On August 21, 2011 at 6 am my water broke, only at that time I was not so sure if it was my water breaking or not. I was in the bed semi awake and felt a gush of water (not a huge puddle like in the movies), I jumped out of bed and ran to the bathroom. I am certain that I stood in the restroom for ten minutes trying to decide if I peed on myself or if my water broke. People always say when you are pregnant that the baby can push on you bladder and make you pee on yourself, so this is why I was confused. I was not sure what to do so I went and woke Josh up (Josh was on night shift so at this time he had only been asleep 3 hrs). I told Josh that I was not sure if my water broke or if I had peed on myself, he sat up and asked me if I was having contractions, I said no so then he told me to go back to bed ( he will never live that down). I laid down for a few minutes, but of course I couldn't go back to sleep. I got back up and googled water breaking. Most everything said their would be a continuous trickle and I did not have that so I convinced myself that it did not break. I finally went back to sleep for about an hour and then got up and did laundry and cooked breakfast. Around 10:00 I woke Josh up to eat breakfast. While we were eating I told him that I was still not convinced that my water hadn't broke and that I was going to call the hospital to see what they say. The hospital told me to come in so they could check me. We made it to the hospital around 11:00 and they did a test and told me that my water had broke. At that time I was only dilated to 1 and still no contractions so they said it would probably be the next day before I would deliver. We were admitted into the hospital and just sat there waiting. I never had contractions ( that I felt) so around 9:00 pm they gave me medicine to start thinning my cervix. They then gave me an ambien and I slept until around 12:00 when they came in to give me the next round of medicine. Immediately after that I begin having contractions.
Labor and Delivery-August 22,2011
My contractions begin around 12 or 1 that night. Around 4 a.m I was hurting so the Dr. gave me some medicine to ease the pain. The medicine (I'm not sure the name) didn't really work it just made me really loopy ( I would not recommend it). At 6:30 they gave me pitocin to induce labor at this time I was dilated to a 2. About 8:30 a.m. I was in so much pain I asked for an epidural the Dr. checked me and I was dilated to 6. It took about thirty minutes for the anesthesiologist to come and give me the epidural. By this time I felt like I was ready to push. They checked me immediately after I was given the epidural and I was dilated to 9 1/2. Basically I endured all of my contractions and got the epidural just in time to push. The nurse told me that I was ready to push and I told her I wasn't ready, I had just started feeling pain free. She let me wait about 20 min since it was going to take the Dr. that long to get there. I started pushing for I would say around 15 min (I'm not real sure) and Easton arrived at 9:40. He weighed 6lbs and 13oz and was 20 and 1/2 inches.
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