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Birth Story for Abby and Hannah

SandraPB1220SandraPB1220 member
in June 2014 Moms
Sorry it's taken me forever to get this posted, life has been beyond chaotic, as I'm sure many of you realize.  So here's my story.  May 17th I woke up around 5 am drenched in sweat, it was SO hot in our bedroom!  Then I felt like I was sweating in my crotch, and realized my water may have broken.  I got up to go to the bathroom to check and had a small gush.  I was stunned.  I woke my husband up, expecting a shocked reaction and all I got was, "Oh, ok.  What do I need to do?"  LOL  He was so calm!  I jumped in the shower while he was getting all our stuff together, and we got to the hospital around 6 am.  They confirmed that my water had broken (duh!) and kept me in triage for a few hours to see if I was going to start dilating.  I wasn't, and the OB said it was because I had adhesions in my cervix from previous procedures on my cervix.  She tried to break them up manually (OUCH!!!) and it didn't work.  So we waited until I got my epidural that afternoon and she broke them after that.  I went from 1/2 cm dilated to 5 cm in about an hour but then stalled a little, so I was started on Pitocin, and continued to dilate.  Around 7:30 that night, the MFM came to check me and said I was 8 cm and it would probably be another 2 hours before I was 10 cm.  20 minutes later, I told my husband to call the nurse because either a. the epidural was no longer working, or b. I was 10 cm and needed to push.  The resident finally came back in around 8:15, said I was 10 cm and got ahold of the MFM.  I was wheeled to the OR around 8:45 pm, started pushing at 8:50 pm, and Abigail arrived at 9:07 pm.  I kept telling my husband, "I can't do that again!!", but the nurse told me it was time to push again.  Ugh!  Hannah followed quickly after, arriving at 9:13 pm and the placenta came out at 9:15 pm.  After a loooooong day, the delivery was not as bad as I expected (one of the nurses told me pushing could take anywhere from 1 to 3 hours for a FTM!!!) and we were back in our room by 9:45 pm.  Abigail was 5 lbs 6 oz, 18 in. and Hannah was 4 lbs 11 oz and 17 3/4 in.  :x
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