AW: She's Here!!! (My birth Story)(LONG)

Sum06Bride · May 2009

*My disclaimer - this was a natural birth, though I was open to having drugs, it didn't turn out that way...

My little Peyton was born at 40wks 1 day...(information I was always wondering about regarding 1st time moms)...

Tuesday, my due date, (05/26/09) I woke up with contractions, and they were coming fast and furiously every 5 minutes apart, so knowing (after a false alarm trip to the hospital) that this was a guideline to call the dr. Dr. said head up to the hospital, they checked me into a room, (all delivery rooms were full, there were 5 deliveries that day) and I went through contractions all morning, at 8:00am my dr. checked me and I was dilated to 2 and at 10am I was checked again by a nurse and was dilated to a 3 and 1/2 so they considered me a "keeper" and I was put in a delivery room as soon as it was available.

My dr. checked me again at 12:00pm, I was a 2cm, (apparently I was told that one dr.'s 2 can be another's 3 and another's 1). They kept me until 5:30pm, and at 5:30pm my dr. checked me again and said I was only a 2 and that I should go home and labor at home.

I was a miserable wreck, I broke down in front of the dr. the nurses, everyone, and cried the whole way from the delivery room to the car and all the way home, (that uncontrollable sob crying)...

At home, I was having contractions every 5 minutes and went to bed, where I just kept breathing through them, and thought I was going to die, I had mostly back labor as she was upside down, I was in a lot of pain, and as each contraction would come, I would push down to my toes through the pain.

At 1:15am Wednesday morning, I pushed through a contraction, expecting mucuous to come out, (as that would relieve some of the pain), but instead, heard that POP sound and felt the gush, my water broke.

I got up to clean myself and felt as each contraction would come I had this incredible urge to push, (good thing we live 5 mins from the hospital) we headed to the hospital where they checked me in at 1:45am, I asked for drugs...PLEADED for them!!!

Apparently, I was 10cm head crowning and the baby was coming, it was too late, we started pushing with the nurse, when the dr. showed up and said "Thank you for waiting for me, it's really bad form if I'm not there to watch the birth..." that made me bust out laughing for some reason.

I pushed with everything that I had, and she was born at 2:58am on 05/27/09. She was 8lbs 7oz and 20 1/2 inches long. I received a 2nd degree tear, (my dr. does not believe in cutting so she let the baby tear me), which I was fine with, though it still hurts.

She came out and was twisting her way as she came so she was facing down, but ended up twisting the cord around her neck, DH was going to cut it, but the dr. said no, that she had to do it right away, baby was smurf colored, she was soo blue... and not crying. As soon as she cut the cord they were rubbing her and she colored up a beautiful pink. (I was later told that a baby won't cry right out of the womb if the mother hasn't had drugs so they were not concerned with that).

We are doing wonderful, breast-feeding like a champ!!! And I'm soo happy...I just wanted to share that with everyone...

Hope you enjoy!!!