It's go time!

NeneCakies · August 2013

Indulge me as I'm feeling nostalgic knowing a couple new moms and lurking on A13 and with DDs bday coming up...

Whether you got to follow your birth plan or not, there's usually a moment you think "OMG it's time, LO is coming TODAY!!" yes?

Mine was between the hrs of 5 to 6am the day after my EDD. After irregularly contracting all night I decided to call L&D. The nurse was "meh come in if you want" about my situation so I didn't get my hopes up. I felt like the biggest faker being wheeled into triage, certain I'd be sent home. Nope, 5cm! OMG it's go time!! Everything else is a blur but the quiet events of that hour are crystal clear. Any one else want to reminisce?

AggieDaner · August 2013

I never had BH contractions, so when I woke up at 4 AM with the real thing I knew instantly what was going on. I love re-reading my birth story. I wish I could hire a doula for every pregnant mama in the world, they are AMAZING. I got to the hospital 9 cm dilated, you seriously can't get better than that! I think the triage check was when shit finally got real for me, I "knew" the baby was coming (again, the contractions thing), but when they said, "oh crap, you're at 9!" I was like UM, BABY TIME NOW I GUESS?!?!

bigbootyjudi · August 2013

I'm kind of bummed I didn't get to experience any of the "suddenness" of it all. I had a scheduled induction. It was scheduled for 5am, but there were no beds, so I was told to call every 2 hours. Finally, around 1pm, the head nurse said she'd just call me when there was a bed. We didn't get called until 4:30pm and walked in at 5. I was exhausted because I had been up all night with anxiety, then up all day waiting on the phone call, then I didn't give birth until 1:48am, we didn't get in our room until 5am, and then visitors started pouring in at 10am.

However, my whole labor was "sudden." My OB and nurse said I'd probably give birth sometime the next afternoon or evening, so nothing was set up. Thankfully, my OB was still in the building. I walked in at a 1, 90% effaced, and was at a 3 around 10pm. My nurse had me rock on my hands and knees to bring him down farther around 12am because I was at an 8. I did that for 40 minutes (with poor SO holding my feet, staring at my ass because I couldn't feel my legs), she walked in at 1am, and it was time to go. She ran around the room like a crazy person calling everyone and setting up everything. My OB walked in around 1:15 or so and G was born at 1:48.

cedenton · August 2013

No "go time" here. I had a scheduled induction at 40w, 6d. They told me if I wanted to wait longer (which I did) NONE of my docs would be there because they were ALL going to a conference.
@-)

I arrived at 9am, was in the room at 9:30am. I had requested they try breaking my water first to see if it would jumpstart labor. Doc came in at noon and broke my water. Contractions started pretty much right after that. Never needed pitocin. Baby was born at 12:10am the next morning and was pretty much the cutest baby EVERRRR....I mean look at the cheeks.

nopegoat · August 2013

I was 38.5wks at my regular checkup. I was dilated 2cm at my last appt and just knew there wasn't going to be any change and Everett wasn't budging. I wasn't having contractions or anything. Lo and behold when she checked me I was 5cm and she decided to go ahead and admit me and get things going. It didn't hit me that I was going to have another baby that day until they made me sit in a wheel chair and wheeled me over to L&D, my H and Mathieu walking behind me. I cried lol thinking wtf did I just do to my Mathieu man. I am changing his life forever and he doesn't even know it.

Best change ever!

twoitalians · August 2013

I swore up and down to all my coworkers that I would have DS on the 14th, 2 days before he was actually born. When that day came and went I figured I was in it till 40 weeks came. Well, I also never got and BH contractions, or if I did I didn't know that's what they were. At my OB check earlier that week I was 60%, and 2cm. I was getting ready for work the morning of the 16th and was sitting at the table eating my breakfast. I felt a really sharp pain at my cervix like the hardest kick ever right there. Two minutes later I got up and started to pack my lunch when I heard a tiny pop and then felt a gush, I mean a huge flood of my water breaking- like puddles on the floor as I walked towards the bathroom. That's when I was like, ok this is happening, I woke DH and made the call to my doctor. I was in triage at 7:30, where I was deemed "puddle positive" about my water breaking, and admitted at 8am. I was on pitocin because I wasn't really contracting but I was 5 cm and I don't remember how effaced. My regular OB was on vacation that week so I had the other doc from the practice, and he wanted to see if I would be able to give birth by the end of the business day. I was up for the challenge but they didn't have to do much cuz after the pitocin started flowing things moved along quite well. I was fully dialated by 4:30 and started pushing right after that. DS was born at 5:15. Funny how in my birth plan I didn't really want medicinal intervention, but basically needed it because I wasn't really contracting, and then I went on to try to beat the clock per se.

amaite · August 2013

Another scheduled induction here, at 39 weeks 6 days. I did not experience that.

rp-chicago-mom · August 2013

I woke up , after going to bed at midnight, at 2:00 am on the 20th. That was when I thought I knew something was happening. I'd had BH and these were no BH. But I didn't have my baby that day. I labored aaaaallllllll day. My contrax were five minutes apart the whole day.

Finally at 9:00, I told H to get sleep and I labored by myself awhile. I woke him up at 11:00 and said we should just go in. It turned out I was six cm and I was thrilled at the fact I'd progressed so far. But he took a wrong turn and got stuck so he wasn't born until 3:30 the afternoon of the 21st. By the time I went to sleep that night, I'd had about three hours of sleep in over 60 hours.

So I thought it was go time on the 20th but Howell thought the 21st was...or God knows when he would have opted to come out as I had a c section.

LadyyShea · August 2013

I was scheduled. I missed the "go time" thing... which I regret...

though I might be glad my doctor broke my water... despite me thinking I peed on him. Seriously thought he was checking my cervix.. he didn't tell me he was breaking my water... I apologized for peeing on him and the whole room busted out laughing....

jodegaard · August 2013

My moment was around 11pm on the 25th. I was trying to ignore the contractions, thinking they were BH, but I couldn't sleep through them. They were for real. Alas, that did not mean "LO is coming today!"

It WAS go time, but he came two days later.

NeneCakies · August 2013

FWIW, I did consider induction and CS ladies when pondering the question and thought it could still apply, even if the element of surprise was gone. I'm glad to see your stories too.

rp-chicago-mom · August 2013

OK but all you inductions and scheduled c sections, you still had a moment of "It's GO time!!" because you knew that day you were going in to meet your baby and within 48 hours or so, you would. My go time wasn't magical because I never got to that 411 rule and my OB said we really should just come in and be sure.

rp-chicago-mom · August 2013

saltypearl said:

At about 1:50 am my water broke at home this day a year ago....I was elated since I had been to L&D 3 times previous with contractions under 5 min apart and regular. 4 days of timeable increasing contractions was super intense. 12 hours later DD arrived via cs since she was just not moving down at all.

Sounds like our babies were both pretty comfy. That's similar to what I experienced except not for four days!

amaite · August 2013

Baker_Bride said:
OK but all you inductions and scheduled c sections, you still had a moment of "It's GO time!!" because you knew that day you were going in to meet your baby and within 48 hours or so, you would. My go time wasn't magical because I never got to that 411 rule and my OB said we really should just come in and be sure.

Knowing that he was going to be whisked away to another hospital and the uncertainty of everything that would happen after that were all-consuming for me. I didn't feel like I knew I was going in to meet my baby. It felt like it was all unknowns. Most people probably wouldn't describe feeling "It's GO time!" if a loved one were going into open heart surgery. That's what I felt we were going into.

JayandEmm · August 2013

At my appt the day before W was born (Wednesday 39.4 weeks) I was closed like fort knox and he had not descended at all, but I was throwing up and contracting every 8 minutes. My MW checked my bp and it was high, so she sent me to the hospital affiliated with the birthing center and an OB said I was not in labor, and I probably had a virus. (WRONG!)

I went home, and H and I went to bed at 10pm, because he thought he was catching my "virus". I woke up at 11 to go the bathroom, and my water broke (aka it gushed everywhere and I left a trail from the bedroom to the bathroom), I sat on the toilet and told H and we was like "right now? It's 11 o clock!" and I was like "in case you didn't hear me, THIS BABY IS COMING!" That's when he jumped out of bed and acted like a crazy man.

I called my MW and she suggested I labor at home. So I labored there for 4 or 5 hours before going to the birth center. Then W was born at noon, 13 hours after my water broke (Thursday 39.5 weeks)!

rp-chicago-mom · August 2013

amaite said:

Baker_Bride said:
OK but all you inductions and scheduled c sections, you still had a moment of "It's GO time!!" because you knew that day you were going in to meet your baby and within 48 hours or so, you would. My go time wasn't magical because I never got to that 411 rule and my OB said we really should just come in and be sure.
Knowing that he was going to be whisked away to another hospital and the uncertainty of everything that would happen after that were all-consuming for me. I didn't feel like I knew I was going in to meet my baby. It felt like it was all unknowns. Most people probably wouldn't describe feeling "It's GO time!" if a loved one were going into open heart surgery. That's what I felt we were going into.

I remember that now. No. That would
not be fun or exciting. How amazing that was almost a year ago though? It must feel good to have made it a year from that.

Cheerilee · August 2013

My contractions were in my love-handle area so I never knew that's what they were. I was in my doctor's office on Friday and was checked. I was *still* at a 3 (where I'd been a month before) and the doctor said there was no way I would go on my own. She thought I'd be pregnant another week and didn't want that because DD's heart rate kept dropping a bit. She scheduled me to be induced at 9am on the following Monday. Saturday morning, my back started hurting in waves. The waves started 10min apart, then 8, then 5... I realized then it was contractions. My underwear kept getting wet, too. I told DH I thought I was in labor and he didn't believe me because my water hadn't broken. I told him we needed to go to the hospital. He watched 3 hours of American Hoggers, took a shower, cleaned the kitchen, and talked with his mom for a bit. It was 2:00pm before we got to the hospital. We got to the hospital and they checked me. They were going to send me home because I was STILL only dilated to a 3. I mentioned checking for amniotic fluid, they did, and I was leaking. They broke my water and admitted me. I got the very last delivery room in the hospital, which was pieced together because it hadn't been used in a year. The power went out. My epi machine stopped working, and I dilated 1cm every hour until I had DD at exactly 9:30pm on September 1.

WhtRssnGrl · August 2013

I went to work on my EDD having contractions that were 3-4 minutes apart. I was in complete denial. I left work an hour later, checked into the hospital at 11:11 a.m., had her at 4:56 p.m. I never had a "This is it!" moment because I was in such shock that everything happened so fast. After the epidural I went from 5 cm to 9 cm within 15 minutes, and then I pushed for 12 minutes and out she came. Honestly, it still doesn't even feel like that day happened because it was such a blur.

JayandEmm · August 2013

I wish it wasn't such a blur. I only remember bits and pieces of that 8 hours I labored at the birthing center. I remember H falling alseep on the couch there, laboring in the shower/tub, my MW doing pressure points and me thinking she was God, and the moment when W decided to drop and turn; very odd sensation (he was sunny side up).

SM0524 · August 2013

I worked up about 2am on the 11th with cramps just thinking I had to poo. After a couple unsuccessful attempts I went back to bed. Woke up and went to a few garage sales with the cramping still. All very low in my belly like period cramps so I went on with day. I sat down to eat lunch and the cramps got worse. I starting timing and there was a pattern and they got closer. Once I realized they were contractions (they weren't where I was told they would be). I had my oh lord I'm going to have a baby soon moment. I labored at home til they were 5 minutes apart. Arrived at hospital around 6pm on the 11th and had DD at 10:03am on the 12th.

CrazyDaisy8 · August 2013

I was induced at 11pm on the 22nd at 40w6d. I was already on maternity leave because I had to have an end date about a month in advance so they could confirm a date with my replacement at work. I assumed I would have him prior to my EDD so I scheduled my last day the Friday after my EDD. I sat around the house for a whole week before the little guy decided to grace us with his presence. This was probably the closest thing I came to having a holy sit he is going to be here soon because once I got into the hospital I was having a panic attack nearly the whole time.

I am terrified of hospitals and needles the whole day prior to getting admitted I was freaking out and I couldn't sleep at all. When I was admitted I was still only 1 cm and 30% effaced. I was in a regular room until the following day at 12p when I was moved to L&D where they checked me and I was still only 2cm and 60% effaced. They broke my water to try and speed things up but I didn't become complete until about 12:30am on the 24th. I pushed for 2 hours prior to me telling them I couldn't do it anymore because my entire back was cramping and I was so tired. I decided that it would be the best for LO and myself to use the forceps. Two pushes later he was born at 2:37a on the 24th.

Tapthathank · August 2013

My "Go Time!" was at 39wk2d. I had been on bed rest for 4 weeks due to high BP and I wanted to be induced so badly. I woke up around 9am and was chatting to my cousin on GTalk. DH came home around 2pm. I was still chatting with my cousin and I told her that my face felt funny. She asked me if I could fully smile. I tried to smile at DH and the left side of my face would not cooperate. I immediately called the nurses line and she got ahold of my doc. They said they were calling ahead to the hospital and that I needed to grab my bag because I was likely going to be admitted.

We arrived at the hospital around 3pm on Monday, Aug. 6th and I was hooked up to some monitors. I was at 1. First they wanted to figure out what was going on with my face before they did anything about the baby. It was determined that I had Bells Palsy. Ugh. Finally at around midnight I was admitted into a L&D room, I was having regular contractions on my own, but nothing too serious. At 2am they decided to try the balloon catheter method of induction. OMG worst induction method - it hurt so bad, I almost threw up. 10am, they took out the catheter - no progress. I was started on Cytotec which got my contractions started but I don't think I progressed. They tried Cervadil, which got me to a 2. Then pitocin came next. I really don't remember days or times of the rest of the things - it was all a blur! I finally started dialating with the pitocin, got an epidural and then I spiked a high fever on Wednesday night. DS's heart rate was all over the place. 6:20am on Thursday morning I was stalled at a 7, the doc came in and told me that with my infection and DS's heart rate, we needed to do a C-section. He was born at 6:45am on Thursday morning, Aug. 9th and was whisked off to the Special Care Nursery for IV antibiotics. I didn't see him until 12 hours later. We went home on Sunday the 12th.

melmarie26 · August 2013

AggieDaner said:
I never had BH contractions, so when I woke up at 4 AM with the real thing I knew instantly what was going on. I love re-reading my birth story. I wish I could hire a doula for every pregnant mama in the world, they are AMAZING. I got to the hospital 9 cm dilated, you seriously can't get better than that! I think the triage check was when shit finally got real for me, I "knew" the baby was coming (again, the contractions thing), but when they said, "oh crap, you're at 9!" I was like UM, BABY TIME NOW I GUESS?!?!

Doulas are the bomb diggity.

I mean, 9CMs at triage? I almost hate you for that. Almost.

piphigirl · August 2013

They day Charlotte was born (August 31), DH was helping me make the bed at 11:30 AM and I said to him, "Well, it looks like we won't have an August baby after all." His reply was, "You never know!"

I was feeling fine and sure the "contractions" I had had 20 minutes apart from 4-6 AM were just indigestion from eating out. Nevertheless, when we went to our 2:00 PM midwife appointment, we packed the hospital stuff just in case. On the monitor, I was having contractions 7 minutes apart and couldn't even tell! Then we had an ultrasound. They said everything looked fine and to go home. By that time, I could feel contractions. We went to walk around downtown and have dinner. During dinner, they moved to about 3 minutes apart and we went to the hospital!

We got into triage at 5:30 PM, into our actual room around 6:30 PM, and had a baby at 9:11 PM! It was pretty quick, but I did get to spend an hour in the tub. Until we were in our real room, I thought it was false labor and they would send me home (it wasn't very intense.) Then, I just got really focused.

Around 8:00 PM ish, I was out of the tub and laboring in the bed again. Just when I said to Mike, "This has just gotten pretty intense and I doubt I could keep it up for 18 hours," my midwife checked me (boo!), pronounced that I was 8 cm and in transition (yay! I remember her saying that steam was rising off me), and headed out. Then I immediately felt like pushing and told DH to go grab her! I pushed for about an hour.

I think the "go-time" moment for DH was in the restaurant when I kept leaving the table to walk around. For me, it was when I actually got admitted and they said I could change into my comfy hospital gown.

NeneCakies · August 2013

Me again, I know birthing our babes is scary, sensitive business and just wanted to say everyone is amazing. Just wanted to put that out there since I wasn't here in the beginning of the board to do so and I figure it couldn't hurt to hear it one more time.

shakinros · August 2013

Today is a year from when we checked in to the hospital for an induction! 41w2d. I remember feeling sick about the whole thing: excited, depressed that she wouldn't come on her own, worried. First two induction methods didn't do a thing. Still 1cm and 10% effaced. Pitocin drip started at noon on the 15th and though I was fully dilated by midnight, she never descended at all. -2 all the way. Tried two hours of pushing. Only got to 0 station. C-section at 4am on the 16th and there she was!

Tula214 · August 2013

A little after midnight I started feeling an intense urge to poop, and had a constant pain in my back. My sister had been telling me if I felt that, I was in labor. I knew it was time! I felt bad because my whole family had been up because my nephew was at the ER earlier that night. I waited as long as I could to let them know so they could at least nap before I went to the hospital. Got to the hospital around 4am the 27th.

By 8pm the 27th, an epi later, my water had been broken a few hours before, and I was in denial I was ever going to give birth. When they got my bed ready for me to push, shit got real. Very effing real.

Buona Fortuna · August 2013

I was laying on the couch watching TV- I thought I had to pee, when I stood up my water started leaking and by the time I made it to the bathroom it exploded. I didn't start contracting for hours after that.

Go time for me was when the nurse (who was an biatch) came in to "check" me in the morning. She said she was thinking I'd need to be induced since I didn't look like I was in enough pain to be progressing. Well, I was at 6cm. They moved me to a room with a labor tub and I got a new nurse.

amaite · August 2013

Baker_Bride said:

amaite said:

Baker_Bride said:
OK but all you inductions and scheduled c sections, you still had a moment of "It's GO time!!" because you knew that day you were going in to meet your baby and within 48 hours or so, you would. My go time wasn't magical because I never got to that 411 rule and my OB said we really should just come in and be sure.
Knowing that he was going to be whisked away to another hospital and the uncertainty of everything that would happen after that were all-consuming for me. I didn't feel like I knew I was going in to meet my baby. It felt like it was all unknowns. Most people probably wouldn't describe feeling "It's GO time!" if a loved one were going into open heart surgery. That's what I felt we were going into.

amaite said:

Baker_Bride said:
OK but all you inductions and scheduled c sections, you still had a moment of "It's GO time!!" because you knew that day you were going in to meet your baby and within 48 hours or so, you would. My go time wasn't magical because I never got to that 411 rule and my OB said we really should just come in and be sure.
Knowing that he was going to be whisked away to another hospital and the uncertainty of everything that would happen after that were all-consuming for me. I didn't feel like I knew I was going in to meet my baby. It felt like it was all unknowns. Most people probably wouldn't describe feeling "It's GO time!" if a loved one were going into open heart surgery. That's what I felt we were going into.

I remember that now. No. That would
not be fun or exciting. How amazing that was almost a year ago though? It must feel good to have made it a year from that.

Yes, it's amazing what a difference a year makes.

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