As well known I was DONE with pregnancy. But after 3 failed never got there inductions I decided to enjoy the last of pregnancy, the last of life as we know it and relax. I did just that. I put my feet up, stopped trying all natural ways for inductions and just enjoyed. I slept great the end of last week and after a wonderful nights sleep on Friday I woke up Saturday feeling good.
I took a shower and got ready for the day. I was having a lot of extra discharge enough that it almost had me concerned but then decided I would wait and see if it lasted through the day. My Mom and I went garage sailing and I was feeling rather great, no contractions and just all around relaxed. We then went up to the cities and met my Dad and his girlfriend where they took Maddy on the light rail train. After they finished their train ride we went to lunch with them. While at the salad bar I had a few moments of I think my water is breaking run to bathroom… they were all false alarms. But after lunch the contractions started. 15min, then 10min apart. They were too uncomfortable but there and were time able, which my dr had said is the difference from contractions and braxton hicks.
After eating dinner at Dads and having some pie for dessert. The contractions were getting closer 8ish minutes apart and were starting to get painful enough that I had to stop and breath a bit through them.
On the way home I said to Adam “I really feel like this is something, this is it. But I don’t want to curse it so we are going to pretend it’s nothing til we know for sure.” We got home and got Maddy into bed, it was about 9:30 by this time and I was exhausted. I got into bed too and waiting for Adam to come as well, he took care of the dog etc. He crawled into bed about 9:55, Shortly after crawling into bed I had a contraction, it was one of the strongest ones yet. After that contractions I went to roll over hoping to fall asleep before the next and wake up in active labor. As I rolled I felt my water break. I KNEW it was that. I moved as quickly as possible to not get it all over the bed, only succeeding a bit. I think Adam knew before I said anything but I told him my water broke. He quickly called my Mom who I had called to tell her to go to bed because I thought tonight was the night.
I quickly got dressed (although the contractions were still 8min apart, my dr had urged me to go in right away to make sure baby was handling everything ok, and because she thought I would go fast), and packed up the remaining hospital bag stuff. Adam changed the sheets and started a load of laundry. We finished about the time my Mom and Grandma arrived. We headed off to the hospital.
We checked into the ER, I still felt like it couldn’t be real. But knew they couldn’t send me home this time. We got settled into our room about 10:45 ish. The nurse started doing the admit paperwork. The nurse checked me after finishing admission stuff (11:15pm) I was 4-5 90% and +1. The dr was on her way to see another patient and would come in when she was there. We saw the dr at 11:45. I had a small remaining bag of water that she popped, I was a 5. At this time the contractions were still 8 minutes apart and not that painful, noticeable but not super painful.
After popping the other water we set up to play a game of farkle, I sat on a birthing ball. The contractions pretty much instantly starting coming on 3 minutes apart and started getting more and more painful. I got a little nervous because they were SOOO quick. They were about 30 seconds long every 3 minutes. At 12:45 I decided to get in the jacuzzi tub, it felt amazing but I was also freezing. While in there I was checked again and was a 7, the nurse said I shouldn’t stay in too much longer. Since I was soo cold and actually shivering I decided to get out in between contractions.
After getting into bed I was checked again and was an 8, baby was being a little stubborn with me laying down to dilate any more so I sat up and hung off edge of bed. After about 2 contractions I was now complete. After 2 pushes Hanna Grace was born at 1:34.
