’t impressed and my midwife thought it a good idea to put be BACK on Pitocin. While little was happening as far as dilating was concerned, my contractions were making their presence very well known. I was exhausted.

Shouldn’t I have a baby now? It’s SATURDAY!

My midwife came in to check me out and decided it was time to break my water. She did so and found Meconium in the fluid. They hooked me up to another IV in an attempt to flush out all the Meconium to make sure baby was safe upon arrival. Being that my contractions were so intense and I was not advancing like they would have preferred she mentioned the “E” word. Epidural. As tired as I was, I still wanted to try and avoid going that route. She mentioned another pain reducing method that would alleviate some of the discomfort, for a few hours at least. I opted to try it. It seemed to help, but the contractions were still pretty bad. I think the intent was to allow me to get some rest if I was really going to have to push a baby out in the next few hours.

2 o’clock. 3 o’clock…Then some action. I jumped to 6 centimeters. We were finally getting somewhere and I‘m too exhausted to think straight. On that note, so much for my epidural-less delivery. As much as I wanted to make it happen without the epidural, once I got it all I could think was “Why did I wait this long?!?!” It was just about instant relief. I am officially ready to have a baby.