My boring, uneventful, but easy delivery :)

simbaby

Let me preface that I was scared as hell to deliver my little boy...

Anyway...I started going into labor last Wednesday night after work. It hurt, but bearable. I didn't want to go to hospital until my contrax were 5 min aprt for 1 hour. I'd get to 5 min apart, but it would go back up to 7 min apart after 45min!!! So I waited, waited until my doc appointment of Friday morning to tell me how far along I was. I wanted to labor at home as much as possible. I went in 9am Friday morning for my regular check up and found out I was 4, almost 5 centimeters dilated! Doc said go straight to the hospital and we did. She also asked if I wanted an epidural and I said Yep So she called ahead to the anesthesiologist and said to have it READY! YEAH!!! I didn't care at that point to 'try' to go med free. I was in labor for 2 nights, with no sleep that I wanted DRUGS. It wasn't the contrax that killed me, but the lack of sleep.

So I get there, get admitted around 10:30am, get my epi around 1pm, they broke my water around 2, dilated from 5 to 7 to 9-10 and started pushing around 5:15pm. He was born at 5:54pm. Honestly, it was really easy. I was TERRIFIED of giving birth, but it wasn't bad. I didn't tear because we took our time pushing. I seriously thank my dedication to working out before and during my pregnancy that helped me have an easy birth. During the pushing I felt like I was competing and was so focused. So that's it, an uneventful, boring, birth story. The whole nine months I was worried that I wouldn't be able to do it, but it was a piece of cake.

I'm healing well and just came back from a mani pedi and some shopping. If I'm Laurent that I'd have another pregnancy like this one, I'd do it in a heartbeat, but with my luck, my next pregnancy won't be as good.

Pearly609

Glad everything worked out for you, congrats!

bookkitten

Congratulations!

thatgirl84

Every birth is so miraculous that I don't think we need anything on top of it to make it more interesting :P Now, we just need baby pics, and his stats You did a good job. Congrats.

Even when births have not so great interventions and general chaos, it's so worth it. Our LO's are worth every ounce of pain and fear we go through. It's so amazing, and you must be so in love right now! Again, congrats. Enjoy your LO.

actresscye

I am more than interested in having your boring uneventful birth.  It sounds spectacular.  Congrats mama!