On October 30th at 6 at night I was totally OVER being pregnant. I was 39 weeks 1 day and couldn't take it anymore. The day before we had our doc appointment and I told them that if she "didn't come out soon I would be that crazy lady on the 6 o'clock news who totally lost it and delivered her baby on the kitchen floor". Anyways, that night I told Charlie we were going to the store to get all the stuff I needed to make the magic "start these damn contractions" potion, otherwise known as a castor oil cocktail. It was NASTY. I am still not sure if that is what jump started my labor or if it was the fact that my doctors had just stripped my membranes the day before or a couple of other things I tried (I really wanted her out lol). So at around 11:30 PM I started feeling some contractions and by 12:15 I knew it was time to go to the hospital. Picture this....Charlie told me at 11 he was going to try and get a little sleep just in case that night was the night. I was in the bathroom packing our tooth brushes when I told him to wake up it was time (BTW I was in a lot of pain) he said ok and went right back to bed. 5 minuets later I said "Charlie I am serious we need to get to the hospital" and he said he was getting up. 5 minuets after that I went right next to his side of the bed and said "Charlie! Get your ass up! I am in labor and it HURTS!". He got up.
We got to the hospital around 1:30 and were being checked at 2:00. I was only 2cm dilated but having regular contractions 3 min apart. After about 3 hours the nurse gave me pain meds and told us to walk around the hospital for an hour to see if I could dilated one more cm or become in "active" labor (I wasn't in active labor because I wasn't dilating, I was stuck at 2cm ). So Charlie and I walked all around the hospital (which is in downtown Orlando.....nuff said) and when she checked us again at 6 AM I was still only 2 EFFING CM! Needless to say I was pissed because I for sure thought they were just going to send me home with these bad contractions but nope :) we had such a sweet nurse that she talked the doc into admitting me.
At 7 AM we were on our way up to what I thought was heaven (she was FINALLY going to come out!) where they started the potocin and more pain meds (I didn't want the epidural until I was in unbearable pain). This was the start to what I now know was a very long Halloween lol.
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| Mom checking my contractions. |
Daddy was sleepy.
So after hours of not dilating and being frustrated, they gave me the epidural , put in a foley bulb, and 3 hours later I went from 2cm to 6cm :D AMAZING! We were all so excited but went back to sleep for a few more hours. FINALLY at 6:45AM on November 1 ( 30 hours of labor later) they woke me up and said I was 10cm and it was time to push <3
An hour and 25 min later at 8:10 in the morning we heard our baby girl cry for the first time and there wasn't a dry eye in the room :') well except the doctors and nurses.
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| Harper& daddy |
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| Harper & her aunt Ashley |
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| Harper & her pop-pops |
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| Harper & her Nana |
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| It was a very looooong labor |
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| Only missed Halloween by 8 Hours :) |
