my birth story! :)
i was a week overdue, and
ready to get induced on monday december 31st 2007, well the night
before on a sunday i went to bed feeling pretty tired already after
doing everything for the 100 time (u know nesting is uncontrolable
once u are overdue!) well i wet to bed and i woke up at 1:30 in the
morning with some back pain that came and went, i went to the
bathroom and sure enough my water broke, so i took a shower, dh did
too, and then we went to the hospital, me my dh and my mom. we got
there, they did a little test and sure enough it was my water, and i
had some contractions come and go, but to far apart, in the morning
the doctor came in to check on me, hooked me up to some drugs to
speed things up, and then it started! the pain... oh the pain! i
thought it wasnt going to be that bad! i was wrong!!!! oh so wrong!!
i manage to stand the pain for 5 or so hours, and then i cried and
asked for an epidural ( very terrified of getting one, but my pain
was so bad i gave in!).. i progressed pretty good i think by 2 pm i
was already 6cm and at 4 i was ready to push! well i pushed and
pushed, i guess i was doing it wrong! well it took me a little but to
figure things out and to get it right! after 2:30 hours of pushing i
had a beatiful baby boy! Maximus Alexander was 9 pounds 9 oz at
birth! and yeah i'm in shock i actually pushed him out !! after he
was born the scary part started, my placenta wouldnt deliver (after
45 minutes wating for it to come out), so they called another doctor
to see what to do, they said they were taking me to the OR but that
didnt happen (they did it in the room I was in), they had to take the
placenta out manually... (yes they reach inside and took it out)
they gave me some drugs for the pain and but i still felt every
little thing, i ask them to stop.. and the most scary part was that
the doctor said "if i stop u die" so they took everything
out i lost quite a bit of blood and i was very weak (my blood
pressure was up and down the hole time!), i had to stay one more day
in the hospital than regular, luckily everything turned out good,
after all the pain and the complications after the birth, I feel very
blessed to be alive, and to have a healthy baby!!! i'm still
recovering and getting better everyday... 
Re: my birth story! :)
Hey EDD Twin,
I'm so sorry that you had to go through that! But very happy to hear that everything turned out okay!
So you had a New Year's Baby. That's awesome, you'll have a wonderful party for him each year I'm sure. Now that we're over on the 0-6 months board we'll have to make sure that we stay in touch.
Talk to you soon
Kelly