Post by sweetieheart32 on Feb 10, 2017 18:37:07 GMT -5
So I had the regular checkup yesterday afternoon where I turned out to be 4-5 cm dilated. Doc said she couldn't induce me because (by their rough estimation, not mine) I wasn't quite 39 weeks yet. I went home having a couple of randomly spaced crampy contractions same as has been happening the past few weeks. Picked up DH from the house and we went together to get DD from daycare and then out to dinner. Started feeling like contractions were getting possibly serious, still not sure. Headed back to the house and called aunt and uncle on the way to say we needed them to pick up DD at our house. At that point the contractions came on hard, fast, and wicked painful. Everyone was kind of dawdling talking and packing stuff in the cars while I was literally yelling "let's go!! We have to go!!" Of course after we get in the car DH has to run back and make sure the door is locked. Then, as soon as we exit the neighborhood he remembered he forgot something else in the house. It was rush hour, of course, and we spent almost three times longer getting to the hospital as normal. Contractions were so strong that when DH dropped me off I went in, pressed the elevator button, but couldn't move to get on the elevator. Finally checked in at L&D and was 8cm. They rushed to do an epidural which didn't completely take because of previous back surgery. Things were unhappy for me, I have to say, but E.lena Dian.e came quickly with 8/9 apgar score within only 1 hour 25 minutes of getting to the hospital. After it was over, my nurse said "Tell everyone you had a natural birth!" Turns out it's lucky we got there when we did because they were so swamped "because of the full moon" that some women were laboring in the waiting room! How awful! I am so happy she's here, though!!! Sorry for the novel.
tl;dr After weeks of on and off contractions we almost didn't make it to the hospital in time, but everything turned out fine.
tl;dr After weeks of on and off contractions we almost didn't make it to the hospital in time, but everything turned out fine.
