Hannah's Birth Story
On Wednesday October 12th, I had my 40 week appointment. I, of course, explained to my doctor that I was miserable and wanted this baby out. I was hoping he would pick up on my hint to be induced right now. He did not. Instead, he told me I would have Hannah this weekend. Feeling down, I headed home.
On Friday October 14th, I woke up at 2:30am and was sure I had just felt my first contraction. After I felt it again, I woke up Aaron and let him know I was going to lay on the couch and watch some TV. I was too excited to sleep. Aaron headed off to work around 7am. I called him about an hour later begging him to come home. I wasn't in much pain, but just wanted the company. Aaron had no complaints about leaving work and headed home.
My Mum told me the best thing to do while in labour was, first, stay home as long as possible, and second, walk, walk, walk. Aaron and I walked around our neighborhood again and again. Around 5pm, I felt it would be best to head to the hospital.
I walked into the labor and delivery and was told to walk for 30 mins, then they would check me and decide if they were going to admit me. My first thought was no way I was going back home so please let me be more then a couple centimeters. After 30 mins, the nurse checked me. She seemed pretty surprised that I was 5 centimeters!!! I WAS ECSTATIC! I was halfway to the end of this torture. Next, came a lot of discussions about pain medicine. The nurse thought it would be in my best interest to get the epidural. Around 7pm, I got the epidural. The amazing, wonderful, best thing ever epidural! The rest of my labor went pretty fast. The doctor came in and broke my water.
Unfortunately, it was not clear. The doctor let me know what would happen after Hannah's delivery. He said he would suction her and that there would be the nursery staff present just in case.
Around 11:30, I started what the nurse called "practice pushes." My friend, Meredith, had told me you think you are pushing as hard as you can but you can push harder. I truly believe that, and tried to push harder and harder with every push. The down side was all that pushing was causing a lot of pressure on my stomach, and so I would push then vomit, push then vomit, push then vomit. I also had to wear an oxyen mask, but I didn't mind that. In fact, I thought it really helped. Finally, after an hour of pushing, at 12:37am on October 15th, my perfect, beautiful, baby girl was born. She was everything I had been dreaming
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