My Birth Story

I was pretty scared to go to the hospital because I had no idea if I was really in labor or not and I didn't want to get sent home. All I knew was that I was supposed to go up when my contractions were 3-5 minutes apart and consistent. So after a very long sleepless night I knew my contractions weren't going away and they were only getting more intense. However, I kept waiting for this feeling of death and excruciating pain but I felt fine. So finally after having contractions for over an hour that were 4 minutes apart we went up to the hospital and to my surprise they admitted me!! I seriously couldn't believe it when the doctor came in to tell me that I would be staying- he seriously made my day! When they checked me I was at a 3 and 90% effaced and by the time they got me to my actual delivery room I was already at a 4 and they told me I could now get the epidural. I was pretty nervous about getting it because I was afraid that it would slow my labor down so I decided to hold off a bit. But as soon as they broke my water a couple minutes later and I felt that first contraction I knew that was a BIG mistake! My contractions started coming super fast and super hard. And now since I didn't have all that fluid as a cushion it seriously killed. So I called the nurse in and 30 minutes later they were giving me the epidural and I was feeling SO much better. After the epidural I was dilated to a 6 and they told me that normally it takes an hour to get 1 cm so I figured I still had 4 more hours left to go or more. So Brandt's mom and his sister, Bracy, left to go to Wal-Mart thinking they had plenty of time. However, less than 20 minutes later I started feeling a lot of pressure and pain. I was pretty disappointed because I thought the epidural was supposed to take the pain away and I really wanted to take a nap but I couldn't because everytime I got a contraction it was so uncomfortable. So I called the nurse in, she checked me and I was completely dilated and the Peyton's head was right there ready to come. So after an hour of pushing I FINALLY got to meet my beautiful little girl! It was amazing and so much fun! I would definitely do it all over again.