| I arrived at the hospital for at 7:30 pm, 3 cm dilated. Pitocin started and it was not bad at all. I was laughing, talking normally and in no pain. Around 10:45pm, the nurse checked me again with very little progress (3-4 cm dilated). My Doctor came and broke my water, COPIOUS amounts of fluid drained from my shrinking belly, baby boy was coming soon!!! Within 5 minutes my contractions got very intense, I have never felt that much pain!! I could not hold still and requested an epidural at 12:00 am. It took around 35 minutes before my anesthesiologist came because I had requested him specifically. He agreed to come in on his night off just for me. He came in, and after about 5 minutes, the epidural was in and working! Baby Luke's heart rate dropped when I was put back on the monitors and I was then dilated to 7 cm. at 12:40 am. The nurse advised me to rotate from side to side to see if Luke's heart rate would come back up. At around 12:45 am, I was checked again due to his low heart rate. I had progressed to 9 cm!! My doctor was paged to come quick to deliver baby Luke. His heart rate started to come back up when I laid on my left side and around 12:50 am, I felt the urge to bear down and push him out! Luckily I had the epidural and was relaxed enough not to push until my doctor came. At 1:00 am I started to push, and at 1:17 am our sweet angel was born into this world! |
