XP: Disadvantages of managing your pain well :-P

amyjoy18 · November 2011

The triage nurses and resident checking you are in no hurry to get you into labor and delivery...until you tell them the baby is coming out :-) Nolan's birth story:

I had been dilated 3cm for a week and a half with no contractions. Saturday night around 10:20 my water broke. Waited for SIL to come watch DD and got to hospital around 11:10. My contractions had started and were about 2 minutes apart.

In triage FOREVER while they try to talk me into an IV, check to see if my water in fact broke (I knew it did), hooked me up to the monitor. Finally almost an hour later a resident checks my cervix. I'm 5cm ad 90% effaced. My contractions are on top of each other, but I'm trying to stay relaxed and sway my legs and breath through them.

A few minutes later I went to the bathroom and while I was on the toilet I felt tremendous pressure. I told DH the baby was coming and he ran to get the resident and nurses. The came in and looked at me and their jaws dropped.

They asked if I could make it back to bed--I did--terrified I'd be deliver my baby in the toilet. And they start flying me down the hallway in a the gurney running me into the wall and doors and telling me not to push--while I'm screaming like a maniac that he is coming NOW. The calm and relaxed woman in labor was gone. I felt like I was on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

We get in a L&D room and my doctor is there. I push three times and my beautiful 7lb 11oz and 21 inch long baby boy is born in the doorway on the gurney. I went from 5cm to having a baby in less than 15 minutes. My whole labor and delivery was less than 2 hours.

Small tear for me and suprisingly no bruising for my little one. We're both doing fantastic and should have an early discharge today. :-)